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House of Commons adjourns for the summer
The most bitter spring sitting of parliament since Stephen Harper's Conservatives came to power more than seven years ago has ended with a rare piece of agreement -- unanimous consent to adjourn for the summer. All parties agreed late Tuesday night to pull the plug after almost a month of late-night sittings. The House of Commons calendar had MPs remaining at work in Ottawa through the ...
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2 men jailed in Dominican wedding fight return to Canada
Stacey Vernon poses with her new husband, Nick Miele, just hours before he was arrested after a fight at the Bahia Principe Esmeralda resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. (Courtesy Vernon ...
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Zama spill site shows brown trees 3 containment sites
Apache Canada is still cleaning up a massive waste water site in northern Alberta, 18 days after the spill was first reported. The spill leaked 9.5 million litres of contaminated water from oil production into an area near Zama City, Alta., which is near the N.W.T. border. CBC News got a bird's eye view of the site, which is located in a landscape with several pipelines, right of ways for ...
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Calgarians with breast cancer tackle good health together
It's the second anniversary of a Calgary program that helps those battling breast cancer keep active. CBC reporter Tara Weber caught up with some participants to hear about the ...
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Police probe death of woman 27 in Kelowna home
The Kelowna RCMP is investigating the suspicious death of a 27-year-old woman at a home in the Glenmore area. Officers found the deceased woman inside the home when they responded to a call to assist paramedics just after midnight on Monday. Neighbours say a young couple and their children lived in the house. "It's beyond shocking, because these are the kinds of things that you read ...
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City hopes to expand Downtown Proud
The city is looking to expand a program that relies on homeless people to help clean up downtown Edmonton. "Downtown Proud," which started in February 2010, is a project of Boyle Street Community Services and the Downtown Business Association. Employees work three hours a day, five days a week to keep the city's business core cleaner for a relatively low cost. The city has ...
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Botched surgery fueled attack at Vancouver 7-11 Judge
A hostage-taking at a 7-11 in downtown Vancouver in November 2012 was motivated by a call for justice after surgery was performed on the wrong leg, B.C. Provincial Court heard Tuesday. (QMI Agency files) VANCOUVER -- A hostage-taking at a downtown Vancouver 7-11 last year, in which a woman was nearly set on fire, was motivated by a call for justice after surgery was performed on the wrong leg, ...
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Experimental cancer test grafts tumours into mice to create customized treatment for patients
When a CT scan showed that Yaron Panov’s sarcoma had returned, the news from some of Canada's top specialists in the rare cancer was grim: surgery would require cutting out his spleen, a kidney and chunks of other organs. In other words, removing the tumour was not an option. What's more, chemotherapy had little chance of working either, doctors said. It was April 2011 and Mr. ...
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Montreal Mayor Resigns After Bribery Arrest
A day after his arrest on bribery charges, the mayor of Montreal, Michael Applebaum, resigned Tuesday. In a brief statement to reporters, he denied that he was guilty of any of the 14 charges he now faces. But he said it would not be possible to act as mayor while defending himself. For much of his political career, Mr. Applebaum was seen as a reformer and known as "Mr. Clean." He ...
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Interim Montreal mayor quits after fraud arrest
MONTREAL -- For the second time in less than a year, a Montreal mayor has stepped down amid corruption scandals ripping through Canada's second-largest ...
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Former fighter pilot new boss at Vancouver Airport
Edwin Encarnacion had a home run and three RBIs to back pitcher Esmil Roger’s strong outing against his former club and the Toronto Blue Jays won their seventh straight with a 8-3 interleague ...
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Griffins defeat Crunch to win AHLs Calder Cup
Tomas Tatar scored twice as the Grand Rapids Griffins won the Calder Cup on Tuesday with a 5-2 victory over the Syracuse Crunch in Game 6 of the American Hockey League's championship series. Tatar scored on the power play 12:41 into the second period then added an empty-net goal for some insurance in the final minute of play. Defenceman Brennan Evans had the winner for Grand Rapids, the ...
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6 ways to have a picnic in Calgary
Even when you can't find a spot on a patio, chances are you'll be able to locate a spot in a park, on a beach or near a stream. Wherever you are in Calgary, here are some easy ways to turn your outing into a picnic. Wine and ...
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FC Edmonton coach Colin Miller to direct Canada’s men’s team at CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament
Colin Miller’s déjà vu season as Canada’s men’s national soccer team head coach continues. The FC Edmonton head coach will be the interim coach for a third time in 2013, as the team gets set for next month’s CONCACAF Gold Cup. Here, Miller is pictured at Commonwealth Stadium when he was named head coach for FC Edmonton of the North American Soccer League in ...
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Elderly Vancouver man dragged by car after thief takes off with his jewelry
Police are still searching for a suspect who robbed an elderly man and dragged him with a car for about a block. Around 12:30 p.m. Monday, a 61-year-old left a store on East Broadway after purchasing jewelry. He was walking north on Quebec Street when a suspect came up behind him, grabbed the bag of jewelry and ran into a waiting a ...
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‘Ultimate trivialization of the Zionist dream’ Rabbis say sexy tourism ads for Tel Aviv ‘disgusting’
A youth outreach program of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs that caused a buzz by using oral sex jokes to promote tourism in Israel three years ago, is once again under fire for using group sex to advertise ';sexy, secular and sassy'; Tel Aviv to young Jewish Canadians. Reaction from Canadian rabbis to the new online ad from CIJA’s ';Size Doesn’t ...
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The hunt for an untainted Montreal mayor resumes following latest resignation
MONTREAL -- The hunt for an untainted Montreal mayor resumed Tuesday as Michael Applebaum resigned one day after being arrested on 14 corruption-related charges. In a brief statement in the main foyer of City Hall, Mr. Applebaum maintained his innocence and vowed to fight the charges but said it was in the city's best interest for him to step ...
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MLB Toronto 8 Colorado 3
Maicer Izturis on solo shots as streaking Toronto reeled off a seventh consecutive win. Former Rocky Esmil Rogers (3-2) collected the victory, yielding three runs (two earned) on four hits over 6 2/3 innings. The right-hander walked one and struck out five. Colorado ...
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Job action by foreign service hurting Canadian tourism industry
Hundreds of foreign service officers walks out of Department of Foreign Affairs headquarters June 06, 2013 in Ottawa. (Dave Chan for The Globe and ...
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Senators call for zero tolerance on harassment in RCMP
An RCMP cruiser sits parked on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 29, 2013. Senators are recommending the force change its code of conduct regarding harassment. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian ...
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Quebec wants Haiti earthquake victims to stay in Canada
The Quebec government is hoping Ottawa will allow thousands of Haitians who fled to Canada after the 2010 earthquake to stay in the country. Amid the chaos of Haiti's devastating earthquake, Malie-Merline Fanfan found refuge aboard a Canadian military plane bound for Montreal, settling in the city's St. Michel district with her two daughters. "Imagine these children who are ...
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Suspicious powder found in downtown Vancouver building
Stanley Cup-winning (Tampa Bay Lightning, ’04), ultimately fired (New York Rangers, ’13) head coach John Tortorella is getting the second-over from the Vancouver Canucks in their search for a new bench boss. ‘Torts’ does have a way with words, particularly of the @!#$%^ variety (‘expletive deleted,’ for the tender-eared). And what are some of the juiciest ...
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Gatineau MP denounces Ontario government’s ‘cavalier’ attitude on Kettle Island bridge
OTTAWA -- The Ontario government's announcement that it would not support a bridge spanning the Ottawa River at Kettle Island demonstrates self-centred thinking, Gatineau MP Franoise Boivin said Tuesday."Is the Ontario side just saying, 'We actually don't care about the Quebecers,'?" asked Boivin.She said the announcement Monday came as a surprise since ...
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Vancouver Chinatown groups support tearing down viaducts
Stanley Cup-winning (Tampa Bay Lightning, ’04), ultimately fired (New York Rangers, ’13) head coach John Tortorella is getting the second-over from the Vancouver Canucks in their search for a new bench boss. ‘Torts’ does have a way with words, particularly of the @!#$%^ variety (‘expletive deleted,’ for the tender-eared). And what are some of the juiciest ...
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A poet without poems Canada’s taxpayer-funded wordsmith laments scarcity of assignments from Ottawa
Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate, wondering aloud why the government never asks him to write poems, has inadvertently answered his own question. "I wish that my government had asked me to write poetry about immigration policy, about Idle No More, about Canada's complicity in the Middle East, the Enbridge pipeline," Fred Wah, a Saskatchewan-born poet now living in ...
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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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