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Photos Nearly 200-year-old heritage home in Ontario - $1.899 million
This elegant heritage home was built circa 1820 and is located on a prime property is south-east Oakville, just a short walk to Gairloch Gardens. Updated and renovated, yet maintaining its heritage charm, the home features original mouldings, staircases and hardwood flooring. The great room boasts a cathedral ceiling and is open to the kitchen. The home is surrounded by lush gardens and ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 22
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...
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Sears Canada sinks to first-quarter loss
Sears Canada Inc. reported a loss in its first quarter, dragged down by lower sales of home products and major appliances. Sears Canada, which is 51 percent owned by Sears Holdings Corp., said it had a loss of C$31.2 million (US$30.3 million), or 31 Canadian cents per share, during the quarter ended April 28, compared with a profit of C$93.1 million, or 91 Canadian cents a share, a year ...
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Hey Jon Stewart heres 10 things you should know about Canada
I just think that there are 10 or so things Jon Stewart should know (and probably does) when he jokingly refers to smoking crack as our "national pastime," as he did last night.I'm setting aside things like hockey and Justin Bieber here, and the fact that our beer is better, and putting the focus more on business:1. ...
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More than 1600 people gather for Tim Bosma memorial
During an emotional memorial service, Tim Bosma's widow recalled the night her husband took two men on what was supposed to be a quick test drive of his truck."The devil led the vilest form of people down my driveway and it smiled at me before taking Tim away from me," Sharlene Bosma said.Ms. Bosma last saw her husband on May 6. One week later, his badly burned remains were ...
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Powering the Future Construction Begins on Torontos New Downtown Transformer Station
Toronto Hydro launches new downtown transformer station. Dirt flies at the official groundbreaking at the newly named Clare R. Copeland Transformer Station. David Williams, Toronto Hydro Chairman, Bob Delaney, MPP, Clare Copeland, former Toronto Hydro Chairman, Anthony Haines, Toronto Hydro President and CEO, and Councillor Adam Vaughan put shovels in the ground to kick-off construction. (CNW ...
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Canada abuzz over purported crack video of mayor
A video purportedly of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack has caused an uproar in Canada. Ford on Friday called the allegations ...
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Pre-trial hearing adjourned for Kiwi in Canada
A pre-trial hearing for an ex pat New Zealander accused of murdering his wife in Canada has been adjourned. Former Napier city councillor Peter Beckett, 56, was due to stand trial at Salmon Arm Provincial Court for the murder of his wife Laura Letts-Beckett by allegedly pushing her off a boat in 2010. The pre-trial opened yesterday in Canada [Tuesday local time] but was adjourned ...
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Maine pipeline eyes plan to ship Canada oil sands crude
Wed May 22, 2013 1:12pm EDT * Maine pipeline plan hinges on flows to Montreal * Recent spills inflame Canadian oil debate * Towns oppose oil sands, line passes through tourist zone By Dave Sherwood SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine, May 22 (Reuters) - The little-known operator of a pipeline linking Montreal and Maine is studying how to make the line the first route to get Canadian oil sands crude to an ...
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Video The problem with Rob Fords silence strategy over drug allegations
Five days after allegations surfaced, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has not specifically addressed reports of a video that allegedly shows him smoking what looks to be crack cocaine. Toronto columnist Marcus Gee joins Hannah Sung to discuss how Ford's near silence on the issue is ...
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Lawyers want Ford to limit comments on video Holyday says
Mayor Rob Ford, seen leaving Toronto City Hall on Wednesday, has yet to yield to pressure to give a more substantive statement on allegations raised by the Toronto Star and the U.S. gossip website Gawker. (Nathan Denette/Canadian ...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX jumps more than 1 percent on Fed comments
TORONTO, May 22 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index rose more than 1 percent on Wednesday, led by gains across all major sectors, as investors cheered comments from U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke suggesting continued monetary stimulus. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index was up 138.73 points, or 1.09 percent, at 12,881.16 in early afternoon ...
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Hundreds attend memorial service for Ontario man slain after test drive
HAMILTON, Ont. -- Hundreds of people have gathered to pay tribute to Tim Bosma, the Hamilton, Ont., man found dead after he took two men on a test drive. Bosma's disappearance and death captured national attention and all seats are filled at the banquet hall where a memorial service is being held today, with dozens more standing in the ...
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Transportation Safety Board of Canada deploys a team of investigators to the site of a float plane accident north of Campbell River British Columbia
May 22, 2013 /CNW/ - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada(TSB) is deploying a team of investigators to the site of a float plane accident, a de ...
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H-Energy to proceed with feasibility study for LNG Export Project in Nova Scotia Canada
Canada that the company will be proceeding with a feasibility study for a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export project, after evaluating several sites in North America. H-Energy has signed an option agreement on two 300-acre parcels of land adjoining seashore in Melford, Nova Scotia. Promoter and Managing Director Darshan Hiranandani of H-Energy has been working closely with Nova Scotia ...
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Chick Time for Raptors to kill the dinosaur
The Raptors teams of the Vince Carter and Chris Bosh era were relevant and almost overcame the stupidity of naming the franchise based on the early-1990s dinosaur craze. But it's time to rebrand, as incoming MLSE CEO Tim Leiweke alluded to on Tuesday. If you've spent any time at all paying attention to ...
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Tims passing is our wake-up call pastor says
Pastor Bernard H. De Jonge welcomed more than 1,000 people to the public memorial service for slain Hamilton, Ont., man Tim Bosma saying, "Tim's passing is our wake-up call." He spoke before the crowd at the same banquet hall in Hamilton where Bosma celebrated his wedding just three years ago. Bosma went missing earlier this month after taking two strangers on a test drive of a ...
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Canadas Eugenie Bouchard rolls into 3rd round in Strasbourg
Canada's Eugenie Bouchard smiles as she looks over at her coach while facing Bouchard Shahar Peer from Israel during first round of play at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament Wednesday, August 8, 2012 in Montreal. Bouchard beat Peer 3-6, 6-2, 7-5. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian ...
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Christie Blatchford Toronto mayor needs to start talking
As Don Peat, the Toronto Sun's excellent City Hall bureau chief, asked wryly, "Do you suppose he's going to do the football thing and just run out the clock?"And that, it appears, is what Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is trying to do.As all around him the storm of serious allegations - that he has been caught on video smoking crack cocaine and consorting with drug dealers - ...
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Ontario man lost in Australian mountains
Prabhdeep Srawn, 25, from Brampton, Ont., went missing May 13 while hiking in Australia's Snowy Mountains. (FACEBOOK PHOTO/QMI AGENCY) The third day of searching for a Brampton, Ont., man who went missing while hiking in Australia wrapped up because of poor lighting, local media ...
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Retail Council of Canada announces 2013 Retail as a Career Scholarship Recipients
$1,000 as part of Retail Council of Canada's Retail as a Career Scholarship program. The scholarships are awarded to students working in retail who are entering or currently enrolled in a retail-related program at a Canadian post-secondary institution. The top applicant will also receive ...
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Canada lifts lifetime ban on gay men giving blood but they can only donate if celibate for five years
TORONTO -- Canada is lifting the lifetime ban on blood donation by gay men, though serious restrictions will remain in place. Canadian Blood Services says men who have not had sex with other men within the last five years will be allowed to donate blood when the new policy comes into effect this summer. Agency executive Dr. Dana Devine acknowledges some people will feel that the deferral ...
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3000 plus left without electricity in central Ontario after thunderstorms
TORONTO -- More than 3,000 Ontario Hydro customers in central Ontario spent the night without electricity after a powerful storm ripped through the area. The utility expects repairs in the affected areas from cottage country north of Toronto east through the Bobcaygeon area to be completed by this evening. A line of severe thunderstorms brought damaging winds, hail and heavy rain to the area ...
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Why this global fascination with the Toronto mayors alleged cocaine use | Colin Horgan
seen a video in which Toronto mayor Rob Ford was filmed inhaling crack cocaine and uttering homophobic slurs about the leader of Canada's Liberal party. The story became an instant online hit, not least for the fact that Gawker had apparently refused to pay the video's owner the six-figure bounty he or she requested to hand it over and instead decided to crowdsource the payment. As of ...
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Lloyd on roster for US womens game vs Canada
CHICAGO - Carli Lloyd will make her first appearance with the U.S. women's soccer team since breaking her left shoulder in a June 2 exhibition against Canada.Lloyd was among 21 players on the roster released Tuesday by coach Tom Sermanni. The sold-out game in Toronto will be a rematch of last summer's contentious semifinal at the London Olympics, which the U.S. won 4-3 in extra time. ...
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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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