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Canada Post asks Canadians to accept junk mail — by sending them junk mail
Junk mail is good for you, Canada Post is telling Canadians. The national postal service has been sending out letters across the country to those with the audacity to post ';no flyer'; signs on their mailbox, telling the reader they are missing out on ';being connected with your local community.'; Canada Post has mailed more than 900,000 of the letters in hopes the ...
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Canadian businessman on trial behind closed doors in Cuba as government mum on proceedings
Canadian businessman Sarkis Yacoubian goes to court for his corruption trial in Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 24, 2013. The trial of Yacoubian, who was president of import company Tri-Star Caribbean which was shuttered in July 2011, is under way nearly two years after he was detained. President Raul Castro has repeatedly spoken of a need to root out entrenched corruption on this Communist-run ...
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Canada seeks het fighter replacement info
The Canadian government has issued two questionnaires to industry for information on the price of aircraft to replace its CF-18 fighters. The questionnaires, issued by the National Fighter Procurement Secretariat, aim to help the government evaluate how procurement of available aircraft could benefit Canadian industry. "The five companies with available aircraft are invited to complete ...
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Close allies urge Toronto Mayor Ford to talk about scandal
Close allies of Toronto Mayor Rob's Ford said Friday they will release a letter that urges the mayor to address an alleged video that shows him smoking crack ...
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Alize Cornet beats Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard in Strasbourg semi-final
Third-seeded Alize Cornet of France edged Eugenie Bouchard of Westmont, Que., 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-3 on Friday to reach the final of the Strasbourg International.Cornet broke the Canadian teenager twice in the last set and saved six break points.Last year's runner-up will face either Flavia Pennetta of Italy or Lucie Hradecka of the Czech ...
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RBC unveils supplier conduct code pledge on Canadian jobs
RBC CEO Gordon Nixon speaks to the media at a press conference following their annual general meeting in Toronto, Ont. March 1/2012. (Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and ...
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Canadian Stars Brent Hayden Annamay Pierse To Be Honored This Weekend
VANCOUVER, Canada, May 24. YEARS of perseverance and dedication will be recognized this weekend when retirement ceremonies are held for Olympic bronze medallist Brent Hayden and former world record holder Annamay Pierse at the Mel Zajac Jr. International Canada Cup.For Hayden and Pierse it will be another chance to be cheered at the same University of British Columbia Aquatic Centre where they ...
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Cuba silent on Canadians corruption trial
Canadian businessman Sarkis Yacoubian goes to court for his corruption trial in Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 24, 2013. The trial of Yacoubian, who was president of import company Tri-Star Caribbean which was shuttered in July 2011, is under way nearly two years after he was detained. President Raul Castro has repeatedly spoken of a need to root out entrenched corruption on this Communist-run ...
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Canadian trucking company says it had permits
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. -; The trucking company involved in a Washington state bridge collapse says it received a state-issued permit to carry its oversized load across the ...
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Toronto mayors inner circle calls for answers in crack scandal
By Julie Gordon TORONTO | Fri May 24, 2013 12:59pm EDT TORONTO May 24 (Reuters) - In another sharp blow to scandal-plagued Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, several key members of his executive committee at City Hall said on Friday they are joining forces to publicly call on him to confront allegations of crack-cocaine use. The group will release an open letter to Ford on Friday afternoon, Deputy ...
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Fast Furious 6 will keep you on the edge of your seat for as long as it can
The Memorial Day weekend is typically where the blockbuster tentpole films go head to head and do battle for the biggest piece of the financial pie at the box offices this summer. Opening in theatres everywhere tomorrow "Fast & Furious 6" just raises the bar of action filmmaking as they go for the gusto in making as gonzo an action epic as they possible could with results the end ...
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Former Ontario premier to testify at Elliot Lake mall collapse inquiry
City orders sit affixed to emergency fencing around the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont., on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. (Colin Perkel / THE CANADIAN ...
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Canada threatens retaliation over U.S. meat-labelling rules
U.S. rules that require meat producers to specify where the source animal was born, raised and slaughtered and restrict what can be labelled as a product of a certain country of origin are too costly and cumbersome and discriminate against foreign livestock, Canadian producers and government officials argue. (Jessica Rinaldi ...
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Canada not joining Pacific Alliance trade bloc yet
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, front right, was part of the official photo at the Pacific Alliance Summit in Cali, Colombia on Thursday. Canada has observer status for these trade negotiations. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian ...
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Blackhawks stars Kane Toews struggling
The Blackhawks' Jonathan Toews, left, gets his stick up on the Red Wings' Jonathan Ericsson during Thursday night's Game 4 in Detroit but wasn't penalized on the play. However, a clearly frustrated Toews did take two high-sticking penalties in the second period along with a hooking minor. (Gregory Shamus/Getty ...
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China to sign free trade deal with Switzerland
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, left, and Swiss Economy Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann smile during their visit to Guldenberg farm in the village of Embrach north of Zurich on May 24, 2013. Their two nations are poised to sign a comprehensive free trade pact. (Arnd Wiegmann ...
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Manitoba Tel to sell Allstream put $200M to pension and debt
Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. has agreed to sell its Allstream business telecommunications arm and use about half of the proceeds to reduce its pension and debt obligations. Winnipeg-based MTS, which operates Manitoba's largest telecommunications business, says the deal values Allstream at $520 million. Manitoba Tel says it expects to realize $405 million from the sale, of which $130 ...
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Canadas Eugenie Bouchard falls just short in Strasbourg semifinals
Third-seeded Alize Cornet of France edged Eugenie Bouchard of Canada 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-3 on Friday to reach the final of the Strasbourg International. Cornet broke the Canadian teenager twice in the last set of the French Open clay-court tuneup and saved six break points. Bouchard, 19, had reached the semifinals of a WTA event for the first time in her career. She was looking to become the first ...
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Washington bridge collapse not Alberta truckers fault wife says
A truck carrying an oversized load struck the four-lane bridge on Interstate 5 bridge, the major thoroughfare between Seattle, Wash., and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River on Thursday night. (Elaine Thompson/Associated ...
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Philanthropist father of Browns Shoes dies at 85
Montreal retail icon and philanthropist Morton Brownstein has died at the age of 85. Brownstein was responsible for transforming his father's shoe shop into Browns Shoes, which now has more than 40 outlets across Canada. The Brownstein family business was founded in Montreal in 1940 and today the company is headed by Morton's son, Michael. Brownstein died on Thursday, at his home. ...
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Robert Bateman Centre to promote more than artists work
Celebrated Canadian nature artist Robert Bateman is opening a new gallery in Victoria this weekend, but the artist says the aim is to do much more than showcase his work. The Robert Bateman centre, whose doors open on his 83rd birthday, will display the largest exhibit of original works by the popular wildlife artist. There will be 10 galleries in the centre, including one devoted to his ...
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Saint John carpenters lowest paid in country
(Toby Talbot/Associated Press) Unionized carpenters in Saint John are the lowest paid in the country, according to new data from Statistics Canada. They earn $26.52 an hour, about $3 less than their peers in Halifax and almost $14 less than those out west, the figures for 21 metropolitan areas show. Mark Fowler, a private contractor from Rothesay with 20 years of experience, knows he can get a ...
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Heavy rainfall forecast prompts flood warnings
The New Brunswick government is warning that heavy rainfalls expected in the next three days may cause flooding. Environment Canada has issued a heavy rainfall warning for most of New Brunswick with as much as 120 millimetres of rain expected to fall in central, southeastern and southwestern regions by late Saturday. The province's River Watch program said the heavy rain could create ...
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Leader of B.C. ocean fertilization project fired
The California businessman behind a controversial ocean fertilization project off B.C.'s west coast has been fired, but the group behind the project says it still supports the ...
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High streamflow advisories expected to be lifted in B.C. Interior
High streamflow advisories are expected to be lifted for much of the B.C. Interior today following days of heavy rain. Advisories remain in effect throughout parts of the central interior, the Thompson Region, Boundary, and Okanagan. But Dave Campbell with the B.C. River Forecast Centre says most communities are likely through the worst of it. "I think a lot of those areas were probably ...
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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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