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TORONTO - The coming year could bring some clarity to the murky legal waters of the federal Conservatives' law-and-order agenda, particularly mandatory minimum sentences, even as new complications are added to the mix.

OTTAWA — The 91Ô­´´ military has decided it will rely on the U.S.

TORONTO - School support workers are joining teachers in threatening to stage a one-day protest if the governing Liberals force a collective agreement on them in the new year.

TORONTO - Premier Dalton McGuinty announced Thursday there would be a "locked door" policy at all 4,000 elementary schools in Ontario by next September in reaction to last week's shooting rampage that left 26 dead at a school in Newtown, 91Ô­´´icut.

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the appeal of two Ontario municipalities found liable for a crash that left two teenaged sisters in wheelchairs for the rest of their lives.

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government revised its deficit forecast Thursday, adding another $107 million in planned red ink for the fiscal year that ends March 31.

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Opposition Leader Brian Pallister has denounced racist comments from his party's former youth president, but he is refusing to apologize for them.

MONTREAL - In the time it took Quebec's corruption inquiry to complete its fall sitting, three long-standing mayors had resigned, municipal parties were decimated or disbanded, and a shadow of suspicion spread over the political world.

EDMONTON - It grew up to six metres long and its toothy mouth and crocodile-like body was the terror of ancient rivers and shorelines many millions of years ago. Just don't call it a dinosaur.

FREDERICTON - Close to 100 people staged a noisy demonstration outside the New Brunswick legislature Wednesday to voice their opposition to the federal government's omnibus budget legislation.