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Toronto mayor faces political test over crack allegations
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is facing his greatest political test following two reports that he is seen in a video apparently using crack cocaine. He called the accusations ...
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Top hockeynight tweets of the night
The Senators were hungry to tie up the series against the Penguins in Game 2 and hockey fans were tweeting along with the action. Ottawa put up a valiant effort but ultimately fell 4-3 to Pittsburgh. Here are some of the best tweets from Friday night's ...
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Knights best Blades in Memorial Cup opener
Knights left-winger Bo Horvat, right, and right-winger Seth Griffith celebrate a goal as Blades defenceman Dalton Thrower skates away in the first period during the Memorial Cup opener Friday night in Saskatoon. London scored a power-play goal in the third period to pull out a 3-2 win. (Liam Richards/Canadian ...
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Michael Phelps returning to competitive swimming report
Michael Phelps, who retired from competitive swimming at age 27 immediately after last summer's London Olympics, won 18 gold medals and 22 medals overall, more than any other Olympian. (Clive Rose/Getty ...
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Danielle Smith asks RCMP to investigate Sandhu
Wildrose Official Opposition Leader Danielle Smith has requested the RCMP conduct a criminal investigation into the actions of Edmonton-Manning MLA Peter Sandhu. Sandhu was at the centre of a CBC Investigation earlier this week when it was discovered that he owns a homebuilding company that's being pursued by creditors for not paying its debts. The CBC investigation also found that Sandhu ...
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Photos Classic $4.388M West Vancouver mansion
This Ambleside Tudor revival home features four bedrooms, two full and three half bathrooms, an outdoor pool, landscaped gardens, chef's kitchen and media/games room. The 5,634-sq-ft mansion sits on 0.56 acres that includes a trout and salmon-bearing ...
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Vancouver boosts investment in local social enterprise
Heather O’Hara, executive director of the Potluck Cafe Society at the Potluck Cafe and Catering business on Hastings St. in Vancouver on May 16, 2013. The City of Vancouver approved a plan this week to grant the society $80,000 to be used to support the growth and success of other social enterprise ...
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Ontario cottage country cleans up after severe flooding
Instead of kicking back on the dock this weekend, Stan Tick and his family are going to try to fix theirs. And pick up the flotsam and jetsam, including massive logs, that have been deposited on the lawn of their Lake Vernon property."It was very - I'm not going to say scary, because you're used to the conditions - this was really quite out of the ordinary," said Mr. Tick, ...
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Canadian PM to visit Peru Colombia to enhance economic ties
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper will pay a four-day visit to Peru and Colombia next week to enhance economic relations with South American countries.Senior officials of the Prime Minister's Office said at a news briefing that Harper will meet with leaders, representatives from the private sector and Canadians who are helping to increase economic prosperity, reinforce democratic ...
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Sidney Crosbys hat trick lifts Pens past Senators in Game 2
Pittsburgh Penguins' Sidney Crosby, centre, celebrates with teammate Pascal Dupuis during first period of Game 2 in Pittsburgh on Friday, May 17, 2013. (Gene J. Puskar/The Associated ...
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Sharks GM jumps to Raffi Torress defence
San Jose Sharks forward Raffi Torres was suspended for the rest of his team's second-round series vs. the Los Angeles Kings. (Christian Petersen/Getty ...
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Don Cherry disagrees with Raffi Torres suspension
Sharks forward Raffi Torres, who is barred from the remainder of his team's second-round playoff series against Los Angeles, is a marked man who does stupid things to upset the NHL, says Don Cherry. (Christian Petersen/Getty ...
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Keegan Bradley still in command at Byron Nelson
Keegan Bradley hits a shot during the second round of the Byron Nelson Championship at the TPC Four Seasons Resort on Friday in Irving, Tx. (Tom Pennington/Getty ...
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Mall owner sues Slave Lake and its fire department
A company is suing the province, the town of Slave Lake and its fire department for $3 million in damages caused by fire crews battling the wildfire that ripped through the community in May 2011. Sawridge Plaza Corporation owns the Slave Lake Shopping Centre, one of more than 400 buildings destroyed or damaged in the fire. In a statement of claim, the company says the town and fire service ...
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Mosquitoes arrive just in time for long weekend
Just in time for the long weekend, the mosquitoes have arrived in force. CBC's Brandy Yanchyk spoke with the city's resident mosquito expert Mike Jenkins about what Edmontonians can expect from the bloodsuckers this ...
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Taxpayers Federation outraged after acupuncturists alleged fraud
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is outraged that a Richmond, B.C. acupuncturist was able to allegedly defraud the province's Medical Services Plan for years. Mubai ...
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Cynthia Vanier began plotting Saadi Gaddafi’s escape in early 2011 SNC-Lavalin
MONTREAL - A court document filed by SNC-Lavalin alleges that a Canadian mediator and the bodyguard to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son began planning the son's escape from Libya as early as February 2011. And Canada was their first choice of destination in the early days of the uprising against the Gaddafi regime. "The plan in the beginning before your involvement was to try to get ...
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The Lede Long Before Crack Cocaine Allegations Toronto Mayor Was a Source of Controversy
angrily dismissed allegations on Friday that he had used crack cocaine in a 90-second cellphone video that is being peddled to United States and Canadian news organizations for more than ...
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MPs hear about RCMP harassment at Vancouver community meeting
5/17/2013 Members of the RCMP and the community gathered at Vancouver’s Jericho Sailing Centre on Friday to speak to politicians about harassment within the force. "There's a number of people who have stepped forward," says MP Joyce Murray, "and said there's a systematic culture that is undermining respectful treatment in the workplace, whether it's ...
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Pedestrian struck killed by Via train
A VIA Rail passenger train pulls into the Cobourg station in the file photo. (QMI Agency/JEFF GARD) CHATHAM, ONT. - Ontario's police watchdog agency has been called in after a man was struck and killed by a Via Rail train while police looked for him. The Special Investigations Unit said Friday that Chatham-Kent police were investigating a man who made his way to the rail tracks just after ...
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Man held vulerable girl in invisible chains teen pimp trial told
Monday, May 6, 2013: Jamie Byron, 23, is charged with human trafficking, assault, living off the avails of prostitution of a person under 18 with the use of violence, intimidation or coercion. He has pleaded not guilty. Laurie Foster-MacLeod/Ottawa Sun OTTAWA - The girl who says Jamie Byron beat her and pimped her out to more than 100 men when she was just 17 ...
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No more boring politics Canada’s moved on to cynical contempt
I was always quite proud of the Canadian political system during the time I lived in Britain, especially when their Parliament was mired in some scandal involving Rupert Murdoch or the cleaning of ancestral moats.When anyone asked about politics back home, which was not often, I would bore them with stories of peace, order and good government until their eyes glazed over and they reached for ...
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Toronto Mayor Blames Newspaper For Cocaine Video
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in a photograph taken last September. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford responded on Friday to a video that purports to show him smoking crack cocaine, calling it "ridiculous." According ...
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It Is The “may Long” And It Could Only Happen In Canada.
long weekend holiday into National Patriot's Day, honouring the 1837 "rebellions" in both Upper and Lower Canada. (Well, maybe just the Quebec part.) In LOWER CANADA, or now Quebec, the rebellion was in large part an expression of a resurgent FRENCH CANADIAN NATIONALISM. The French Canadian majority constituted the overwhelming majority in the locally elected Assembly established ...
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Mark Oldershaw reaches C1 1000 final at canoe event
Canada's Mark Oldershaw, shown here, won Friday's Canoe Sprint World Cup semifinal in four minutes 5.8 seconds. Nova Scotia's Ben Russell also qualified for the final. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian ...
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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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