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Toronto FC adds experience to backline, signs veteran Jason Hernandez

Toronto FC adds experience to backline, signs veteran Jason Hernandez

Toronto FC added experience to its backline in the form of 12-year veteran Jason Hernandez on Wednesday, the latest piece in what the MLS team hopes will be a championship puzzle.

Halifax police to hold its first-ever voluntary surrender day

HALIFAX — If you want to avoid the embarrassment of an arrest in front of family and friends, then Halifax police have a unique solution for you.

'How ashamed I am:' Pilot pleads guilty to being impaired on Calgary flight

CALGARY — A pilot who drank a bottle of vodka in his hotel room before his flight and was so impaired he appeared to pass out in the cockpit says he is filled with remorse and shame.

Montreal Femen activist acquitted on charges related to Grand Prix protest

MONTREAL — A judge has acquitted a Montreal member of a women's rights group who was accused of mischief and disturbing the peace stemming from a protest at the city's Grand Prix festivities in 2015.
The Tuesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories

The Tuesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, March 21 ——— GARNEAU SAYS CANADA EXAMINING ELECTRONICS BAN: Canada's transport minister says the federal government is taking a close look at the circumstances behind efforts in the United States and United
Pornography? Child sex doll trial raises issue of what constitutes child porn

Pornography? Child sex doll trial raises issue of what constitutes child porn

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The sex doll at the heart of a trial in Newfoundland that has made global headlines meets the definition of child pornography, says a forensic psychiatrist. Dr. Peter Collins testified in provincial court Tuesday in St.

How Ontario's cap-and-trade system works: a few basic details

TORONTO — Ontario's first cap-and-trade auction takes place on Wednesday. Here is a basic explanation on how the cap-and-trade system is expected to work. — Ontario has set a greenhouse gas emissions cap of roughly 142 megatonnes for 2017.

Unique B.C. bridge, part of Old Alaska Highway, closed indefinitely by crash

DAWSON CREEK, B.C. — A historic curved wooden bridge near Dawson Creek, B.C., has been closed following a single-vehicle crash on Monday.
Illegal border crossers nabbed so far in 2017 nearly half of all caught in 2016

Illegal border crossers nabbed so far in 2017 nearly half of all caught in 2016

OTTAWA — Data released Tuesday shows that the RCMP have arrested nearly half as many illegal border crossers in three Canadian provinces this year as they did in all of 2016.

Woman, 60, arrested and charged at N. Ont. logging road blockade: OPP

SUDBURY, Ont. — Provincial police say a protester has been arrested at a logging road blockade in northern Ontario. They say officers went to Camp 700 Road in Moncrieff Township on Monday to investigate a report of a blockade.
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