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TORONTO - Ontario's top cop has taken to YouTube to defend provincial police handling of Idle No More demonstrations and blockades, saying it fits into an overall strategy that's difficult to explain to the public.

OTTAWA — A sudden medical leave announced Monday by the head of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s largest aboriginal organization will delay — but not derail — pivotal talks between First Nations and Stephen Harper, says Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan.

CALGARY - Janet Baker says her life ended the day her son died in a training accident in Afghanistan nearly three years ago. The mother of Cpl.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A city councillor in Saint John, N.B., who is facing child pornography and sexual touching charges will spend at least another week behind bars after his bail hearing was delayed Monday.

TORONTO - The head of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s federal prisons sought to boost morale among guards in the days after the release of disturbing surveillance videos showing the drugging and duct-taping of a teenaged inmate who died in custody, documents show.

CALGARY - The Montana parole board that recommended against clemency for death-row Canadian Ronald Smith may be examined for being too tough on criminals. A motion being introduced by the state's Republican Sen.

REGINA - C-O-U-G-A-R-S. Let's go Cougars! The University of Regina cheerleading team is hoping that chant will help lead them to a big W-I-N at a world championship event.

TORONTO - The head of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s federal prisons admits in internal memos that the treatment of Ashley Smith was substandard. But in a recent morale-boosting memo to guards, Don Head says the treatment of the teenager was an aberration, not the norm.

VICTORIA - The sense of excitement in Kitimat is palpable, says Mayor Joanne Monaghan.

TORONTO - A popular former Toronto day camp director and her husband, who were spending the winter in Florida, were killed in a double homicide, police said Friday.