ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador's new Progressive Conservative leader has been sworn in as the province's 12th premier.
Paul Davis became the leader of the governing Tories at a convention two weeks ago.
Davis served in cabinet before stepping down to seek the leadership.
The 53-year-old former police officer defeated two other former cabinet ministers, Steve Kent and John Ottenheimer, for the job.
He must call an election within 12 months of taking office.
A lawyer for former GM Canada dealers says the automaker deliberately ambushed and misled them in 2009 when it downsized its retail network.
The second stage of the federal government's race to pass a bill governing prostitution by the end of the year begins today.
Canada's justice minister is insisting that once passed, the Conservative government's new prostitution bill will mean safer conditions for sex workers.
A 24-year-old man who pleaded guilty to uttering threats against police officers in Moncton has been sentenced to a nine-month conditional sentence, with the first three months to be spent under house arrest.
An ex-nurse who admitted going online and encouraging people to kill themselves was convicted Tuesday assisting the suicide of an English man and attempting to assist in the suicide of a Canadian woman.
Striking B.C. school teachers off the job since mid-June may soon get some financial help from another union. The union representing about 1,800 BC Hydro workers is voting this week on whether to set aside a $100,000 loan for the teachers' union.