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Lind regaining ability to get on base
Email TORONTO -- Blue Jays manager John Gibbons appears to have settled on Adam Lind as his everyday cleanup hitter against right-handed pitchers. Lind was back in the No. 4 hole for the second consecutive game Tuesday night versus Tampa Bay. The permanent move had been expected for some time, with Lind's having turned into one of the club's more reliable hitters. In his past 21 ...
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Ontario budget deal with NDP will stave off spring election
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne capped her frenetic first 100 days in office by reaching a budget deal with the New Democrats that will avoid a spring election. The agreement, which, coincidentally, came on the Premier's 60th birthday Tuesday, buys her minority Liberals much-needed breathing space as they gird for what promises to be even more difficult work ...
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Koevermans nearing return to Toronto FC lineup
After undergoing off-season knee surgery, Toronto FC's Danny Koevermans is confident of a return to action on June 1. (file photo) (MIKE ...
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Drug users in Abbotsford B.C. sue over bylaw that bans clean needle exchange
Mariner Janes holds a used needle he collected in the Downtown Eastside after a person called the Mobile Needle Exchange hotline with a tip on its location in Vancouver, British Columbia, Thursday, March 1, 2012. (Rafal Gerszak For The Globe and ...
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Guest Say no to a U.S.-Canada border-crossing fee
THE U.S. government has expressed interest in possibly instituting a new border-crossing fee at land borders. At this stage, the proposal is just a request by President Obama’s administration to study the effect of collecting a crossing fee for pedestrians and passenger vehicles along the Canadian and Mexican land borders. A fee would help recover the costs of upgrades on the northern and ...
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Christie Blatchford Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s refusal to deny crack allegations is doing him no favours
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford sits during a City council meeting at Toronto City Hall on Tuesday May 21, 2013. Ford ignored a crush of reporters waiting outside his city hall office this morning in the hopes he would address allegations that he was recorded on video appearing to smoke crack cocaine. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan ...
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Russell Defining Canadas Olympic prospects
In Vancouver we had them for two days. We were afforded the undivided attention of the men and women who will go for gold while flying Canadian colours at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, now about nine months away. In Vancouver we had ...
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Toronto Port Authority puts off plans to fill part of Lake Ontario for Porter airport extension
The Toronto Port Authority is putting off plans to fill in an area of Lake Ontario near Billy Bishop Airport because it's unclear if the material would be able to support a proposed runway extension.Porter Airlines and city council are trying to extend the runway at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport by 168 metres at each end to allow for the use of ...
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Town rethinks plan to euthanize Canada geese
Photo credit: Mark Bellew | The Town of North Hempstead has entered into an agreement with the USDA to euthanize flocks of geese that are damaging town parks and other properties. (May 10, ...
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Brampton man reported missing in Australia
Family members joined a frantic search Tuesday for a Canadian man with survival training missing for more than a week in Australia's Gold Coast region. Prabhdeep Srawn of Brampton, Ont., hasn't been heard from since parking his rental car on May 13 in the village of Charlotte Pass in Kosciuszko National Park. For the last two years, the 25-year-old has been a law student at Bond ...
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Lightning more deadly than twisters in Canada Forecaster
Ontario teacher struck by lightning Tornadoes may scare you, but lightning is more likely to kill you - at least in Canada. More people die annually from lightning strikes - 80% of them from thunderstorms unaccompanied by official warnings - than from tornadoes, according to Dan Kulak, a meteorologist with Environment Canada. "Lightning is the major summer killer. More people die from ...
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Video Ontario premier speaks out on Rob Ford crack allegations
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says she takes it seriously when personal issues start to impact city governance. Wynne was asked about recent reports of a video purported to show Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack ...
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Canada Targets Both U.S. And Europe In Effort To Get White House Approval For Tar Sands Pipeline
doubled its spending on advertising to promote the Keystone XL pipeline and the production of tar sands oil. The effort to sell the pipeline to the U.S. and the resultant tar sands oil to Europe comes in spite of increasing revelations about the destructiveness of tar sands oil. ...
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PBT Colangelo out as Raptors GM still president
Bryan Colangelo is still going to collect a paycheck from the Raptors. But he's not going to have sway over the basketball side of the operations -- and that's what matters most to Raptors fans. Tim Leiweke, the new CEO of Raptors owner Maple Leaf Sports and ...
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Canadas Ryder Hesjedal recovering from respiratory infection
Canadian Ryder Hesjedal, seen during an earlier Giro d'Italia stage in Italy, was seeking to become the first successful defending champ of the event in over two decades. (Fabio Ferrari/Associated ...
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Retail Council of Canada Inducts Alasdair McKichan into Canadian Retail Hall of Fame
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 . A native of Scotland, Alasdair immigrated to Canada in 1957 and practised law in Winnipeg, Manitoba before moving to Toronto. He joined Retail Council of Canada (RCC) as its first Chief Executive Officer in 1963 and served in that capacity from 1963 to 1971 and from 1975 to his retirement in late 1994. "It is fitting that on its ...
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Toronto mayor silent on crack allegations loses casino vote
By Julie Gordon TORONTO | Tue May 21, 2013 5:40pm EDT TORONTO May 21 (Reuters) - Toronto's mayor, facing allegations that he has been caught on video smoking crack cocaine, saw his dreams of a building a full-service casino in the heart of Canada's largest city dashed on Tuesday, as council voted against allowing any new gaming facilities. Rob Ford avoided any contact with ...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX glides near 2-month high as major sectors rally
* TSX rises 129.38 points, or 1.03 percent, to 12,742.43 * Eight of the 10 main sectors advance * Gold shares rise 3.3 percent * RBC up 2.7 percent, ranks among market's most influential names By John Tilak TORONTO, May 21 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index jumped more than 1 percent to hit nearly a two-month high on Tuesday, fueled by gains in most major sectors and optimism ...
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Mississauga high-schoolers to join Rolling Stones for Toronto concert
Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones performs on the 50 & Counting tour at the Honda Center on Saturday, May 18, 2013 in Anaheim, Calif. (John Shearer/The Associated ...
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Arrests made in Malvern playground fire
(CBC) Toronto police have arrested two men and a young offender and charged them with destroying a children's playground in the city's east end. An 18-year-old, a 19-year-old and a 17-year-old young offender have been charged with setting fire to the playground at the Mary Shadd Public School on May 6. All three have been charged with arson. The playground was set on fire sometime ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 21
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: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...
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UPDATE 2-Bank of Canadas Carney says Europe needs big reforms
Tue May 21, 2013 3:58pm EDT * Bank of Canada chief says Europe should learn from Japan * Final speech before Carney leaves for Bank of England * Says tightening bias aimed in part at household debt * Says the considerable stimulus now in place is appropriate By Leila Lemghalef MONTREAL, May 21 (Reuters) - Europe could face a decade of stagnation unless it makes big reforms and it should heed the ...
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Family joins search for Ontario man missing in Australia
OTTAWA -- Family members joined a frantic search Tuesday for a Canadian man with survival training missing for more than a week in Australia's Gold Coast region. Prabhdeep Srawn of Brampton, Ont., hasn't been heard from since parking his rental car on May 13 in the village of Charlotte Pass in Kosciuszko National Park. For the last two years, the 25-year-old has been a law ...
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Media advisory - Canadas Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers announce immediate withdrawal of services at key international posts and at Headquarters
May 21, 2013 /CNW/ - As part of ongoing efforts to bring Treasury Board back to the negotiating table, Canada's Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO) will withdraw services in a number of international locations and at Headquarters ...
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Sally Ann says YES to Toronto City Councils NO Vote
Toronto City Council's overwhelming "No" vote against the proposed downtown casino. "I am encouraged by the demonstration of leadership ...
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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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