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Australia offers landmark apology to aboriginal people
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | 7:26 PM ET
The Associated Press Aborigines organized breakfast barbecues in the outback, giant TV screens went up in state capitals and schools allowed students to watch the telecast of Australia's apology Wednesday for policies that degraded its ( Read more... )

Air Canada flight diverted after co-pilot falls ill
'He was swearing and asking for God, and was very, very distressed'
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 | 4:48 PM ET
CBC News An Air Canada plane was forced to make an unexpected landing in Ireland on Monday after the co-pilot became ill in the cockpit, the airline said Tuesday ( Read more... )

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Icy crash kills seven members of basketball team and one adult in N.B.
By Chris Morris, The Canadian Press
BATHURST, N.B.A van carrying a high school boys' basketball team home from a game was only five minutes from waiting parents when it fish-tailed on a slippery highway and slammed into a tractor-trailer, killing seven players and one adult ( Read more... )

6 seriously hurt on Air Canada flight
Plane was on way from Victoria to Toronto when turbulence hit
Last Updated: Thursday, January 10, 2008 | 10:57 AM MT
CBC News Six people suffered serious injuries after their flight encountered turbulence and was forced to make an unscheduled stop in Calgary Thursday morning ( Read more... )

Chinatown merchants protest private security contract
Last Updated: Friday, January 4, 2008 | 12:59 PM ET
CBC News Some Chinatown merchants are asking for help with security costs, following a controversial move by Vancouver city council to give an exclusive contract to a private security firm ( Read more... )

Ottawa children give sick schoolmate 1,000 gifts
Last Updated: Thursday, December 20, 2007 | 3:12 PM ET
CBC News A 9-year-old Ottawa girl with cancer has received far more than three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree for Christmas - her schoolmates have given her 1,000 handmade paper cranes ( Read more... )

WestJet suspends policy allowing minors to fly alone
Last Updated: Monday, December 17, 2007 | 10:10 PM ET
CBC NewsWestJet airlines has suspended a program that allows minors to fly alone after a five-year-old girl travelling last week was able to leave her flight with a stranger ( Read more... )

WestJet allows stranger to walk five-year-old girl off flight
Last Updated: Friday, December 14, 2007 | 7:02 PM ET
CBC NewsThe parents of a five-year-old girl travelling alone are furious with WestJet for breaking its own guidelines and allowing a stranger to accompany the child off a flight ( Read more... )