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Montreal council must pick new mayor after Applebaum resignation
Applebaum resigned in the wake of corruption charges being laid against him, though he maintains he is innocent. Legally, Montreal's 62 councillors have 30 days to chose an interim mayor, though Quebec's Minister of Municipal Affairs Sylvain Gaudreault said he hopes they make the decision soon. "We would like the interim mayor to be a candidate that has stayed above the ...
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Alberta new school construction comes with condition
Premier Alison Redford was in Calgary and Edmonton to announce new school projects. Now a letter says the Calgary Board of Education needs to help find space for charter schools if they want new buildings. ...
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Canadas eavesdropping agency helped spy on G20 documents suggest
OTTAWA - Leaked documents suggest Canada helped the United States and Britain spy on participants at the London G20 summit four years ago. Britain's Guardian newspaper says spies monitored the computers and intercepted the phone calls of foreign politicians and officials at two G20 meetings in London in 2009. The newspaper says the effort included penetration of delegates' BlackBerry ...
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Suspicious package triggers evacuation at BMO building
(Jason Proctor/CBC) A suspicious package that triggered a partial evacuation at the Bank of Montreal building on West Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver is not dangerous, emergency officials say. Fire crews had briefly evacuated the 15th floor of the BMO building at Georgia and Homer just after 4:00 p.m. after an employee called the fire department with a report of a suspicious package. ...
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New EPSB budget to cut 339 jobs
The Edmonton Public School Board voted unanimously Tuesday in favour of its new budget for the upcoming year. The budget will see the reduction of 339 full-time staff positions, of which 182 are teaching posts. A report says 70 per cent of the teacher reductions will be achieved through staff retirement or resignations. Trustees said the $30-million from its budget that was cut by the province ...
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Skagit bridge to reopen Wednesday with temporary span
The Skagit River bridge on the I-5 will open on Wednesday with a temporary span replacing the collapsed section, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee announced on Tuesday. The bridge, which connects Vancouver and Seattle along Interstate 5 collapsed on May 23 after a truck carrying a wide load struck part of the structure. Three cars ended up in the river, but nobody was seriously injured in ...
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Canadian Women’s Open organizers hunt for new title sponsor for 2014 event
EDMONTON - Canada's national women's golf championship is set to get a new name in 2014.With CN ready to pull its sponsorship of the Canadian Women's Open into the station for a final time Aug. 19-25 at Edmonton's Royal Mayfair Golf Club, Golf Canada and tournament director Brent McLaughlin are putting the finishing touches on securing a new sponsor for the first time in ...
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Vancouver food vendors take it to the streets
This 6,018-sq-ft penthouse condo at 1139 W. Cordova St. in Vancouver features three bedrooms with private sundecks, five bathrooms, rooftop deck with patio and 360-degree views of the North Shore, Burrard Inlet, Stanley Park and downtown Vancouver. Take a ...
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Up to 150 mm of heavy rain expected for areas west and northwest of Calgary
Pedestrians hustle across 5th Avenue S.W. in this file photo from May. Environment Canada issued the severe thunderstorm watch this morning for Calgary and surrounding ...
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Competition Bureau raids Quebec light manufacturers
Armed with search warrants from the Quebec Superior Court, the federal Competition Bureau launched a seried of raids Tuesday morning as part of a probe into the activities of firms that sell highway light poles, lighting towers, signs and other such products."We are investigating with respect to the sale of street lighting and highway traffic signs," said Bureau spokeswoman Gabrielle ...
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A city’s sad tale Montreal out-scandals T.O.
It's a twisted contest between The Globe's Montreal bureau and the Toronto newsroom: Who gets the front page with the most insanely crazy municipal politics? So on Monday Montreal came from behind and won. Hands down.News that Mayor Michael Applebaum, the city's self professed Mr. Clean, was arrested and accused of offering political favours to real estate promoters to pocket or ...
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Quebec to spend $500000 to examine wasteful federal services
The Quebec government is spending $500,000 to create a committee to examine wasteful spending by the federal government.The pro-independence Parti Qubcois government wants to examine how much it costs to have federal services that duplicate ones already offered by the province or that encroach on provincial ...
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The justice system needs to confront Canada’s cultural acceptance of assault in hockey
Dan Maloney of the Detroit Red Wings tries to pick a fight with an unconscious Brian Glennie of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Glennie was hospitalized with a concussion. Maloney was charged with assault causing bodily harm for which he was acquitted on June 30, 1976. (John Maiola For The Globe and ...
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Gretzky firmly believes NHL will return to Quebec City someday
Hockey great Wayne Gretzky puffs on a cigar as he grabs the pin on the second green of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club Shore Course during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, in Pebble Beach, Calif. (Ben ...
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Quebec spends $500000 to study wasteful spending in Ottawa
Alexandre Cloutier, Quebec minister for intergovernmental affairs is shown at the legislature in Quebec City on Tuesday, April 9, 2013. (Jacques Boissinot / THE CANADIAN ...
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Quebec construction strike could be lengthy union warns
Striking construction workers man the picket lines at the MUHC super hospital as a province wide strike shuts down work sites for the second day in Montreal on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN ...
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Canada to send peacekeeping troops to Haiti
A Canadian soldier carries supplies as troops arrive at a temporary medical centre in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in January 2010. A handful of Canadian troops are about to take part in peacekeeping operation in Haiti under the command of Brazilian ...
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AHS to reverse controversial home care decisions
AHS president and CEO Chris Eagle announced Tuesday the decision to lay off staff at three Edmonton home-care facilities has been reversed. (Janice ...
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Police probe Mohinder graffiti in East Vancouver
Complaints are flooding into police from the public about graffiti of the word Mohinder that has appeared throughout East Vancouver. "It has been brought to our attention as spreading and gaining a little bit of notoriety throughout the city," said Sgt. Randy Fincham of the Vancouver Police Department. Fincham said it is hard to establish if the vandalism is the work of one person or ...
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Vancouver airport CEO takes aim at cross-border travellers
The incoming CEO of the Vancouver International Airport says his biggest challenge is to stem the flow of B.C. travellers heading across the border for cheaper flights. Craig Richmond, who takes over control of YVR on July 2, says he is concerned the airport is losing too many travellers to U.S. airports such as Bellingham and Seattle. "It does concern me, I want people to fly out of this ...
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CFIA shuts down Aliya’s Foods over meat concerns
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has suspended the licence for an Edmonton food company for non-compliance with meat inspection regulations. In a statement released Tuesday afternoon the CFIA said Aliya's Foods -- a privately owned East Indian food company on Roper Road -- failed to "document and address product cooling issues during pre-shipment review, and failed to ...
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Meet Canada’s underused poet laureate Vancouver-based Fred Wah 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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Memo to Stephen Harper in 2007 downplayed a Canadian casualty rate in Afghanistan up to 10 times higher than allies
A newly declassified memo that was sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper during the height of the Afghanistan mission downplayed statistics showing Canadian troops were suffering significantly higher casualty rates than their allies. After a roadside bomb killed six Canadians in 2007, the prime minister was advised in a briefing note that 2% of Canadians serving in Afghanistan had been killed ...
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Vancouver School Board adds Student Trustee to its board
6/17/2013 The Vancouver School Board has voted unanimously for a student trustee to join its board. Trustee Mike Lombardi thinks it is a good decision. "It's all about bringing a student voice to decision making to make our schools a better place for kids, and to promote student success." The student trustee won't have a vote, but can contribute to discussion. With ...
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Readout of Meeting Between Secretary Chuck Hagel and Canadian Minister of National Defense Peter MacKay
Pentagon Press Secretary George Little provided the following readout: "Secretary Hagel hosted Canadian Minister of National Defense Peter MacKay today at the Pentagon for their second meeting here since Secretary Hagel took office earlier this spring. "The leaders discussed a wide range of topics related to their mutual interest in some of the world's ongoing security ...
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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