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Housing slowdown to worsen cost 7500 jobs in Vancouver mortgage group says
Almost a year after the federal government's latest tightening of the rules for insured mortgages, the association that represents mortgage brokers has come out with a dire assessment of the effect of those changes.Canada's housing market is slowing dramatically in terms of both sales and construction, dragging down economic growth and putting some 150,000 jobs at risk in coming ...
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Task force finds ways for Vancouver to engage its citizens
Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson, flanked by several members of the city’s Engaged City Task Force, announces the task force’s initial recommendations for better civic engagement at the Collingwood community centre on ...
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Vancouver photographer on mission to catalogue fading mom-and-pop convenience stores
Finding a Vancouver Canucks fan on the streets of Vancouver was no easy feat Wednesday. Two years after a glorious run to the Stanley Cup final saw a bustling bandwagon overflowing with ...
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NHL Pittsburgh 7 Ottawa 3
Jarome Iginla scored twice during an onslaught of six consecutive Pittsburgh goals Wednesday that carried the Penguins to a 7-3 rout of Ottawa. Pittsburgh boosted its lead over the Senators in the Eastern Conference semifinals to 3-1 and will try to close out the series when it hosts Game 5 on Friday. Ottawa took a 2-1 lead after one period, then melted away while the Penguins were bombarding ...
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BC Taxpayers Federation questions Vancouver City Managers spending
5/22/2013 The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is raising questions about expenses filed by Vancouver's City Manager. The Federation's Jordan Bateman wants to know why Penny Ballem spent nearly $700 on an Air Canada flight from Vancouver Airport to Victoria to join the budget lock up last year in the capital city. On top of that she charged the city $126 for a cab ride. Bateman says ...
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Tornado touched down in Kawartha Lakes Environment Canada confirms
Environment Canada says it has confirmed that a tornado touched down Tuesday in the Kawartha Lakes region of Central Ontario.Meteorologist Peter Kimbell says damage to a house and barn helped officials who examined the area Wednesday afternoon confirm the tornado.Mr. Kimbell says it was an EF-2 tornado, with winds of between 180 and 200 kilometres an hour. The EF scale rates tornadoes from zero ...
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U.S. Republicans aim to take hold of Keystone XL decision
Rail cars arrive in Milton, N.D., in February 2008, loaded with pipe for the first Keystone Pipeline project, which now carries crude oil across Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and ...
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Quebec Charter of Values could breed intolerance warn Liberals
Quebec's citizenship minister today said the province is long overdue in dealing with the issue of accommodations to religious communities. Five years after the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on reasonable accommodations, Quebec still has no firm rules in place, Drainville said. "The problem is not resolved for the vast majority of Quebecers. They want it resolved," he said. He ...
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B.C. teen saves dog from cougar
A Belcarra, B.C. teenager and his beloved family dog are recovering tonight after surviving a vicious cougar attack on Tuesday night. Levi Sadler, 16, realized there was something wrong when heard his black Labrador Daisy screaming outside his window. "It was terrifying, like a scream you hear in movies, coming from a dog," he ...
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UPAC carries out more raids in Montreal
MONTREAL -- Quebec's anti corruption task force descended on the N.D.G.--Cte-des-Neiges borough offices Wednesday afternoon, according to media reports.A spokesperson for UPAC said the taskforce's investigators seized documents from different locations in Montreal on Wednesday, but would not confirm a TVA report that the city's largest borough was targeted.Montreal interim Mayor ...
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Quebec gives dance community a boost
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois, centre, Élaine Ayotte, left, a member of the executive committee with responsiblity for culture for the city of Montreal, and provincial culture minister Maka Kotto, chat while posing for a photograph outside the Wilder building in Montreal, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, following a news conference announcing funding to help renovate the ...
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Canadas Flaherty worried about housing agencys insurance role
OTTAWA | Wed May 22, 2013 9:35pm EDT OTTAWA May 22 (Reuters) - The Canadian government is examining the role of the federal housing agency in providing insurance for mortgage portfolios held by banks, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Wednesday. Under Flaherty's watch, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), a federal government agency, has come under closer ...
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Vancouver’s grand connectivity plan
Vancouver, whose council has been accused of not listening to the public and whose residents say they are lonely and alienated, launched the first steps on Wednesday of a plan to make people who live there more connected. "Vancouver is a dynamic city undergoing a great deal of change," Mayor Gregor Robertson said. "The connection between city hall and citizens is tenuous at the ...
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Montreals boil-water warning inflames an already simmering city
A man pretends to drink water out of a fire hydrant while his friend, not seen, takes a picture in Montreal on May 22, 2013. Montreal has issued a boil-water advisory to a large swath of the city affecting over one million residents after a water-filtration station broke down. (PAUL CHIASSON/THE CANADIAN ...
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Toronto mayor fired from coaching job
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford enters a council meeting about casino proposals at Toronto City Hall on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday, a close ally of Ford, said Wednesday, May 22, 2013 that Ford has followed legal advice in remaining silent about a purported video that appears to show him smoking crack cocaine. Holyday is urging Ford to address the video. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, ...
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Most of Montreal told to boil drinking water
MONTREAL -- More than one million Montreal residents are being told to boil their drinking water after a malfunction at Canada's second-biggest filtration plant.The malfunction resulted in brownish water gushing from fire hydrants and an unpleasant aroma wafting over parts of the city on Wednesday.The advisory applied to most of Montreal. City spokeswoman Valerie De Gagne and others ...
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Beaverton cop arrested in Vancouver accused of raping 5-year-old
Christopher R. Warren is currently on paid administrative leave from the Beaverton Police Department while he is being investigated for food stamp fraud. This is a mug shot from when he was arrested on the fraud ...
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Peru Canada leaders agree to boost economic ties
Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Wednesday agreed to strengthen bilateral economic relations following ...
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Reaction to Alain Vigneault firing
The Vancouver Canucks fired head coach Alain Vigneault on Wednesday, just under two years after he guided the club to the seventh game of the Stanley Cup ...
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Jose Bautista leads Jays to series victory over Rays
Blue Jays right-fielder Jose Bautista connects for one of his two home runs in Toronto's 4-3, 10-inning win over the visiting Rays on Wednesday. Bautista also singled twice in a 4-for-4 performance. (Frank Gunn/Canadian ...
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Calgary teen found dead had been in provincial care
The investigation into the death of teen in Calgary's northwest community of Citadel is still underway. Police have so far deemed the death as suspicious. (Justin ...
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Gay men will be allowed to donate blood under new policy in Canada but only those who abstain from sex
We live in "the age of uncertainty," John Kenneth Galbraith told us. He was so certain of the new uncertainty in our lives that he published a provocative book and hosted a television series under ...
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Wind energy needs some help to grow says Canadian association
Alberta could green its image and add plenty of new turbines over the next few years with the right government incentives, the Canadian Wind Energy Association said in a report released ...
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Port Hardy RCMP look into assault involving elementary school children
Port Hardy RCMP are investigating an alleged assault that was "sexual in nature" involving elementary school children at the town's elementary school."It's under investigation and at this point there is no risk for students," said Cpl. Darren Lagan of the RCMP Island District.He said he could not release details."It is always challenging for any investigation ...
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Vancouver aims to get citizens more involved with city hall
The Vancouver Canucks have fired the most successful head coach in club history. Alain Vigneault lost his job after the Canucks were swept by the San Jose Sharks — a year after the heavily ...
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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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