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Alleged Ford crack video seller not responding to calls
Gawker's editor reported last week that he had seen a video of Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. He says an attempt to purchase the video may have hit a stumbling block. (Canadian Press ...
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Federal Court wont remove MPs over robocall allegations
Voters backed by the Council of Canadians challenged the 2011 election victories by Conservative MPs, clockwise from top-left, Kelly Block, John Duncan, Jay Aspin, Joyce Bateman, Joe Daniel, Lawrence Toet and Ryan Leef. The challenge against Daniel was dropped Oct. 23. The Federal Court says it won't throw six MPs out of seats over allegations of widespread vote suppression through ...
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Judge says there was election fraud in 2011 but cant say who did it
(QMI Agency) A Federal Court judge has ruled a crime was committed in the last general election but the case is still a whodunit. Judge Richard Mosley said voters in at least six ridings across the country were victims of electoral fraud during the 2011 general election, but he stopped short of naming the perpetrators of the fraud. The Council of Canadians had backed an effort by a handful of ...
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Christian Brothers settle with sex abuse victims for $16.5M
Hundreds of victims of sexual abuse by the Christian Brothers reached a financial settlement Thursday. The religious order agreed to pay $16.5 million to 400 claimants, including 90 from Canada, who say they were molested as children by members of the order. The Brothers ran the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, N.L., for 84 years, until it announced 1989 it would shut down following ...
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Vancouver posties’ motto becomes ‘Beware of dog’
Like clockwork, Canada Post letter carrier Ryan Mayer knows exactly when the two large German shepherd dogs inside the home on Vancouver's King Edward Avenue will start barking.Just moments after he drops the mail into the box at the neighbouring home and walks toward the steps of the residence with the two big dogs, the barking begins and the howling dogs strain up against the living room ...
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UPDATE 2-Canadian businessman goes on trial in Cuba for corruption
Thu May 23, 2013 9:29pm EDT * Importer faces up to 12 years in prison * Trials of more foreign businessmen expected * Corruption arrests unprecedented in Cuba (Updates with end of trial's first day) By Marc Frank HAVANA, May 23 (Reuters) - A Cuban court on Thursday wrapped up the first day of testimony in the graft trial of a Canadian businessman whose prosecution is part of a corruption ...
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Duffy says he wants to give Canadians full story
Senator Mike Duffy said Thursday he wants a "full and open inquiry" to answer the many questions Canadians have about the spending scandal that prompted him to leave the Conservative caucus and now has the RCMP asking the Senate for more details about spending rules. Duffy said he has not been contacted by the RCMP and that he will co-operate with anyone who is doing an investigation ...
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Importers brace for fight over federal tariffs
Importers of popular electronics such as big-screen TVs and MP3 players are ramping up their fight against federal tariff changes. (Mark Humphrey/Associated ...
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Fever medicine for infants children under recall
Quality concerns with a Chinese producer of acetaminophen have prompted a recall of four fever medications meant for infants and children. Health Canada said the products being recalled ...
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Lindale residents preparing for 2nd night away from home
More than 150 people are preparing to spend their second night away from their homes as firefighters continue to battle a brush fire near Lindale, southwest of Edmonton. Of the 200 evacuated from their homes on Wednesday, about 50 have now been allowed to return home, although perhaps not for long. They join over 200 others who have been told to remain on a one-hour evacuation notice. As of ...
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Mother has message for man who almost killed her daughter
The mother a pedestrian who was almost killed at a crosswalk has a message for the man who hit her daughter with his truck. Amy Anders was 23 years old last April when she was struck by a truck that failed to stop at a crosswalk near 178th Street and 93rd Avenue. Amy was rushed to hospital where staff were able to save her life, but just. "She almost died that night," said ...
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Two Saskatoon high schools and centre locked down due to possible gun sighting
Police cars sit outside the Shaw Centre in Saskatoon Thursday. The Centre, along with adjoining high schools TOmmy Douglas and Bethlehem, were locked down Thursday after a possible gun ...
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Vancouver school for kids facing serious challenges survives thanks to donations
A young Tumbler Ridge mother is in hospital after a pickup truck plowed into the tent she and her kids were sleeping in during a Victoria Day camping trip. Shyane Cooper, 20, was camping near the ...
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Parents launch petition to bring back Father’s Day cards after school replaces holiday with ‘Family Day’
Michelle Allaby spent Thursday night carrying a stack of paper door-to-door in her Dartmouth, N.S., neighbourhood. She and two other mothers have amassed more than 350 signatures in protest of what they call ';political correctness to the extreme.'; Less than a month before Father’s Day, the women are trying to reverse a year-old decision at Astral Drive Elementary School that ...
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Mark Carney’s tribute to Canada
Canadians are not in the habit of thinking of their country as similar to the euro zone group of countries, but Mark Carney, in his speech to the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal on Tuesday, presented Canada's monetary union, with "internal real exchange rates," as a much more successful version of the same phenomenon as the euro zone. Canada's different regions do ...
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SNC-Lavalin sought Ottawas help to give Gadhafi’s son vice-president’s job
Canada's flagship engineering company hoped to persuade Ottawa officials to let a Libyan dicator's son come to Canada as a temporary foreign worker, newly unsealed court documents show.In 2008, Saadi Gadhafi, the 40-year-old son of Moammar Gadhafi, was being touted as a potential "Vice-President Maghreb" for SNC-Lavalin, with the multinational's executives stating that ...
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Metro Vancouver politicians threaten to withhold $120M in TransLink funds
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson (l) and Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts (m) attend a regional mayors meeting in 2001. Also show is mayor Peter Fassbender from ...
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Rycroft Time for De Rosario Team Canada to part ways
Dwayne De Rosario is arguably the best player ever to suit up for the Canadian men's soccer team. But with injury and age not on his side, it might be time for Team Canada and the veteran striker to part ...
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Former premier among growing list of politicians offered cash in Laval
Radio-Canada's investigative program Enqute has discovered that the practice of offering cash-stuffed envelopes to politicians in Laval dates back decades, with former a PQ premier adding his personal story to the growing collection. Bernard Landry says in 1976, when he was the newly-elected MNA for the Laval riding of Fabre, an individual approached him with an envelope. "He said, ...
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Calgary school board staffs $15K New Zealand trip questioned
Calgary's public school board says a $15,000 trip to New Zealand for its chief superintendant Naomi Johnson and two staff members was worth it. The January trip was to the five-day International Conference on Thinking, and cost roughly $5,000 for each person. Johnson also spent some time in the country on vacation, but her costs were only covered for the five days she was attending the ...
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Texting during movie lands complainant in trouble
A Toronto woman found herself in trouble with the police after repeatedly asking a man in a cinema to turn off his cellphone. In spite of constant reminders to turn off you cellphone some people continue to use their phones in the cinema. Lani Selick was trying to watch a film recently at the Varsity Cinema, while the man sitting next to her was constantly texting. "I leaned over and I ...
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Pick-up truck runs over mother children in tent
A 20-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly backing her pick-up truck over a mother and two children who were asleep in a tent at a campsite in northeastern B.C. The incident began early Monday morning when the woman was having an argument with her boyfriend at the off-road campsite near Tumbler Ridge, according to Cpl. Dan ...
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The Centre for Performing Arts will not be missed theatre critic says
While some see the pending sale of The Centre for Performing Arts as a loss for Vancouver's arts scene, UBC theatre professor and theatre critic Jerry Wasserman says the theatre never lived up to its lofty expectations. "I don't think it leaves much of a legacy at all. This was a white elephant right from the beginning," said Wasserman in an interview with CBC Radio's ...
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Photos 14 Metro Vancouver homes at rock-bottom prices
Close to half of the homes in the rugged hamlet of Johnsons Landing are at a moderate to very high hazard for landslides similar to the one that killed four people last July, according to a government ...
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Glee actress Lauren Potter visits Vancouver for Down syndrom fundraiser
METRO VANCOUVER -- Glee super fan James Clifford proudly posed for a photograph with actress Lauren Potter who is visiting Vancouver to meet some of her fans and to attend a fundraiser tonight for the Down syndrome Research Foundation.Potter who plays Becky Jackson, a student and cheerleader in the popular television series, has Down syndrome."It was awesome meeting her," said ...
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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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