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Russell 2000 small-company index surpasses 1000
Small companies took the limelight Monday on a slow but choppy start to the week. The Russell 2000, an index of small-company stocks, rose above 1,000 for the first time. The index is outpacing the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index this year. Small stocks are doing well because they are more focused on the U.S., which is recovering, and are less exposed ...
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Manitobans line up to pay respects to Elijah Harper
Hundreds of Manitobans are lining up at the Manitoba legislature to pay their respects to Elijah Harper as his body lies in state Monday afternoon. The former member of the legislative assembly and member of Parliament played a key role in defeating the Meech Lake accord. He died early Friday morning at the age of 64. According to a statement released by his family, Harper died in Ottawa from ...
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Unlicenced girl 15 caught driving 77 kmh over limit
CALGARY -- Police say an unlicensed 15-year-old girl was behind the wheel of a car driving 77 km/h over the posted speed limit down the Queen Elizabeth II Highway on Monday. "We've got this very young and inexperienced driver behind the wheel travelling down the highway like a rocket," alleged Sheriff Jason Graw with the Airdrie Integrated Traffic Unit. "That's a ...
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Canadian boy 2 killed when car smashes into patio restaurant table
Police in Edmonton, Alberta, said they arrested the driver of a car that ran into a patio restaurant table, killing a 2-year-old boy. The boy's parents and younger sibling were injured when they were hit during the Sunday night accident in the patio of Ric's Grill, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. The 62-year-old driver had not yet been charged but police said alcohol may ...
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MLB Toronto 7 Tampa Bay 5
Tampa Bay Rays . Dickey (4-5) allowed four hits and walked four in eight innings. Tampa Bay managed three runs -- two earned -- in the first three innings but didn't score off Dickey again. He struck out five Toronto reached Rays' starter Jake Odorizzi for three runs in the first two innings and, ...
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Ontario Man Charged with Transportation of a Minor with Intent to Engage in Sexual Activity
BUFFALO, NY-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that David Allen Vickers, 49, of Stanley, New York, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with transportation of a minor with intent to engage in sexual activity. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a fine of $250,000. Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, who is ...
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Toronto mayor urged to step down if crack allegations true
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford attends a gay rights flag raising event at Toronto City Hall May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Brett ...
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D-Day beaches wind turbine proposal seeks Canadian comments
Canadian veterans walk on Juno Beach on June 6, 2004. The view from some of those sites could change if a plan to build wind turbines some 10 kilometres off the shore succeeds. (Tom Hanson/Canadian ...
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NDP wants RCMP inquiry into $90K payment to Duffy
The NDP is calling on the RCMP to investigate the actions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, who resigned recently after news emerged of a secret $90,000 payment he made to Senator Mike Duffy in relation to the Senate expense scandal. NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus announced Monday that a letter had been sent to the commissioner of the RCMP, Robert ...
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Elijah Harpers body will lie in state at Manitoba legislature
Manitobans will get a chance to pay their respects to Elijah Harper at the provincial legislature, where his body will lie in state Monday afternoon. The former member of the legislative assembly and member of Parliament played a key role in defeating the Meech Lake accord. He died early Friday morning at the age of 64. According to a statement released by his family, Harper died in Ottawa ...
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Nanaimo Facebook group takes aim at thieves
Residents fed up with petty crime in Nanaimo have turned to social media to try to prevent theft. The Facebook group 'Stealing Nanaimo' -- with close to 900 members -- allows people to list property that has been stolen in the hope that second-hand stores and pawn shops will check the site. "When someone steals something, it either gets pawned off or shipped out somewhere," ...
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Unlicensed teen ticketed for high-speed drive
Unlicensed teen ticketed for high-speed drive A teenage girl without a licence pulled over for speeding on a highway near Calgary is facing several ...
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Victoria Day name-change petition riles controversy on the happiest day in May
A group of Canadians have recently begun an online petition asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change Monday's holiday, which commemorates Queen Victoria's birthday, to "Victoria and First People's ...
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Montreal politicians debate city council size — again
A proposal put forward by Coalition Avenir Qubec leader Franois Legault to reduce the number of city councillors as a way of dealing with municipal corruption is being met with caution. Legault first floated the idea last year during the provincial election campaign. He said Montreal is ungovernable, and the solution is to cut the size of city council. Under his scenario, the number of ...
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Albertas beef industry 10 years after mad cow crisis
A decade after Alberta's mad cow crisis, there's been a sharp decline in the number of cattle producers in Alberta, due in part to an aging population, drought, rising feed and labour costs, the rising value of the dollar and BSE. ...
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Tim Bosma case More remains found on suspects farm
Bosma's widow: 'I am broken' More remains have been found on the property of a man accused in the death of Tim Bosma. According to local reports, forensic investigators discovered the remains at Dellen Millard's farm outside of Waterloo. It's not immediately clear if the remains are human or animal. ...
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Around Town Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa breakfast Fulfilling stories of inspiration achievement
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Vancouver man jailed after showing up at Jennifer Lawrence’s home
A Canadian citizen is being held in jail in Kentucky charged with stalking and threatening Hollywood star Jennifer Lawrenceand her family.Han Cong Zhao, 23, a former university student from Vancouver, is being held on $100,000 bail in the Jefferson County jail in Louisville, USA Today has reported.Prosecutors say Zhao sent more than 200 messages and a threatening voicemail to the actress's ...
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Harper travelling to Colombia as ‘observer’ at Pacific Alliance trade meeting
OTTAWA -- The prime minister heads to South America this week to suss out membership in a new trading bloc he has been working to join for many years. The Pacific Alliance was formed by Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru in 2011 and Canada took a spot on the sidelines the next year, along with several other countries as observers. This week, alliance leaders will meet in Cali, Colombia, and be ...
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While Toronto gets perfect 25C weather for Victoria Day Gander Newfoundland digs itself out of record 54cm snowfall
GANDER, N.L. -- Newfoundland and Labrador is digging out of a spring storm that walloped parts of the province over the weekend with record-breaking snowfall amounts. Environment Canada says 54 centimetres of snow fell in Gander on Saturday and Sunday over a 20 hour period. Meteorologist Wanda Rideout says the total climbs to 66 centimetres if you include the snow that had already melted ...
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‘RHOOC’ star Tamra Barney tweets support to Heather Dubrow
Heather Dubrow over the past couple of months. The two have never had any beef with each other and now, Tamra has chosen to make Heather her bridesmaid for her upcoming wedding to Eddie Judge. Fans saw how Terry wasn't necessarily the ...
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Search dogs at Canada’s borders more likely to sniff out meat than drugs records show
OTTAWA -- Federal search dogs at international border entry points have a penchant for sniffing out one thing more than anything else: meat.The release of the data comes as federal officials question the necessity and effectiveness of the dogs, with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) dismantling some of its search-dog teams over the past year -- a move the federal union believes will erode ...
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NDP calls on RCMP to investigate $90000 cheque from Harpers former top aide
OTTAWA - The federal New Democrats are calling on the Mounties to investigate the actions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff. NDP MP Charlie Angus, the party's ethics critic, has written to RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson asking the force to determine if Nigel Wright broke any laws by giving Sen. Mike Duffy $90,000 to help him cover the repayment of improper ...
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Vancouver man murdered in targeted Costa Rican hit says private investigator
Vancouver father Brad Deering, 42, and three others were inside his gated community home in San Jose in Costa Rica on Thursday morning, when three men stormed the house, shot and killed Deering and tied up the others. A local private investigator believes the killing was a targeted hit. The PI believes Deering was selling ...
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Canadians invited to weigh in on wind turbine proposal for Juno Beach
Canadian veterans make their way down Juno beach to the waters edge following a ceremony marking the 60th Anniversary of D-Day in Courseulles-sur-Mer, France, on the Normandy coast on June 6, 2004. For years visitors to the D-Day beaches on the northwest coast of France have looked out at the English Channel, taking in the journey made by Allied troops that marked a turning point in the Second ...
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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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