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  1. Hundreds of police officers raid sites in Quebec and Ontario, including some daycares, as part of major crackdown on fraud.
  2. Manslaughter charges were dismissed against 4 of 7 men accused in the Boxing Day 2005 shooting death in Toronto of 15-year-old Jane Creba.
  3. A jury in Yellowknife has convicted Emrah Bulatci of first-degree murder in the shooting death of an RCMP officer in Hay River, N.W.T.
  4. All of the prisoners Canada handed to Afghanistan's intelligence service in 2006-07 were tortured, former diplomat Richard Colvin testified.
  5. A 6.5 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of British Columbia. No further details immediately available.
  6. The space shuttle Atlantis has blasted off from Kennedy Space Center for an 11-day mission to International Space Center.
  7. The RCMP have found the remains of a body believed to be missing New Brunswick girl Hilary Bonnell, 16.
  8. NASA says it has found a "significant amount" of water on the moon.
  9. Five Guantanamo detainees, including Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will face trial in a federal civilian court in NYC.
  10. Omar Khadr will be transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the United States to face charges in a military commission.
  11. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the Fort Hood shootings.
  12. The Mounties have arrested a 37-year-old Rwandan immigrant and charged him with war crimes related to the 1994 genocide in his home country.
  13. Toronto has been awarded the 2015 Pan Am Games, beating out Bogota and Lima.
  14. Supreme Court finds a Sask. Crown prosecutor had not maliciously prosecuted people accused of bizarre acts of sexual abuse.
  15. Officials now say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. soldier suspected of killing 11 at a Texas military base, did not die in the attack.
  16. The Army says one shooter has been killed and two others apprehended. All three were soldiers.
  17. The U.S. Army now confirms 12 people have been killed, 31 wounded, in the shooting rampage on the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.
  18. One shooter arrested after at least seven people were killed, 20 injured at Texas' Fort Hood army base. Two shooters likely involved.
  19. At least seven people have been killed, 12 wounded, in a shooting at a military base in Texas, U.S. media is reporting.
  20. Robert Decker, Cougar helicopter crash survivor, tells inquiry about trying to swim to lifeboat despite major injuries sustained in crash.