Suspect in deadly Brown University shooting, MIT professor killing found dead
Bloomberg News / nationalpost - The suspect — Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national who was a former student at Brown — took his own life, officials say
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Alberta increases referendum petition fees to $25,000 — a 5,000 per cent hike
Lisa Johnson / nationalobserver - Smith's UCP government had previously made it easier for citizens to apply for a policy initiative or constitutional referendum, including efforts to put Alberta separation on the ballot, but says the fee hike is necessary to "discourage frivolous applica…
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Ontario's integrity commissioner opens probe into Labour Minister David Piccini
sootoday - TORONTO — Ontario's integrity commissioner has launched an investigation into Labour Minister David Piccini over the provincial Skills Development Fund.
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Murder charge withdrawn after conviction of Timothy Rees set aside in 1989 killing
Meredith Bond / citynews - Prosecutors have withdrawn a second-degree murder charge against Timothy Rees, weeks after Ontario’s top court set aside his conviction in the 1989 killing of a 10-year-old girl in Toronto. The Court of Appeal for Ontario last month ordered a new trial fo…
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US government admits negligence in helicopter-plane collision that killed 67 in Washington
News Staff / citynews - WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government admitted Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration and the Army played a role in causing the collision last January between an airliner and a Black Hawk helicopter near the nation’s capital, killing 67 people…
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