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Canada buys rare War of 1812 collection for $573K
A large collection of letters, maps and other papers that once belonged to Sir John Sherbrooke, the lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia who conquered Maine for the British during the War of 1812, has sold for $573,000 at auction in London. The winning bidder was Library and Archives Canada, and the future Canadian Museum of History. Including commission, the sale cost the federal government ...
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Blue Jays Jose Reyes to play weekend series for triple-A Buffalo
Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Jose Reyes appears to be getting closer to making a return to the big-league club. Reyes, who went on the disabled list April 13 after suffering a severe left ankle sprain, is scheduled to play for the triple-A Buffalo Bisons against the Durham Bulls this weekend. Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said Wednesday that Reyes is expected to be in the Buffalo lineup for ...
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Hybrid icing mandatory visors could be in place in NHL next year
Hybrid icing could be on its way to the NHL. The league's general managers have embraced many changes recommended by the competition committee, including hybrid icing and the mandatory use of visors for all players entering the league. The group met Wednesday before Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals between the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins. A blend of touch and no-touch icing that ...
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Boy charged with string of arsons in Saskatoon
As the captain from the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke might describe it, the decade-old discussion of a Saskatoon centre to honour Joni Mitchell is a good example of a failure to ...
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Council votes to expropriate City Centre Airport land
Edmonton has taken another step towards redeveloping the City Centre Airport into a new neighbourhood. City Council Wednesday voted in favour of expropriating the property, which includes more than 200 individual landowners. "The city is moving closer to getting shovels in the ground next year," Coun. Kim Krushell said. "City council has been dealing with this issue for quite ...
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Surrey woman apologizes for fatal drunken stabbing
The sentencing hearing has begun for a young Surrey woman who stabbed a teenage girl to death at a house party in East Vancouver three years ago. Katey Renieta Gonzales stabbed 17-year-old Angela Qiu five times at a booze-fuelled party in May 2010. She was charged with one count of second-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month. Fighting back tears in Vancouver Supreme ...
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Elderly woman killed in Cochrane crash
A 70-year-old woman is dead this afternoon after a three-vehicle crash just inside the town limits of Cochrane, located west of Calgary. Police say the woman's car went into the oncoming lane on Highway 22 around 2:45 p.m. MT and struck a southbound van head on, which then bumped into a school bus in the next lane. The drivers of the van and bus were not seriously injured, but the woman ...
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Vancouver man pleads guilty to beating his mother to death
Richard Glenn Shields lived with his mother, Ethel Fenotti, in this apartment building at East 12th Avenue and Main Street in Vancouver. Shields pleased guilty Wednesday to second-degree ...
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Vancouver man charged with waving a gun aboard SkyTrain and at a station
A Vancouver man has been charged after allegedly waving a gun around on the SkyTrain and at a station. The charges involve two separate incidents that took place last ...
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Gallery Tour this year’s Calgary Stampede Dream Home
Year in and year out, the Dream Home, and the chance to win it, is one of the star attractions of the Calgary Stampede, The 2013 model was inspired by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Take a walk through it and also get a look at some of the other Stampede Lottery ...
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Gillian Shaw Twitter opening ‘global centre of excellence’ in Vancouver
Twitter is hiring computer science graduates for a "global centre of excellence" the social networking company is opening in Vancouver. ...
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Ottawa man makes life sweeter with vegan marshmallows
OTTAWA -- An Ottawa man is making the world a little bit sweeter for vegetarians and vegans by creating a marshmallow free of animal products.Fluffy, sugary marshmallows conjure nostalgia for James Bain, an Ottawa IT consultant and the maker of Charmallows."We all have memories of campfires and rice crisp treats, and marshmallows were kind of a part of that," he explains.But ...
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‘Something needs to be done’ Federal judge urges Ottawa to legislate ‘clearer’ citizenship rules
The Chief Justice of the Federal Court has made a highly unusual plea to the government, asking it to fix unclear citizenship requirements that kick some applicants out while welcoming others in, depending on which assessment is used. "This case is yet another example of why something needs to be done to address the unacceptable state of affairs concerning the test for citizenship in this ...
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Ontario egg case continues on
The state of the dispute between Canada's second largest egg grader and a former employee is still unclear months after the case was dismissed. The Ontario egg company was suing the employee for breach of contract and confidentiality while the employee was suing based on wrongful dismissal, a ...
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UPDATE 2-Vimpelcom unit drops bid to control Canadas Wind Mobile
Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:38pm EDT By Alastair Sharp TORONTO, June 19 (Reuters) - A subsidiary of European telecoms company Vimpelcom Ltd has withdrawn its bid to take control of Canada's Wind Mobile from its founder and chief executive, Anthony Lacavera, a surprise move that creates further uncertainty about the future of the upstart Canadian wireless company. Orascom Telecom, an Egyptian company ...
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Max Gartner longtime Alpine Canada official to leave post
Max Gartner lists his career highlights as the back-to-back world downhill titles captured by Canadian skiers John Kucera and Erik Guay. But there's also been drawbacks to being president and CEO of Alpine Canada -- with potentially more on the horizon. And on Wednesday, Gartner announced he was leaving Canada's national skiing organization after more than three decades. "An ...
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Soggy start to summer for B.C.
Johanna Wagstaffe . The showers will become more steady early Thursday morning, before the rain tapers back down to showers in the evening. In total, Vancouver can expect between 15 mm to 30 mm of rain. Temperatures at the Vancouver International Airport will also come down on Thursday to a high of just 16 C. It will be one of the coolest days in a while and, just in time for the start of ...
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RCMP identify remains found at Enoch Cree Nation
(Facebook) Rain, a Stony Plain resident, went missing March 12. An extensive search for Rain didn't turn up anything at the time, despite a social-media campaign and the involvement of Rain's family, who RCMP say were strong advocates in the search effort. Spruce Grove/Stony Plain RCMP were called to the reserve early Sunday after a resident reported animals had found human remains. ...
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10 Trump tweets what the man behind the hair has to say
U.S billionaire Donald Trump was in Vancouver today to lend his name to the city's first Trump Tower on West Georgia Street in the city's downtown core. Since he was renting out his name, CBC ...
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Obesity now recognized as a disease
In order to fight what it described as an "obesity epidemic," the American Medical Association has voted to recognize obesity as a disease and recommended a number of measures to fight it. The association voted on the measure Tuesday at its annual meeting in Chicago. The AMA noted that obesity rates in the United States have "doubled among adults in the last 20 years and tripled ...
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Jennifer Lawrence Nicholas Hoult Reuniting Former Couple Spends Time Together in Montreal
Actress Jennifer Lawrence from the film "Silver Linings Playbook" poses on arrival at the 2013 Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California January 10, ...
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Canadian Olympic Committee in Sochi plotting strategy for 2014 Games
The Olympic rings are seen in front of the airport of Sochi, the host city for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, February 18, 2013. (KAI ...
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Ottawa’s Shopify partners with Singapore telecom firm
The Next Web reports . Co-founder and CEO Tobias Ltke launched the e-commerce platform in 2006, enabling other companies to use it to create their own online stores. Shopify now has tens of thousands of customers in more than 80 countries. The deal with SingTel covers four countries: Singapore, India, Malaysia and Indonesia. Services in the first two are already online, with the latter two ...
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Crown argues woman who stabbed teen girl to death at Vancouver house party should serve eight years
Kamloops RCMP continue to investigate an alleged sexual assault they believe may have been caught on video camera during a wild high school grad party attended by more than 1,000 ...
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Kamloops RCMP fear witnesses photographed sex assault of teen at grad party
KAMLOOPS -- Mounties in Kamloops are investigating the alleged sexual assault of a teenager at a bush party attended by as many as 1,000 high school graduates.Police say the 17-year-old girl became separated from her friends, was approached by a male she didn't know and was taken into a wooded area where she was sexually assaulted on Tuesday night.When the teen arrived home from the party, ...
Montreal Digest
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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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