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Ottawa’s Shopify partners with Singapore telecom firm
The Next Web reports . Co-founder and CEO Tobias Ltke launched the e-commerce platform in 2006, enabling other companies to use it to create their own online stores. Shopify now has tens of thousands of customers in more than 80 countries. The deal with SingTel covers four countries: Singapore, India, Malaysia and Indonesia. Services in the first two are already online, with the latter two ...
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Crown argues woman who stabbed teen girl to death at Vancouver house party should serve eight years
Kamloops RCMP continue to investigate an alleged sexual assault they believe may have been caught on video camera during a wild high school grad party attended by more than 1,000 ...
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Kamloops RCMP fear witnesses photographed sex assault of teen at grad party
KAMLOOPS -- Mounties in Kamloops are investigating the alleged sexual assault of a teenager at a bush party attended by as many as 1,000 high school graduates.Police say the 17-year-old girl became separated from her friends, was approached by a male she didn't know and was taken into a wooded area where she was sexually assaulted on Tuesday night.When the teen arrived home from the party, ...
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Vancouver city council to get latest report on future of viaducts next week
If you’re young and hoping to work your way up into a high-paid position, here are 10 jobs you’ll probably want to avoid. People in these jobs work at the bottom strata of the labour market, according to the latest survey by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage ...
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West Vancouver kids find discarded guns
WEST VANCOUVER -- Children playing in the woods near Rockridge secondary in West Vancouver found two pistols late Tuesday afternoon, according to police.The children stumbled on a starter pistol and an antique Webley .455 from the seldom-travelled area, according to West Vancouver Police Department spokesman Const. Jeff Palmer."(They) picked it up, had a look at them, and then realized, ...
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Cross-Canada bike stolen in break-in returned to Burnaby man 85
Cornelis Dykstra speaks to reporter at his home in Burnaby on Tuesday, a day before his bicycle was returned to him by a woman had read about his loss and found the bike in a back ...
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ITEX Toronto wins award for outstanding performance
Toronto, Ontario – June 19, 2013 ITEX in Toronto, Canada'se leading business bartering network, announced Wednesday it has earned three awards for outstanding performance, leadership ...
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Joni Mitchell puts in rare public performance singing three songs in Toronto
As the captain from the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke might describe it, the decade-old discussion of a Saskatoon centre to honour Joni Mitchell is a good example of a failure to ...
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MLBs next wave of potential superstars
Zack Wheeler of the New York Mets had a tough assignment for his major league debut on Tuesday night. Not only was the 23-year-old pitcher facing Atlanta, the National League's sixth-highest scoring team this season, but he had a tough act to follow in the back end of a day/night doubleheader. Earlier in the day, fellow hurler Matt Harvey flirted with a no-hitter in a 4-3 Mets victory, ...
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Neymar shines again as Brazil downs Mexico
Neymar made the difference for Brazil again on Wednesday, scoring in the ninth minute and making one for Jo to give the hosts a 2-0 win over Mexico and virtually secure a spot in the semifinals of the Confederations Cup. The Brazilian striker scored his second goal of the tournament with a left-footed volley from just inside the penalty box after Mexican defenders failed to clear a cross. ...
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Caregiving dads stigmatized at work suggests UofT study
Traditional fathers -- those who focus on being "breadwinners" and leave the caregiving to someone else -- are still held up as the ideal, suggests a new study. ...
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Fredericton SPCA under cat quarantine
The Fredericton SPCA is under a cat quarantine for the next two weeks after a fostered kitten died from the contagious virus panleukopenia. Although the infection happened off-site, at a foster home, the centre isn't taking chances, said director of operations Annett James. The Fredericton SPCA is no longer taking in strays or allowing adoptions until early June. Stray cats are now being ...
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6 youth charged in airport car theft ring
Six youth have been charged in connection to a string of car thefts at the Calgary airport. Calgary police say more than 20 vehicles were stolen by the ring of offenders -- some of whom are known to police. "The investigation was able to identify a group of individuals that were all working together to conduct these types of thefts," said acting Insp. Mike Bossley. "That was ...
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Lavals corrupt image scares off choral festival sponsors
Mondial Loto-Qubec de Laval festival founder Gregory Charles cancelled his own tribute concert to Elton John because of a shortfall in funding from corporate sponsors. (CBC/Pierre ...
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New offer to save Eamons would turn it into a 1950s diner
A new group has stepped forward to help the city save the former Eamon's gas station and possibly turn it into a 1950s diner. The Bearspaw Historical Society says it has at least two businesses interested in working with them to save the building -- but first, they have to raise the money. "The Bearspaw Historical Society has offered to raise the funds necessary to restore this ...
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Green Party councillor wants Vancouver to push province for cigarette butt deposit program
VANCOUVER -- Green Party councillor Adriane Carr is urging city council to ask the province to create a cigarette butt deposit return program.On the heels of a successful initiative during Car Free Day when neighbourhood group West End Cleanup collected over 60,000 butts in four hours, Carr is bringing a motion to next week's city council meeting.She wants council to work with the ...
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Students save stranded couple lost in Ontario bush
A group shot of teacher Ryan Forsyth, his students and two chaperones on their New Trail final exam in the wilderness near Mississagi River. Back row: Trevor Schuurman, Ryan Forsyth, Courtney Morningstar, Andrew Barager, Robert Lagace and Andrew Labbee. Front: Shayna Gionette, Lindsay Rietze, Jenna Nyman, Angela Benedict, Chance Counsell and Brett Vachon. Photo supplied ELLIOT LAKE, ONT. - A ...
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Keystone issues won’t block oil sands movement Canadian ambassador says
Keystone will reduce the costs to transport the fuel and release less carbon dioxide than transporting the fuel by train or truck, according to Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. Gary ...
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Teen joyriding ring targeted Calgary airport parking lots
A covert police operation into an organized group of car thieves at the long-stay parking lots at the Calgary International Airport ended with six teenage boys facing over 40 charges.Police say they made the arrests of the boys, aged 15 and 16, last week after identifying their suspects with help from airport security and using police bait cars to catch some of the culprits in the act.Since ...
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Video Montreal a human rights hot spot
Equitas' International Human Rights Training program participants talk about their experiences with the program and as human rights advocates in their home countries. Video shot on Wednesday, June 12, ...
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UPDATE 3-New Bank of Canada chief signals hands-off stance
Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:14pm EDT * Poloz says nothing more BoC can do to spur growth * Declines to comment on bank's 14-month tightening bias * Says business confidence crucial, urges patience * Analysts see no sign of policy shift By Euan Rocha and Peter Henderson BURLINGTON, Ontario, June 19 (Reuters) - Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz signaled a hands-off approach to monetary policy on ...
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Germany register narrow win against Canada
Germany 1-0 CanadaLeonie Maier scored in the second half as the European champions followed up their weekend win against Scotland with another ...
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Don’t post photos of alleged assault Kamloops RCMP warn
Kamloops RCMP are investigating an alleged sexual assault that occurred at an outdoor party in a semi-rural area near Kamloops, and are encouraging anyone who may have witnessed and photographed the incident to turn any images over to police."As this event strongly resembles recent cases that have been largely publicized, RCMP investigators believe there are individuals who witnessed what ...
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Quebec corruption inquiry breaks for summer
After months of digging through corruption and sleaze, Quebec's Charbonneau inquiry is taking a break for the summer.While the inquiry will continue to conduct investigations and prepare for the fall sitting, the public testimony is done until after Labour Day.The inquiry's spring session tackled everything from illegal political party financing, to engineering firms colluding on ...
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Canadian Natural Resources poised for natural gas sales
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., which recently joined the slew of companies trying to offload some of their natural gas plays, has picked out its bankers to help it find a buyer - a potential deal that could influence the company's liquefied natural gas plans.CNRL hired BMO to help market the 243,000 acres of its Montney holdings the oil and gas outfit recently put on the auction block, ...
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Canadian Natural chairman says high costs hurt Canada oil sector
Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:51pm EDT * Canada oil stocks underperforming * Weak productivity, costs seen as issue * Canadian Natural to look at property acquisitions * May also consider corporate purchases CALGARY, Alberta, June 19 (Reuters) - Murray Edwards, chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd, the country's No. 2 oil company, said on Wednesday Canada's oil exploration and production ...
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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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