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• Thousands scrambling as Halifax transit workers go on strike

  
  Toronto Star | TheStar.com — Authority: 797
  The 96,000 people who use Halifax’s transit system will be looking for other ways to get around today after last-minute talks with the city failed.
  22 hours ago

• Firebombs left ‘no choice,’ homeowner tells gun trial

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 142
  WELLAND • Ian Thomson was jolted awake at 6:37 a.m. by the sound of explosions; outside his secluded farmhouse, three masked men were hurling fire bombs at his house while one bellowed: “Are you ready to die?” Mr. Thomson was not. A former firearms instructor, he instead called out a warning, took one of his ...
  2 days ago

• Somali community still uneasy about violence

  
  Somali Breaking News & Video Community — Authority: 116
  Edmonton may still be murder-free so far in 2012, but that is little comfort to the leader of the city’s Somali community.Four [...]
  4 days ago

• Milk possibly tainted with cleaning solution recalled

  
  Toronto Star | TheStar.com — Authority: 797
  At least one person has been sickened after drinking Neilson Trutaste 2 per cent milk. The milk, sold in Ontario and Quebec, may not look or smell spoiled.
  6 days ago

• Weather Network HD as Popular as the Weather Itself

  
  ChrisD.ca — Authority: 475
  Posted by Sarah Klein WINNIPEG — If you’re a weather fanatic and a Shaw Cable subscriber in Winnipeg, you may just have to wait a little while longer to enjoy The Weather Network in high-definition. The Pelmorex Media-owned broadcaster flipped the switch on its HD signal last May and has been offering weather ...
  1 week ago

• I fear my homeland: Ocean Lady claimant tells IRB

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 142
  Adrian Lam / Postmedia News files A RCMP investigator boards the Ocean Lady at Ogden Point in Victoria in 2009. Toronto • More than two years after the smuggling ship MV Ocean Lady arrived off the West Coast carrying 76 Sri Lankan asylum seekers, the first public hearing to determine whether to accept them as ...
  1 week ago

• The Forks Named ‘Canada’s Best Public Space’

  
  ChrisD.ca — Authority: 475
  The Forks has been named Canada’s Best Public Space by the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) in the first annual Great Places in Canada contest. The downtown Winnipeg meeting place is a popular year-round tourist destination, making it one of the most busiest places in the city. Six-thousand nominations helped ...
  2 weeks ago

• Haitian-born killer denied parole in aboriginal hearing

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 142
  Courtesy of Manning Family Tara Manning was murdered on May 5, 1994. By Gabrielle Giroday WINNIPEG — A Montreal man who came to Winnipeg to attend an aboriginal-style parole hearing said the man convicted of killing his daughter was not granted day parole. Michael Manning, 57, was in the city Wednesday to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Russell Williams’ wife files defence in lawsuit by husband’s victim

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 142
  By Meghan Hurley OTTAWA — The wife of convicted sex killer Russell Williams has filed a statement of defence against a lawsuit launched by one of her husband’s sexual assault victims. “We’re vigorously defending any claim against her,” said Mary Jane Binks, the lawyer representing Mary Elizabeth Harriman. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Victoria virtually shut down by 10 to 20 centimetres of snow

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 142
  Short of snowplows, snow tires and even galoshes, Victoria was virtually shut down Wednesday after being hit by a mere 10 to 20 centimetres of snow. The snow would be little more than a nuisance anywhere else in Canada, but the temperate B.C. capital habitually experiences winters with almost no snow at all. In ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ottawa’s lending out judge, prostitute for chats as part of its ‘Human Library’ program

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 142
  Instead of a book, patrons of Ottawa’s city libraries will have a chance to check out a stripper, a prostitute, a Somali refugee, a judge, an HIV-positive man, a Peking Opera performer, a woman born as a man, a police officer or a bipolar man as part of a Human Library program. Billed as “real people, real ...
  2 weeks ago

• B.C. woman’s pet goose faces euthanasia after being taken by wildlife authorities: Q&A

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 142
  Diane Vander Wiel has barely slept in the week since conservation authorities drove onto her Fort St. James, B.C., property, jammed her pet Canada goose into a cage and drove away. She’s been frantic with worry about Lucy, whom she rescued almost three years ago as a baby chick and raised on her hobby farm. Ms. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shafia murder trial hears final witness

  
  Toronto Star | TheStar.com — Authority: 797
  The Shafia murder trial moved one step close to completion Wednesday morning as the defence rested and lawyers begin to prepare their closing statements.
  2 weeks ago

• Accused spy Jeffrey Paul Delisle was likely under investigation for some time: expert

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 142
  By Douglas Quan Sometime during the 2008-09 school year at the distinguished Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ont., Jeffrey Paul Delisle donned the Navy’s standard black and white uniform for a portrait that would appear in the school’s yearbook. Pinned over his left breast pocket was a Canadian ...
  2 weeks ago

• B.C. First Nation cancels pipeline deal with Enbridge

  
  Toronto Star | TheStar.com — Authority: 797
  British Columbia’s Gitxsan Nation has rescinded its agreement with Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline.
  2 weeks ago

• Supreme Court may level the legal field for Quebec common-law couples

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 142
  By Tobi Cohen OTTAWA — After 30 years of debate, change may be in the offing in Quebec — where estranged common-law couples have long had significantly fewer spousal support rights than their counterparts elsewhere in the country. Short of any legislative changes to Quebec’s civil code, the Supreme Court of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Disney XD and Real Sports Channels Launch on Xbox Canada

  
  Gametactics.com Latest Articles — Authority: 112
  Hot off the heels of CES, Xbox is kicking off 2012 with new entertainment app launches. Building upon an expansive catalog of live and on-demand TV shows, movies, sports and music and continuing to...
  2 weeks ago

• Man Marries Dead Girlfriend

  
  f3v3r — Authority: 431
  Pin it A man recently married his deceased girlfriend in a combination funeral and wedding ceremony. Chadil Deffy, also known as Deff Yingyuen, placed a ring on the finger of Sarinya “Anne” Kamsook, his girlfriend of 10 years, during the ceremony in Thailand’s Surin province. The couple had planned to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Poll: Liberal support climbing with Bob Rae

  
  Toronto Star | TheStar.com — Authority: 797
  A new Forum Research polls found an increase in federal Liberal support and a high approval rating for interim Liberal leader Bob Rae.
  2 weeks ago

• Ottawa looks to Asia after U.S. rejects Keystone pipeline project

  
  Toronto Star | TheStar.com — Authority: 797
  The federal government says it will renew efforts to ship Canadian oil to Asian markets after the White House rejected plans for a $7 billion pipeline to move Alberta crude into the U.S.
  2 weeks ago

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