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Families say valued possessions still missing years after bank emptied their safety deposit boxes

If there’s one thing Sheila Levy-Bencheton took for granted, it’s that the safety deposit box her father rented from a big bank was...

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RCMP took 19 hours to find parents, daughter killed in Nova Scotia mass shooting in April

Tammy Oliver-McCurdie lost her younger sister, Jolene Oliver, in last April’s mass shooting in Portapique, N.S., and her worst fear remains that the 39-year-old...

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B.C. woman’s death has been solved after 27 years, but for some, the wounds are still fresh

After 27 years, the circumstances surrounding the death of Vicki Black on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has finally been solved.  Stephen Laroche pleaded guilty...

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Colleagues, friends reflect on fallen Manitoulin Island OPP officer

A retired OPP officer and former colleague of Constable Marc Hovingh says all of Ontario’s Manitoulin Island is in a state of shock...

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Pandemic ‘pressure cooker’ is driving more couples to seek advice about separation, divorce

Tara Mandarano found herself stressed and frustrated during the COVID-19 lockdown last spring. Like millions of Canadians, she was struggling to work from...

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Saweetie shares her own opinion on Carole Baskin

So what does Saweetie think about questionableTiger Kingstar Carole Baskin? The rap artist informed E! News ahead of the 2020 People’s Choice Awards...

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The comfort of strangers: how a British family kept a slain Canadian airman’s memory alive

As a child in the late 1940s, John Charlesworth would run through the military cemetery in Harrogate, a quiet, tidy community on the...

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Trial begins for Thunder Bay man accused in trailer-hitch death of First Nations woman

More than three years after Barbara Kentner’s death, her sisters are hoping for justice in a case that hundreds of First Nations chiefs from across...

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This man died in RCMP custody while a report that might have saved his life sat on a desk

The sisters of a man who died in RCMP custody say they want to remember their younger brother as a gentle guy who loved...

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After 191 years, historic sabre returned to family, thanks in part to a boy’s curiosity

A sabre that saw action in the American Revolution and may have been used as a murder weapon in Nova Scotia has found its way...

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Syrian refugees finish quarantine in time for first Canadian Thanksgiving

The Al Khalif family is just grateful to finally be in Canada, even if the pandemic delayed their arrival and quashed their much-anticipated airport...

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Former Hong Kong activists wait eagerly as Ottawa starts approving asylum claims

A family that fled Hong Kong fearing persecution is hoping their asylum claims will be approved by the Canadian government as Ottawa quietly begins granting...

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Sons of woman killed in 1997 collision with Scott Moe want personal apology

The sons of a woman killed in a 1997 highway collision with Scott Moe say they’re hurt and angry the leader of the...

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What did happen to Johnny Knoxville?

Johnny Knoxville had an especially tough duration in the late ’10s when he lost both of his moms and dads within the area...

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Seth MacLean died in July. Authorities buried him weeks later without telling his family

Seth MacLean’s family spent the last part of this summer pounding the pavement in downtown Toronto desperately searching for a loved one who...

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Canada issues last-minute visas allowing pregnant mom to return home from Haiti with her children

A Canadian woman who is entering the last month of her pregnancy was finally able to return home to Canada, after the federal...