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Top Stories: Toronto, Dec 5 (IANS) A 23-year-old Indian student in Canada has been jailed for 42 months for causing a death in street racing here two years ago. IANS Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:50:02 -0500A brawl early today inside a Grand Island hotel involved visitors for a youth hockey tournament led to Erie County sheriff's deputies arresting three Ontario men. WKBW Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:27:54 -0500THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Vancouver police are investigating a suspected gang stabbing. Just before midnight Friday, police found 26-year-old Anthony Ayon in a parking lot with a st... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:06:46 -0500A 14-year-old girl has been missing with her roommate's baby boy since Friday evening. Odessa McCormick left her highrise apartment at 720 Tretheway Dr. with 10-month-old Kamren Cunningham, between 7... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:03:51 -0500Phil Kessel returns Saturday night to Boston, where the high-scoring Leafs forward says he felt "a little restricted" prior to his controversial departure from the Bruins. (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 6:30 p.m... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:03:43 -0500Guilt can be a positive motivator if it comes in reasonable, bite-sized pieces. Look at the Calgary Flames, who were a bit ashamed at coming up with just a single goal in Phoenix on Thursday, failing... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:03:42 -0500Tax police in Italy have seized a secret stash of masterpieces, said to be worth $150 million US, from the founder of the collapsed dairy conglomerate Parmalat. Police in the city of Parma, located a... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:03:39 -0500RCMP have stepped up their presence in the Cape Breton community of Chapel Island after an outbreak of violence Friday, following an acquittal in a murder trial. Logan Curtis Paul, 21, was found not ... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:03:36 -0500Phil Kessel returns Saturday night to Boston, where the high-scoring Leafs forward says he felt "a little restricted" prior to his controversial departure from the Bruins. (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 6:30 p.m... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:03:34 -0500A bloody protest was held at the farmer's market in Dieppe, N.B., Saturday morning to bring attention to the plight of family farms in the province. Jean Eudes Chiasson, the president of the National... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:03:34 -0500The Vancouver Canucks have dominated the first two opponents on their road trip. A meeting with the NHL-worst Carolina Hurricanes should enable them to keep up that strong play. Vancouver looks for i... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:03:32 -0500Guilt can be a positive motivator if it comes in reasonable, bite-sized pieces. Look at the Calgary Flames, who were a bit ashamed at coming up with just a single goal in Phoenix on Thursday, failing... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:03:32 -0500A massive search is underway for Kamren Cunninghan, who Toronto Police said was taken by his teen babysitter, Odessa McCormick. A 10-month-old boy has now been missing for more than 12 hours after bei... C News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:03:15 -0500Anna-Consuelo Valencia-Russo. The Toronto schoolteacher missing since Tuesday was found dead in the trunk of her car on Thursday night outside an apartment building on in the city's north end. Vancouver Sun Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:02:36 -0500The Conservative government is set to slash millions of dollars in funding to Alternatives, a Montreal-based nongovernmental organization associated with a number of left-leaning causes and which has ... National Post Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:01:57 -0500Anna-Consuelo Valencia-Russo. The Toronto schoolteacher missing since Tuesday was found dead in the trunk of her car on Thursday night outside an apartment building on in the city's north end. Windsor Star Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:49:23 -0500MONTREAL – Overheard on the way into a Montreal conference on sex addiction and cybersex: "Oh, sex addiction, what's wrong with that?" It's a joke sexual addiction therapist Dr. Stefanie C... The Gazette Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:49:22 -0500Anna-Consuelo Valencia-Russo. The Toronto schoolteacher missing since Tuesday was found dead in the trunk of her car on Thursday night outside an apartment building on in the city's north end. Canada.com Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:48:41 -0500Felix Loch of Germany won his first World Cup luge event and his teammates won the doubles race on Saturday in Altenburg, Germany. Loch's two-run total was one minute 48.91 seconds, followed by Armin... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:40:53 -0500Authorities in Mexico have arrested two people in the slaying of a Toronto French teacher last summer. Connie Valencia-Russo's body was found in the trunk of her car behind a north Toronto apartment ... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:40:53 -0500Brenden Morrow can't be blamed for the Dallas Stars' inconsistent performances offensively over the last two weeks. He certainly deserves much of the credit for their past success against the Edmonton... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:40:46 -0500Felix Loch of Germany won his first World Cup luge event and his teammates won the doubles race on Saturday in Altenburg, Germany. Loch's two-run total was one minute 48.91 seconds, followed by Armin... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:40:45 -0500Violence erupted in a Winnipeg neighbourhood around midnight Friday night leaving two people dead from gunshot wounds and a third person in hospital. "We had three victims who all received a gunshot ... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:40:42 -0500MONTREAL -- About 10 residents of a downtown commercial-residential building in Montreal were evacuated Friday evening as firefighters battled a five-alarm blaze.About 100 firefighters, along with 21 ... Canada.com Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:40:16 -0500Brian HutchinsonThe Crown in B.C. has decided to go easy on Benjamin “Monty” Robinson, the RCMP corporal who downed some beers at a party last year and then ploughed his Jeep into a 21-year-old mo... National Post Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:37:56 -0500Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, and his wife Laureen survey the Shanghai skyline, including the Pearl Tower in the background, Dec. 5, 2009. National Post Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:33:18 -0500We have listened to your feedback and are making some changes. We now require everyone to create a unique display name that will be shown when you leave a comment. This display name can not be chang... The Globe and Mail Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:05:16 -0500(Sports Network) - It appears that Phil Kessel was worth the wait for the Toronto Maple Leafs. The streaking forward will face his former team, the Boston Bruins, for the first time this evening in a ... SportsNetwork Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:38:37 -0500VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 5, 2009) - On the heels of the controversial story about emails and data stolen by hackers from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Angl... Market Wire Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:34:29 -0500JUNIOR MINING JavaScript Tag // Tag for network 658: United Stations // Website: Mineweb.com // Page: Mineweb - ROS - Junior Mining // Placement: Mineweb - ROS - Junior Mining ROS Button 160X35 (125... Mine Web Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:34:27 -0500World champion Evan Lysacek won the Grand Prix final Saturday, becoming the second straight American to capture the figure skating title. Lysacek, who was second entering the free skate, received a s... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:19:02 -0500Chinese teams claimed the top two spots in the pairs competition at the ISU Grand Prix final in Tokyo. Shen Xue and Hongbo Zhao took the gold medal with a total score of 214.25 points after winning b... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:19:01 -0500Follow the money. It's the oldest rule in journalism.It usually explains the virtuous rhetoric that sometimes emanates from the mouths of politicians and lobbyists. You dress up crass self-interest in... Edmonton Journal Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:17:37 -0500L AKE LOUISE, Alberta — Blood pouring from her mouth, Lindsey Vonn sped through a snowfall Friday to win a World Cup downhill on this course for the sixth time in six years. Vonn said her knee ... Boston Herald Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:08:00 -0500VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- 12/05/09 -- On the heels of the controversial story about emails and data stolen by hackers from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, it has now ... Earth Times Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:07:44 -0500MONTREAL – A public presentation hosted by a local advocacy group Saturday evening will focus on former U.S. president George W. Bush and former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney in connection with th... The Gazette Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:06:50 -0500OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada's economy added far more jobs than expected in November, more than erasing the losses in October and suggesting stronger fourth-quarter growth as predicted by the... Yahoo! News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:41:49 -0500Canadian biologists are in the United States trying to prevent a large, hungry, and invasive fish from making its way into the Great Lakes, where it could threaten native species and cost the fishing ... CTV Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:12:43 -0500Canadian biologists are in the United States trying to prevent a large, hungry, and invasive fish from making its way into the Great Lakes, where it could threaten native species and cost the fishing ... CTV Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:08:49 -0500Nobody took Marc Lépine seriously at first, when he walked into a classroom at the École Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989, and interrupted an engineering student's presentation on heat transfer. CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:58:33 -0500Prime Minister Stephen Harper today visited the site of the Canada Pavilion for Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Accompanied by Mark H. Rowswell, Commissioner General for Canada at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, the Pr... Prime Minister's Office Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:55:58 -0500SHANGHAI, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai Party chief Yu Zhengsheng met here Saturday with visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, vowing to take the opportunity of the Shanghai World Expo to upg... SINA Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:19:27 -0500Mother Nature isn't letting up. Yesterday it was wind and snow wreaking havoc on city streets, causing at least 172 crashes -- and today the cold front moves in. Temperatures are expected to plumm... C News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:38:20 -0500Mother Nature isn't letting up. Yesterday it was wind and snow wreaking havoc on city streets, causing at least 172 crashes -- and today the cold front moves in. Temperatures are expected to plumm... C News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:38:17 -0500OTTAWA -- A consortium of Manitoba researchers believes their quest to make medical isotopes for Canada got a boost this week in a report recommending solutions to the medical isotope shortage.The Pra... Canada.com Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:38:08 -0500The head of a Manitoba child-welfare agency that has been plagued with child deaths in recent years has been suspended pending a review of his operation. Canada.com Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:38:06 -0500Steve McIntyre, 62, is a Toronto retiree. He plays squash, dabbles with numbers and insists he never set out to stir up any trouble. So why does his name appear again and again - in the most unflatter... Canada.com Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:38:04 -0500EDMONTON -- At least one Conservative member of Alberta's legislative assembly believes government members shouldn't be paid $12,000 a year for work on secretive committees.Battle River-Wainwright mem... Canada.com Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:38:03 -0500A conniving thief picked an 81-year-old woman to rob and push down after befriending her in North York, police said yesterday. The victim was near her Yonge St. and Finch Ave. area apartment when she... C News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:18:47 -0500Winnipeg's latest homicide victim, a 17-year-old boy, was fatally stabbed while he was an innocent bystander to a domestic dispute, city police say. The victim, Jessie Jules Pierre McKenzie, and a m... C News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:18:46 -0500Two Winnipeg police officers who shot and killed a knife-wielding man during a domestic disturbance did nothing wrong, an inquest has concluded. Howard Glenn Fleury, 34, was pepper-sprayed three tim... C News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:18:45 -0500It's either a game-winning goal, or a cross-check from behind at City Hall. Either way, the dispute over who gets ice time -- and when -- went into overtime. But after a gruelling seven-hour debat... C News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:18:43 -0500C anada has the world's longest coastline, the second-largest land mass and an enviable abundance of fresh water. Thus, by definition, the consequences of atmospheric warming must hit Canada arguably ... The Globe and Mail Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:09:06 -0500Vancouver police want the public to know that they never give up on catching killers, even if it takes years to solve the crimes.Just this week, they have made arrests in three separate and very diffe... Vancouver Sun Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:02:34 -0500MONTREAL, Canada, December 4. THE USA Women's Senior National Team rebounded after an opening night loss to Australia to defeat Canada 12-3 last night on the second day of the 2009 Canada Cup. A b... Swimming World Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:06:12 -0500CALGARY — Alberta was hit with a gust of wintry weather Friday as a heavy snowfall caused traffic chaos in cities and shut down several stretches of highway.At Calgary International Airport, flights... Times Colonist Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:43:06 -0500Canada will do exactly the same as the United States in its policy on cutting greenhouse gases despite international pressure for it to set tougher targets, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Frid... People's Daily Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:05:33 -0500Toronto, Dec 5 : A 23-year-old Indian student in Canada has been jailed for 42 months for causing a death in street racing here two years ago. New Kerala Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:44:19 -0500THUNDER BAY, Ont. - Police searching a home in northern Ontario have literally uncovered a whopping $1.2 million in cash buried outside. The enormous sum of money in denominations of $20 and high... C News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:26:58 -0500Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a speech at the Canada-China Business Council and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, China on Friday, December 4, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatric... C News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:26:57 -0500VANCOUVER, B.C. - When a water pipe bursts these days in a British Columbia pulp and paper town, residents better dig out their rain boots. Water and sewer services have been slashed, major infra... C News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:26:56 -0500TORONTO - A significant proportion of HIV-positive women of child-bearing age want to become pregnant at some point in the future, a new study shows, although extra care is needed to prevent transmiss... C News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:26:55 -0500BEIJING, CHINA -- 12/05/09 -- Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz discussed future Canadian canola oil exports to China during a meeting with Bao Kexin, the CEO and President of Sinograin, the state-owne... Earth Times Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:14:33 -0500BEIJING, CHINA--(Marketwire - Dec. 5, 2009) - Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz discussed future Canadian canola oil exports to China during a meeting with Bao Kexin, the CEO and President of Sinograin,... Market Wire Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:21:55 -0500Download Flash Player to view this content. The current edition of the Montreal Canadiens may be a far cry from the legendary teams of the past but, for one night at least, they looked like world... CBC News Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:06:11 -0500Hamilton -- A Caledonia woman told court yesterday that abandoning her home was never an option because she feared it would be destroyed by native protesters occupying the land surrounding her propert... National Post Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:59:55 -0500The current edition of the Montreal Canadiens may be a far cry from the legendary teams of the past but, for one night at least, they looked like world-beaters in a pasting of Boston on Friday night. ... CBC News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:44:38 -0500J.P. Ricciardi says Roy Halladay wants out of Toronto. In the most unambiguous statement yet on the ace right-hander's feelings, the former Blue Jays general manager told SIRIUS XM Radio's MLB Home P... CBC News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:44:37 -0500Mike Cammalleri scored a second-period hat trick as the Montreal Canadiens romped to a 5-1 home win over Boston at Bell Centre to celebrate the organization's centennial in fine style on Friday night. CBC News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:44:36 -0500RCMP in Alberta have received an unconfirmed report that missing Toronto teen Mariam Makhniashvili was seen in Grande Prairie. The 18-year-old has been missing since Sept. 14. The latest tip is that... CBC News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:44:27 -0500Edmonton's Somalian community presented a united front with police Friday evening in their efforts to put a stop to the violence that has claimed the lives of 27 men of Somalian origin since 2005 in A... CBC News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:44:24 -0500WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's national security advisor said on Friday the United States hopes Canadian troops will "stay as long as they possibly can" in Afghanistan and encouraged NATO nations to avo... National Post Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:43:21 -0500Hamilton -- A Caledonia woman told court yesterday that abandoning her home was never an option because she feared it would be destroyed by native protesters occupying the land surrounding her propert... National Post Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:38:00 -0500REGINA -- Two males, both 17, face a number of charges in the death of another teen, whose burned body was found in Regina on Thursday morning. The two accused made their first appearances at Regina ... National Post Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:37:58 -0500The Quebec Education Department has decided to end a 24-year arrangement by which it provides public funding through the Marie-Victorin CEGEP to allow Orthodox Jewish students to study at the junior-c... The Gazette Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:32:22 -0500We have listened to your feedback and are making some changes. We now require everyone to create a unique display name that will be shown when you leave a comment. This display name can not be chang... The Globe and Mail Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:08:36 -0500As gold prices tumbled more than four percent, dragged down by a sharply rebounding dollar after the United States released a surprisingly upbeat jobs report, the S&P/TSX Composite Index in Canada... People's Daily Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:04:16 -0500Telephone and computer software company Avaya Inc. said Friday that Canada's minister of industry approved its acquisition of the enterprise solutions unit of Nortel Networks Corp.Avaya agreed in Sept... eTaiwan News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:38:17 -0500Stephen Colbert has been called what his mock pundit character would deem a traitorous insult: Canadian.The host of "The Colbert Report" is _ gasp! _ a Canuck, or at least has a Canadian heritage, say... eTaiwan News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:33:14 -0500By TIM REYNOLDSAP SPORTS WRITER John Napier has long been considered the future driving star for the U.S. bobsled team. The future might have arrived. Napier has one of those everything-fell-toge... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:24:18 -0500CESANA PARIOL, Italy -- Canada's Jon Montgomery and Britain's Shelley Rudman won World Cup skeleton races Friday on the 2006 Turin Olympic track. Katie Uhlaender led the Americans with a fifth-place ... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:24:13 -0500A Quebec zoo is celebrating what officials are calling a Canadian first: the birth of two baby polar bears. The babies were born Monday at the Zoo Sauvage in Saint-Félicien, Que., to a female bear n... CBC News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:21:26 -0500The long playoff runs are not as bountiful as they once were and there hasn't been a Stanley Cup parade in Montreal since 1993. But the Montreal Canadiens haven't forgotten how to throw a party. The ... CBC News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:21:17 -0500Charges were pending against a Canada Post worker in Gatineau, Que., on Friday after about 70 passport applications full of personal information vanished in the mail. "They found a thief among us, wh... CBC News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:21:13 -0500Charges were pending against a Canada Post worker in Gatineau, Que., on Friday after about 70 passport applications full of personal information vanished in the mail. "They found a thief among us, wh... CBC News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:21:12 -0500Charges were pending against a Canada Post worker in Gatineau, Que., on Friday after about 70 passport applications full of personal information vanished in the mail. "They found a thief among us, wh... CBC News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:21:10 -0500Police have released a handwriting sample from a set of sexually explicit letters sent to Kamloops, B.C., elementary schools over the past week. The image shows an envelope postmarked Dec. 1, address... CBC News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:21:10 -0500A seniors' group and the son of a former long-term care resident have won the right to sue the provincial government over a controversial increase in nursing home fees. The unanimous decision by the ... CBC News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:21:10 -0500RCMP in central Alberta are trying to figure out how a man became wedged between two buildings and suffered hypothermia. The 18-year-old was found in Red Deer on Thursday afternoon between the exteri... CBC News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:21:10 -0500A member of a medical marijuana group in Victoria has been arrested for allegedly making cookies, massage oil and other products from marijuana following a raid that could have implications for simila... CBC News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:21:09 -0500Montreal Liberal MP Irwin Cotler demanded an apology from the Conservative government for what he called “illegal and injurious” flyers sent to the homes of Jewish community members in several urb... Canada.com Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:20:40 -0500OTTAWA — An overwhelming majority of people in Ontario and British Columbia oppose the HST, with most believing the biggest winners from the new tax will be the provincial and federal governments, a... The Province Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:20:15 -0500EMI Music Canada has inked a multi-year, multi-platform deal with Montreal-based Stingray Digital to add content its Galaxie Music Video on Demand service. Hollywood Reporter Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:54:04 -0500Carmaker takes full control of Canadian plant Ingersoll By Jonathan Soble in Tokyo Published: December 5 2009 02:00 | Last updated: December 5 2009 02:00... Financial Times Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:41:39 -0500 |
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