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Manitoba Pet Owners Push for Rental Rights

Posted: 02/14/10 11:09AM
Filed Under: Top News, Animals in the News, Controversial Rulings

The fur is set to fly in Manitoba over whether landlords should be forced to accept tenants with pets.

Animal owners are lining up behind an opposition bill that, if passed into law, would outlaw no-pet rules at rental properties across the province.

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Tim Hortons Bans Complaining Customer

Filed Under: Canada, Top News, Controversial Rulings, News That Stunned Us

A coffee enthusiast in St. Andrews, N.B., has learned the customer may not always be right. After complaining three times about "burnt" decaffeinated coffee at the local Tim Hortons, Jimmy Craig is now banned for life from that outlet and the one in nearby St. Stephen.

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Polygamist Leader Suing B.C. Government

Posted: 01/14/10 9:58AM
Filed Under: Canada, Crime Files, Top News, Controversial Rulings, News That Stunned Us

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Winston Blackmore, the unapologetic leader of a polygamous community in southeastern British Columbia who has admitted to having multiple wives, is suing the provincial government for violating his rights when he was charged last year.

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Wiinston Blackmore the religious leader of the polygamous community of Bountiful located near Creston, B.C. shares a laugh with six of his daughters and some of his grand children, April 21, 2008 near Creston, B.C. Blackmore is suing the provincial government for violating his rights when authorities charged him with polygamy last year.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

News That Stunned Us

A tourist was [eaten by a 'dinosaur-sized' shark]( http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/13/cape-town-giant-shark-attack) today in South Africa's most popular tourist destination. Witnesses described how Lloyd Skinner was seized by a Great White Shark in waist-high water off of Cape Town's Fish Hoek beach and dragged out to sea.

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The first comprehensive study of fitness and obesity levels in Canada in 20 years shows that Canadians at all age groups are becoming fatter and less fit.

An on-call cardiologist rushing to the aid of a patient found himself detained on the side of the road, in Toronto, after he was pulled over for speeding.

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Northern Ireland's then new First Minister Peter Robinson celebrates with his wife Irish Robinson MP behind his desk after being nominated as First Minister , Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Northern Ireland, Thursday, June, 5, 2008. Peter Robinson went before the cameras this week to say that his wife of 40 years, Iris Robinson, 60, also a British MP, confessed to having an affair. The confession apparently drove her to attempt suicide.

Ashley Smith, who died of asphyxiation in her cell in a federal prison near Kitchener, Ont., in 2007, is shown in this undated photo.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson

Calgary Transit is removing two ads for Virgin Mobile that show a man and woman embracing, after several public complaints.

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Vanessa Machiskinic, right, and her boyfriend dropped their baby into the arms of a neighbour after a fire broke out in their apartment building.

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Kevin Gregson leaves the Ottawa Court house in Ottawa on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009. Gregson was charged with first-degree murder and robbery after an Ottawa police officer was ambushed and stabbed to death while sitting in his cruiser outside an Ottawa hospital.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Pawel Dwulit

The cougar that attacked David Metzler Jr. was found on Friday and killed as a precaution. A cougar attack on a toboggan hill was thwarted by a mother armed with just a dish towel who rushed to the aid of her seven-year-old boy in northern B.C.

Courtesy of David Metzler Sr./CBC News

David Metzler Jr. escaped with just a few bruises and cuts to his scalp.

Courtesy of David Metzler Sr./CBC News

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RCMP Defend Arrest in Pipeline Bombings

Posted: 01/10/10 2:28PM
Filed Under: Canada, Top News, Arrests, Controversial Rulings, environment

HYTHE, Alta. - Wiebo Ludwig was arrested in the interest of public safety, RCMP said Sunday, even though B.C.'s Crown prosecutor decided there wasn't enough evidence against him to proceed with charges in connection with a series of pipeline bombings.

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Saudi Court Revokes Montrealer's Death Sentence

Posted: 01/10/10 10:10AM
Filed Under: Canada, Top News, World, Controversial Rulings, Mideast, News That Stunned Us

A Montreal man no longer faces a public beheading in Saudi Arabia but his supporters say he still has a long way to go as he must now brave a trio of new judges and a fresh trial in connection with a fatal after-school brawl in 2007.

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