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Times ColonistThe former manager of the Red Lion Inn appeared by video in Victoria provincial court Wednesday on five charges of aggravated assault.

OTTAWA - A sharply divided Supreme Court of Canada was not able to definitively rule Thursday whether a woman can wear a religious veil known as a niqab while testifying in court.

TORONTO - The Canadian government cannot be allowed to renege on a legal deal with its aboriginal people simply because sticking to the terms would cost too much, an Ontario court heard Thursday.

NEW DELHI - It is almost every Indian woman's nightmare, lived daily when in public — a stream of obscene comments, unwanted hands being placed on them and then being blamed for causing the sexual violence.

OTTAWA - The cost of getting a Canadian passport is going up significantly in the new year.

OSHAWA, Ont. - The owner of a monkey found wandering in an Ikea parking lot is set to learn Friday whether she will get to take him home, albeit temporarily, but she didn't leave an Ontario courthouse empty-handed Thursday.

TORONTO - Canada coped with a slew of natural disasters from freak storms to floods this calendar year, but the country's meteorological watchdog says Canadians will remember 2012 as the year when the weather was too hot to handle.

OTTAWA - On the eve of a day of aboriginal protest, the hunger-striking chief of the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation is again calling for a meeting with the prime minister and Canada's governor general.

OTTAWA - The Harper government has quietly considered a proposal to contribute more peacekeepers to the UN stabilization mission in Haiti in a goodwill gesture aimed at Brazil.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. - An American university student is the new Miss Universe, bringing the crown back to the U.S. after a drought of more than a decade.