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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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Mounties celebrate 140 years of crisp scarlet uniforms North West Mounted Police get high-profile Google salute
Almost 140 years ago, Commissioner George Arthur French led 275 officers to the prairie lands of Canada -- a place unknown to almost every one of them. Liquor trafficking in the west compelled Prime Minister John A. MacDonald to send his newly minted Mounties to bring law to the land. It was crucial to shaping Canada and -- on the 140th anniversary of North West Mounted Police's creation ...
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Toronto mayor fires chief of staff amid drug scandal
Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto, waves the pan american flag during the Closing Ceremony of the XVI Pan American Games at the Omnilife Stadium on October 30, 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico. (Dennis Grombkowski, Getty ...
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As Ford quits Australia a challenge for Canada
Ford Motor Co.'s decision to pull the plug on its Australian auto-making operations highlights the struggles of that country's manufacturing sector in the face of a currency bloated to the point of uncompetitiveness by its excessive exposure to commodity ...
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TSX Ends Lower On Global Cues China Data - Canadian Commentary
markets after some weak manufacturing data out of China, and the U.S. Federal Reserve's stand on its monetary policy. Global markets roiled after Japan's Nikkei plunged to its lowest since the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the island nation about two years ago.Japan's Nikkei index plummeted 7.3 percent, attributed largely to a spike in 10-year government bond yields which ...
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Marianas Trench earns most nods at MMVAs
with four. All three acts earned nominations for video of the year, Trench scored with "Desperate Measures" (also up for best pop video), Drake tallied with "Started From The Bottom," Classified for "Inner Ninja" along with Serena ...
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Canadians cant seem to cache their cash
A long, long time ago, or so we are told, people around the world, and even here in Canada, would hide their cash and valuables in a hole in the ground, or in a mattress, and maybe even in a ...
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Quebec woman run over three times by her own car
TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. -- A woman is recovering following a bizarre accident in which she was run over three times by her own car. Trois-Rivieres, Que., police say the newspaper delivery woman was making her rounds this week and jumping in and out of her car frequently to drop copies of Le Nouvelliste on subscribers' doorsteps. But things went awry during one parking attempt. Her ...
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Big retailers pull out of $7B credit card fee settlement
Some of the country's largest retailers, including Target Corp. and Macy's Inc., on Thursday filed a lawsuit against MasterCard and Visa, rejecting a settlement reached last year over alleged fee-fixing. A larger group of 19 trade associations and retail companies originally filed suit against the card processing companies in 2005, claiming that they conspired to fix the fees they ...
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Reed German soccer strength on display in Champions League final
Dortmund's Robert Lewandowski, left, fought for the ball with Bayern's Holger Badstuber during a matchup of the eventual Champions League finalists in a German league game in December. (Lennart Preiss/Bongarts/Getty ...
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Canada Post campaigns against no flyers mailbox signs
Canada Post mail carriers deliver flyers and unaddressed mail for many companies and other organizations, a source of revenue for the postal corporation. ...
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Duffy expense claims reveal more about campaign travel
Election spending records show Senator Mike Duffy campaigned with Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the Northwest Territories during the 2011 election, while also claiming he was on Senate business. (Devaan Ingraham/Canadian ...
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Quebec film wins screenplay prize at Cannes
a movie by Quebec director Sebastien Pilote, has won one of the main prizes of sidebar program Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, which translates ...
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Johnsons Landing residents get more bad news about homes
Residents of Johnsons Landing, B.C., are being told many of their homes and properties are uninhabitable following a geotechnical report after a mudslide last year. A massive slide roared through the tiny Kootenay community in July 2012, killing four people. Residents are now being told the slide path remains unstable and more debris could slide down the mountain side at any time, making it ...
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Smog is back in Ottawa this spring
OTTAWA -- Smog is back in town after a four-year absence, a reminder that there are no quick and easy roads to clean air.As always, this air pollutant is a bit of a mystery.Ozone gas, the main ingredient in Eastern Canada's smog, forms when a variety of air pollutants react together in bright sunlight. It's mostly and spring and summer problem.But in the summer of 2009, it just stopped ...
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Audit scandal Senate turns over documents to special RCMP investigative unit
Senator Mike Duffy, with Sen. Donald Plett, arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday. The RCMP’s anti-corruption unit is examining the claims of senators Duffy, Mac Harb and Patrick ...
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Inquiry hears of car bombing and safe bursting with cash kickbacks
Gilles Theberge testifies at the Charbonneau inquiry, May 23, 2013. (TVA SCREENSHOT) MONTREAL -- A car bombing and a safe bursting with cash kickbacks made for dramatic testimony at the Charbonneau commission on Thursday. Retired road-paving executive Gilles Theberge admitted to creating a cartel of firms that split contracts in the Montreal suburb of Laval in early 2000. He said bid-rigging ...
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Warrants issued for suspect in northwest Calgary burglaries
Police released this mug shot of Thomas Damien Stevic, 34, of Calgary, wanted in connection with four break-ins in the communities Tuscany and Scenic Acres earlier this ...
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Dominican officials arrest 4 accused of smuggling migrants into US Canada
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Dominican authorities have arrested four men from Sri Lanka accused of smuggling at least 60 migrants from India and the Middle East into the U.S. and Canada using fake passports. The suspects would smuggle the migrants from Europe to Haiti and then cross them into the Dominican Republic, Maximo Munoz, spokesman for the National Investigations Department, ...
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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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