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Raptors add salary cap hand Bobby Webster to front office
Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment President and CEO Tim Leiweke, left, listens to Toronto Raptors team president and general manager Masai Ujiri, right, speak during his introductory presser earlier this month. (Nathan Denette/Canadian ...
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Ontario NDP seeking BlackBerry messages discussing Liberal gas plant cancellations
New Democratic Party MPP Peter Tabuns answers questions from the media following the announcement that additional documents were uncovered by the OPA related to the controversial cancellation of gas plants in Toronto on Thursday, February 21, 2013. (Michelle Siu/THE CANADIAN ...
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Toronto’s plastic bag debate is ‘dead’ committee says
Customers receive plastic biodegradable plastic bags when shopping at Noah's Natural Foods on Yonge St., Toronto on November 26, 2008. Toronto's public works committee voted in favour of abandoning the issue once and for all on June 19, 2013. (Fernando Morales/The Globe and ...
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Canada Raises Liability for Offshore Atlantic Arctic Operators
The Canadian government will raise the absolute liability for oil and gas companies operating in the Atlantic Basin offshore eastern Canada from $1 billion to $30 billion and for companies working on the Canadian Arctic from $40 million to $1 billion. Officials said the changes would incentivize spill prevention by companies operating in the Atlantic offshore and support job and economic ...
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Worrying Reports on Poverty in Canada
Ottawa, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) At least 200,000 Canadians live in poverty in the streets of the northern country or seek shelter in friends' houses because they do not have their own, informed today non-governmental organizations. The research also brought about that nearly 1.5 million family groups, part of the low-income sector, are in danger of falling into extreme poverty conditions. ...
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Canada deploying 34 peacekeepers to serve with Brazilians in Haiti
Canada is sending 34 troops to Haiti to serve as a peacekeepers with a Brazilian battalion, Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced Wednesday. MacKay announced the deployment in Ottawa alongside Calgary MP Diane Ablonczy and Gen. Tom Lawson, Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff. They will deploy from June 21 until December 2013, MacKay said. "Members of the Canadian Armed ...
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Thunder Bay pub to be 1st in Canada to offer pregnancy tests
An organization dedicated to preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder hopes to install pregnancy test dispensers in bars across the country -- starting in Thunder Bay, ...
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Police release video of suspect vehicle in Toronto homicide
Three weeks after the afternoon slaying of a Scarborough father working in his backyard, homicide investigators have released more video of the suspected gunman's car passing by the victim as he carts away bricks on his driveway. The footage, which was taken from neighbours' security cameras and released as four different clips, shows a dark four-door sedan, possibly a 1999-2003 Mazda ...
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Pioneering report suggests homelessness costs Canada $7 billion affects 200000 people a year
OTTAWA - Homelessness in Canada affects about 200,000 people every year and comes with a $7 billion price tag, the first-ever national report on the issue has found. The results paint a picture of a disaster in communities across the country, said Tim Richter, one of the report's authors and the president of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness. "In a natural disaster, the loss ...
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UPDATE 1-Bank of Canada says business confidence crucial urges patience
Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:56pm EDT * Poloz says BoC will watch business sector closely * Does not repeat BoC language on eventual rate hikes * Speech and news conference overshadowed by Fed By Euan Rocha and Peter Henderson BURLINGTON, Ontario, June 19 (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada is relying on a rebound in businesses confidence to drive the economy's return to health, the central bank's new ...
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Alice Munro wins Ontario’s Trillium Book Award
Video: Check out this summer's best books for the beach The winner for the Trillium Book Award for Children's Literature in French-language is Claude Forand for "Un moine trop bavard."The winners of Ontario's foremost prize for literary excellence, were announced Tuesday evening in Toronto.The Trillium Book Award English-language and French-language winners receive ...
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Samsung Canada Releases the Hottest Series of the Summer
Samsung's latest line of next-generation GALAXY tablets, the GALAXY Tab 3, keeps you entertained, connected and productive all summer ...
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Conference Board of Canada Study reveals that the knowledge of both official languages is an asset to the Canadian Economy
Canada Bilingualism and Trade, bilingualism leads definitively to important economic advantages. In effect, thanks to this research, produced for the Rseau de dveloppement conomique et ...
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Ontario municipalities and communities invited to help improve Ontarios energy planning and siting processes
June 19, 2013 /CNW/ - The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) and Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) invite Ontarians to join the conversation and share their views about Ontario's regional energy planning and siting processes. ...
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UPDATE 1-Vimpelcom unit drops bid to buy Canadas Wind Mobile
Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:08pm EDT By Alastair Sharp TORONTO, June 19 (Reuters) - A subsidiary of European telecoms company Vimpelcom Ltd has withdrawn its bid to acquire control of Canada's Wind Mobile, a surprise move that creates further uncertainty about the future of the upstart Canadian wireless company. Orascom Telecom, an Egyptian company that is majority-owned by Vimpelcom, said on ...
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2 men jailed in Dominican wedding fight back in Canada
Two Canadian men who were detained in the Dominican Republic for nearly three weeks after a post-wedding fight broke out at a resort have returned to Toronto, the latest step in a drama that the wife of one of the men said was "like a scene from the movies." Nick Miele, 34, and his cousin, Ben Constantini, 18, were taken into custody on May 28 after a fight at the Bahia Principe ...
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Free the MPs Canada needs rules to restrict party whips
The educational foundation Your Canada, Your Constitution recently released the results of a national survey that shows a large majority of Canadians (71 per cent) support legal restrictions on federal party leader powers to give more freedom and power to MPs, while only 20 per cent are opposed to such ...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX slips as BlackBerry Fed apprehension weigh
* TSX falls 23.31 points, or 0.19 percent, to 12,344.12 * Five of 10 main index sectors decline * BlackBerry slips 3.2 percent after downgrade By John Tilak TORONTO, June 19 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index retreated on Wednesday morning on market foreboding about what the U.S. Federal Reserve might say about its easy-money policy in a statement to be issued later in the day. Financial ...
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Popular Saveonenergy Program Key To Lowering Ontarios Summer Peak Demand
June 19, 2013 /CNW/ - The Ontario Power Authority, in collaboration with Ontario's Local Distribution Companies (LDCs), today launched the saveONenergy AND BE REWARDED campaign. This campaign builds on the OPA's highly successful conservation efforts by helping Ontarians manage electricity costs through three key OPA-funded programs: peaksaver ...
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Canadas Walk of Fame reveals winners of Emerging Artist Music Mentorship Prize presented in partnership with RBC
, studio time and mentorship from members of The Tragically Hip and Triumph Competition Winners to perform during Canada's Walk of Fame Festival in ...
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Meet Canada’s underused poet laureate Wordsmith bemoans lack of meaningful work
Canada's national poet has warned that the taxpayer-funded position risks becoming "homogenized and diluted" and expressed frustration that during his two-year term in Ottawa he's been asked to produce just one work -- a "mediocre" poem about Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee -- while many more serious, controversial subjects have escaped the official attention ...
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Arrest made after 2 armed robberies in Cabbagetown area
Police have arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with at least two armed robberies targeting women near the Cabbagetown neighbourhood early Wednesday morning. Investigators say the victim's presence of mind to remember the man's licence plate number and vehicle model helped them to detain him within a matter of hours. A staff sergeant at 51 Division said the man arrested has been ...
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Bob Rae stepping down as MP
(Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press) Bob Rae, who has represented the Toronto Centre riding for the Liberals since 2008 and served as interim Liberal leader following the party's disastrous showing in the 2011 election, is stepping down as an MP, CBC News has learned. Rae told his Liberal colleagues of his decision during Wednesday's party caucus meeting, an announcement that was met with ...
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Tory MP fined $155 for driving through Hill security stop
Conservative MP Eve Adams admitted on Twitter late Tuesday that she had been fined by Parliament Hill security officers for driving through a security checkpoint 'without coming to a complete stop.' Media reports said she was ticketed for talking on her cellphone. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...
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30000 Canadians are homeless every night
A homeless man keeps warm in his blankets in a park in downtown Toronto. On any given day, about 30,000 Canadians are homeless, a new report says. (Kevin Frayer/Canadian ...
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Canada's Battle of the Museums?
Canada is set to have two air and space museums as the long-established Canada Aviation Museum expands its interests into the realm of space, and changes its name to one which seems to directly challenge another aviation museum, but closer examination suggests something else.
Canada has a rich and distinguished history in aviation, it was one of the leading countries in developing the then ambiguous and dangerous aviation industry and contributed in giving the world such iconic planes as the famous De Havilland range of aircraft, and played a major role in the development of aircraft through the Second World War and into the 1960’s. Read more
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