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Bethenny Frankel makes sexual joke about sleeping with people
Bethenny Frankel has been working hard on her talk show, which will premiere this fall. She has been meeting with producers, trying to find topics for the show, and wrapping up her newest book for her Skinnygirl brand. If that wasn't enough, she is still dealing with her very ...
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‘RHONJ’ Melissa Gorga on Teresa Giudice ‘It was like the cops grilling me’
Teresa Giudice . On Sunday's episode, Giudice held Gorga responsible for her brother's absence from the hospital after Giudice's father went into the hospital because he couldn't breathe. However, Giudice didn't let Gorga slip away easily after learning that she claims she went to visit. According to a new Bravo article published on June ...
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‘RHOOC’ star Lydia McLaughlin admits Slade was upsetting her
Slade Smiley would attack her body considering she rarely knows him. Of course, she had been spending time in Mexico with Gretchen Rossi, but after the abandonment on the first night, McLaughlin and Rossi weren't exactly the best of friends. While some fans thought that McLaughlin overreacted with the comment, she was clearly hurt. According to a new Bravo blog published on June ...
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Canadian dollar advances traders look to Fed statement Poloz speech
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar was slightly higher Wednesday ahead of the mid-afternoon release of the U.S. Federal Reserve's latest policy statement and economic projections. It is hoped the Fed will shed some light on what it intends to do about curbing some of its economic stimulus. The loonie was up 0.06 of a cent to 98.02 cents US as markets also looked to a speech later in the day by ...
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Meet Canada’s underused poet laureate Wordsmith bemoans lack of meaningful work
Canada's national poet has warned that the taxpayer-funded position risks becoming "homogenized and diluted" and expressed frustration that during his two-year term in Ottawa he's been asked to produce just one work -- a "mediocre" poem about Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee -- while many more serious, controversial subjects have escaped the official attention ...
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Imperial Oil refinery in Dartmouth to close
Imperial Oil is closing its refinery in Eastrern Passage and converting it into a marine terminal. The company said it could not find a buyer for its facility to continue operating as a refinery. Imperial Oil said it will do all it can to protect the environment while it takes apart the facility. According to a news release, the conversion is planned for later this year. About 400 people have ...
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Brazilian Confed Cup players say they support non-violent protests
A demonstrator holds up a Brazilian flag in front of a group of protestors gathered in the main plaza of Sao Paulo on Tuesday, as some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship have broken out. (Nelson Antoine/Associated ...
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Stanley Cup Playoffs Wednesdays Need To Know
In today's Need To Know: the Senators' new partnership has inspired some jersey whimsy, Joe Sakic says he's not interested in Seth Jones, and Bryan Bickell explains how Mario Kart has kept his Blackhawks teammates focused. (Photos courtesy Imgur/Getty ...
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Arrest made after 2 armed robberies in Cabbagetown area
Police have arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with at least two armed robberies targeting women near the Cabbagetown neighbourhood early Wednesday morning. Investigators say the victim's presence of mind to remember the man's licence plate number and vehicle model helped them to detain him within a matter of hours. A staff sergeant at 51 Division said the man arrested has been ...
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Tory MP fined $155 for driving through Hill security stop
Conservative MP Eve Adams admitted on Twitter late Tuesday that she had been fined by Parliament Hill security officers for driving through a security checkpoint 'without coming to a complete stop.' Media reports said she was ticketed for talking on her cellphone. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...
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30000 Canadians are homeless every night
A homeless man keeps warm in his blankets in a park in downtown Toronto. On any given day, about 30,000 Canadians are homeless, a new report says. (Kevin Frayer/Canadian ...
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Dieppe woman arrested after 3 women robbed at knifepoint
Codiac Regional RCMP have arrested a suspect in connection with three women being robbed at knifepoint in Dieppe over the weekend. A 32-year-old Dieppe woman was arrested at her home on Tuesday without incident, Const. Damien Thriault stated in a release. She is scheduled to appear in Moncton provincial court on Wednesday afternoon to face charges related to the three incidents, he said. On ...
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Wearing a mask at a riot becomes a crime today
A bill that would ban the wearing of masks during a riot or unlawful assembly and carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence with a conviction of the offence is scheduled to become law today. Bill C-309, a private member's bill introduced by Conservative MP Blake Richards in 2011, passed third reading in the Senate on May 23 and is expected to be proclaimed law during a royal assent ...
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Nenshi promoting Calgary on Ottawa Toronto visit
Mayor Naheed Nenshi is in Ottawa to start a three day trip in Ontario with Calgary Economic Development. Nenshi will speak on Wednesday in the capital at the Canadian Club before heading to Toronto for more speeches and meetings. The trip is about getting people and companies to think about Calgary, Nenshi said. "The focus this year is in talking to young people, to university students ...
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Pioneering report suggests homelessness costs Canada $7B affects 200000 people a year
OTTAWA - Homelessness in Canada affects about 200,000 people every year and comes with a $7 billion price tag, the first-ever national report on the issue has found. The results paint a picture of a disaster in communities across the country, said Tim Richter, one of the report's authors and the president of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness. "In a natural disaster, the loss ...
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RBC raises forecast for Canadian economic growth
TORONTO - Canada's growth outlook appears to be stronger than previously thought, thanks to an improving trade picture and the strength of corporate balance sheets, economists at the Royal Bank of Canada said Wednesday. RBC Economics raised its estimate for the country's 2013 economic growth to 1.9 per cent and says 2014 growth will be about 2.9 per cent. RBC's estimates are ...
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‘Shocking’ study finds half of First Nations children are living in poverty
TORONTO -- Half of Canada's First Nations children are living in poverty, triple the national average, according to a new analysis of census statistics that pegs the cost of easing the problem at $580-million a year. The study by the left-leaning Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives being released Wednesday also paints a grim picture of Metis, Inuit, and non-status Indian children, as ...
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Japan beat Canada in Pacific Nations Cup
Ayumu Goromaru (centre) plays for Japan against the Barbarians in Le Havre, November 25, 2012. The full back scored all the points to lead Asian champions Japan to a 16-13 victory over Canada in the Pacific Nations Cup rugby tournament in Nagoya on ...
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Netflix Is Getting Some New Features In Canada
news came out that U.K. users will also be getting user profiles sometime this year, along with a ';watchlist'; feature, which is apparently just like the queue we have here in the U.S. (the feature has not been available in other countries). Now we learn, once again from Yahoo, that Canada is also set to get user profiles and the watchlist/queue feature. But that’s not all ...
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VimpelCom drops bid to acquire Canadas Wind Mobile
June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:13am EDT June 19 (Reuters) - VimpelCom Ltd has withdrawn its bid to acquire control of upstart Canadian wireless company Wind Mobile, a majority-owned affiliate of the company said on Wednesday. Orascom Telecom, an Egyptian company that initially bankrolled Wind Mobile's operations in Canada and was later bought by Vimpelcom, said it withdrew the bid ...
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‘RHOOC’ star Tamra Barney ‘Gretchen made me feel horrible’
Alexis Bellino over the many seasons of the show. In fact, she is probably one of the housewives who has had the most enemies and arguments. However, she is trying to make peace and she recently sat down with Bellino to make peace. However, Rossi had been very upset with Barney for her behavior on the infamous bachelorette trip, so she was even more upset when she learned that Bellino was going ...
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‘RHOA’ star NeNe Leakes’ wedding guests are under strict rules
NeNe Leakes may be known as a diva when it comes to her demands, since she is now a Hollywood actress, so it isn't surprising that her wedding may be just as demanding. Leakes and her soon-to-be husband will be filming the wedding this upcoming weekend and she wants the wedding to go off without a hitch. Apparently, she is so desperate for a drama-free day that guests are required to sign ...
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Off the Snap JaMarcus headed north to Canada
heading north to the CFL . The remade Russell has dropped upwards of 30 pounds in an effort to get back into the NFL (though he’s still reportedly at 280). He’s had talks with a couple of teams, too, including the Chicago Bears, who wouldn’t mind another option behind Jay Cutler. Russell has not thrown a regular-season pass since 2009, so Canada might provide a backup plan, ...
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Regina referee calls Quebec turban ban a joke
Kavan Kamboz can't take off his turban to play soccer, which is a big part of his life.The 18-year-old Sikh is now a referee and a first-year student in the Faculty of Science at the University of Regina.Like any good soccer referee should, he knows world soccer body FIFA's rules by heart. He said he was taken aback when the Quebec Soccer Federation banned turban-wearing Sikhs from the ...
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Blackhawks look to crack Rasks armour to avoid 2-game deficit
BOSTON (AP) Marian Hossa is one of the Chicago Blackhawks' top scorers, with three game-winning goals already this postseason. And then, suddenly, he wasn't in the lineup for a team that needed all the scoring it can get. Hossa's surprise scratch from Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals - and the one-word explanation, ``upper,'' for the part of his body that was injured - ...
Toronto Digest
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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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