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Cartoonist lampoons niqab, angers Muslims in Canada
A controversial cartoon in a Montreal newspaper at the weekend has further fuelled the niqab controversy and angered Muslims in...


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U.s. Regulations Forcing More Meat Inspections In Canada
OTTAWA— The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is scrambling to maintain an increased presence at dozens of large meat-processing plants after auditors from the United States Department of Agriculture...
2 Die As Avalanche Hits Snowmobile Rally In Canada
Reporting from Seattle At least two people were killed and 30 injured after a massive avalanche smothered a high-risk snowmobile rally in southern British Columbia, police said Sunday. "It's...
Another Official Charged From Humane Society
A nother official at the Toronto Humane Society - the eighth - has been charged in connection with an animal-cruelty investigation at the east-side shelter. Former THS supervisor Vijay Kumar was...
A Fresh Take On Healthy Cooking For The Poor And Homeless
E DUCATION REPORTER In a gleaming teaching kitchen at Toronto's George Brown College, groups of students huddle over stainless-steel work stations, knives chattering, bowls clanging. The ingredients...
Ontario Seeks Ottawa's Help As Welfare Cases Spike
W elfare cases are on the rise in Canada as laid-off workers exhaust their federal employment insurance benefits and turn to provincial social assistance programs for help. Ontario in particular is...
Mwana Africa Plc: Application To Cease To Be A Reporting Issuer In Canada
Mwana Africa PLC ("Mwana") (AIM:MWA) today announced that it has applied to the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of British Columbia, Québec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and...
Cartoonist Lampoons Niqab, Angers Muslims In Canada
By Gurmukh Singh, Toronto, March 15 : A controversial cartoon in a Montreal newspaper at the weekend has further fuelled the niqab controversy and angered Muslims in...
Tumbling Raptors Drop 5th Straight
Nicolas Batum scored 22 points, making five of six three-point attempts, and the Portland Trail Blazers won their fourth straight with a 109-98 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Sunday night. ...
The Battle For Ontario’s Children
OTTAWA — Bright-eyed kids with toothy grins sprout colourful butterfly wings and exclaim, “I’m spreading my wings.”If that sounds like an ad for a feel-good self-help book, think again....
Canada Tops Norway On Last Shot In Wheelchair Curling
VANCOUVER - With the Canadian wheelchair curling team's perfect record on the line at the Paralympic Games, skip Jim Armstrong made his last shot count. Armstrong put his last shot right onto the...
Blazers Continue Playoff Push With Win Over Raptors
Portland, OR (Sports Network) - Nicolas Batum made 5-of-6 from three-point land, en route to 22 points, leading Portland to a 109-98 win over Toronto. LaMarcus Aldridge also provided 22 points to go...
Aldridge, Batum Help Blazers Take Down Raptors
Chris Bosh had 28 points and seven rebounds for the Raptors, who have lost five straight, matching a season high. The Blazers led by as many as 15 points,...
Alberta’s Koe Beats Ontario’s Howard To Claim Brier Title
Left to right: Alberta skip Kevin Koe, third Blake MacDonald, second Carter Rycroft and lead Nolan Thiessen celebrate with the Brier tankard after beating Ontario to win the Brier curling...
Asbestos Removal, Demolition, Mold Remediation, Lead Abatement, Pcb's: Toronto Ontario Canada's Leading Environmental Remediation Companies Since 1989 Restoration Environmental Rec Demolition
(1888PressRelease) - Restoration Environmental REC Environmental Remediation has been successfully been removing Asbestos, Mold, Lead, all Hazardous Materials Materials and completing Demolition,...
Avalanche In Canada Claims 2
REVELSTOKE, British Columbia — An avalanche that killed two people at an informal snowmobile rally in Canada's Rocky Mountains may have been triggered by three daredevil sledders who apparently...
Blazers Use Long Ball To Hand Raptors Fifth Straight Loss
Nicolas Batum scored 22 points, making five of six three-point attempts, and the Portland Trail Blazers won their fourth straight with a 109-98 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Sunday...
Vale To Bring In Contract Workers To Break Canada Miners Strike
Vale, the Brazilian mining group, is preparing to break a strike at its Canadian nickel and copper mines by bringing contract workers across picket lines that have interrupted production for the past...
Canada Earns Three Paralympic Medals, Sledge Hockey Win
Canada's Collette Bourgonje celebrates after she won silver during the women's 10km cross-country at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in Whistler, British Columbia, March 14, 2010. This was Canada's...
Canada Dominates Sweden 10-1 In Sledge Hockey
Paralympics: Day 3 Canada's sledge hockey team looked like its dominant self on Sunday, earning its second victory of the Paralympic Games, a 10-1 romp over Sweden. Hat tricks by Greg Westlake of...
Warriors 124, Raptors 112 / Ellis Sets Long-range Mark
(03-13) 22:25 PST -- The Raptors went bigger, so the Warriors went deeper. When Toronto re-entered 6-foot-10 power forward Chris Bosh in the third quarter, Warriors guard Monta Ellis stepped deep...
Deadly Avalanche In Canada
Shrink BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada - An avalanche that killed at least two people at an informal snowmobile rally in Canada's Rocky Mountains may have been triggered by three daredevil sledders who...
Scoop: Toronto May Pay For Haim Funeral
Scoop: Heigl missing from 'Grey's' set Katherine Heigl goes missing from the "Grey's Anatomy" set, Kate Gosselin defends her choice to appear on "DWTS," and Leno and Letterman renew their latenight...
Braves Beat Up On Frasor, Blue Jays
Jason Frasor conceded he was stubborn on the mound Sunday against the Atlanta Braves. That explains why they pounded the Toronto relief pitcher for four runs in a third of an inning in an 8-5 victory...
Islanders Dispatch Visiting Maple Leafs
Richard Park scored a short-handed goal and added an assist, and Martin Biron made 26 saves in the New York Islanders' 4-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday. Tim Jackman, Frans Nielsen...
Lind No Longer Looking Over Shoulder
DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Adam Lind did not mind all the snow. As it piled higher and higher outside his home in central Indiana over the winter, the soft-spoken Lind would bundle up, grab a shovel and head...
Bryn Resources Inc. Announces Its Latest Acquisition In The Wine Harbour District Of Nova Scotia, Canada
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Bryn Resources Inc (PINKSHEETS: BRYN) (PINKSHEETS: BRYN.PK) is excited to announce that it has been able to acquire a 100% interest in an historical gold property that...
Media Advisory - Ontario Minister Of Education To Address Franco-ontarian
/CNW Telbec/ - Ontario's Minister of Education, the Honorable Leona Dombrowsky, will be the guest speaker at the 2010 Policy Convention of the Association des enseignantes et des enseignants...
Immigrants Key To Next Election: Political Experts
All three of the major national parties are developing aggressive strategies to reach foreign-born Canadians, in the belief that immigrant voters hold the key to power in the next election, political...
Thurston, Braves Beat Blue Jays
Joe Thurston homered and Martin Prado and Freddie Freeman drove in two runs apiece to lead the Atlanta Braves to an 8-5 split-squad victory Sunday over the Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin, Fla. Prado's...
Jays Gm Coy About Cuban Prospect
Toronto Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos wouldn't deny he's interested in Cuban defector Adeinis Hechavarria, but he declined to comment on a published report that the team might be close to signing the...
Can You Guess Who Is Getting An Elected Senate? Hint: It's Not Canada
LONDON -- The British government is set to unveil plans to replace parliament's upper House of Lords with a wholly elected chamber in order to make it "legitimate," a minister said Sunday. Transport...
Colette Bourgonje Wins First Paralympics Medal For Canada
Canada's Collette Bourgonje celebrates after she won silver during the women's 10km cross-country at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in Whistler, British Columbia, March 14, 2010. This was Canada's...
Teen Charged With Murder In Ontario Double Killing
KINGSTON, Ont. -- A teenager accused in a shooting that left a mother and daughter dead in southern Ontario was officially charged Saturday with first-degree murder. Dean Brown, 18, has been charged...
Morrow Not As Sharp In Second Start
BRAVES 8, BLUE JAYS 5 at Dunedin, Fla. Sunday, March 14 Blue Jays at the plate: Toronto's bats came alive in the fifth inning, resulting in a five-run outburst that gave the club a short-lived 5-4...
Listeria-contaminated Meat Prompts Lawsuit
The latest meat recall due to concerns over listeria contamination has prompted a proposed class action lawsuit. Merchant Law Group, based in Saskatchewan and Alberta, said it is suing Siena Foods...
Insurance Urged For Beach-bound Teens
Teenagers looking for fun in the sun this March break would be wise to pick up travel medical insurance, says an Ottawa mother whose son was in an accident that cost him one of his legs. Sue...
Canada Wins Silver, Bronze At Junior Curling Worlds
FLIMS, Switzerland — Canada’s Rachel Homan was forced to settle for silver at the world junior curling championships on Sunday.Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg tied the score 3-3 with a single on the...
Forest Takes Silver For Canada In Women's Slalom
Viviane Forest and guide Lindsay Debou earned Canada's second medal of the day in the women's slalom, skiing in the visually impaired class with a combined time of two minutes, 1.45 seconds. The pair...
Braves Get Past Blue Jays In Grapefruit League Action
Martin Prado and Freddie Freeman each knocked in a pair in Atlanta's 8-5 Grapefruit League win over Toronto. Freeman had three hits and also scored,...
Statement From The City Of Toronto Regarding Media Reports Concerning Mr.
does not confirm or comment on any potential, pending or active applications for assistance in such matters. Therefore, the City will not be commenting further on these...