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Power outage cost ENMAX $20M
Despite a power outage last summer that cost ENMAX Corporation $20-million, the city-owned utility told shareholders today that it is in a strong financial position. ...
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Public raising funds to buy alleged Rob Ford crack video
Two Toronto Star reporters and the editor of the U.S. website Gawker claim to have viewed a video that allegedly shows Mayor Rob Ford smoking what appears to be crack cocaine. (Chris Young/Canadian ...
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Vancouver company discovers LSD was shipped to U.S. under its name
Scott Mills of JukeboxPrint.com said his company received returned mail that it had never sent, containing LSD-laced stickers. Police are now ...
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Town Talk Massive yacht in North Vancouver belongs to Russian vodka mogul
STANDING TALLER: Shannon Belkin and Tina Oliver's golf club lunches for 100 women regularly benefited the Salvation Army's Deborah's Gate program to aid sexual-trafficking victims. This year, with Oliver still on the committee and Tali'ah Aquilini co-chairing, Belkin moved the Freedom Gala to the Sheraton Wall Centre hotel. With men now attending and author-TV reporter Victor ...
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Toronto Mayor Is Accused of Using Cocaine
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Who needed Olivia Pope most this week IRS Toronto mayor Holder Carney
In the ABC hit show "Scandal", Olivia Pope is a Washington-based fixer. When people of power have trouble in D.C., Miss Pope is likely to be the first person they ...
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How Ottawas plan to foster wireless competition sank
'Today marks a new chapter for wireless in Canada."That was Anthony Lacavera's bold declaration as he launched Wind Mobile on a chilly day in December, 2009. There was a buzz in the air as hundreds of people packed Toronto's waterfront to watch the 35-year-old chairman unveil a six-metre statue of "Joe," a tribute to the average Canadian consumer. Joe was a symbol ...
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Ottawa’s five options to solve its wireless dilemma
The race is on for incumbents in the wireless business to buy up the spectrum that was supposed to be set aside for new competitors.Telus Corp. wants to buy Mobilicity, and Rogers Communications Inc. wants to buy the spectrum that Shaw Communications bought to start a wireless provider before deciding it had better ways to spend billions of ...
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Canadas inflation level down to 0.4 in April
(MENAFN) Statistics Canada stated that the country's inflation level declined to 0.4 percent last month from 1 percent in March, reported Reuters. The agency said that on monthly basis, prices dipped by 0.2 percent.It attributed the remarkable decline in annual inflation rate to a fall of 6 percent in gasoline prices, and a decrease of 0.7 percent in prices of passenger cars.However, ...
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Remand centre sued by man who killed cellmate
The man who was found not criminaly responsible for stomping his cellmate to death at the Edmonton Remand Centre is now suing centre staff. Two years ago, Justin Caldwell Somers, 27, killed 59-year-old Barry Stewart by stomping on his head 26 ...
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Vancouver Island coal mine application rejected
A controversial application to open a coal mine in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island has been rejected as inadequate by the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office. In a statement issued on May 16, the office said Compliance Energy's application for the Raven Coal Mine near Fanny Bay "does not contain the required information." While the EAO left the door open for the company to ...
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Cops investigate possible links in Bosma suspect case
One man charged in Tim Bosma's murder TORONTO - Toronto Police have confirmed they are reviewing the death of Wayne Millard, father of a man now charged with the kidnapping and murder of an Ancaster man. Homicide squad Staff-Insp. Greg McLane said Friday investigators are continuing to look into Dellen Millard’s Etobicoke connection when it comes to the suicide death of his father ...
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Experimental flying car suffers setback as missionary-funded prototype crashes near B.C. school
Last Friday, a bizarre object fell from the skies above Vernon, B.C., and lodged itself in the trees on the edge of an elementary school field. When the dust settled, curious students found themselves gazing at the smashed remains of a Maverick, an experimental flying car resembling a miniature vintage roadster. Even stranger than its appearance, however, are the Maverick's origins: ...
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Suzuki dealers want payout over auto maker’s plans to leave Canada
Suzuki Canada Inc. dealers say they deserve a payout from the auto maker over its plan to halt vehicle sales in Canada next year.The dispute has ended up in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, where Suzuki has filed a motion seeking dismissal of a claim dealers brought against the company under the National Automobile Dealer Arbitration Program (NADAP), which settles issues between dealers ...
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Video Where Canadians are headed for a chance to win up to $600-million
Hundreds of people headed across the border to scoop up a ticket for tomorrow's Powerball draw - a ticket that could be worth $600-million ...
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Canadian company writes FG over Amaechi’s jet – Investigation
The Canadian company which arranged how the Rivers State Government's controversial Bombardier Global 6000 private jet was ferried into Nigeria last year has written to the Federal Government, explaining how the jet got to the country through Senegal, among other ...
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Ottawa earthquake felt widely because of old bedrock
Quakes on the East Coast are generally more widely felt than out West because of differences in the Earth's crust between the two regions, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). East of the ...
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Calgary man charged with murder of woman and her five-year-old son
CALGARY -- Calgary police have charged a man in the deaths of a woman and her young son. Thirty-five-year-old Chona Manzano and five-year-old Gabriel Manzano were found dead Thursday in a home on the northwest edge of the city. Police said a family member was alerted to a problem and went to the home around lunch time. He found the woman's body on the main floor of the house and the ...
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Legendary CBC track field commentator Geoff Gowan dies at 83
Track and field expert Geoff Gowan, shown in Ottawa in this 1996 photo, passed away Friday from Parkinson's disease. (Tom Hanson/Archive/Canadian ...
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Henrik Lundqvist not taking full blame for OT pains
Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist and right-winger Mats Zuccarello pause after the Bruins scored in overtime in Game 1 of their second-round NHL playoff series on Thursday night. Lundqvist has a career 3-11 record in OT. (Charles Krupa/Associated ...
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Alberta to open 6 new trade offices
Premier Alison Redford has announced the locations of six new provincial trade offices, including a second one in China. The new offices will be set up in California, Chicago, Brazil, Singapore and India. Alberta has a trade office in Hong Kong, but the premier says another one will be situated in Beijing to cover the large Chinese market. "From my perspective, Hong Kong wasn't ...
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Hockey support group key in trangendered teens transition
The world of male sports is often described as a macho, intolerant place where anything outside of heterosexual norms is met derisively and attacked as a weakness. But for 16-year-old Cory Oskam, that just wasn't the case. Oskam, a transgendered teenager who has transitioned to being male, says hockey was key to getting through what can often be a difficult process. "Hockey is my ...
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STM drivers union calls again for stiffer penalties to prevent assaults
The union representing Montreal's bus and metro drivers is calling for the strengthening of the Criminal Code to give transit workers the same protection that police and other peace officers have. Union president Denis Vaillancourt was joined Friday by about 30 bus drivers who showed up in uniform at the court appearance of one of the three people accused of beating up bus driver ...
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Calgary fire ban lifted
Calgary's Level 3 fire ban was lifted Friday after several days of wet weather, just in time for the May long weekend. The change took effect at 4 p.m. MT and means restrictions have been removed from using back yard fire pits, camp stoves, solid fuel barbeques, chimeneas and recreational campfires in city parks within provided pits or stoves. Althought the fire ban has been lifted, a ...
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Police name abduction victim
Edmonton Police are asking for the public's assistance in locating Rhianne Melin Larocque, who is believed to have been abducted on Thursday morning. Investigators say Larocque, 29, may have been assaulted and forcibly taken by three male suspects following a streetside fight near Rexall Arena in the vicinity of 75th Street and 120th Avenue. It is believed that the three suspects, led by ...
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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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