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’Shocking’ half of Canada’s First Nations kids living in poverty new study finds
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Thousands of screaming fans brought Times Square to a standstill as they waited to catch a glimpse of Brad Pitt at the premiere of his new thriller, "World War ...
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Heat force Game 7 with OT win over Spurs
MIAMI (AP) LeBron James led a title-saving charge, and now his crown will be on the line one more time in Game 7. James powered Miami to a frantic fourth-quarter rally and overtime escape as the Heat beat the San Antonio Spurs 103-100 on Tuesday night to extend the NBA Finals as far as they can go and keep Miami's repeat chances alive. Losing his headband but keeping his cool while ...
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Overmatched Tahiti stealing Confed Cup spotlight
CBC News reporter Nick Purdon examines why the 138th-ranked Tahitians are the talk of the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil. Watch Purdon's report ...
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Stanley Cup Stories Gregory Campbell inspires Bruins
As the Chicago Blackhawks hope that veteran scorer Marian Hossa returns to the lineup, the Boston Bruins got another dose of inspiration from injured grinder Gregory Campbell. This and more in the top NHL stories from ...
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St. Joes program helps aboriginal students graduate
A graduation coach at Edmonton's St. Joseph High School is having a big impact on the graduation rate of aboriginal students. Grad coach Anita Lafferty is modest when she speaks about the special room created at St. Joe's for First Nations, Metis and Inuit students. "It's just a gathering place for students to be comfortable," she said. "They have a place where ...
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Hundreds attend Change Brazil protest in Vancouver
Hundreds of Brazilians took to the street in Vancouver in a show of solidarity with a wave of protests in Brazil against the shoddy state of public transit, schools and other public services in the booming South American giant. "I wish I could go there and fight with them because we are so tired of everything," said Vancouver protester Matheos Martins. Sparked earlier this month by a ...
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Cluster bomb victims call on Canada to ratify convention to ban dirty weapon
Raed Mokaled is pictured in Geneva in April, 2013 at a major international meeting on the Convention on Cluster Munitions. His son, Ahmad, was killed on his fifth birthday by a cluster bomb near their home in Lebanon in February 1999. Mokaled now works to have the weapons banned. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mike ...
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Postmedia News Ottawa Citizen win Michener award for reporting on robocalls
OTTAWA - A Postmedia News and Ottawa Citizen investigation exposing the use of "robocalls" to mislead and harass voters during the 2011 federal election campaign has won the 2012 Michener Award. The foundation handing out the award noted that the "detailed and sustained reporting" led to Elections Canada investigating complaints, a Federal court ruling that electoral fraud ...
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Abbotsford takes Metro Vancouver to task over burning issues
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Misconduct investigations put Canada in different light
MONTREAL - Canada, among the 10 least corrupt countries in the world the past six years according to rankings by Transparency International, is mired in scandals. Quebec’s anti-corruption task force Monday arrested Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum over fraud allegations, adding to controversies rocking political circles in Toronto and Ottawa that have taken the shine off Canada’s ...
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House of Commons adjourns for the summer
The most bitter spring sitting of parliament since Stephen Harper's Conservatives came to power more than seven years ago has ended with a rare piece of agreement -- unanimous consent to adjourn for the summer. All parties agreed late Tuesday night to pull the plug after almost a month of late-night sittings. The House of Commons calendar had MPs remaining at work in Ottawa through the ...
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2 men jailed in Dominican wedding fight return to Canada
Stacey Vernon poses with her new husband, Nick Miele, just hours before he was arrested after a fight at the Bahia Principe Esmeralda resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. (Courtesy Vernon ...
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Zama spill site shows brown trees 3 containment sites
Apache Canada is still cleaning up a massive waste water site in northern Alberta, 18 days after the spill was first reported. The spill leaked 9.5 million litres of contaminated water from oil production into an area near Zama City, Alta., which is near the N.W.T. border. CBC News got a bird's eye view of the site, which is located in a landscape with several pipelines, right of ways for ...
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Calgarians with breast cancer tackle good health together
It's the second anniversary of a Calgary program that helps those battling breast cancer keep active. CBC reporter Tara Weber caught up with some participants to hear about the ...
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Police probe death of woman 27 in Kelowna home
The Kelowna RCMP is investigating the suspicious death of a 27-year-old woman at a home in the Glenmore area. Officers found the deceased woman inside the home when they responded to a call to assist paramedics just after midnight on Monday. Neighbours say a young couple and their children lived in the house. "It's beyond shocking, because these are the kinds of things that you read ...
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City hopes to expand Downtown Proud
The city is looking to expand a program that relies on homeless people to help clean up downtown Edmonton. "Downtown Proud," which started in February 2010, is a project of Boyle Street Community Services and the Downtown Business Association. Employees work three hours a day, five days a week to keep the city's business core cleaner for a relatively low cost. The city has ...
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Botched surgery fueled attack at Vancouver 7-11 Judge
A hostage-taking at a 7-11 in downtown Vancouver in November 2012 was motivated by a call for justice after surgery was performed on the wrong leg, B.C. Provincial Court heard Tuesday. (QMI Agency files) VANCOUVER -- A hostage-taking at a downtown Vancouver 7-11 last year, in which a woman was nearly set on fire, was motivated by a call for justice after surgery was performed on the wrong leg, ...
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Experimental cancer test grafts tumours into mice to create customized treatment for patients
When a CT scan showed that Yaron Panov’s sarcoma had returned, the news from some of Canada's top specialists in the rare cancer was grim: surgery would require cutting out his spleen, a kidney and chunks of other organs. In other words, removing the tumour was not an option. What's more, chemotherapy had little chance of working either, doctors said. It was April 2011 and Mr. ...
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Montreal Mayor Resigns After Bribery Arrest
A day after his arrest on bribery charges, the mayor of Montreal, Michael Applebaum, resigned Tuesday. In a brief statement to reporters, he denied that he was guilty of any of the 14 charges he now faces. But he said it would not be possible to act as mayor while defending himself. For much of his political career, Mr. Applebaum was seen as a reformer and known as "Mr. Clean." He ...
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Interim Montreal mayor quits after fraud arrest
MONTREAL -- For the second time in less than a year, a Montreal mayor has stepped down amid corruption scandals ripping through Canada's second-largest ...
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Former fighter pilot new boss at Vancouver Airport
Edwin Encarnacion had a home run and three RBIs to back pitcher Esmil Roger’s strong outing against his former club and the Toronto Blue Jays won their seventh straight with a 8-3 interleague ...
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Griffins defeat Crunch to win AHLs Calder Cup
Tomas Tatar scored twice as the Grand Rapids Griffins won the Calder Cup on Tuesday with a 5-2 victory over the Syracuse Crunch in Game 6 of the American Hockey League's championship series. Tatar scored on the power play 12:41 into the second period then added an empty-net goal for some insurance in the final minute of play. Defenceman Brennan Evans had the winner for Grand Rapids, the ...
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6 ways to have a picnic in Calgary
Even when you can't find a spot on a patio, chances are you'll be able to locate a spot in a park, on a beach or near a stream. Wherever you are in Calgary, here are some easy ways to turn your outing into a picnic. Wine and ...
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FC Edmonton coach Colin Miller to direct Canada’s men’s team at CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament
Colin Miller’s déjà vu season as Canada’s men’s national soccer team head coach continues. The FC Edmonton head coach will be the interim coach for a third time in 2013, as the team gets set for next month’s CONCACAF Gold Cup. Here, Miller is pictured at Commonwealth Stadium when he was named head coach for FC Edmonton of the North American Soccer League in ...
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Elderly Vancouver man dragged by car after thief takes off with his jewelry
Police are still searching for a suspect who robbed an elderly man and dragged him with a car for about a block. Around 12:30 p.m. Monday, a 61-year-old left a store on East Broadway after purchasing jewelry. He was walking north on Quebec Street when a suspect came up behind him, grabbed the bag of jewelry and ran into a waiting a ...
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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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