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Chris Bosh had 21 points and 16 rebounds as the Toronto Raptors beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 94-88 on Tuesday night.

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - A Canadian-owned mine at the centre of a dispute over the slaying of a Mexican mining activist has been shut down for environmental reasons, authorities said Tuesday.

Country music star Keith Urban will be in Cavendish, P.E.I., next summer as the headline act for the 2010 Cavendish Beach Music Festival.

RCMP Cpl. Al Boulianne has been found not guilty on two counts of sexual exploitation while in a position of trust.

Elevated levels of trihalomethanes have been detected in the city water in three areas on Saint John's west side, officials said Tuesday.

Recordings of wiretapped phone calls that formed the basis of the Crown's corruption case against two Toronto police officers can now be revealed because charges against the two were thrown out.

SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian photojournalist recently released after being held hostage for 15 months in Somalia said Wednesday he was trying to highlight the plight of those less fortunate when he was kidnapped.

Thousands of aboriginal people with diabetes suffer unnecessary foot amputations because the federal government won't pay for them to have proper shoes, says the head of a Manitoba medical outreach program.

EDMONTON - Alberta's environment minister says he'll be proud to tell his province's story in the face of often hostile international media at the climate summit in Copenhagen.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - B.C.'s H1N1 vaccine clinics will close on Dec. 18.

STETTLER, Alta. - A trial for an Alberta man charged with stealing a quad and who was shot as he allegedly fled got off to a false start.

PANMUNJOM, South Korea - Inside the four-kilometre deep strip of mine-littered wasteland and barbed wire that separates the world's two most belligerent nations, the war is 59 years old and counting.

An Edmonton doctor says he may have to resort to legal means to have his name removed from the watch list kept by the Canada Border Services Agency.

The judge in a trial in which a former Vancouver Island politician and his two sons are charged with second-degree murder has reserved her decision on whether to dismiss the charges against the two younger defendants.

Alberta's delegation to the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen would welcome "an ambitious agreement" to reduce greenhouse gases, provincial Environment Minister Rob Renner says.

Residents of a mostly English-speaking Ontario community are petitioning Canada Post after their postmaster lost her job because she can't speak French.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - The federal watchdog over the RCMP has passed judgment on allegations that have haunted the Mounties since Robert Dziekanski's death: officers acted inappropriately when they repeatedly shocked him with a Taser and their versions of events simply aren't credible.

Two Bathurst men were taken to hospital in critical condition after a highway accident that started with the loss of a wheel in the northern New Brunswick city Monday.

CALGARY - A Canadian mine in Mexico has been shut down over environmental concerns, while new details are emerging about how three men arrested in the death of a vocal anti-mining activist are connected to the Calgary company.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Ottawa has been drawn back into a massive health-care recovery lawsuit after the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled it may share blame with tobacco companies for smoking-related health costs.

James Delorey, the Nova Scotia boy who died Tuesday after surviving two days lost in the woods, left a big impression on those who knew him as well as those who never met him.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court's panel of nine justices appeared to provide some vindication to Conrad Black on Tuesday, suggesting the federal law that helped convict the former business mogul is excessively vague and could ensnare almost every American employee.

Officials with McCain Foods Ltd. have been talking to the P.E.I. government about training dollars for employees during an upcoming shutdown of their Borden-Carleton plant.

The government isn't legally blocked from giving documents on possible Afghan detainee abuse to a parliamentary committee, according to a legal opinion given to Liberal defence critic Ujjal Dosanjh.

A woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a 2004 homicide will spend at least 14 years in prison.

The Calgary Zoo has welcomed a baby giraffe, born early on Saturday morning.

Life on the streets of Edmonton, as seen though the eyes of the homeless, is on display at an inner-city social services agency.

Workers at forestry company Tembec's newsprint mill in Pine Falls, Man., are expressing some relief over news the mill is up for sale.

Two former special-needs workers who abandoned two disabled women in a van while they watched a film at a Winnipeg theatre won't face criminal charges, police said on Tuesday.