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Quebec to table bill that imposes heavy fines on students and federations

QUEBEC - Emergency legislation to be tabled by the Quebec government to stamp out a turbulent student crisis contains provisions for heavy fines for students and their federations.

B.C. court convicts 3 of 5 men in 'Sanghera crime group' on weapons charges

VANCOUVER - Three members of a crime group that Vancouver's police chief once partly blamed for a bloody gang war that gripped the city have been convicted of weapons charges, though two arrested in the same case were acquitted.

Debate tonight on emergency bill aimed at restoring order in Quebec

QUEBEC - The Quebec government will table emergency legislation tonight in an effort to stamp out a turbulent student crisis that has gripped the province for months.

Harper heads into twin international summits focusing on economy, Afghanistan

OTTAWA - Canada heads into a pair of twin international summits this weekend committed to staying the current course in Afghanistan - but staying mum on next steps.

Quebec painting sells for megabucks at Vancouver auction Thursday

VANCOUVER - A painting by Quebec artist Jean-Paul Lemieux has sold for $1,813,500 at the Heffel Fine Art Auction House's spring sale in Vancouver.

Ottawa cuts 400 jobs at Fisheries Department and coast guard to save $79 million

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - About 400 jobs at the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard are being cut as part of efforts to save just over $79 million.

Former sex worker reveals encounter with man she says was Pickton

VANCOUVER - A former sex worker says she found herself sitting in a vehicle next to serial killer Robert Pickton almost two years before his arrest, but when she reported the encounter to police, she was dismissed.

Tories unleash attack dogs over Mulcair's 'Dutch disease' thesis

OTTAWA - The Harper Conservatives have finally unleashed the attack dogs on Tom Mulcair.

Bus beheader Vince Li wins right to escorted trips into community

WINNIPEG - A man who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba has won his bid to leave the grounds of the mental hospital where he is being kept.

800-year-old red cedar hacked down in B.C. forest: environmental group

VANCOUVER - A giant 800-year-old red cedar tree has been poached from a provincial park on southern Vancouver Island, but the culprits who repeatedly returned to the site to hack it down may never be brought to justice.

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