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Homolka's Last Day In Prison

  • Sometime before sunset Monday, Karla Homolka will be released from a prison north of Montreal after finishing a 12-year sentence for her role in killing two Ontario teenagers. Legally, Homolka must be freed by midnight, but Corrections Canada officials have said police officers will escort her down the long, straight driveway leading from the minimum-security Ste-Anne-des-Plaines Institution by sunset.Full Story

  • Tornadoes have added to the destruction in Manitoba on top of the most widespread flooding in memory. At least three twisters touched down on the weekend. One struck near Pilot Mound, destroying a house trailer, bringing down power lines and damaging farms. Another touched down near Landmark and a third hit the Dominion City-Ridgeville area, Environment Canada said. No injuries were reported.Full Story

  • A Nova Scotia man is facing charges as RCMP divers search for another man who went missing after a speedboat carrying six people overturned near Halifax early Monday. Police have charged a 33-year-old man from the Halifax area with refusing a breathalyzer, impaired driving causing bodily harm, impaired operation of a vessel, and dangerous operation of a vessel causing bodily harm.Full Story

  • History buffs across the country are eagerly anticipating the release of personal census records kept secret for close to 100 years. Recent changes to the Statistics Act mean that census information will be made available to researchers and genealogists on the 92nd anniversary of each census. The amendments cleared up a legal ambiguity that kept secret census records taken between 1911 and 2001.Full Story

  • Prime Minister Paul Martin is in Ireland today, on his way to the G-8 summit near Edinburgh, Scotland later this week. Martin arrived late Sunday, in the second trip to the Emerald Isle in as many weeks. Unlike his previous visit to mark the national day of mourning for victims of the 1985 Air India bombings last month, this time the prime minister will spend a few days in his ancestral homeland.Full Story


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