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Canada will retain Montreal-based UN agency headquarters
MONTREAL -- Canada will keep its only UN agency now that Qatar has abandoned a bid to get the International Civil Aviation Organization to move its headquarters to the Middle Eastern country. ICAO confirmed the news Friday morning as did Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, who announced it on Twitter. Qatar has offered no explanation for its decision to back off. ICAO Secretary General ...
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Gawkers bid to give $200000 to Canadian drug dealers hits slight snag
United States . We can't have them high on crack.The spangers Gawker has deployed outside New York subway stops to raise money to buy a video purportedly showing Ford crack-smoking, however, smell bad and obstruct pedestrian flow. We exaggerate; Gawker has not deployed spangers. But the website is begging for money from the public to supplement its news gathering budget, so it can afford to ...
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Strip Searched During Exam Canada High School Has Some Explaining To Do
With technology growing every day, many things are becoming a lot easier. Finding a nearby restaurant on your smartphone, for example. Or, cheating on a test. For that reason, a Canada high school issued statements to parents recently after school staff conducted a strip-search to find a missing cell phone. The incident happened during Cap-Jeunesse High School’s final exams; each student ...
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British Columbia teen rescues dog from cougar
A Canadian teen and his dog are recovering from wounds after he rescued the dog from a cougar in what he called "the most terrifying thing I've ever endured." Levi Sadler, 16, said he was at home in Belcarra, near Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday night when he heard his black Labrador, Daisy, screaming outside of his window, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday. ...
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Nuggets GM Masai Ujiri to interview for Toronto opening
Masai Ujiri (Denver Post file) Nuggets general manager Masai Ujiri will interview with Toronto, a source confirmed, complicating the situation as the Nuggets try to re-sign the reigning NBA executive of the year. Ujiri previously worked in the Raptors' front office, and has since thrived since coming to Denver. Ujiri and team president Josh Kroenke have said that the plan is to bring Ujiri ...
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Video Prepare for more hurricanes than usual Canadian Hurricane Centre says
The Canadian Hurricane Centre is telling residents in the Atlantic provinces they should prepare for an active hurricane season. The centre's program supervisor says la Nina conditions could spark more storms than ...
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Host team booted from hockeys Memorial Cup playoffs
Knights needing a win to stay alive in the fight to hoist The Cup. They lost. They were hammered, thrashed, thumped, crushed, routed, banged-up and generally embarrassed by the Knights, losing by a final score of 6 to 1. The Blades scored their only goal of the game after London had pumped 6 shots into the Saskatoon net. Now, the tourney is a three team affair, with the Portland (Oregon) ...
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Avril Lavigne gets help from Marilyn Manson on new album
Radio.com , the Canuck punk-pop princess received inspiration and lead vocal assistance from the veteran shock rocker on a duet titled "Bad Girl," a track from her upcoming fifth studio album. The "Sk8terboi" hitmaker reveals she recruited the singer via a last minute text, saying, "I was sitting there at the board thinking Manson would be perfect on this track, so I ...
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Epic isnt anywhere close to living up to its name
Epic tells the story of an ongoing battle between the forces of good, who keep the natural world alive, and the forces of evil, who wish to destroy it. When a teenage girl ...
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‘RHOBH’ star Lisa Vanderpump says she deals with shenanigans at SUR
Lisa Vanderpump may be the star of the show, but she is also busy filming her spin-off show, "Vanderpump Rules." The show isn't so much about Lisa. It is more about her employees and their personal drama that is playing out as they are working on the show. The first season was so successful that Bravo decided to make a second season of the show. And perhaps they are filming now, ...
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‘Teen Mom’ star Chelsea Houska denies thinking about Adam
Chelsea Houska hasn't dated one single man on the show over the several years the show has been airing. But she has always talked about Adam. He gave her a promise ring, which seemed to give her some sort of hope, but now that he has gotten another girl pregnant, she may have given up for good. But it sounds like her followers may not believe her. According to a new tweet released on May ...
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Bethenny Frankel gets support from Ellen ‘I’m so proud of Bethenny’
Bethenny Frankel has been working hard to fulfill her dream before she started a family and met Jason, as she was doing everything from selling her own belongings online to baking all night to sell cookies on the streets of New York. She chronicles all of this in her book, "A Place of Yes." However, it was her idea of the Skinnygirl margarita that really put ...
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‘Teen Mom’ star Jenelle Evans not deleting older tweets
Jenelle Evans has made some questionable decisions over the past couple of years, as she decided to go back to her drug-using boyfriend Kieffer Delp several times rather than get her life straightened out so she could get custody of Jace back. In addition, she hasn't held steady employment for a while, hasn't attended school, and got married to a man she had known for two months. It ...
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‘Million Dollar Listing’ star Ryan Serhant agrees with Oprah
Ryan Serhant has been on the show since the very beginning, but fans of the show have not heard too much about his personal life. For Ryan, every day is all about work. And he proved on this week's episode that he will go the extra mile for his clients as he decorated a bow room for one of his clients. However, he believes that his success is based on luck, preparation and opportunities. ...
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Ontario students who went missing on school hike home safe
After being separated from their group and spending a cold night on the Bruce Peninsula National Park, a group of 15 students from a Waterloo, Ont., high school has returned home safely. The students -- all 16 and 17-year-olds -- spent nearly 12 hours alone on the southern Ontario hiking trail overnight Thursday after disappearing around 5 p.m. while on a school hiking trip. The youths ...
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Toronto mayor clings on as crack video scandal grows
Toronto's citizens are struggling to make sense of the events surrounding their mayor, Rob Ford, who has spent the last seven days ducking a media storm surrounding a video that allegedly shows him partaking of ...
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Photos London Knights eliminate host Saskatoon Blades from Memorial Cup
The Saskatoon Blades react to the London Knights’ third unanswered goal of the second period on May 23, 2013 at Credit Union Centre in ...
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Veteran Blue Jays reliever Darren Oliver goes on DL
The Toronto Blue Jays have placed left-handed reliever Darren Oliver on the 15-day disabled list with a left shoulder strain. The move is retroactive to May 19. Lefty J.A. Happ has also been moved to the 60-day disabled list as he recovers from injuries after taking a ball in the head during a game earlier this month. The team has added rookie Sean Nolin, who is scheduled to make his major ...
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Wharnsby Sens reunite Alfredsson Spezza Michalek for Game 5
When asked if his team could bonce back from a 3-1 series deficit to the Penguins, the 40-year-old Alfredsson replied "probably not." He later said in the same session with reporters that the Senators would go to Pittsburgh and play "one of heck of a game." He also added, "I don't think we have much going for us. But maybe that's the way we like ...
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Could Torontos City Hall run without a mayor
Toronto City Hall has been at the centre of a scandal over Mayor Rob Ford's refusal to address allegations over crack cocaine use. The controversy has raised questions about whether Ford could be ousted from office, and what would happen in the aftermath. (Michelle Siu/Canadian ...
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School workers in childrens mouth-taping incident off the job
Two school monitors are no longer employed with the Halifax Regional School Board after parents alleged their children's mouths were taped shut last week. ...
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Big-time lobbyists attended pricey Mammoliti bash
City hall lobbyists Jamie Besner, bottom left, and Paul Pellegrini, bottom right, attended Wednesday's fundraising bash involving Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti. Also posing for the photo are businessman Anthony Pullano, upper left, and motivational speaker and community activist Spider Jones. ...
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Dachshunds strut their stuff as UN bosses
, a Festival TransAmriques show featuring dozens of dogs impersonating members of the United Nations. The event is the brainchild of Bennett Miller, an Australian visual artist, who expanded the idea after premiering it at a theatre festival in Melbourne. Miller auditioned scores of local weiner dogs to see if they would make the cut. The artist says he choose dachshunds to represent global ...
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Fords supporters ask him to give his side
Toronto Coun. Doug Ford denies allegations against Rob Ford TORONTO - Mayor Rob Ford's own executive committee has written a letter urging him to address the crack cocaine allegations that have dogged him for a week now. Deputy mayor Doug Holyday said the letter will be released by Friday afternoon and that it says the "business of the city will continue as usual" and asks Ford ...
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Arrest in 1991 kidnapping sex assault
Shane Daniel Garry, 45, of Brampton, was arrested Thursday, May 23, 2013, and charged in an historic sex assault of a nine-year-old girl from 1991. ...
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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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