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Kaitlin Bick says when she was being sex trafficked in the GTA, she had no idea what was happening to her.
"I thought I had a crappy boyfriend," she said.
Young, vulnerable and without a support network, she was exploited for years.
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EDMONTON -- Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, the man convicted of attempted murder for an attack on an Edmonton police officer and four others in 2017, was sentenced to 28 years in prison Friday.
Sharif's sentence was delivered by Justice Paul Belzil in an Edmonton courtroom.
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Tyler George, a third-year social work student at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ont., has severe asthma that can be triggered when he's near dogs.
In September, George found himself in the same class as a student who is legally blind and has a Golden Labrador guide dog accompany him.
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EDMONTON -- Justice Paul Belzil will deliver the sentence for Abdulahi Hasan Sharif on Friday afternoon.
Crown lawyers are calling for a life sentence for the man who struck a police officer with a car before stabbing him repeatedly outside of a CFL game in 2017.
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The Vancouver Police Board has been ordered to pay an Indigenous mother $20,000 in damages after the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled Vancouver Police officers discriminated against her when she witnessed them arrest her son in 2016.
In addition to awarding damages to Deborah Campbell, the tribunal also ordered the Vancouver Police Board to provide better training to police who are working with Indigenous people "to ensure they are able to do so without discrimination.
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Danny Goulis has come to know his way around an insurance claim.
That's because somehow, thieves have managed to steal his vehicle from the driveway of his north Toronto home on three separate occasions.
He has even had the same SUV stolen twice.
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Teachers at 300 schools across Canada have been ordered to provide teaching materials from the last seven years, thanks to an ongoing copyright lawsuit between the provinces and publishers.
A judge has ordered eight schools with the Hanover School Division in Manitoba to compile and catalogue copies of their handouts and lesson plans from 2013 onward, the Hanover Teachers' Association says.
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Lexlixatkwa7 Nelson likes to quote her favourite line from Yvonne Wallace's one-woman theatrical production called útszan.
"Ucwalmícwts need to speak Ucwalmícwts," she says.
"It means 'Our people need to speak our language.'"
Nelson, 19, is a second year student at the University of British Columbia and is enrolled in the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program.
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