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PORT MOUTON, N.S. — Lobster thieves are back at work in Nova Scotia — two fishing boats were hit a week apart. RCMP Const. Rob James says the first cache of crustaceans was taken from a boat tied up alongside the wharf in Port Mouton on Feb. 12.

TORONTO — Acclaimed Vancouver journalist and author Deborah Campbell has won the Freedom to Read Award.

OTTAWA — Defenceman P.K. Subban will receive an honour from Gov. Gen. David Johnson to acknowledge his charitable work.

TORONTO — EMBAROGED TILL NOON Primary-care doctors need to take a more active role in preventing young Canadians from starting smoking and helping those who have already taken up the habit to butt out for good, says a group of experts that develops c

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's deputy prime minister says his country has "serious" intelligence suggesting that a U.S.-based cleric wanted by Turkey may be planning to escape to Canada.

OAKVILLE, Ont. — A man has been charged after a woman reported being sexually assaulted in Oakville, Ont. Halton regional police say the accused and the alleged victim know each other but have released no other details about the allegations.

TORONTO — Montreal sound editor Sylvain Bellemare has an epic memory to accompany his Oscar win for "Arrival.

HALIFAX — Canada's prison service faced 1,200 legal actions at the end of last March — a figure the federal prison ombudsman says is enough to keep an entire law firm busy. "It's an awful lot ...

OTTAWA — The national spy service saw little risk to the personal privacy of Canadians in a self-penned evaluation of its secret data-crunching centre — a shadowy program now at the centre of intense controversy, newly released documents show.

VANCOUVER — New research suggests that providing universal coverage for more than 100 prescription medications could save Canadians as much as $3 billion per year.