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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The Crown in Newfoundland has filed a notice to appeal the acquittal of a police officer accused of sexually assaulting an intoxicated young woman, saying the trial judge made errors in law regarding consent.

OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says he will use a meeting Friday with his U.S. counterpart to try to find out who is organizing the risky movement of would-be refugees into Canada in the dead of winter.

WINNIPEG — A Manitoba politician left paralyzed from the neck down by a highway collision is pushing for a law that would make all people in the province an organ donor unless they opted out.

TORONTO — Sometimes it takes a superstar like Beyonce to get university students talking about bigger issues. It's one of the reasons University of Victoria lecturer Melissa Avdeeff launched a course on Queen Bey a few years ago.

TORONTO — Nelly Furtado says she's been working on writing a stage play based on Brazilian composer and activist Caetano Veloso in her downtime between albums. But she doesn't want to rush its completion.

TORONTO — Rugby Canada plans to talk to the sport's world governing body about a fairer shake when it comes to the world rankings. Canada fell five spots to No.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says that more women are in leadership roles in the public sector where pay equity is the law than in the private sector, where similar rules don't apply.

The Jefferson salamander, an endangered amphibian found only in southern Ontario, has begun to emerge from the ground along a small stretch of the Niagara escarpment and has been dodging cars as it crosses the lone road on its annual march to breedin

TORONTO — Lawyers for a Toronto anaesthesiologist jailed for sexually assaulting 21 sedated women during surgeries argue their client should be granted a new trial because the judge presiding over his case allegedly ignored evidence suggesting the as

FORT FRANCES, Ont. — Police in northwestern Ontario have identified the victims and the accused in an alleged double murder at a trailer park.