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Lindale residents preparing for 2nd night away from home
More than 150 people are preparing to spend their second night away from their homes as firefighters continue to battle a brush fire near Lindale, southwest of Edmonton. Of the 200 evacuated from their homes on Wednesday, about 50 have now been allowed to return home, although perhaps not for long. They join over 200 others who have been told to remain on a one-hour evacuation notice. As of ...
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Mother has message for man who almost killed her daughter
The mother a pedestrian who was almost killed at a crosswalk has a message for the man who hit her daughter with his truck. Amy Anders was 23 years old last April when she was struck by a truck that failed to stop at a crosswalk near 178th Street and 93rd Avenue. Amy was rushed to hospital where staff were able to save her life, but just. "She almost died that night," said ...
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Two Saskatoon high schools and centre locked down due to possible gun sighting
Police cars sit outside the Shaw Centre in Saskatoon Thursday. The Centre, along with adjoining high schools TOmmy Douglas and Bethlehem, were locked down Thursday after a possible gun ...
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Vancouver school for kids facing serious challenges survives thanks to donations
A young Tumbler Ridge mother is in hospital after a pickup truck plowed into the tent she and her kids were sleeping in during a Victoria Day camping trip. Shyane Cooper, 20, was camping near the ...
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Parents launch petition to bring back Father’s Day cards after school replaces holiday with ‘Family Day’
Michelle Allaby spent Thursday night carrying a stack of paper door-to-door in her Dartmouth, N.S., neighbourhood. She and two other mothers have amassed more than 350 signatures in protest of what they call ';political correctness to the extreme.'; Less than a month before Father’s Day, the women are trying to reverse a year-old decision at Astral Drive Elementary School that ...
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Mark Carney’s tribute to Canada
Canadians are not in the habit of thinking of their country as similar to the euro zone group of countries, but Mark Carney, in his speech to the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal on Tuesday, presented Canada's monetary union, with "internal real exchange rates," as a much more successful version of the same phenomenon as the euro zone. Canada's different regions do ...
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SNC-Lavalin sought Ottawas help to give Gadhafi’s son vice-president’s job
Canada's flagship engineering company hoped to persuade Ottawa officials to let a Libyan dicator's son come to Canada as a temporary foreign worker, newly unsealed court documents show.In 2008, Saadi Gadhafi, the 40-year-old son of Moammar Gadhafi, was being touted as a potential "Vice-President Maghreb" for SNC-Lavalin, with the multinational's executives stating that ...
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Metro Vancouver politicians threaten to withhold $120M in TransLink funds
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson (l) and Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts (m) attend a regional mayors meeting in 2001. Also show is mayor Peter Fassbender from ...
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Rycroft Time for De Rosario Team Canada to part ways
Dwayne De Rosario is arguably the best player ever to suit up for the Canadian men's soccer team. But with injury and age not on his side, it might be time for Team Canada and the veteran striker to part ...
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Former premier among growing list of politicians offered cash in Laval
Radio-Canada's investigative program Enqute has discovered that the practice of offering cash-stuffed envelopes to politicians in Laval dates back decades, with former a PQ premier adding his personal story to the growing collection. Bernard Landry says in 1976, when he was the newly-elected MNA for the Laval riding of Fabre, an individual approached him with an envelope. "He said, ...
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Calgary school board staffs $15K New Zealand trip questioned
Calgary's public school board says a $15,000 trip to New Zealand for its chief superintendant Naomi Johnson and two staff members was worth it. The January trip was to the five-day International Conference on Thinking, and cost roughly $5,000 for each person. Johnson also spent some time in the country on vacation, but her costs were only covered for the five days she was attending the ...
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Texting during movie lands complainant in trouble
A Toronto woman found herself in trouble with the police after repeatedly asking a man in a cinema to turn off his cellphone. In spite of constant reminders to turn off you cellphone some people continue to use their phones in the cinema. Lani Selick was trying to watch a film recently at the Varsity Cinema, while the man sitting next to her was constantly texting. "I leaned over and I ...
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Pick-up truck runs over mother children in tent
A 20-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly backing her pick-up truck over a mother and two children who were asleep in a tent at a campsite in northeastern B.C. The incident began early Monday morning when the woman was having an argument with her boyfriend at the off-road campsite near Tumbler Ridge, according to Cpl. Dan ...
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The Centre for Performing Arts will not be missed theatre critic says
While some see the pending sale of The Centre for Performing Arts as a loss for Vancouver's arts scene, UBC theatre professor and theatre critic Jerry Wasserman says the theatre never lived up to its lofty expectations. "I don't think it leaves much of a legacy at all. This was a white elephant right from the beginning," said Wasserman in an interview with CBC Radio's ...
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Photos 14 Metro Vancouver homes at rock-bottom prices
Close to half of the homes in the rugged hamlet of Johnsons Landing are at a moderate to very high hazard for landslides similar to the one that killed four people last July, according to a government ...
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Glee actress Lauren Potter visits Vancouver for Down syndrom fundraiser
METRO VANCOUVER -- Glee super fan James Clifford proudly posed for a photograph with actress Lauren Potter who is visiting Vancouver to meet some of her fans and to attend a fundraiser tonight for the Down syndrome Research Foundation.Potter who plays Becky Jackson, a student and cheerleader in the popular television series, has Down syndrome."It was awesome meeting her," said ...
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PM announces support for education in southwest Colombia
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced Canadian support for an initiative that will help children in the Colombian provinces of Cauca and Nariño gain better access to quality education. "One of Canada’s development priorities in Colombia and the broader Americas is to help young people go to school and stay in school so that they can secure brighter futures," said ...
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‘I want him to suffer’ Mother of kidnapped sexually abused N.S. teen still angry as former captor pleads guilty
BRIDGEWATER, N.S. _ The mother of a teenage boy who was kidnapped and sexually assaulted for days says she was overwhelmed to see her son’s abuser in court, admitting she wanted him to suffer after hearing him plead guilty to the charges. With her hands shaking and emotion straining her voice, the woman said outside court that her 16-year-old son is trying to put behind him the days of ...
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‘We will be defending this case vigorously’ Second accused in Tim Bosma murder case to plead not guilty
HAMILTON -- Mark Smich, the second man accused in the high-profile murder case of Tim Bosma, looked gaunt and agitated when brought into court in leg shackles on Thursday morning. When asked to tell the court his name, he said ';Mark.'; After court prompting to provide his full name, he added ';Smich.'; Some observers thought they saw minor wounds on his face. Outside ...
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US Forecasters Predict Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday there is a 70 percent chance that 13 to 20 named storms will form in the Atlantic Ocean this season. It says as many as 11 of them could strengthen into hurricanes -- storms with winds of 119 kilometers per hour or higher. The forecasters say they cannot predict if any of those storms will strike land. NOAA says warmer than ...
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Fiddler Natalie MacMaster on the Canadian passport
Does it bother you when you don't get a stamp in your passport as a memento? It used to bother me just getting waved through some foreign immigration outpost without an interesting stamp to show for ...
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Reaction to Avalanche hiring Patrick Roy
The rumours became a reality on Thursday when the Colorado Avalanche announced they had given Hall of Fame goalie Patrick Roy a chance at his first NHL head coaching job. The Twitter world reacted in ...
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SNC-Lavalin letter says Gadhafi son offered VP post RCMP
Saadi Gaddafi, seen here speaking at his office in Tripoli in January 2010, was offered a three-year contract at a $150,000 annual salary, according to a letter seized by the RCMP from SNC-Lavalin headquarters in 2012. (Ismail ...
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Giorgio Mammoliti faces questions over $5000-a-table event
Toronto city councillor Giorgio Mammoliti poses with Anthony Pullano at a fundraiser in Woodbridge, Ont., on Wednesday night. (Anthony ...
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Mount Cashel abuse survivors win financial settlement
Lawyers for survivors of abuse by Christian Brothers at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, seen here in this undated photo, have received a financial settlement. ...
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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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