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How open is Ottawas new open data website
launch of the federal government's revamped data.gc.ca portal . Treasury Board President Tony Clement touted the revamped site, calling it Canada's "new natural resource." But that new window into federal data tables, statistics and other information available online is getting mixed early reviews and arrives at the same time as the government faces controversy over just how ...
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Chiefs want sensible solutions in shale gas sector
(CBC) First Nations chiefs are calling on the provincial government and mining companies start talks with them to discuss natural resource development opportunities in New Brunswick. The Assembly of First Nations' Chiefs in New Brunswick issued a statement on Tuesday night that also criticized companies and governments that refused to work with them, as well as protesters from outside ...
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Canada mulls penalties for offshore oil
The Canadian government announced plans to increase the liability for energy exploration companies working in Atlantic and arctic waters. Exxon Mobil announced plans in January to produce more than 700 million barrels of oil from the Hebron oil field off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. Canadian Environment Commissioner Scott Vaughan has said oil spills from offshore platforms in the ...
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Two Canadian cities in search of ‘good government’
The Week in Politics In Canada, these films confirmed that we in what used to be called the "peaceable kingdom" were somehow morally pure, at least in comparison to our American neighbours. Really?Where are the Canadian film and television producers, especially the ones in Quebec, to portray what's been going on for years and years in that province's municipal politics? And ...
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Missing terns on Machias Seal Island baffle researchers
For 150 years, terns have always come back to Machias Seal Island, but researchers are trying to find out why they are no longer returning to the tiny island located between New Brunswick and Maine. Arctic terns and common terns, two species of seabirds that use the island for nesting, have not been using the bird sanctuary since 2006. Researchers are trying to explain why the birds stopped ...
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Gatineau promotes itself with free shuttle service
Restaurant owner Eric Gaudreault, seen here riding the new free shuttle service, says Ottawa residents and public servants don't know about the hidden gems across the river. (Christine ...
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Press Digest-canada-june 19
June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:16am EDT June 19 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. THE GLOBE AND MAIL * Amid questions about the Prime Minister's Office, Senate spending, Justin Trudeau's work for charities and Thomas Mulcair's run-in with Mounties on ...
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Whos who in the Senate expense controversy
Keeping track of the names popping up in the ongoing Senate expenses controversy -- from the investigators to the four senators themselves -- could be a difficult task for even the most seasoned political ...
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Man should be deported over gang ties Ottawa
A man allowed into Canada 17 years ago should be kicked out of the country because there is ample evidence he was part of an Asian criminal gang, says the federal ...
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Montreal mayor vows to fight charges
Montreal - Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum resigned on Tuesday, a day after he was charged with fraud and corruption in the latest major Canadian municipal ...
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US Canadian defense chiefs confer on shared security challenges
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday held talks with visiting Canadian Minister of National Defense Peter MacKay over bilateral defense cooperation and shared security challenges.During their meeting at the Pentagon, the two "discussed a wide range of topics related to their mutual interest in some of the world's ongoing security challenges," including the Syria crisis, ...
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Quebec 175000 construction workers mount province-wide strike
Workers in all sectors of Quebec's construction industry launched an unlimited strike Monday--the first province-wide walkout since 1986--paralyzing billions of dollars' worth of building projects across the province, including various hydro-dam projects and the construction of Montreal's two mega-hospitals. Involving 175,000 workers, the strike is the largest in Canada since the ...
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Canada on ice as Harper fails to secure EU trade deal
CANADIAN Prime Minister Stephen Harper will conclude his eight-day European trip unable to complete a trade agreement with the EU, just as the opening of EU-US talks raises the risk that his country will be left ...
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Banff exhibit shines light on dark chapter in war years
Between 200 and 600 mostly Eastern European immigrants were help prisoner at two internment camps in Banff — first at Castle Mountain and later at Cave and Basin, above — between 1915 and ...
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RCMP investigating suspicious death of 27-year-old Kelowna mom
Detectives in white bunny suits scoured a Kelowna home and searched garbage bins for evidence Tuesday in what could be a homicide.Members of the RCMP's serious-crime unit are investigating the death of a 27-year-old mother of two in her rented house on Yates Road at the corner of Ballou Road. Police would only say it's suspicious.The ambulance service called RCMP at 12:37 a.m. Tuesday. ...
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Heat force Game 7 with OT win over Spurs
MIAMI (AP) LeBron James led a title-saving charge, and now his crown will be on the line one more time in Game 7. James powered Miami to a frantic fourth-quarter rally and overtime escape as the Heat beat the San Antonio Spurs 103-100 on Tuesday night to extend the NBA Finals as far as they can go and keep Miami's repeat chances alive. Losing his headband but keeping his cool while ...
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Overmatched Tahiti stealing Confed Cup spotlight
CBC News reporter Nick Purdon examines why the 138th-ranked Tahitians are the talk of the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil. Watch Purdon's report ...
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Stanley Cup Stories Gregory Campbell inspires Bruins
As the Chicago Blackhawks hope that veteran scorer Marian Hossa returns to the lineup, the Boston Bruins got another dose of inspiration from injured grinder Gregory Campbell. This and more in the top NHL stories from ...
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St. Joes program helps aboriginal students graduate
A graduation coach at Edmonton's St. Joseph High School is having a big impact on the graduation rate of aboriginal students. Grad coach Anita Lafferty is modest when she speaks about the special room created at St. Joe's for First Nations, Metis and Inuit students. "It's just a gathering place for students to be comfortable," she said. "They have a place where ...
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Hundreds attend Change Brazil protest in Vancouver
Hundreds of Brazilians took to the street in Vancouver in a show of solidarity with a wave of protests in Brazil against the shoddy state of public transit, schools and other public services in the booming South American giant. "I wish I could go there and fight with them because we are so tired of everything," said Vancouver protester Matheos Martins. Sparked earlier this month by a ...
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Cluster bomb victims call on Canada to ratify convention to ban dirty weapon
Raed Mokaled is pictured in Geneva in April, 2013 at a major international meeting on the Convention on Cluster Munitions. His son, Ahmad, was killed on his fifth birthday by a cluster bomb near their home in Lebanon in February 1999. Mokaled now works to have the weapons banned. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mike ...
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Postmedia News Ottawa Citizen win Michener award for reporting on robocalls
OTTAWA - A Postmedia News and Ottawa Citizen investigation exposing the use of "robocalls" to mislead and harass voters during the 2011 federal election campaign has won the 2012 Michener Award. The foundation handing out the award noted that the "detailed and sustained reporting" led to Elections Canada investigating complaints, a Federal court ruling that electoral fraud ...
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Abbotsford takes Metro Vancouver to task over burning issues
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Misconduct investigations put Canada in different light
MONTREAL - Canada, among the 10 least corrupt countries in the world the past six years according to rankings by Transparency International, is mired in scandals. Quebec’s anti-corruption task force Monday arrested Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum over fraud allegations, adding to controversies rocking political circles in Toronto and Ottawa that have taken the shine off Canada’s ...
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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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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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