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  • Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s allies prepare to run city

    Mayor Rob Ford is seen during a special council meeting on the Toronto Casino debate at city hall in Toronto, Ont., May 21, 2013. (Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and ...

  • Toronto Catholic trustees reject motion to ban gay-straight alliance clubs

    Toronto Catholic District School Board trustees rejected a motion Thursday night that would have banned students from setting up clubs called Gay Straight Alliances in separate schools.Trustee Garry Tanuan's motion drew media attention to the school board meeting, with parents and students making passionate arguments for and against the clubs - even though Ontario law says they must be ...

  • Quiet shaper of Toronto’s skyline was on ground floor of city’s condo boom

    Toronto developer Murray Menkes, who died April 24 at 87, liked to stay out of the limelight, but built a real estate empire from scratch that would help reshape his city with suburban houses, shopping centres, high-rise condos and office towers during the post-Second World War building boom.Born in 1926, he grew up on Major Street in the Bathurst and College area of Toronto. His father, Max, ...

  • Drivers escape death as Washington state bridge on route to Canada collapses

    In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, a rescue boat approaches the scene where a pickup truck and travel trailer, seen at left, and a car fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (Francisco ...

  • Canada to allocate C$53m to Peru-focused mining and energy initiatives

    Canadian mining executives hope Prime Minister Stephen Harper's meeting with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala will generate better use of C$4 billion in unspent mining royalties in government ...


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Bigger Than Life [DVD]

Bigger Than Life [DVD]

Those like myself who have spent time thinking and writing about horror films routinely cite Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho (1960) as a crucial turning point in the genre when horror was firmly relocated from external monsters in safely distant and exotic lands to the heart of t ... ...

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  • Swept up in a Toronto summer

    Getting there: Flights from South Florida to Toronto take just over three hours. American, WestJet and Air Canada fly nonstop from Miami; WestJet and Air Canada fly nonstop from Fort ...

  • Barbara Yaffe B.C. residents healthiest in Canada despite spending less on medical care

    British Columbians can take pride in being the Swedes of Canada, boasting the best lifestyle habits and health status in the country.That's one of the findings of a Conference Board of Canada report titled, Paving the Road to Higher Performance: Benchmarking Provincial Health Systems.The report, released Thursday, accords B.C. an A grade, "on the strength of having the healthiest ...

  • Nolin to make Major League debut against Orioles

    One night after the Orioles sent out one of their top pitching prospects for his first Major League start, the Blue Jays will make a similar move in an attempt to extend their winning streak to three. Left-hander Sean Nolin, the Blue ...

  • US highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada collapses

    The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed on Thursday evening, dumping a handful of vehicles and people into a river, the Washington State Patrol said. Authorities said there were no deaths, and three people were rescued and taken to hospitals.The four-lane Interstate 5 bridge - more than half a century old - collapsed about ...

  • Encarnacion Arencibia lead Blue Jays past Orioles

    Toronto Blue Jays' Brett Lawrie lays down a bunt and is safe on first base while playing against the Baltimore Orioles during the fourth inning a baseball game in Toronto on Thursday, May 23, ...

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