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 It's going to cost at least $80 million to implement the government's lawful access bill to force internet and telecommunications service providers to collect customer information in case police need it for an investigation, CBC News has learned.
 Graham James, the former junior hockey coach and convicted sexual abuser whose victims included ex-NHLers Theoren Fleury and Sheldon Kennedy, has told a courtroom: "For my behaviour, I am deeply sorry.… Parents expected sons to be safe; not all were."
 Air Canada's baggage handlers, ground crews and maintenance workers rejected a tentative deal signed earlier this month with Canada's biggest airline, shortly after its dispatchers ratified a new contract.
 A young woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted at a notorious Pitt Meadows, B.C., rave is urging witnesses to come forward.
 Sugar shack season has come early in the Eastern Townships, where warm weather is stimulating early sap production.
 Patients wait too long in emergency rooms and doctors dare not advocate for patients if they want to keep their jobs, according to a report on Alberta's healthcare system.
 Ontario's Liberal government has given its stamp of approval for Kickboxing Ontario to be the province's governing body for amateur mixed martial arts, which can involve children as young as 10.
 Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson is standing by mandatory minimum sentencing legislation, despite a new warning from U.S. officials that such laws don't work.
 A 38-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with a homicide that came to light after a severed hand was found inside a Winnipeg dumpster.
 An RCMP officer who had an on-going affair with her boss — including having sex in a police car — shouldn't lose her job while her superior simply loses 10 days pay, her lawyer told an RCMP panel.
 Questions are being raised about garbage management after 145 black bears were shot by wildlife officers in northern Alberta's oilsands region last year.
 The Maid of the Mist Steamboat has lost the contract to operate the famous tour boats in Niagara Falls that have ferried Canadian and American tourists for more than a century.
 A diver from Ottawa has been reported missing off Freeport, near the end of Digby Neck.
 The so-called secret law used to give police extra powers during the G20 summit in Toronto in 2010 is being scaled back by the Ontario government.
 Steven Dyer, a convicted child abuser who was featured on America's Most Wanted, allegedly assumed the identity of a Canadian and had been living in Vancouver.
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 Patients wait too long in emergency rooms and doctors dare not advocate for patients if they want to keep their jobs, according to a report on Alberta's healthcare system.
 The provincial government has tabled new legislation which it says will help students in Morinville, Alta. access public education.
 Questions are being raised about garbage management after 145 black bears were shot by wildlife officers in northern Alberta's oilsands region last year.
 RCMP are investigating a suspicious death in Red Deer, Alta.
 A provincial regulator is pledging to be more transparent about fracking in Alberta by launching a website later this year that plans to show every chemical used in each fracking operation.
 Graham James, the former junior hockey coach and convicted sexual abuser whose victims included ex-NHLers Theoren Fleury and Sheldon Kennedy, has told a courtroom: "For my behaviour, I am deeply sorry.… Parents expected sons to be safe; not all were."
 The Edmonton Remand Centre may find new purpose as the city's new Canadian Multicultural Centre.
 Border officials say they made the largest handgun seizure in the history of the Canadian-U.S. crossing at Coutts, Alta., on Tuesday.
 A fireball that lit up the night sky over Alberta and Saskatchewan was a 100-kilogram meteor, experts say.
 Commuters looking for relief from overcrowded buses will have to wait a while longer after city council rejected an Edmonton Transit request for more money Tuesday.
 An Alberta woman severely beaten in Mexico last month has been released from a Calgary hospital.
 Canada's environment minister says he'll need more time to go review 14,000 public submssions on a plan to protect woodland caribou herds — but environmentalists are going back to court Thursday to seek emergency action.
 Three people are dead following a crash at a rural intersection near Breton, Alta., and an 18-year-old woman has been airlifted to hospital.
 A first-degree murder trial has begun for an Edmonton man accused of killing a woman and a 13-year-old girl days apart.
 RCMP and CP Rail are investigating after a man was hit by a train in Banff on Tuesday night.
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