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  • Pattinson seeking solace plans holiday with family

    Actor Robert Pattinson has reportedly decided to spend some memorable time with family and rented a house in Canada for two months. The 26-year-old, who is nursing his broken heart post his split from Kristen Stewart, will stay in the swanky pad with his family members, reports dailystar.co.uk. "Rob is renting a house in Bloor West Village in Toronto for July and August. He needs time away ...

  • Ottawa names former Conservatives to Canada-U.S. water agency

    The federal government has appointed two former Conservative politicians to fill vacancies at the International Joint Commission, a key bilateral institution that oversees water that Canada shares with the United States.Benot Bouchard and Gordon Walker were each appointed to four-year terms, which began earlier this month. The Commission's current chair, Joseph Comuzzi, remains in that role ...

  • Locals complain of excess force in Dixon raids

    Saido Hersi, right, helps to explain how the trauma from last week's police raids, impacted both physically and mentally upon her 96 year-old mother, Faduma Hersi, who lives at 340 Dixon Road, in Toronto on July 18, 2013. (Peter Power/The Globe and ...

  • Canadas eavesdropping agency helped spy on G20 documents suggest

    OTTAWA - Leaked documents suggest Canada helped the United States and Britain spy on participants at the London G20 summit four years ago. Britain's Guardian newspaper says spies monitored the computers and intercepted the phone calls of foreign politicians and officials at two G20 meetings in London in 2009. The newspaper says the effort included penetration of delegates' BlackBerry ...

  • The justice system needs to confront Canada’s cultural acceptance of assault in hockey

    Dan Maloney of the Detroit Red Wings tries to pick a fight with an unconscious Brian Glennie of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Glennie was hospitalized with a concussion. Maloney was charged with assault causing bodily harm for which he was acquitted on June 30, 1976. (John Maiola For The Globe and ...


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Re-Animator [Blu-Ray]

Stuart Gordons Re-Animator, based on a series of six stories by pulp master H.P. Lovecraft, is a giddy, gory horror-comedy filled with audaciously grotesque special effects and witty black humor. It arrived in 1985, at the height of the 80s spate of horror comedies, which also inc ... ...

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  • Toronto school board to vote on cuts to music program

    Marcus Reeeb (L), Ellen Harper, Elodie Oliver, Victoria Crichton and Will Adams, members of The Toronto All Stars Steel Orchestra, practise at Rosedale Public School, Toronto June 30 2011. (Fernando Morales/The Globe and ...

  • Canada to send peacekeeping troops to Haiti

    A Canadian soldier carries supplies as troops arrive at a temporary medical centre in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in January 2010. A handful of Canadian troops are about to take part in peacekeeping operation in Haiti under the command of Brazilian ...

  • Meet Canada’s underused poet laureate Vancouver-based Fred Wah bemoans lack of meaningful work

    Canada's national poet has warned that the taxpayer-funded position risks becoming "homogenized and diluted" and expressed frustration that during his two-year term in Ottawa he's been asked to produce just one work -- a "mediocre" poem about Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee -- while many more serious, controversial subjects have escaped the official attention ...

  • New Parkdale bylaw would restrict bars nighclubs

    Many Toronto city councillors say a bylaw passed by the Toronto and East York City Community Council could be exactly what they need to restrict the expansion of bars and nightclubs in their neighbourhoods. On Tuesday, TEYCC unanimously ...

  • Couple baffled over burger franchise lockout

    A couple are baffled as to why they have been locked out a Toronto burger franchise that they have been running for more than a year, given that they have made their rent payments each month. Marufa Ahmed and her husband, Mohammad Hashen, say that when they arrived at a Lick's burger franchise on The Queensway last week, they learned they had been locked out of the building. A note from ...

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