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| American deserter is deported |
| 2008-07-16 08:32:00 |
A U.S. Army deserter who fled to Canada three years ago has been deported to America to face possible court martial or a return trip to Iraq.
The Canada Border Services Agency confirmed Tuesday that Robin Long was removed from British Columbia. He claimed refugee status in Canada, saying he didn't want to take part in an "illegal war of aggression" in Iraq.
Sarah Bjorknas, a co-ordinator for ...
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| Vancouver enduring power outage for 3rd day |
| 2008-07-16 08:29:00 |
A massive power blackout in Vancouver's downtown core that left residents and hotel guests in the dark and shut down local businesses was expected to stretch into a third day for some customers.
The power went out Monday morning when a fire in an underground vault knocked out electricity for more than 2,000 B.C. Hydro customers, about a quarter of the city's downtown.
Only half of the affected ...
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| Woman dies after stepping on caterpillars |
| 2008-07-16 08:25:00 |
A Canadian woman who had travelled to South America last year died 10 days after stepping, barefoot, on venomous caterpillars, a team of Edmonton doctors reported Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Her case should be a cautionary tale for people embarking on exotic trips to far-flung places, her doctors and others suggest. "Obviously the more exotic we get in where we ...
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| Cheerleaders internet photos get loose |
| 2008-07-15 08:01:00 |
Salacious photographs of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers cheerleaders were posted Monday on the internet, leaving the team scrambling to protect its reputation.
The photographs showed members of the Blue Lightning squad posing provocatively in various stages of undress - some of them in their cheerleading outfits.
In one photo, a cheerleader is mooning the camera on Parliament Hill in Ottawa; several...
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| Ex-soldier risks eviction over Canadian flag |
| 2008-07-15 07:59:00 |
An ex-serviceman refuses to take down the Canadian flag on his balcony in a subsidized housing unit in Cardinal, Ont., even though the local housing authority is threatening to evict him.
Mark Murray, 53, served with the Royal Canadian Regiment and the Canadian Airborne Regiment in the 1970s and 1980s.
He lives in the Seaway Apartments, which are operated by the community housing authority in ...
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| Downtown Vancouver suffering power outage |
| 2008-07-15 07:57:00 |
Much of Vancouver's downtown core will be without power until at least Tuesday morning, after a circuit fire on Monday forced office buildings and businesses to shut their doors for the day.
The underground fire in a hydro circuit occurred at around 9 a.m. on Monday, killing power in the eastern half of the city. While power has been restored in many places, B.C. Hydro spokeswoman Susan Danard ...
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| Mosquito population higher than last year |
| 2008-07-14 09:53:00 |
Mosquitoes and Canadian summers go hand-in-hand, but those who feel their hands have been busier than usual slapping away the pesky insects aren't imagining things.
Experts across the country say there has been a recent surge in the mosquito population, thanks to large amounts of rain a few weeks ago. But part of the perception the mosquitoes are out in droves is also due to a delayed season.
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| Quebec courts shuts down torrent site |
| 2008-07-11 09:37:00 |
Quebec Superior Court ordered the permanent shutdown Wednesday of the popular downloading website QuebecTorrent, where members exchanged music, TV episodes and films. The injunction, the first of its kind in Quebec, is a victory for the music and movie industries, whose profits have dropped because of illegal downloading. Solange Drouin, director general of Quebec's music, video and concert ...
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| Analysts: iPhone waste of money |
| 2008-07-11 09:34:00 |
Apple's iPhone seems to be the smartphone that consumers long to have, but analysts say it's aimed at a niche market and spending on the phone may not live up to its buzz. Canadians will finally get a chance to buy the mobile phone that lets users play music, watch video, surf the Internet and check email when it rolls out Friday after hype and a price controversy. Exclusive Canadian carrier ...
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| Chinese man 'confesses' to murdering Canadian model |
| 2008-07-11 09:32:00 |
An 18-year-old has confessed to killing a Canadian model in Shanghai, saying he had followed her from the street into her apartment with the aim of robbing her, police said Friday.Chen Jun admitted to the killing within hours of his arrest Friday in the city of Xuancheng in the eastern province of Anhui, 300 kilometres (190 miles) from Shanghai, according to a Shanghai police statement. Diana ...
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| Air Canada plans massive layoffs |
| 2008-07-10 14:07:00 |
Air Canada is laying off 632 flight attendants in Vancouver, Winnipeg and Halifax as it cuts capacity in November due to rising fuel costs. The union representing flight attendants was informed of the job cuts Wednesday during a meeting in Toronto. The move comes after Canada's largest airline announced plans to cut its capacity by seven per cent and lay off 2,000 employees. The decrease...
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| Police eliminating potential victims of missing feet |
| 2008-07-10 14:05:00 |
Investigators say two of the five feet that have washed up on the shores of British Columbia belonged to the same person, but the identify of that person - and all the others - remains a mystery. Police say they're reviewing all missing persons files, including 243 men and 159 women, and have eliminated 130 missing men so far. They say there is no evidence of wrongdoing and it appears they ...
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| Health Canada issues warning over morphine |
| 2008-07-10 08:36:00 |
Health Canada is warning against the use of some dosages of the prescription drug ratio-Morphine SR, saying the pills may contain more morphine than the label indicates. The department warns that people who use the pills could be at risk of an accidental overdose. The dosages covered by the warning are the 15 milligram, 30 milligram and 60 milligram formats. Health Canada says tablets ...
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| Woman victim of 'parking rage' in Vancouver |
| 2008-07-10 08:34:00 |
Vancouver police are looking for two men who allegedly attacked a woman with a prosthetic leg during a dispute over a parking spot for people with disabilities.
Susan, who didn't want her last name published, was trying to park in a space for people with disabilities outside a London Drugs on Davie Street in the west end on Canada Day, Const. Tim Fanning said Wednesday. Two muscular, able-bodied...
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| Edmonton cops guilty of assault |
| 2008-07-09 09:29:00 |
Staff Sgt. Jamie Ewatski and Patrol Sgt. Giovanni Fiorilli were both convicted of assault, while a third officer, Sgt. Terry Briscoe, was found not guilty.
The convictions relate to an incident on Dec. 2, 2004, when officers acted on a tip and went to a house in Edmonton's north end, in an attempt to arrest a man who had 17 outstanding warrants.
The man was staying at the home of his uncle. He ...
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| Wayne Winsor charged in latest road rage fatality |
| 2008-07-09 09:27:00 |
Police said a 55-year-old man was killed on a stretch of Canada's busiest highway in Ontario early Tuesday after he and another driver engaged in a high-speed game of cat and mouse that ended with a "deliberate" act of road rage.
Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Cam Woolley said information from witnesses and evidence collected at the scene left no doubt that the fatality was caused by a drawn-out...
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| University launches cybercrime centre |
| 2008-07-09 09:23:00 |
Simon Fraser University launched an International Cybercrime Research Centre on Tuesday, saying child pornography will be its first target with a type of "good virus" that scours systems with the tenacity of a chomping Pac Man character.
"In the same way that a bad virus works by infecting machines, by hunting for certain symbols, so a good virus can operate in much the same way," said the ...
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| Protesters get off scot free, fines dismissed |
| 2008-07-08 08:39:00 |
There was no reason to "bring down the hammer" on seven aboriginals who were incarcerated and fined after protesting against mining projects in their communities, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled Monday in calling the six-month sentences "too harsh." Six members of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation served almost 10 weeks in jail, while Ardoch Algonquin First Nation leader Bob ...
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| Saskatoon Zoo welcomes 2 new Bengal tiger cubs |
| 2008-07-08 08:35:00 |
Two rare, white Bengal tiger cubs are the latest attraction at the Saskatoon zoo.
Staff named the baby tigers Jasmine and Jafar after they were born on May 31. Their mother, Rani, was unable to nurse the pair, so zookeepers have taken over feeding and caring for the tiny cats.
They are now on display in the Children's Zoo section of the Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park and Zoo.
Zoo manager John ...
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| Canadian model found dead in Shanghai |
| 2008-07-08 08:32:00 |
The body of a young British Columbia model has been found near Shanghai in what Chinese police are reportedly a treating as a homicide.
Diana Gabrielle O'Brien, 22, of Salt Spring Island had been working for one of China's leading modelling agencies since mid-June. RCMP were asked to notify O'Brien's family on Salt Spring Island, located between Vancouver Island and the B.C. mainland, by the ...
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| Canadians using Internet to download ... tv shows |
| 2008-07-07 10:22:00 |
Canadians are turning on, tuning in and watching traditional TV shows on the Internet often using underground ways to access American programming, says a new study.
There's less online content available from Canadian broadcasters than is available from U.S. broadcasters, study author Alan Sawyer said Friday.
The lack of available content is resulting in Canadians using underground activity on ...
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| Canadian director turns to Internet for film funding |
| 2008-07-07 10:20:00 |
Canadian television director Casey Walker has dreamed for years of making a romantic comedy for the big screen, but the thought of pleading for government grants or going broke to make the movie wasn't terribly appealing.
So Walker, 32, who directs the YTV kids' reality show "Adrenaline Project," has come up with an innovative way to raise funds for his movie - he's selling future frames of the ...
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| Daycare worker acquitted of charges |
| 2008-07-04 11:41:00 |
Sandra Davidson, 32, was acquitted Thursday on all charges in what was known as the shaken baby case, with Quebec Judge Jean-Pierre Bonin ruling there were sufficient reasonable doubts about the facts.
Davidson was accused of shaking the baby boy when he was 10 months old and under her watch at her daycare in Anjou, a northeast Montreal borough. She denies having shaken the child on Aug. 6, 2004...
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| Searchers find Andrew Koch's body |
| 2008-07-04 11:38:00 |
Divers will attempt to recover a body spotted Thursday night in North Vancouver's Lynn Creek by a group searching for Andrew Koch.
The missing 26-year-old man was swept into the fast-moving creek Sunday, and the RCMP suspended their search Tuesday, after they decided the water was too dangerous.
Koch’s friends continued the search on their own, and one of them spotted a body with an underwater ...
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| Calgary to be home of biggest Muslim mosque |
| 2008-07-04 11:35:00 |
A small Muslim community opens Canada's largest mosque this weekend, a state-of-the-art facility to serve as a both a place for prayer and base for adherents to reach out to this booming city.
Just 3,000 people make up the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the oil-industry hub of Calgary. But their leaders expect numbers to grow quickly, prompting the need for the 48,000 square foot (4,460 square ...
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| Durham police bust up Pickering grow op |
| 2008-07-03 16:07:00 |
Durham police busted a marijuana grow operation in Pickering on Thursday.
Police found the plants after investigating neighbours' complaints about suspicious activity at a home on Valley Farm Road.
"When they entered [the house] they located 900 marijuana plants in various stages of growth, as well as over $50,000 [worth] of growing equipment. And they also found that the electricity was ...
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| Cisco contest leaves out Quebec ... and Iran |
| 2008-07-03 14:02:00 |
It seems as though the network equipment giant doesn't like being strong-armed by Canada's French-speaking province. And I can't say that I blame them ... in either language.
Perhaps you've read of Cisco's I-Prize contest. In a nutshell, the best idea for a company wins a bunch of money and the entrepreneur gets taken under a big-time corporate wing. No surprise to see more than 1,100 entries, ...
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| Ontario to cover the 'expensive' cancer drugs |
| 2008-07-03 07:55:00 |
After months of lobbying by cancer patients who went into debt and fundraised so they could spend tens of thousands of dollars on an approved drug that could potentially save their lives, Health Minister David Caplan announced Wednesday that Ontario will now start paying for Avastin to treat colorectal cancer.
The government has earmarked $30 million to fund Avastin as a "first-line" therapy for...
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| Crazy woman holds up Vancouver bridge traffic |
| 2008-07-03 07:50:00 |
The Vancouver Police Department shut down the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, which spans Burrard Inlet, linking the city and the North Shore, for six hours beginning around 1 p.m. on Canada Day.
The decision came after a woman police described as distraught was spotted on the bridge.
"The measures we took yesterday were absolutely necessary in guaranteeing the safety of the woman...
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| Fires forces evacuation in Saskatchewan |
| 2008-07-02 08:13:00 |
Fire officials in Saskatchewan have now either evacuated or are planning to evacuate more than 1,100 residents due to forest fires in the province.
Around 130 people have already left their homes and another 40 are expected to do so in Black Lake, about 30 kilometres east of where a fire has already forced more than 200 from their homes in Stony Rapids near the province's northern boundary.
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| Lethbridge declares state of emergency |
| 2008-07-02 08:10:00 |
Lethbridge declared a state of emergency after a sudden rainstorm blew off manhole covers and flooded basements in the southern Alberta city on Tuesday.
More than 45 millimetres of rain fell in about 90 minutes in the afternoon, overwhelming storm systems in the city, about 200 kilometres south of Calgary.
"It looks like ... what caused it was quite an intense upper low moving from northwest to...
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| Edmonton jail goes into lockdown |
| 2008-07-02 08:07:00 |
An inmate at the maximum-security Edmonton Institution was shot and seven others stabbed Tuesday in what officials are calling a gang ambush.
About 50 inmates were out for their daily outdoor recreation time when one group was suddenly jumped.
"What we believe to be two rival gangs squared off in the big recreation yard," said Kevin Grabowsky, president of the Prairies region of the Union of ...
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| Court wipes out damages in Honda case |
| 2008-06-27 14:39:00 |
The Supreme Court of Canada has wiped out a $500,000 punitive damages award against Honda of Canada in what had been a landmark wrongful-dismissal suit.
The award had been the biggest ever handed down in Canadian employment law history. But the justices said the award was a mistake.
In a 7-2 decision, justices said lower courts were wrong in awarding punitive damages to Kevin Keays, a chronic ...
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| Brother also charged in murder of Aqsa Parvez |
| 2008-06-27 14:38:00 |
A 27-year-old Mississauga, Ont., man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with his teenaged sister's death last year.
Aqsa Parvez, 16, was strangled to death in December 2007 and her 57-year-old father Muhammad Parvez was charged with first-degree murder after allegedly telling police he killed her.
The teen's friends said she had feared for her safety in the days leading up ...
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| Bell Sympatico: throttling has not solved the problem |
| 2008-06-26 10:39:00 |
Bell Canada has made public "confidential" data about the number of congested links on its network, data designed to show that P2P use was so bad that throttling was necessary. Bell's deep packet inspection-based throttling regime doesn't appear to be doing much for local loop congestion; in fact, it's actually gotten worse. Backbone congestion, though, has improved.
The Canadian ...
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| Military display scares Charlottetown residents |
| 2008-06-26 10:16:00 |
A group of soldiers marching in full combat uniform and carrying guns has raised some eyebrows in the well-to-do Brighton neighbourhood of Charlottetown.About six members of the 721 Communication Regiment have been practicing for their army battle efficiency test near their compound on Brighton Road for the past few weeks. "We're not trying to scare the neighbours but we like people to actually ...
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| Government sues government, taxpayers lose |
| 2008-06-26 09:57:00 |
The information and privacy commissioner of Newfoundland and Labrador has filed lawsuits against two provincial government departments for not following his office's recommendations.Commissioner Ed Ring told CBC News Wednesday that he started legal action against the Public Service Secretariat in May, and the Department of Transportation and Works in June, for not releasing requested information ...
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| David Reiner arrested at airport |
| 2008-06-26 09:48:00 |
A Toronto accountant who allegedly stole about $800,000 from daycare centres is due in court Thursday after being arrested Wednesday night. A local television station is reporting that David Reiner, 61 was taken into custody after stepping off a plane at Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Police issued a warrant for Reiner's arrest in February 2007, when he was believed to be living in...
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| Erectile herbal drugs not safe |
| 2008-06-25 11:08:00 |
Health Canada is advising consumers not to use several Chinese herbal products sold as treatment for erectile or sexual dysfunction. The department warns that the products contain drugs that can only be sold in Canada under a prescription. The products are: Nangen Zengzhangsu (may also be known as Nangen or Nangeng); Sanbianwan; Jiu Bian Wang; Tian Huang Gu Shen Dan; Zui Xian Dan Gong Shi Zi...
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| Rising number of caesareans worry doctors |
| 2008-06-25 11:07:00 |
The rate of caesarean births is at an all-time high in Canada, putting more women at risk for complications and increasing the strain on an already overburdened health-care system, says the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. More than one in four newborns in Canada are now delivered by C-section, says the SOGC, which is looking for ways to halt and reverse that upward trend. "The ...
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