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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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Roy returns to Colorado Avalanche as coach
Patrick Roy , who helped Colorado to two Stanley Cup titles as a goaltender, Thursday agreed in principle to become the Avalanche's next coach. Roy, 47, is a Hall of Fame goaltender who won the Stanley Cup in 1986 and 1993 while with the Montreal Canadiens and in 1996 and 2001 while playing for Colorado. "This is a very exciting day for our fans and a significant moment in our ...
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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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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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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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More than one-third of Quebec high-schoolers victimized study
MONTREAL -- More than one in three high-school students in the province say they have been victims of violence at school or on the way to or from school, according to a study made public Thursday by the Institut de la statistique du Qubec. Just five per cent said they were victimized by cyberbullying during the school year, with girls nearly twice as likely to be bullied on the Internet as ...
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UPDATE 1-Quebec to do own review of Enbridge pipeline project
Thu May 23, 2013 4:41pm EDT * Quebec to hold separate review of pipeline-reversal plan * Review to run concurrent to federal process By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Quebec will announce within weeks that it will launch its own public review of a proposed pipeline that would deliver crude oil from western Canada to eastern markets, its environment minister said ...
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TV importers accuse Ottawa of misleading tariff rulings
Importers of popular electronics such as big-screen TVs and MP3 players are ramping up their fight against federal tariff changes, accusing the government of misleading them by offering tariff breaks that it planned to claw back later.Importers of televisions are already on the hook for about $16-million in retroactive duties from 2011 after last year's crackdown on a particular tariff ...
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Preview Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Michael Jackson One’ opens tonight at Mandalay Bay
Back in November 2011, it was the glittering gala for "Michael Jackson -- The Immortal World Tour," which has gone on to become the world's largest-grossing tour and this week is en route to Japan, then Australia, followed by China in August. Tonight, it's a different and unique new show, "Michael Jackson One," that opens in its first preview before the splashy June ...
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Boil-water advisory delay questioned by Montreal councillor
Updated Boil-water advisory to last until at least 10 p.m. Residents advised to boil water for at least 1 min. Largest boil-water advisory in Montreal's ...
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CBCs Top Tweets Boil-water advisory
Most of Montreal has been under a boil-water advisory for more than 24-hours after dust sitting at the bottom of a resevoir mixed in with the water supply. ...
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PQ polling woes continue
latest CROP survey in Thursday's La Presse. On the provincial side, it places support for Phillippe Couillard's Liberals at 38 per cent. That's 14 points ahead of the Parti Qubcois which is down to 24 per cent, only two points ahead of the Coalition Avenir Qubec which is polling at 22 per cent. Quebec Solidaire is at 10 per cent and Option Nationale up from three per cent to ...
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Arctic bacteria found living in Mars-like environment
Scientists say they've found bacteria growing in the Canadian arctic at temperatures below freezing, nearly as cold as the surface of Mars. Growing at just 5 degrees Fahrenheit, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, the bacterium offers clues about some of the necessary preconditions for microbial life on other worlds, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and Mars, ...
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Ottawa threatens ‘retaliatory measures’ over U.S. meat label rules
The federal government is threatening "retaliatory measures" against the United States in a dispute over meat-labelling rules that Ottawa and the World Trade Organization consider discriminatory.The U.S. government has announced new regulations on so-called country-of-origin labelling that would track beef and hogs through the meat processing and distribution ...
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Ottawa gives new funding to child abuse centre named for Sheldon Kennedy
Former NHLer Sheldon Kennedy, left, speaks at a news conference with Justice Minister Rob Nicholson in Toronto on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. (COLIN PERKEL/THE CANADIAN ...
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Accused Via terror plotters make video appearance in court
A man charged in an alleged plot to bomb a Via Rail passenger train says he wants to be represented by a lawyer who agrees the Qur'an should be used as a "reference" in his case. Chiheb Esseghaier appeared in a Toronto court by video link this morning. He said he is seeking a legal aid lawyer to defend him against several terrorism-related charges in what the RCMP has called the ...
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Four Quebec cops accused of trafficking drugs
A police vehicle is seen outside of a house in Montreal on May 23, 2013. (SYLVAIN DENIS/QMI Agency) MONTREAL - Two Montreal police officers and two other cops from a nearby suburb have been arrested on drug-trafficking charges. In addition to trafficking, Montreal constables Charles Lavallee and Amir El Alfy are accused of importing narcotics. Also charged are Maxime Marcotte and Olivier Roy, ...
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UPAC raids Montreal city hall
MONTREAL -- Quebec's anti-corruption squad carried out another raid at Montreal city hall Thursday morning.The operation was "very discreet," said Anne-Frdrick Laurence, a spokesperson for the Unit permanente anti-corruption, with only "a handful" of officers involved.Sources at city hall confirmed investigators arrived before 9:30 a.m. and visited the clerk's ...
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Ex Lt.-Gov. of Quebec will face trial for fraud
Lise Thibault. (STEVENS LEBLANC/QMI Agency) OTTAWA - It appears that former Quebec lieutenant-governor Lise Thibault isn't above the law after all. The Supreme Court refused Thursday to hear Thibault's petition to avoid trial for allegedly defrauding taxpayers of $700,000 through double-billing and lavish spending. Thibault, 73, said because she was the Queen's representative, ...
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‘Whoops’ moment during maintenance may be behind million-person Montreal boil-water warning
MONTREAL -- Over one million Montrealers were affected by a boil-water advisory Wednesday after an apparent malfunction at Canada's second-biggest filtration plant. The incident resulted in brownish water gushing from fire hydrants and an unpleasant aroma wafting, at least temporarily, over parts of the city. The boil-water advisory applied to most of the island and even some neighbouring ...
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Supreme Court refuses to hear Lise Thibaults appeal
The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear the appeal of Quebec's former Lt.-Gov. Lise Thibault, who is charged with fraud and breach of trust. The defence's appeal centred on a claim of royal immunity. Defence lawyer Marc Labelle drew his argument from an old and little-used common-law principle that states ...
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Trudeau raises environmental questions over pipeline
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says a proposed west-east pipeline project will not go forward unless it addresses key environmental concerns. Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. is in the process of lining up potential producers who would use the proposed pipeline, which would run from Alberta to New Brunswick. The federal Liberal leader told the CBC's Information Morning Fredericton on ...
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Ottawa police ready to start collecting race data
OTTAWA -- After months of community consultations and tweaks to methodology, Ottawa police say they will roll out a mandated race data collection project at traffic stops at the end of June, two months after their initial target.The project, which will have officers discreetly mark what they perceive to be the race of the person they've pulled over in their in-cruiser computer system, will ...
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Quebecs separatist government highly unpopular -poll
Thu May 23, 2013 11:21am EDT * Separatists would lose power in election now, poll says * Quebec government had to dilute plans for new mining tax May 23 (Reuters) - Quebec's separatist government is highly unpopular in the wake of several missteps since taking power last September and would be swept from office if an election were held now, a poll published on Thursday found. The Parti ...
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RCMP moving to freeze assets in widening SNC-Lavalin probe
The RCMP asked a court in Montreal to freeze several bank accounts and a family trust belonging to former SNC executive vice-president of construction Sami Bebawi, as well as properties bought by his children, according to a 114-page affidavit sworn by Cpl. Alexandre Beaulieu. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian ...
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Montreal Metro still trying to replace ageing fleet
The Montreal Metro is ageing, or its trains are at least, with some of them over 60 years old this year, it’s high time for massive investment in an overhaul of the fleet, but the bidding process has been controversial and highly competitive, leading to delays, which it is hoped will provide a lower cost.
Montreal’s metro system is operated by the Société de Transport de Montréal (STM) and was first opened back in 1966, since then it has grown into one of the largest subways in the country and is the busiest in Canada with over 290 million trips taken on the system last year. The 759 trains that operate on the network are ageing and tired, having each carried an estimated 7900 people and plans are afoot to replace them. Read more
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