Pari Beauty opens first inline store in Ontario

CNW Group - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

June 19, 2013 /CNW/ - As part of its expansion strategy, Pari Beauty, the prestige cosmetics and skin care brand, has opened its first ever storefront location in a local Ontario mall, Scarborough Town Centre. This store is the third of three recent openings that include two mall boutique kiosks in Oakville Place and Vaughan Mills showcasing its extensive line of professonal performing ...

Torontos Annual Summerlicous Prix Fixe Dining Event Returns to Torontos Entertainment District

CNW Group - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Thursday, June 20, 2013 Toronto's culinary neighbourhoods will open their reservation lines to patrons seeking the best menu values during the city's annual "Summerlicious" dining promotion. Exclusive "Summerlicious" prix fixe menus will be available at twenty-three of ...

Wynne sets sights on long-term goals

CBC News - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Premier Kathleen Wynne is looking at reforms to the province's school system as a way to help future generations find employment. In an interview with CBC News, Wynne said she wants to work with her education minister on improving what kids are taught in class. Now that her minority government has another year of life in it, with the budget passed, Wynne is setting to tackle ...

TDSB to vote on $2M in cuts to music program

CBC News - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

The part-time jobs of two dozen music instructors are on the line at Wednesday night's meeting of the Toronto District School Board. The proposed cuts would save the public school board approximately $2-million of the $27-million deficit it needs to wipe from next year's budget. As part of the music program on the chopping block, part-time instructors train elementary teachers who ...

Record-high heat scorches parts of Canada strains power grids

People's Daily - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

by Mark BourrieA heat dome that has been hovering over parts of Canada several days are setting record highs across Eastern and Central Canada on Thursday, which could be the hottest day of the year.Environment Canada, the federal government agency that monitors weather, released a special weather statement for the region, warning residents that a "sultry tropical air mass" will make ...

Air Canada plane returns safely to Sydney after smoke in cabin

People's Daily - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

An Air Canada plane landed safely after being forced to return to Sydney Airport because of smoke in the cabin, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said on Thursday.The plane landed in Sydney shortly after 12.10 p.m. (local time) on Thursday, an ATSB spokesman said.It had left Sydney Airport at about 10.30 a.m. (local time) for Vancouver and Toronto."Air Canada reported smoke in ...

Britain stands to lose the most if Canada-EU trade talks tank

The Globe and Mail - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Why was David Cameron more upbeat than Stephen Harper when discussing the Canada-European trade negotiations? Maybe because he knows that Europe needs this deal every bit as much as ...

Inside the Canada-Europe trade talks How politics are undermining the deal

Globe and Mail - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

A man on a mission, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is using his European tour and the G8 summit to advance the Canada-Europe free-trade agreement - known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the national leaders who constitute the European Union's 'board of directors.'CETA was the central message in his meetings with British Prime Minister David Cameron, French ...

Architect Tony Coombes helped reshape Toronto’s core

The Globe and Mail - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Tony Coombes had a keen sense of aesthetics and place-making that informed both his personal style and his philosophy of city-building. Tony Coombes for Obit. "3 COL. ABSOLUTE MAX - NO CROPPING - 3 COL - ABSOLUTE ...

REFILE-Statoil finds oil offshore Canada near previous find

Reuters - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:36am EDT OSLO, June 19 (Reuters) - Norwegian oil and gas firm Statoil discovered light, high-quality oil offshore Canada, about 500 kilometres north-east of St. John's in Newfoundland and Labrador, it said on Wednesday. "While it is still too early to determine Harpoon's resource potential at this time, this is very encouraging for the area and especially for the ...

Media Advisory - Settlement approved in Canada wide Neurontin class action

CNW Group - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Canada wide Neurontin class action has now been approved by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The class action was previously certified on behalf of Canadians who were prescribed and ingested the drug Neurontin prior ...

Joni Mitchell plays rare performance at Luminato tribute

CBC News - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Joni Mitchell waves to the crowd during her 70th birthday tribute concert as part of the Luminato Festival at Massey Hall in Toronto on Tuesday. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian ...

Canada mulls penalties for offshore oil

Middle East Times - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

The Canadian government announced plans to increase the liability for energy exploration companies working in Atlantic and arctic waters. Exxon Mobil announced plans in January to produce more than 700 million barrels of oil from the Hebron oil field off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. Canadian Environment Commissioner Scott Vaughan has said oil spills from offshore platforms in the ...

Three cheers for Toronto

CNW Group - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Toronto fund, a community endowment built with contributions from Community Foundation Fundholders, individual donors, and the corporate sector. The grants fund inspired programs and individual work that aim to provide solutions to issues identified in Toronto's Vital Signs Report. The ...

Press Digest-canada-june 19

Reuters - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:16am EDT June 19 (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 * Amid questions about the Prime Minister's Office, Senate spending, Justin Trudeau's work for charities and Thomas Mulcair's run-in with Mounties on ...

Canada on ice as Harper fails to secure EU trade deal

IOL - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

CANADIAN Prime Minister Stephen Harper will conclude his eight-day European trip unable to complete a trade agreement with the EU, just as the opening of EU-US talks raises the risk that his country will be left ...

Cluster bomb victims call on Canada to ratify convention to ban dirty weapon

Vancouver Sun - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

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 ...

Of wetlands and waterfronts

The Globe and Mail - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

If our city fathers had known that one day in the future officials would be gathering on Toronto's shores to announce the creation of a swamp, they would have shaken their whiskered heads in disbelief.The marshland that covered much of the eastern waterfront in Toronto's early years was viewed as a threat to the city's health and welfare, a breeding ground for disease. Authorities ...

Misconduct investigations put Canada in different light

The Seattle Times - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

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 ...

Ex-teammate Esmil Rogers tames Rockies as Blue Jays cruise to win

Denver Post - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

More photos. (Fred Thornhill , Reuters) TORONTO - Esmil Rogers, a pitcher who could never harness his talent in Colorado and who happens to be the Blue Jays' best starter, couldn't help himself. When Toronto manager John Gibbons removed him in the seventh inning, the right-hander smiled like someone who had just talked his way out of a parking ticket. His growth in Colorado was not ...

FC Edmonton coach Colin Miller to direct Canada’s men’s team at CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament

Edmonton Journal - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

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 ...

MLB Toronto 8 Colorado 3

Middle East Times - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Maicer Izturis on solo shots as streaking Toronto reeled off a seventh consecutive win. Former Rocky Esmil Rogers (3-2) collected the victory, yielding three runs (two earned) on four hits over 6 2/3 innings. The right-hander walked one and struck out five. Colorado ...