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Edmonton places moratorium on body rub shops
Edmonton is imposing a moratorium on new body rub parlours until January 2014. The city will set up a committee to study the industry, looking at work conditions, how sex workers are recruited, and whether services exist to help them get out of the industry if they wish. City council approved the moratorium Wednesday, without debate. The moratorium follows a steep increase in the businesses, ...
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Post-secondary students feel stressed survey finds
A national survey on the health of post-secondary students shows there are a lot of stressed-out students on campuses, including at Mount Royal University in Calgary. "Students are experiencing stress to such a level that they are not doing as well in class as they'd like to," said Shermin Murji, a health education coordinator at the school. MRU was one of 32 post-secondary ...
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Pioneering report suggests homelessness costs Canada $7 billion 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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Vancouvers Chan Centre announces star-studded 2013-14 season
You won't need to leave Vancouver to go globe-trotting this year thanks to the Chan Centre for Performing Arts' new season lineup.Kicking off Oct. 19 with the critically acclaimed Kronos Quartet performing new works by famed composer Philip Glass, the Chan's season at UBC will also feature its popular Connects series featuring film screenings and artist talks throughout the year. ...
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Vancouver high school teacher reprimanded for duct taping students
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver teacher who duct taped some of her students' mouths for talking in class has been reprimanded by the B.C. Teacher Regulation Branch.Margo Fowler, a math teacher at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, punished two Grade 8 students and one Grade 10 student on separate occasions by taping their mouths, according to a 2012 report to the branch from Vancouver School ...
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Vancouver mining firm gives nod to $458-million Alberta coal project
VANCOUVER -- The board of Coalspur Mines Ltd. (TSX:CPT) has approved a $458-million capital budget for the Vista coal project in Alberta, pending regulatory and shareholder approvals.Coalspur is now planning a one-stage project with the capacity to deliver six million tonnes per year, giving it a capital efficiency of $76 per tonne of capacity.The Vancouver-based company says its current plan ...
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Bridge construction worker suffers severe electric shock on Vancouver Island
NORTH COWICHAN - A man has been airlifted to hospital in Victoria with serious injuries after being hurt in a workplace accident on Vancouver Island, between Ladysmith and Duncan.BC Ambulance Services spokeswoman Kelsie Carwithin says the incident happened just after 2 p.m. Tuesday.She says the man was working on the Chemainus River Bridge replacement project and appears to have suffered ...
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Alleged underwear thief arrested
(CARMINE MARINELLI/QMI Agency) LONDON, Ont. – Huron County women who've discovered they're missing underwear should call police. Huron County OPP have arrested a man accused of a rash of women's underwear thefts in the region that have taken place over the last 12 years. And police say there could be more. The first break-in and underwear theft in this case was reported ...
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Ottawa Tim Horton’s becomes unintentional drive-in
Francine Withnall was passing the Tim Horton’s at Donald and St. Laurent Wednesday morning and spotted this car that had crashed into the front of the ...
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Photos Beautifully restored Montreal mansion - $9.9 million
Fully renovated from the inside out by a well-known Montreal designer, this 1920s-era Westmount home retains all its greatest original features. In over 9,000 square feet of living space, the home has 5+1 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, extensive, painstakingly landscaped garden and outdoor pool, gourmet kitchen with oak flooring, fully-stocked butler's pantry and wine ...
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Founder of Quebec’s upstart pro-independence Option Nationale separates from politics
MONTREAL — Quebec’s upstart pro-independence party has lost its founding leader. Jean-Martin Aussant — who created, led, and was the public face of Option Nationale — has announced he’s leaving politics, placing his party before an uncertain future. The former Morgan Stanley economist was seen in opposition as a rising star on the Parti Quebecois benches and as a ...
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UPDATE 1-Bank of Canada says business confidence crucial urges patience
Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:56pm EDT * Poloz says BoC will watch business sector closely * Does not repeat BoC language on eventual rate hikes * Speech and news conference overshadowed by Fed By Euan Rocha and Peter Henderson BURLINGTON, Ontario, June 19 (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada is relying on a rebound in businesses confidence to drive the economy's return to health, the central bank's new ...
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Alice Munro wins Ontario’s Trillium Book Award
Video: Check out this summer's best books for the beach The winner for the Trillium Book Award for Children's Literature in French-language is Claude Forand for "Un moine trop bavard."The winners of Ontario's foremost prize for literary excellence, were announced Tuesday evening in Toronto.The Trillium Book Award English-language and French-language winners receive ...
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Quebec is trying to legalize euthanasia by calling it something else. It’s still wrong
Quebec Minister for Social Services and Youth Protection Vronique Hivon explains legislation on the right to die in dignity at a news conference in Quebec City on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 (Jacques Boissinot/THE CANADIAN ...
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Dolce and Gabbana convicted of tax evasion
Two years ago, a judge threw out a tax evasion and fraud case against the pair, whose label Dolce&Gabbana is a Milan fashion mainstay. Italy's high court later ruled the designers could be prosecuted for tax evasion, though not for ...
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France St.-Louis named Canadas Assistant Chef de Mission for Sochi
Canadian Olympic Committee , former Canadian Olympic silver medallist France St-Louis was named on Monday as Canada's assistant Chef de Mission for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in ...
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‘Teen Mom’ star Jenelle Evans shares her plans to avoid judgment
Jenelle Evans knows how people can be mean towards her when she tweets random things on the social media network. She has learned to keep some of her legal troubles away from the social media network, so she has been sharing news about her ...
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Khloe Kardashian thanks a certain person for being with her
Khloe Kardashian was heartbroken when she learned that she couldn't have children as easily as her sister, Kourtney Kardashian, on a previous episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." She decided to focus on ...
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Lauri Peterson’s daughter ‘None of my friends have slept with Brooks
Brooks Ayers . Peterson has had a mission to bring down Gunvalson and during the last episode, she decided to reveal that her daughter's friend had been dating Ayers. And since many fans remember Ashley Zarlin and Sophie Waring on the show, some quickly assumed she was talking about Zarlin. According in a new tweet released on June ...
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Southern Alberta man charged in $1-million cattle fraud case Edmonton RCMP say
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Edmonton? Is it landmarks such as our colossal mall or the four gleaming pyramids nestled in our river valley? Or might it be less obvious: the biting cold that strikes your bones in the dead of winter or the sizzle of green onion cakes at one of our many summer ...
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UPDATE 1-Vimpelcom unit drops bid to buy Canadas Wind Mobile
Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:08pm EDT By Alastair Sharp TORONTO, June 19 (Reuters) - A subsidiary of European telecoms company Vimpelcom Ltd has withdrawn its bid to acquire control of Canada's Wind Mobile, a surprise move that creates further uncertainty about the future of the upstart Canadian wireless company. Orascom Telecom, an Egyptian company that is majority-owned by Vimpelcom, said on ...
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Orascom withdraws bid for control of Wind Mobile
Wind Mobile entered the Canadian wireless market in 2008 and has become the fourth largest carrier after the 'big three', Rogers, Bell and Telus. (Mark ...
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Alain Vigneault gets plenty from NHL stars
Daniel Sedin, bottom left, and his brother Henrik, right, enjoyed five consecutive regular seasons of at least 74 points under head coach Alain Vigneault, top, but their production did tail off somewhat in each of the past two campaigns. (Christian Petersen/Getty ...
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Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandezs home searched by police
Two members of the Massachusetts State Police walk toward the front door of the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in North Attleborough, Mass., on Wednesday. (Erika Niedowski/Associated ...
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Bob Rae stepping down as an MP
Bob Rae, who has served as a Liberal and NDP MP and as the NDP premier of Ontario, has announced he is leaving politics. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...
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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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