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Four police officers were injured and 45 demonstrators arrested after baton-wielding police clashed with anti-war protesters marching on the NATO summit in Chicago on Sunday, police said.A lawyer's group assisting protesters challenged police figures, saying at least 12 protesters were hurt, some with head wounds from police batons, and more than 60 people detained.
Robin Gibb, whose soaring vocals formed part of the unique Bee Gees sound, has died at the age of 62, leaving Barry as the sole surviving member from the band of brothers.
Transgender trailblazer Jenna Talackova lost her bid to become Miss Universe Canada over the weekend, but said Sunday that her history-making appearance has awarded her a much more meaningful role as a civil rights champion.
The annual solar eclipse — when the sun and moon align over the earth — is seen around the world.
Ivan looks like a big friendly guy who wouldn’t attract much attention. Except that he won $9.5 million with a Lotto Max ticket in March 2010.
A guard at a southwest Mississippi prison died Sunday and several other employees were injured during a disturbance involving hundreds of inmates that continued into the evening, authorities and the prison’s operator said.
Only one weekend into what many feared would be a summer of duelling night markets in Richmond, it seems there’s room for both – with one market even reporting record-breaking numbers. The Summer Night Market, located near IKEA Richmond and now in its fifth year, opened May 11 while the Richmond Night Market, situated by River Rock Casino, opened this past weekend. Even so, founder Paul Cheung of the Vulcan Way market said his event has already seen record-breaking numbers.
The Queen of New Westminster has been repaired and the long sailing waits between the Swartz Bay and Tsawwassen terminals that had been feared for Monday likely have been averted.
A day after a violent protest ending in a series of street fires, police came under criticism Sunday over an altercation caught on video that shows patrons on a bar patio getting pepper sprayed.
The earliest known New York Yankees jersey worn by slugger Babe Ruth was sold for $4.4 million on Sunday, a record for a piece of sports memorabilia.
A man died Saturday after a scuba-diving accident in the waters of Saanich Inlet, about 1.5 kilometres south of Bamberton. Shawnigan Lake RCMP were called just after 3:30 p.m. after the man was reported to be unconscious with breathing problems related to the incident.
Efforts by a number of agencies couldn’t save a 70-year-old hiker who fell to her death Saturday on Hornby Island. An air ambulance and coast guard vessel were called in to assist with ground searchers, but the elderly woman couldn’t be saved.
Those with their heads in the clouds best be averting their eyes this Sunday as a solar eclipse graces the skies over Vancouver -- that is, if it’s not raining. The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre will have experts on hand from 4:45 to 7:30 p.m. tonight to chat with stargazers about the eclipse, the first of 2012, and share tips on safe solar viewing. Admission is by donation.
Rick Hansen finished day 271 of 273 of the Rick Hansen 25th Anniversary Relay at the Richmond Oval in Richmond on May 20, 2012.
Details of Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg’s surprise wedding trickled out on Sunday, but mysteries remained, not least whether there was a prenuptial agreement in place that could affect Zuckerberg’s large stake in the company.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people has died.
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla arrived in Canada Sunday to start a tour to help to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
MONTREAL - A plan to restore order in Montreal appeared to erupt in smoke late Saturday, with fiery blockades blazing on a busy downtown street corner in a dispute gaining international attention.
A number of boys in Montreal-area community of LaSalle have been told they can no longer play soccer because they wear religious head coverings.
After 34 countries, four continents, 792 days, 40,000 kilometres — as well as 126 flat tires, 94 gloves and 2,172 postcards — Rick Hansen came to the end of his Man in Motion tour, a bold journey to raise money for spinal-cord research. Twenty-five years later, Hansen tells The Sunday Province how he felt that spring day, May 22, 1987, when he finally wheeled back home.
A husband-and-wife design team who built a micro house the size of a master bedroom said they didn’t have a magic number of square feet in mind when they started.
Police in Windsor, Ont., say a stone passed this weekend by a man accused of swallowing a $20,000 diamond is the real thing.
Canada’s only marine mammal toxicologist at the Institute of Ocean Sciences on Vancouver Island is losing his job as the federal government cuts almost all employees who monitor ocean pollution across Canada.
Hockey is a religion in Canada and it’s said, “We are all Canucks,” but sports worship should not be confused with life’s real meaning, says Rabbi Andrew Rosenblatt, head of the Schara Tzedeck Synagogue.
Our imprisoned blogger thinks Canada needs to take child sex abuse a little more seriously than, say, jumping a bank counter.
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