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SolarWinds to buy Canadian company for $120M
SolarWinds Inc. has agreed to buy a Canadian software maker for $120 million. Austin-based SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) last week agreed to acquire N-able Technologies International Inc., which develops remote monitoring and management and service automation software for managed service providers, according to a Tuesday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing doesnt ...
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Photos The Sheepdogs street concert in Saskatoon
Saskatoon's own Sheepdogs performed on the Red Bull Hometown Tour bus stage at the corner of Broadway Avenue and 10th Street East for thousands of fans on May 20, 2013. Fans were dancing in the ...
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Tiger Woods Sergio Garcia feud continues
Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia don't like each other, and they're making no effort to disguise their feelings. The verbal feuding began May 11 during the third round of The Players Championship. It resumed this week on both sides of the Atlantic when Woods offered a one-word answer if he thought about contacting Garcia to put the matter to rest. "No," he replied with a tight ...
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Rob Gronkowski should make full recovery from 4th forearm surgery
Rob Gronkowski's agent says the tight end's latest surgery is expected to be the last on his forearm. The New England Patriots' star had his fourth surgery on Monday on the left forearm that he broke on Nov. 18 while blocking for an extra point against the Indianapolis Colts. He broke it again early in the Patriots' first playoff game, a win over the Houston Texans. ...
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Whitehorse RCMP seize cocaine cash from 3 B.C. men
Three B.C. men have been charged with drug offences after Whitehorse RCMP seized 60 grams of cocaine from their hotel room. The men were arrested at a downtown hotel Friday night. Police also seized cash from their room. They have been charged with trafficking, and are still in custody. "Anytime you're taking drugs off the street that's a success. We clearly have some problems ...
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Emmanuel Arceneaux happy to be back with B.C. Lions
Wide receiver Emmanuel Arceneaux is returning to the B.C. Lions. The Lions announced Tuesday that Arceneaux has reached an agreement with the team. Arceneaux played the 2009 and 2010 seasons with the Lions before spending two years in the NFL with the Minnesota Vikings, Washington Redskins and New York Jets. "We are very pleased to have Emmanuel returning to the club," Lions VP of ...
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Arrests made in Malvern playground fire
(CBC) Toronto police have arrested two men and a young offender and charged them with destroying a children's playground in the city's east end. An 18-year-old, a 19-year-old and a 17-year-old young offender have been charged with setting fire to the playground at the Mary Shadd Public School on May 6. All three have been charged with arson. The playground was set on fire sometime ...
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Complete service outage on Montreal metro
Montreal's metro service has been paralyzed across all four lines as commuters prepare for the evening rush hour. The public transit corporation tweeted that problems with its computer system led to the disruption across its entire system. The STM said it expects to resume at about 4:40 ...
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Crucifix to stay in National Assembly Drainville
Bernard Drainville, the minister responsible for Democratic Institutions says the crucifix will remain behind the speaker's throne in Quebec's National Assembly. "On the question of historical patrimony, including the crucifix, we're not going to touch that," he said in a Radio-Canada interview. "Be it the cross on Mount Royal, the cross on the [Quebec] flag, the ...
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Driver too drunk to stand says mom of toddler killed on patio
Geo Mounsef, 2, shown in a photo from a recent family vacation, was killed Sunday when a vehicle crashed through a patio at a south Edmonton restuarant. (Family ...
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Tories throw rebel backbencher a bone with support of sex-offender bill
OTTAWA -- The Conservative government appears to be throwing beleaguered rebel backbencher Mark Warawa a bone. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson Tuesday announced government support for the Langley, B.C., MP's private member's bill, which would impose a variety of restrictions on offenders released from prison under certain conditions. First introduced last month, Bill C-489 would ...
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Twelve-year-old killed as Jeep driven by girl 11 loses control on B.C. logging road
MACKENZIE, B.C. - Mounties are investigating after a 12-year-old girl died in a Jeep driven by an 11-year-old girl near Mackenzie, B.C. Police say the youngster behind the wheel was being supervised by a 41-year-old man when she lost control. The vehicle overturned on a logging road six kilometres from town, fatally injuring the passenger last Friday evening. RCMP Sgt. Sydney Lecky says the ...
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Liberal Senate leader hopes to call Harper’s office in contempt of Parliament force Wright to testify
OTTAWA -- The Liberals in the Senate are trying to trigger special parliamentary hearings in the hopes of forcing the Prime Minister’s former top aide and other Conservatives to testify. Liberal Senate leader James Cowan is expected to argue that Stephen Harper’s office violated the sacrosanct privileges of parliamentarians. Harper’s chief of staff Nigel Wright gave Sen. Mike ...
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The Senate reforms explained from the death of the ‘honour system’ to a new ‘smell test’ for housing claims
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper's message Tuesday that Conservative senators should quickly pass proposed reforms to the Senate's spending rules put the ball back in the red chamber's court. His remarks suggested the Tories would move quickly to have the reforms passed as early as Tuesday night, possibly using their Senate majority to try to push the changes through. ...
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Trial opens for Kiwi accused of Canadian murder
An ex pat New Zealander accused of murdering his wife has gone on trial in Canada. Former Napier city councillor Peter Beckett, 56, is standing trial at Salmon Arm Provincial Court for the murder of his wife Laura Letts-Beckett by allegedly pushing her off a fishing boat in 2010. The trial opened today in Canada [Tuesday local time] and is set down for five days. Mrs Letts-Beckett, 50, died two ...
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UPDATE 2-Bank of Canadas Carney says Europe needs big reforms
Tue May 21, 2013 3:58pm EDT * Bank of Canada chief says Europe should learn from Japan * Final speech before Carney leaves for Bank of England * Says tightening bias aimed in part at household debt * Says the considerable stimulus now in place is appropriate By Leila Lemghalef MONTREAL, May 21 (Reuters) - Europe could face a decade of stagnation unless it makes big reforms and it should heed the ...
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Canadian businesses embracing social collaboration tools
Avanade Canada shows Canadian businesses are leaning heavily on consumer social technologies to drive their collaboration strategies. According to the report, 69 per cent of Canadian businesses are ...
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Avril Lavigne heavily immersed in upcoming wedding plans
MTV.com , the Canuck punk-pop princess has found that wedding preparations are "like a full-time job." The "Sk8terboi" hitmaker, who is also busy putting the final touches on her upcoming fifth studio album and promoting its lead single "Here's to Never Growing Up," commented on her upcoming wedding plans, saying, "It's going pretty smooth. My ...
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Family joins search for Ontario man missing in Australia
OTTAWA -- Family members joined a frantic search Tuesday for a Canadian man with survival training missing for more than a week in Australia's Gold Coast region. Prabhdeep Srawn of Brampton, Ont., hasn't been heard from since parking his rental car on May 13 in the village of Charlotte Pass in Kosciuszko National Park. For the last two years, the 25-year-old has been a law ...
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Quebec Coalition party member suspended from caucus amid illegal-financing allegations
QUEBEC - Quebec's Coalition party has suspended one of its legislature members amid allegations of illegal financing while he was in municipal politics. Leader Francois Legault says he has suspended Daniel Ratthe after being told Ratthe had met today with investigators from the Charbonneau Commission looking into corruption in Quebec's construction industry. Legault says a ...
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Alberta RCMP sheriffs dispense more than 5000 tickets over long weekend msot for speeding
Speeders, litterers, and impaired drivers were among the thousands nabbed by traffic officers patrolling Alberta's highways over the Victoria Day long weekend.From Friday to Monday, members of Alberta's integrated traffic unit -- made up of RCMP officers and sheriffs -- laid a total of 5,039 charges, said Brendan Cox, spokesman with Alberta Justice and Solicitor General.Of that number, ...
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Next 49ers stadium named site of 50th Super Bowl
The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area. NFL owners voted Tuesday for the 49ers' new stadium as host of the 2016 game. That facility in Santa Clara, Calif., is due to open for the 2014 season. San Francisco beat out South Florida, which was stymied in its bid to stage an 11th Super Bowl when the Florida Legislature did not support financing to renovate Sun Life ...
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Rangers Tortorella expects better from Girardi on home ice
Rangers coach John Tortorella expects stalwart defenceman Dan Girardi is "going to play his best game" after Girardi was on the ice for all five Bruins goals in Game ...
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Very upset Harper wants fast Senate spending reform
Prime Minister Stephen Harper told his Conservative caucus this morning that he's "upset" by the conduct of some senators and his own office, and asked them to uphold a "culture of accountability." Harper spoke to Tory MPs and senators at a caucus meeting on Parliament Hill, his first public comments on the Senate spending scandal, but he did not mention by name any of ...
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Grand Manan park gets new operator
(CBC) The Boys and Girls Club of Grand Manan Island will operate Anchorage Provincial Park this season, Tourism Minister Trevor Holder announced on Tuesday. The agreement comes after the provincial government announced last month it was laying off the park's 13 staff members and looking for a third party operator to take over. "Our intention has never been to walk away from the ...
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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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