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• B.C. releases guidance for doctors on youth mental health and substance-use care

  05-12-2025 20:50 via sudbury.com
  
  VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government is setting out guidance on how involuntary care can be provided for those under 19 years old when they won't or can't care for themselves.
  
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• 11 killed in a mass shooting at a South African bar

  06-12-2025 13:35 via sudbury.com
  CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — At least 11 people, including three children, were killed in a mass shooting at a bar in a township near the South African administrative capital of Pretoria, police said on Saturday.
  
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• Russian dissidents call on Ottawa to resettle their peers facing deportation in U.S.

  06-12-2025 12:20 via sudbury.com
  
  OTTAWA — Prominent Russian democracy activists are urging Ottawa to resettle dozens of their peers who tried to claim asylum in the U.S. and now face deportation and imprisonment in Russia.
  
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• Indigenous artifacts from the Vatican collection returning to Canada today

  06-12-2025 12:20 via sudbury.com
  
  OTTAWA — First Nations, Inuit and Métis leaders are set to gather at Montreal's airport Saturday to welcome home dozens of Indigenous artifacts released from the Vatican collection.
  
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• Events to mark 36 years since Polytechnique attack, honouring 14 women slain in 1989

  06-12-2025 12:05 via sudbury.com
  
  MONTREAL — Polytechnique Montréal and others across the country will pay tribute today to the 14 women who were murdered at the engineering school 36 years ago in a brazen anti-feminist attack.
  
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• THE PAIKIN PODCAST: Will the Carney Liberals actually build a pipeline?

  06-12-2025 04:23 via sudbury.com
  
  Hosted by one of Canada's most respected journalists, Steve Paikin's new podcast is featured here every Saturday morning in cooperation with Village Media
  
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• Search for grizzly behind 'extraordinary attack' on B.C. school group is called off

  06-12-2025 01:50 via sudbury.com
  
  Conservation officers in British Columbia are no longer actively trying to capture the grizzly bear responsible for last month's "extraordinary attack" on a group of schoolchildren and teachers that left four with severe injuries.
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Conservation officers call off search for bear involved in B.C. attack

  06-12-2025 01:50 via sudbury.com
  
  Conservation officers in British Columbia say they are no longer actively trying to capture the bear responsible for attacking a school group last month.More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Conservation officers call off search for grizzly that attacked B.C. school group

  06-12-2025 01:50 via sudbury.com
  
  Conservation officers in British Columbia say they are no longer actively trying to capture the grizzly bear responsible for attacking a group of schoolchildren and teachers last month.A statement from the B.C.
  
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• First military procurements managed by Defence Investment Agency revealed

  06-12-2025 00:50 via sudbury.com
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government has disclosed the first eight projects to be managed by the new Defence Investment Agency.
  
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• Canada drops terror sanctions on Syria and its interim government

  06-12-2025 00:20 via sudbury.com
  
  OTTAWA — Canada is dropping its terror listing for the group that has governed Syria since the ouster of dictator Bashar Assad one year ago.
  
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• Mayors urge Ontario to declare state of emergency to address homelessness, addiction

  05-12-2025 23:50 via sudbury.com
  
  TORONTO — The mayors of Ontario's 29 largest cities are calling on the province to declare a state of emergency as municipalities deal with what they call a "community safety and humanitarian crisis" created by homelessness, mental health and addicti
  
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• Fact File: Video of chained Mustang 'stolen' from Brampton, Ont. driveway is a skit

  05-12-2025 23:50 via sudbury.com
  
  A video posted to social media in December appeared to show a Brampton, Ont. man filming the chained-up bumper of his Mustang — the only part of the vehicle that remained after a supposed theft.
  
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• Snow squalls expected west of the city tonight

  05-12-2025 23:39 via sudbury.com
  
  Up to 15 cm of snow could fall by Saturday morning
  
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• Video shows Sudbury woman who was stabbed started fight: Defence    

  05-12-2025 23:33 via thesudburystar.com
  A woman who stabbed another woman during a dispute in Chelmsford a year ago is not the “crazed individual” as she has been made out to be in some quarters, her defence lawyer told a Sudbury court on Thursday.
    “That (portrayal) is false,” Michael Michel told Ontario Court Justice Pierre Bradley during Jessie Brave’s sentencing hearing.
    To back up his claim, Michel played surveillance video that captured some of the interaction betwee
  
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• Attacker’s ‘murderous look is imprinted in my brain,’ Sudbury woman says 

  05-12-2025 23:25 via thesudburystar.com
  Josee Rouleau says she will never forget Jessie Brave’s face as she stabbed her multiple times in their Chelmsford apartment on Nov. 22, 2024.
    “My whole world has shrunk,” Rouleau said in her victim statement that assistant Crown attorney Brittany Butler read to a Sudbury court on Thursday. “It feels like my life is over … 
    “That murderous look (by Brave) is imprinted in my brain. I have nightmares and wake up, not being able to do any
  
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• Eby says UNDRIP law could be amended after First Nations win appeal in mining case

  05-12-2025 23:20 via sudbury.com
  
  SURREY — British Columbia Premier David Eby says his government will review a court decision that appears to show "confusion" over his government's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, and will amend the legislation if necessary.
  
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• Eby says DRIPA law could be amended after First Nations win appeal in mining case

  05-12-2025 23:20 via sudbury.com
  
  SURREY — British Columbia Premier David Eby said his government will review a court decision that appears to show "confusion" over his government's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, and will amend the legislation if necessary.
  
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• Toronto Public Health urges doctors to prioritize flu shots as cases rise

  05-12-2025 22:50 via sudbury.com
  
  TORONTO — Toronto Public Health is urging doctors to prioritize vaccinating patients against the flu over the next week.
  It takes about two weeks for protection against the flu to kick in after getting vaccinated.
  
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• Man arrested, charged in B.C. after yearlong child exploitation investigation

  05-12-2025 22:50 via sudbury.com
  
  SURREY — A 41-year-old man has been arrested in a yearlong child exploitation investigation by police in Surrey, B.C.
  
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• Conservative motion would force House vote on Alberta pipeline agreement

  05-12-2025 22:50 via sudbury.com
  
  OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives are planning to force a vote in the House of Commons next Tuesday on the Liberal government's pipeline agreement with Alberta.
  
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• 209 kilograms of opium smuggled in machinery into Canada, CBSA says

  05-12-2025 22:50 via sudbury.com
  
  BURNABY — The Canada Border Services Agency says its officers seized a shipment of 209 kilograms of opium.A statement Friday says the drugs were detected in a shipping container at the Burnaby, B.C., container examination facility.
  
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• LAFOND, Rheal

  05-12-2025 22:47 via sudbury.com
  
  It is with profound sadness and deep love that we announce the passing of our beloved father Rheal Lafond, a man whose shaped our lives in ways words can only begin to capture.
  
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• QuickFacts on the Alberta politicians facing citizen recall petitions

  05-12-2025 22:20 via sudbury.com
  
  EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA — Seventeen Alberta legislature members with Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party caucus are officially facing recall petitions from constituents.
  
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• Man charged with murder after elderly woman killed in Toronto house fire

  05-12-2025 22:20 via sudbury.com
  
  TORONTO — A man has been charged with first-degree murder after an elderly woman was killed in a Toronto house fire last month.
  Toronto police allege the suspect went to a house in the Avenue Road and Boswell Avenue area on Nov.
  
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• Sandvik breaks ground on $85M shop

  05-12-2025 22:00 via sudbury.com
  
  Provincial officials were in Sudbury on Friday to join Sandvik staff in announcing an $85-million ‘state-of-the-art maintenance, repair and overhaul facility’ to serve the mining industry
  
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• Ottawa moving to reissue fishing licences to Mi'kmaw group despite Inuit objections

  05-12-2025 21:50 via sudbury.com
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government says it is proposing to reissue fishing licences to a coalition of Mi'kmaw First Nations in Atlantic Canada, despite objections from Inuit in Nunavut.
  
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• Ottawa moving to reissue fishing licences to Mi'kmaq group despite Inuit objections

  05-12-2025 21:50 via sudbury.com
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government says it is proposing to reissue fishing licences to a coalition of Mi'kmaq First Nations in Atlantic Canada, despite objections from Inuit in Nunavut who successfully sued to have the original licences quashed.
  
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• A quicklist of Frank Gehry's accomplishments as one of the world's best-known architects

  05-12-2025 21:50 via sudbury.com
  
  The Toronto-born, Los Angeles-based architect Frank Gehry died on Friday.
  
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• Sandvik project shows Sudbury as 'global hub for mining expertise'   

  05-12-2025 21:33 via thesudburystar.com
  The mystery created by the clearing of land in recent weeks at the corner of Falconbridge Road and Maley Drive in New Sudbury is over. What is currently home to a small warehouse building at 2555 Maley Dr., and once featured a paintball park, will be the new site for Sandvik’s mining maintenance, repair and overhaul facility, which is currently housed in a building in the Walden Industrial Park. By late 2027, when the new state-of-the-art building opens, the 400 current
  
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