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Press Digest-canada-may 24
Fri May 24, 2013 5:41am EDT May 24 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. THE GLOBE AND MAIL * Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's executive committee is preparing to take the extraordinary step of publicly urging the troubled leader to confront allegations of drug use, and is making ...
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s allies prepare to run city
Mayor Rob Ford is seen during a special council meeting on the Toronto Casino debate at city hall in Toronto, Ont., May 21, 2013. (Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and ...
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Toronto Catholic trustees reject motion to ban gay-straight alliance clubs
Toronto Catholic District School Board trustees rejected a motion Thursday night that would have banned students from setting up clubs called Gay Straight Alliances in separate schools.Trustee Garry Tanuan's motion drew media attention to the school board meeting, with parents and students making passionate arguments for and against the clubs - even though Ontario law says they must be ...
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Quiet shaper of Toronto’s skyline was on ground floor of city’s condo boom
Toronto developer Murray Menkes, who died April 24 at 87, liked to stay out of the limelight, but built a real estate empire from scratch that would help reshape his city with suburban houses, shopping centres, high-rise condos and office towers during the post-Second World War building boom.Born in 1926, he grew up on Major Street in the Bathurst and College area of Toronto. His father, Max, ...
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Drivers escape death as Washington state bridge on route to Canada collapses
In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, a rescue boat approaches the scene where a pickup truck and travel trailer, seen at left, and a car fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (Francisco ...
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Canada to allocate C$53m to Peru-focused mining and energy initiatives
Canadian mining executives hope Prime Minister Stephen Harper's meeting with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala will generate better use of C$4 billion in unspent mining royalties in government ...
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Swept up in a Toronto summer
Getting there: Flights from South Florida to Toronto take just over three hours. American, WestJet and Air Canada fly nonstop from Miami; WestJet and Air Canada fly nonstop from Fort ...
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Nolin to make Major League debut against Orioles
One night after the Orioles sent out one of their top pitching prospects for his first Major League start, the Blue Jays will make a similar move in an attempt to extend their winning streak to three. Left-hander Sean Nolin, the Blue ...
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US highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada collapses
The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed on Thursday evening, dumping a handful of vehicles and people into a river, the Washington State Patrol said. Authorities said there were no deaths, and three people were rescued and taken to hospitals.The four-lane Interstate 5 bridge - more than half a century old - collapsed about ...
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Encarnacion Arencibia lead Blue Jays past Orioles
Toronto Blue Jays' Brett Lawrie lays down a bunt and is safe on first base while playing against the Baltimore Orioles during the fourth inning a baseball game in Toronto on Thursday, May 23, ...
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Toronto mayor fired chief of staff for telling him to go away and get help
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, seen during a council meeting this week, is alleged to have been caught on a cellphone video smoking crack cocaine. (Canadian Press ...
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Vancouver is least affordable city to buy a house in Canada RBC
Vancouver remains the least affordable city to buy a house in Canada while home ownership in Toronto is becoming more difficult, Royal Bank of Canada Economics Research said. The costs of owning a detached bungalow in Vancouver take up 82.3 percent of a typical household's income, up 0.1 percentage points from the previous quarter. In Toronto, the largest city in Canada, that figure is ...
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Police oppose call to decriminalize drugs in Canada
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Happ dealing with issues from sprained right knee
Email TORONTO -- Although progress is being made, J.A. Happ has yet to throw off the mound after taking a ball to his head against the Rays two weeks ago. The lefty's issues stem from his sprained right knee as a result of the fall that came afterwards, while his head injuries are nearly fully healed. Happ hopes to throw off the mound in the next day or so, but doctors won't let him ...
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Influential scout Guerrero passes away
TORONTO -- Prolific baseball scout Epy Guerrero passed away at the age of 71 on Thursday morning in his native Dominican Republic. The man largely credited with building a stable of Toronto's most influential players in the 1980s and '90s was honored at Rogers Centre with a moment of silence before Thursday's contest vs. the Orioles. Guerrero had a large influence in drafting in ...
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Kevin Gausman shows flashes in debut but Orioles fall to Blue Jays 12-6
Past Orioles award winners Whether the 22-year-old Gausman's first game in an Orioles uniform lived up to the monumental hype - he left the game after five innings trailing by a run after throwing 89 pitches - can be debated, but there's no doubt that the Orioles unveiled something special Thursday night.As for the outcome of the Orioles' 12-6 loss to the Blue Jays in front of ...
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Abbotsford From ‘Homicide Capital of Canada’ to runner-up for ‘most boring city in Canada’
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford may be the Chris Farley of Canadian politics, but that doesn't mean any of us should be laughing at the pratfalls. As the situation at city hall in Canada's largest city grows ...
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MLB Toronto 12 Baltimore 6
Edwin Encarnacion hit a grand slam and J.P. Arencibia drove in four runs Thursday in sending Toronto to a 12-6 victory over Baltimore. The win in the opener of a four-game series gave the Blue Jays their third triumph in four contests. Baltimore took a 3-0 lead in the fourth, but by the end of the sixth inning the Orioles had fallen behind 8-3. Arencibia doubled home a run for the Blue Jays ...
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Bautista ready to move on after four-hit performance
Email TORONTO -- Jose Bautista entered Thursday's contest against the Orioles after one of his best individual performances. Not only did the 32-year-old slugger hit two home runs and drive in all four of the Blue Jays runs vs. the Rays Wednesday, but he also hit the walk-off single in the tenth. However, it's not something the veteran wants to dwell on. "It was certainly a good ...
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Nolin to get the call from Double-A start Friday
Email TORONTO -- It may have been one of the worst kept secrets in baseball, but the Blue Jays announced Thursday that prospect Sean Nolin will start for the club Friday vs. the Baltimore Orioles. The Blue Jays had been mum over the last couple days on who would be making the start Friday, but there was an overwhelming thought that the club might turn to the big left-hander sooner rather than ...
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Jenkins to make second start of season on Sunday
Email TORONTO -- The Blue Jays decided to turn to another young player for Sunday's start in the series finale vs. the Orioles. Chad Jenkins will make his second start of the season, exactly two weeks after impressing in his first outing against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Although the long stretch in between pitching would typically mean some rust for the starter on the mound, it's ...
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Mark Carney’s tribute to Canada
Canadians are not in the habit of thinking of their country as similar to the euro zone group of countries, but Mark Carney, in his speech to the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal on Tuesday, presented Canada's monetary union, with "internal real exchange rates," as a much more successful version of the same phenomenon as the euro zone. Canada's different regions do ...
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Canada disapproves new meat labeling rules
TORONTO -; Canada said Thursday that it is considering retaliatory measures against the United States in a dispute over meat-labeling rules that Ottawa and the World Trade Organization consider ...
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Rycroft Time for De Rosario Team Canada to part ways
Dwayne De Rosario is arguably the best player ever to suit up for the Canadian men's soccer team. But with injury and age not on his side, it might be time for Team Canada and the veteran striker to part ...
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Texting during movie lands complainant in trouble
A Toronto woman found herself in trouble with the police after repeatedly asking a man in a cinema to turn off his cellphone. In spite of constant reminders to turn off you cellphone some people continue to use their phones in the cinema. Lani Selick was trying to watch a film recently at the Varsity Cinema, while the man sitting next to her was constantly texting. "I leaned over and I ...
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Toronto's historical hospital due for upgrade
Toronto East General Hospital is undergoing a massive redevelopment and expansion plan that aims to update the tired facility, which is one of the oldest in the city.
Toronto East General Hospital was opened in 1929 and has been in continual operation ever since, located at 825 Coxwell Avenue in the capital of Ontario, the hospital is a community teaching hospital and has a bed capacity of 470. It treated over 60,000 people in its emergency room last year and provided in-patient care to over 19,000 people. Read more
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