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 Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has reversed Canadian policy, quietly directing Canada's spy agency to use information that may have been extracted through torture in cases where public safety is at stake.
 Investigators in Ontario are trying to determine the cause of a collision between a flatbed truck and passenger van that killed 11 people — most of them migrant workers from Peru — but it's suspected one of the vehicles missed a stop sign.
 Wal-Mart says it will spend $750 million to add 4.6 million square feet of retail space and 14,000 jobs in Canada this year.
 With the summer driving season approaching, energy analysts expect the cost of gas to rise by between five and 20 cents per litre across the country.
 A wide field of Canadian talent is in contention for Canada's Juno Awards, with City & Colour, Dan Mangan, Drake, Feist, Hedley and Nickelback earning four nods each.
 A 15-year-old boy has been charged with assault with a weapon after a 14-year-old girl's hair was set on fire in a Saint John school's classroom.
 A Newfoundland teacher who sprayed one of her students with air freshener has been suspended with pay from her job, according to a statement from the school board responsible for Twillingate Island Elementary School.
 Seven former waitresses at Casino New Brunswick are filing a discrimination complaint with the provincial human rights commission after being fired based on what they say is their appearance.
 The family of the lone survivor of a murder-suicide in Alberta in December is getting a new home on P.E.I. from Habitat for Humanity.
 A 17-year-old from P.E.I. is on his way to two world championships this year: a youth biathlon competition later this month, and a piping event in August.
 A Nova Scotia woman is still looking for a way to ensure her eight-year-old daughter gets her insulin injection while at school.
 Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq is standing firm on taking a voluntary approach with the food industry on trans fats even though newly released documents show her department was ready to impose regulations in 2009.
 The CAW and Caterpillar Inc. are negotiating a severance package for the nearly 500 unionized Electro-Motive employees who are out of work, with the union threatening a plant occupation as a 'last resort.'
 A family in B.C. feels little comfort after Scouts Canada says it was wrong to welcome a man twice-convicted of sex offences against children back into an alumni association.
 Dustin Paxton has been found guilty in a Calgary courtroom of aggravated and sexual assault against his former business partner and roommate, but not of unlawful confinement.
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Alberta Headlines
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 Closing schools helps to slow the spread of flu during pandemics, a study of infection patterns in Alberta suggests.
 Residents of a Fort McMurray apartment that went up in flames Sunday are crediting their lives to fellow residents and firefighters after their fire alarms failed.
 A non-profit group in Edmonton's inner city is worried neither the city nor the Katz Group have approached them about a community benefits agreement which would provide jobs, training and housing assistance to residents of the area.
Dustin Paxton has been found guilty in a Calgary courtroom of aggravated and sexual assault against his former business partner and roommate, but not of unlawful confinement.
 Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk is unhappy with Holy Family Catholic School Division for spending $7,000 on a video highlighting problems at its school in Grimshaw.
 The family of four-month-old Zaria McCall is asking for the return of mementos from her funeral.
 The woman shot to death at an LRT station in 2010 ran an award-winning restorative justice program for youth when she was 15-years-old and homeless.
 Mikhail Grabovski pulled his team out of an early hole by assisting on the first two goals Monday and the Maple Leafs went on to beat the Edmonton Oilers 6-3.
 Firefighters in Fort McMurray are dousing hot spots Monday after a fire at an apartment complex.
 A Chinese state-owned corporation wants the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn a ruling that would force it to stand trial in the deaths of two oilsands workers.
 A 49-year-old man has been arrested in a number of recent lunchtime thefts from businesses in west Edmonton industrial parks.
 An Alberta Mountie is in surgery after being hit by a suspect driving an ATV in a troubled aboriginal community south of Edmonton.
 Alberta's NDP says it plans to hold the government's feet to the fire on high power bills during the spring legislature sitting.
 Alberta Liberals, gearing up for the spring election, are promising higher taxes on the rich and free tuition for all.
 Health care tops the list of issues facing Alberta, according to a poll done for the CBC.
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