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CBCs Top Tweets Boil-water advisory
Most of Montreal has been under a boil-water advisory for more than 24-hours after dust sitting at the bottom of a resevoir mixed in with the water supply. ...
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Men found dead in B.C. lake wore over-sized lifejackets
A rescue official says two men found dead in Kalamalka Lake, south of Vernon, B.C. on Wednesday, were wearing life jackets that didn't fit properly. (LN?/Wikimedia ...
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Supporters protest bail in boys patio death
About 60 people protest at a bail hearing for the man accused of driving onto an Edmonton patio and killing two-year-old Geo Mounsef last weekend. (Janice Johnston/CBC ...
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PQ polling woes continue
latest CROP survey in Thursday's La Presse. On the provincial side, it places support for Phillippe Couillard's Liberals at 38 per cent. That's 14 points ahead of the Parti Qubcois which is down to 24 per cent, only two points ahead of the Coalition Avenir Qubec which is polling at 22 per cent. Quebec Solidaire is at 10 per cent and Option Nationale up from three per cent to ...
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Chinese student drowned pathologist tells inquest
(Courtesy of Brenan's Funeral Home) Drowning was the cause of death of a Chinese student in Saint John two years ago, a coroner's inquest was told on Thursday. Yifan (Jason) Wang, 17, died in hospital on Sept. 20, 2011, two days after being pulled unresponsive from the pool at the Canada Games Aquatic Centre. Pathologist Marek Godlewski testified his examination of Wang found no ...
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Take rain precautions city advises
With Calgary and many parts of southern Alberta expecting a lot of rain over the next few days, officials are telling people to take some precautions. Forecasters are predicting anywhere from 45 to more than 80 millimetres of rain in Calgary between now and the weekend. The city said that rain, combined with spring runoff, could make the Bow and Elbow rivers rise significantly. Officials are ...
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Teen dies after falling from moving vehicle
A 19-year-old from Jardineville died Wednesday from injuries he sustained while climbing out of the window of a moving vehicle, say RCMP. The teen was trying to get onto the roof of the vehicle on May 17 in Ford Mills, near Rexton, when he fell, Cpl. Daniel Melanson said in a statement. He suffered serious injuries and was transported to the hospital in Moncton, where he later died, Melanson ...
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Violent Edmonton arsonist sentenced to 15 years
An Edmonton man pleaded guilty to hitting a woman with toilet tank lid, setting her apartment on fire and dragging a second woman behind his car, before being sentenced to 15 years in prison ...
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RCMP anti-corruption unit examining Duffy Harb and Brazeau senate expense claims
OTTAWA -- The Senate has turned over documents to the Mounties to help their investigation into improper expense claims. Senate Speaker Noel Kinsella says the RCMP's sensitive and international anti-corruption unit is examining the claims of senators Mike Duffy, Mac Harb and Patrick Brazeau. The police asked for documents related to the Senate's travel and expenses policies. A ...
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Canada Peru in military trade deal
The Canadian government and the government of Peru have agreed to cooperate on military equipment and services procurement. The office of the Prime Minister of Canada said Thursday the Memorandum of Understanding was signed Wednesday by the Canadian Commercial Corp. and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Peru. "Under this agreement, the CCC will work with the Ministry of Defense ...
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Heiress donates $40 million Vancouver Foundation church UBC
5/23/2013 One of the largest charitable donations in B.C. history was made today by the estate of Vancouver heiress Judith Jardine. The $40 million will be shared by the Vancouver Foundation, the University of British Columbia and the B.C. conference of the United Church of Canada. The bulk of the money, $34 million, went to the foundation for the creation of a permanent endowment. ...
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Quebec to do own review of Enbridge pipeline project
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON | Thu May 23, 2013 3:18pm EDT WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - Quebec will announce within weeks that it will launch its own public review of a proposed pipeline that would deliver crude oil from western Canada to eastern markets, its environment minister said Thursday. Yves-Francois Blanchet told Reuters in an interview that the review would be done ...
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Hello Canada Amazon finally ships Kindle Fire tablet north
Kindle eReaders: Not all Kindles are available in Canada. The models that are available north of the 49th are six-inch electronic ink readers, and include the basic device ($89), the Kindle Keyboard ($189) and the Kindle Touch ($139). If you ship to a U.S. address you can get a Kindle Paperwhite, which illuminates for nighttime reading. The 3G isn't supported in Canada, so opt for the ...
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Ottawa threatens ‘retaliatory measures’ over U.S. meat label rules
The federal government is threatening "retaliatory measures" against the United States in a dispute over meat-labelling rules that Ottawa and the World Trade Organization consider discriminatory.The U.S. government has announced new regulations on so-called country-of-origin labelling that would track beef and hogs through the meat processing and distribution ...
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Ottawa gives new funding to child abuse centre named for Sheldon Kennedy
Former NHLer Sheldon Kennedy, left, speaks at a news conference with Justice Minister Rob Nicholson in Toronto on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. (COLIN PERKEL/THE CANADIAN ...
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Canadian Oil Sands Strong Dividend History Helps Get It To The Top 25
report. The report noted that among the coverage universe, COS shares displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics. The report also cited the strong quarterly dividend history at Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., and favorable long-term multi-year growth rates in key fundamental data ...
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Ron Paul accuses Fed of helping bankers hurting average Americans
Stock markets across the globe dropped because investors felt the Fed would be cutting back its quantitative easing program, an initiative of purchasing $85 billion a month in mortgage-backed securities and Treasury bonds. Although Bernanke said it would be discussed in future meetings if the economic data improves, the central bank head confirmed that he would be ready to increase the rate if ...
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Canada threatens retaliation as meat labelling deadline passes
Canada is threatening possible retaliatory action after the U.S. Department of Agriculture changed its Country of Origin Labelling rules — Ottawa says the changes don’t address issues that led to a WTO ruling that the program is ...
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Wharnsby Never count out Paul MacLean
Ottawa Senators head coach Paul MacLean, right, is once again a finalist for the Jack Adams Award as NHL coach of the year. (Jana Chytilova/Getty ...
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Mistaken Duffy asked Senate committee how much he owed
Senator Mike Duffy leaves a meeting of the Senate internal economy committee on May 9 in Ottawa. Letters obtained by CBC News show Duffy was at times an active participant in the committee investigation conducted on him. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian ...
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Full-time public intervener created for energy issues
Attorney General Marie-Claude Blais is ending the practice of hiring private lawyers to represent the public on energy-related regulatory matters by creating a full-time public intervener. Previous public interveners have been private lawyers, hired by the province and have often had ties to the provincial government. "The public intervener will have the legislative mandate to represent ...
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Accused Via terror plotters make video appearance in court
A man charged in an alleged plot to bomb a Via Rail passenger train says he wants to be represented by a lawyer who agrees the Qur'an should be used as a "reference" in his case. Chiheb Esseghaier appeared in a Toronto court by video link this morning. He said he is seeking a legal aid lawyer to defend him against several terrorism-related charges in what the RCMP has called the ...
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Ford could survive crack video allegations PR expert says
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford needs to quickly confess or aggressively deny allegations of him smoking crack in order to politically survive, says a political strategist. Two Toronto Star reporters, and the editor of U.S. gossip website Gawker, both say they've seen a video that shows the mayor of Canada's largest city smoking from what appears to be a crack pipe. CBC News has not seen the ...
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Christy Clark gathers Liberal MLAs in Vancouver
B.C. Premier Christy Clark is expected to speak at a news conference in Vancouver Thursday following her surprise victory in last week's provincial election. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl ...
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Rain snow in K-Country prompts rescue of Edmonton school campers
A group of campers from an Edmonton junior high school called for help after bad weather hit their campsite west of Calgary in K-Country. (Government of ...
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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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