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Boil-water advisory widens for Montreal area
The city of Montreal issued a revised warning at 10:30 a.m. for all areas south of the Metropolitan Expressway, from LaSalle in the west to Pointe aux Trembles in the ...
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Video Toronto Mayor Rob Ford mocked on The Daily Show
Satirical news program "The Daily Show" took aim at Toronto's gaffe-prone mayor Tuesday night. Host Jon Stewart poked fun at the alleged video showing Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine and looked back at his other ...
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‘RHOOC’ star Tamra Barney stresses over her business and children
Tamra is learning just how stressful it is to run a business and be a parent to several children - all at the same time. "JOY! Two morning employees called in sick and my daughter home sick. ...the stress of owning your own ...
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‘RHOBH’ star Kyle Richards threatens to quit the show over cheating allegations
Kyle Richards has been on the show since the very beginning and fans saw her as the reasonable one on the first season. During the dinner party from hell, Kyle was told by Camille Grammer's psychic friend that her husband would never emotionally fulfill her and there have been recent cheating rumors about her marriage. However, Kyle doesn't want her marriage to be portrayed in a ...
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Tamra Barney follows in Bethenny Frankel and Kim Zolciak’s footsteps
Tamra Barney has gone through some big changes over the past couple of years. She has divorced her husband, Simon Barney, after several fights captured on the show. They couldn't agree on how to raise their children and Simon couldn't get along with Tamra's son Ryan, who isn't biologically Simon's child. However, it sounds like Eddie accepts all of her children and is ...
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‘RHOOC’ star Lauri Peterson explains how her marriage to George has changed
Lauri Peterson started out on the show as a single mother of several children and she was working hard to make ends meet. She was working with Vicki Gunvalson at Coto Insurance back when Vicki was working in her home office but she was clearly not measuring up to Vicki's standards, as Lauri was often called home because of her children. However, after she met George, Lauri quit working and ...
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Boil water advisory in effect for most of Montreal
Almost the entire city of Montreal is under a boil water advisory, after tests at a city filtration plant showed the water was not safe to drink. City officials advised residents Wednesday morning that the drinking water is unfit for consumption everywhere south of Highway 40, also called the Metropolitan Expressway. That includes the neighbourhoods of Mount Royal, Westmount, Cote Saint ...
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Hundreds attend memorial service for Ontario man slain after test drive
HAMILTON, Ont. -- Hundreds of people have gathered to pay tribute to Tim Bosma, the Hamilton, Ont., man found dead after he took two men on a test drive. Bosma's disappearance and death captured national attention and all seats are filled at the banquet hall where a memorial service is being held today, with dozens more standing in the ...
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Yorkton RCMP seeks man wanted for assault of teenage girl
REGINA -- Police in Yorkton are looking for a man wanted for assault and confinement against a 16-year-old girl in the area.On Saturday at 7:30 p.m., a 16-year-old girl was walking westbound on Highway 52 outside of Yorkton when she was picked up by an unknown man. The man propositioned the girl to carry out sexual acts. The girl refused and the man assaulted her and left her on the side of the ...
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Chick Time for Raptors to kill the dinosaur
The Raptors teams of the Vince Carter and Chris Bosh era were relevant and almost overcame the stupidity of naming the franchise based on the early-1990s dinosaur craze. But it's time to rebrand, as incoming MLSE CEO Tim Leiweke alluded to on Tuesday. If you've spent any time at all paying attention to ...
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Senators gear up for biggest game of the year against Penguins
OTTAWA (AP) After a win in Game 3, the Ottawa Senators are confident they can tie their series against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Senators trail the Penguins 2-1 in their Eastern Conference semifinal series heading into Game 4 Wednesday. ``The next game is the biggest game of the year, that's the way it is,'' Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson said. ``No matter what happens ...
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German software firm SAP plans to hire hundreds with autism
German software firm SAP says it wants to hire hundreds of people with autism to work as programmers and testers for its products. In a statement Wednesday, the firm said it hopes the plan will boost the number of workers with autism to as much as one per cent of its 65,000 workforce by 2020. Autism is a developmental disorder that can cause difficulties communicating in certain situations. ...
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Mario Goetze wont play for Borussia Dortmund in Champions final
Borussia Dortmund midfielder Mario Goetze will miss Saturday's Champions League final against Bayern Munich after failing to recover from a hamstring injury, leaving the team without one of its best players. Dortmund confirmed Wednesday that Goetze will not be fit in time to face his future club at Wembley Stadium in London. It would have been the 20-year-old Goetze's last game for ...
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U.S. stocks higher on Bernanke stimulus talk
Chairman Ben Bernanke is telling Congress that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to end its extraordinary stimulus programs. In testimony to the Joint Economic Committee, Bernanke notes the economy is growing moderately this year and unemployment has fallen to a four-year low of 7.5 per cent. Still, unemployment remains well above levels consistent ...
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Tims passing is our wake-up call pastor says
Pastor Bernard H. De Jonge welcomed more than 1,000 people to the public memorial service for slain Hamilton, Ont., man Tim Bosma saying, "Tim's passing is our wake-up call." He spoke before the crowd at the same banquet hall in Hamilton where Bosma celebrated his wedding just three years ago. Bosma went missing earlier this month after taking two strangers on a test drive of a ...
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Canadas Eugenie Bouchard rolls into 3rd round in Strasbourg
Canada's Eugenie Bouchard smiles as she looks over at her coach while facing Bouchard Shahar Peer from Israel during first round of play at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament Wednesday, August 8, 2012 in Montreal. Bouchard beat Peer 3-6, 6-2, 7-5. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian ...
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IOC says still more work needed on targeted drug testing
Olympic officials agree that more targeted, out-of-competition testing in high-profile sports is needed to catch the drug cheats who are escaping the net, IOC President Jacques Rogge said Wednesday. Rogge told The Associated Press that sports leaders who attended a summit at IOC headquarters in Switzerland concluded that better testing -- rather than more tests -- is the best way forward in the ...
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Minor hockey bodychecking ban to be debated
Hundreds of delegates arrive in Charlottetown Wednesday for the Hockey Canada annual general meeting, where they will vote on whether bodychecking should be banned nationally in minor hockey. Alberta, Quebec, and Nova Scotia have already banned checking for peewee players, who are 11 and 12 years old. Delegates at the Charlottetown meeting, which starts Thursday, will vote on a ban across the ...
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Blood donation ban lifted for some gay bisexual men
Health Canada will allow gay men to donate blood if they haven't had sex with a man in the last five years, a change in policy that will go into effect in the coming weeks. "The new five-year deferral period means that men who have not had sex with men in the past five years are now eligible to donate blood in Canada," the federal department said in a release ...
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Medical residents seek more family doctor positions
(CBC) Health Minister Ted Flemming insists there are jobs for family doctors in New Brunswick, despite a letter he received from medical residents saying a provincial cap on full-time positions is forcing them to leave when they finish their training. The 12 chief residents from across the Maritimes, who represent 141 family medicine residents in post-graduate programs, contend the province ...
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Fentanyl-related deaths spark warning in Prince George
Mounties in Prince George, B.C., are warning drug users about the powerful prescription opiate fentanyl which has turned up on the city's streets. Police say two deaths in the past six months appear to have been caused by fentanyl. Both the men who died were known heroin users. Cpl. Craig Douglass says the narcotic, which looks like heroin but is much more potent, isn't typically ...
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Christie Blatchford Toronto mayor needs to start talking
As Don Peat, the Toronto Sun's excellent City Hall bureau chief, asked wryly, "Do you suppose he's going to do the football thing and just run out the clock?"And that, it appears, is what Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is trying to do.As all around him the storm of serious allegations - that he has been caught on video smoking crack cocaine and consorting with drug dealers - ...
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Final farewell to Peter Worthington
Peter Worthington. Family, friends, colleagues and readers are gathering Wednesday to bid farewell to Toronto Sun founding editor Peter Worthington. Worthington, 86, who died May 13, was remembered at visitations Tuesday as a man who lived life to the fullest. The funeral begins at 11 a.m. at Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. Maj.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, David Crombie, Mark Bonokoski and ...
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Ontario man lost in Australian mountains
Prabhdeep Srawn, 25, from Brampton, Ont., went missing May 13 while hiking in Australia's Snowy Mountains. (FACEBOOK PHOTO/QMI AGENCY) The third day of searching for a Brampton, Ont., man who went missing while hiking in Australia wrapped up because of poor lighting, local media ...
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Ford skewered on late-night TV
Gawker launches 'crackstarter' to buy alleged Rob Ford video TORONTO – Mayor Rob Ford may not have been saying anything Tuesday about crack cocaine allegations but that didn't stop late-night U.S. comedians from cracking jokes about the ongoing scandal. Jon Stewart's Daily Show, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel Live were all fired up about the story of ...
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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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