CBC News Online - Evening News Digest - 2015-02-19

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Boy, 3, who left Toronto apartment at 4 a.m., dies after spending hours outside Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:21:21 EST A three-year-old Toronto boy has died after spending hours outside in the bitter cold after wandering away from the lowrise apartment building where he was staying with family. Read More 'This is not a bomb': Why school strip searches for drugs are legally troubling Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:01:04 EST Police officers and corrections staff across Canada can do strip searches in limited circumstances, but legal experts see little or no justification for school staff strip searching students suspected of carrying drugs, as happened recently with a Quebec teen. Read More Mother of 2 says complaining got her kicked off kidney transplant list Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:00:00 EST A 45-year-old mother says she's being denied a life-saving kidney transplant because doctors at Vancouver General Hospital have decided she is mentally ill. Alice Zhang believes she has been taken off the transplant list because she has complained about her hemodialysis care. Read More Niagara Falls a spectacular sight in sub-freezing temperatures Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:05:31 EST Last year, frigid temperatures brought on by a polar vortex affecting southern Ontario caused parts of the falls to appear to have stopped flowing. The last time the American Falls, the smallest of the three waterfalls, froze almost completely was in 1912. Read More Alberta squandered its oil wealth: report Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:18:17 EST In the next week, Alberta will release its third-quarter fiscal update, and it's not going to be pretty. A report from the Fraser Institute says it didn't have to be this way. Read More More Headlines Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation fire reflects inadequate resources for reserves Russian biker, Vladimir Putin's friend, put on Canada's sanctions list Bombardier turns to markets to raise up to $863M from new shares How a cheap, new pair of underwear led one MP to almost lose his vote Jonas Budd, suspect in abduction and fatal shooting, located in Saskatchewan Putin's ghostly victory in eastern Ukraine: Don Murray Alberta premier orders document dump of freedom of information requests 3 off-duty police officers charged with gang sexual assault Elections Ontario accuses Liberals of contravening bribery rules Is Apple making an electric car? Recent hires stoke rumours