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Warrants issued for suspect in northwest Calgary burglaries
Police released this mug shot of Thomas Damien Stevic, 34, of Calgary, wanted in connection with four break-ins in the communities Tuscany and Scenic Acres earlier this ...
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Dominican officials arrest 4 accused of smuggling migrants into US Canada
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Dominican authorities have arrested four men from Sri Lanka accused of smuggling at least 60 migrants from India and the Middle East into the U.S. and Canada using fake passports. The suspects would smuggle the migrants from Europe to Haiti and then cross them into the Dominican Republic, Maximo Munoz, spokesman for the National Investigations Department, ...
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More than one-third of Quebec high-schoolers victimized study
MONTREAL -- More than one in three high-school students in the province say they have been victims of violence at school or on the way to or from school, according to a study made public Thursday by the Institut de la statistique du Qubec. Just five per cent said they were victimized by cyberbullying during the school year, with girls nearly twice as likely to be bullied on the Internet as ...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX dips on stimulus fears sluggish data
* TSX down 94.41 points, or 0.74 percent, at 12,658.09 * All 10 main sectors decline * TD Bank falls after results By John Tilak TORONTO, May 23 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index dipped on Thursday as fears the U.S. Federal Reserve will dial back its bond-buying program and pessimism following sluggish economic data from China and Europe fueled declines in all major sectors. Weakness in ...
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UPDATE 1-Quebec to do own review of Enbridge pipeline project
Thu May 23, 2013 4:41pm EDT * Quebec to hold separate review of pipeline-reversal plan * Review to run concurrent to federal process By Valerie Volcovici 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 ...
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Canada terror suspect says attorney must use holy book
TORONTO (AP) — A man accused of plotting to derail a train in Canada with support from al-Qaida is asking to be represented by a defense attorney willing to use the "holy book" as a reference in his case.During a hearing Thursday Chiheb Esseghaier requested a court-appointed lawyer who will use the "holy book" as a reference. The Tunisian-born Muslim was apparently ...
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On Site Contemporary design for a new Toronto hub
redpathcondos.com Peter Freed, the pioneer developer behind a string of popular King West condominiums, is now planting the flag in midtown Toronto with a plan to develop a series of contemporary high-rises in the Yonge-Eglinton ...
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Finally signs of progress at Sears Canada
There's still a long and difficult road ahead - especially given Target's arrival this year in the Canadian retail scene - but there are early signs that the turnaround efforts ...
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Read the letter that the RCMP sent the Senate
Senator Marjory LeBreton talks to media in Senate Foyer on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Thursday, May 9, 2013 regarding an audit on Senators housing expenses. (Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN ...
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TV importers accuse Ottawa of misleading tariff rulings
Importers of popular electronics such as big-screen TVs and MP3 players are ramping up their fight against federal tariff changes, accusing the government of misleading them by offering tariff breaks that it planned to claw back later.Importers of televisions are already on the hook for about $16-million in retroactive duties from 2011 after last year's crackdown on a particular tariff ...
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RCMP now looking into Senate expenses scandal
The RCMP has come calling at Canada's beleaguered Senate, asking for documents that it says will help determine "whether there are grounds to launch a criminal investigation" of expense claims filed by Mike Duffy, Patrick Brazeau and Mac Harb. ...
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Ontarios LCBO goes casual as union wins right to ditch the ties
They also bargained for the right to ditch their ties."The employer agreed to discontinue use of ties and cross-over ties," the Ontario Public Service Employees Union says in the highlights of the tentative deal.(There's also now a $200-a-year clothing allowance for seasonal workers, but presumably that money won't be spent on ties.)The opt-out-of-the-tie provision of the ...
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Boards Of Canada Share New Video Song
Scottish brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin -- known almost exclusively as Boards of Canada -- have had the electronic music world ...
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Andy Cohen reveals popular housewives are returning to ‘Real Housewives’
Andy Cohen has been the driving force behind "The Real Housewives" franchise, as he has interviewed them on "Watch What Happens Live" and hosted all of the reunion shows from the very beginning. He knows how to mediate the women when they all get together to rehash the drama of the previous seasons and he knows all of the housewives personally. So, one can imagine that Andy ...
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‘RHOA’ star Kim Zolciak to share dramatic moment on her reality show
Kim Zolciak has gotten her own reality show because Bravo thought her life was interesting. Sure, her wedding to Kroy Biermann resulted in a fight with her mother, because she caused ...
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Kathy Wakile wanted out of ‘Real Housewives’ because of family drama
"The Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Kathy Wakile reveals that the previous season of the show was a little intense and she was ready to leave the show behind for ...
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Kim Kardashian to dish gender details on ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’
Kim Kardashian is no stranger to the cameras and she isn't ashamed when it comes to sharing everything from the petty details of a fight to an intimate proposal with Kris Humphries. And while she may not be filming the birth like Kourtney Kardashian, she will allow cameras into the doctor's office for an ultrasound as shown in a new preview. If that wasn't enough, fans of the show ...
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Hockeys Memorial Cup still up for grabs
Saskatoon Blades could, if all the pucks fall properly into place, find themselves playing on Sunday, May 26th, for a chance to hoist the famous ...
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‘Teen Mom’ star Jenelle Evans and Kieffer joke about her supposed pregnancy
Jenelle Evans has announced that she is done with her estranged husband Courtland Rogers, since she claimed he betrayed her during their marriage. Courtland is currently sitting in jail and it sounds like she is moving on with her life, even though they are legally married. She can't divorce him until December, since the laws in North Carolina claim that she can't file for divorce ...
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Regehr Tiny Gibraltar hopes to join UEFA
On Friday, Gibraltar hopes to become an official member of UEFA. Right now it has only provisional membership. The barricade to its admittance has been Spain. On a recent trip to Gibraltar I couldn't help but marvel at the view.From the top of its massive granite ridge line, you can see the hazy mountaintops of Morocco, the competing blues of the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, and ...
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Ottawa wins award for Canada’s most boring city
The Boring Awards committee has awarded Ottawa the title of most boring city in Canada, but it isn’t the city they mind so much as the ...
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Ron MacLean Brad Richards deserved better from Tortorella
Brad Richards sits out tonight. I'm his friend, so of course no one in New York could get a fair hearing from me. But for the record, here's my take. In 2011, Brad chose to sign with the Rangers against the advice of his agency. They certainly did not argue against New York, but they had laid out what they felt was a better fit with more money on the table. In the end Brad wanted to ...
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Jonathan Osorio gets 1st crack with Canadian soccer team
Toronto FC midfielder Jonathan Osorio has earned his first call-up to the Canadian national team. The 20-year-old from Toronto is one of 18 players summoned by interim coach Colin Miller for a May 28 friendly against Costa Rica at Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium. The game, the first for the Canadian men in Edmonton since 2008, will feature Edmonton natives Tosaint Ricketts and Randy ...
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Stampeders Jon Cornish motivated by Grey Cup loss
Star Canadian running back Jon Cornish wants to work on his pass routes this season but his coach will be smiling if he just continues doing what he did last year. Cornish helped get the Calgary Stampeders to the Grey Cup, although both he and the team stumbled in the championship game. The Stampeders dropped a 35-22 decision to the Argonauts in Toronto. Speaking today on a conference call, ...
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Rafael Nadal Serena Williams prohibitive French Open favourites
Used to be the French Open was the scene for clay-court specialists and surprise champions. Scan the list of past winners and runners-up. There's Gaston Gaudio and Albert Costa, Guillermo Coria and Martin Verkerk, Andres Gomez and Mariano Puerta. Not so much a "Who's Who." More like a "Who's He?" The women's list features fewer out-of-nowhere names, yet ...
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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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