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Close allies urge Toronto Mayor Ford to talk about scandal

Close allies of Toronto Mayor Rob's Ford said Friday they will release a letter that urges the mayor to address an alleged video that shows him smoking crack ...
Blue Jays place lefty Darren Oliver on 15-day DL with shoulder strain

The Toronto Blue Jays have placed left-handed reliever Darren Oliver on the 15-day disabled list with a left shoulder strain.Oliver, 42, has appeared in 17 games this season posting a 2-1 record with a 3.18 ERA.The move is retroactive to May 19 and will allow rookie Sean Nolin to make his major league debut Friday night against the Baltimore ...
Alize Cornet beats Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard in Strasbourg semi-final

Third-seeded Alize Cornet of France edged Eugenie Bouchard of Westmont, Que., 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-3 on Friday to reach the final of the Strasbourg International.Cornet broke the Canadian teenager twice in the last set and saved six break points.Last year's runner-up will face either Flavia Pennetta of Italy or Lucie Hradecka of the Czech ...
DNA evidence leads to charges in 1991 sex assault of girl 9 Toronto police say

Toronto police say they have arrested a suspect in a 22-year-old cold case involving a sexual assault on a nine-year-old girl.Investigators say that after going unsolved for more than two decades, forensic DNA evidence collected at the time of the incident has since led them to identify a suspect in the ...
Former Ontario premier to testify at Elliot Lake mall collapse inquiry

City orders sit affixed to emergency fencing around the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont., on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. (Colin Perkel / THE CANADIAN ...

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Looper [Blu-Ray]

Writer/director Rian Johnsons Looper is founded, like the films of Christopher Nolan (who Johnson has explicitly noted as his cinematic role model), on a clever, instantly memorable premise and then proceeds to take us in completely unexpected directions. The premise of Looper is thi ... ...

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Government of Canada supports workplace mental health

Lisa Raitt Canada's Labour Minister, today participated in a round table discussion with union leaders to discuss workplace mental health issues. "Mental illness has a high cost in human, social and economic terms and studies show that in any given year, one in every five Canadians will suffer from a mental illness. Finding ways to prevent and address workplace illnesses is an ...
Rob Ford video scandal not hurting Torontos global reputation

Toronto that have attracted global media attention over the last year, and the Mayor is mentioned in only one per cent of the city's total profile. "There's no question that ...
Canada threatens retaliation over U.S. meat-labelling rules

U.S. rules that require meat producers to specify where the source animal was born, raised and slaughtered and restrict what can be labelled as a product of a certain country of origin are too costly and cumbersome and discriminate against foreign livestock, Canadian producers and government officials argue. (Jessica Rinaldi ...
Canada not joining Pacific Alliance trade bloc yet

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, front right, was part of the official photo at the Pacific Alliance Summit in Cali, Colombia on Thursday. Canada has observer status for these trade negotiations. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian ...
Canadas Eugenie Bouchard falls just short in Strasbourg semifinals

Third-seeded Alize Cornet of France edged Eugenie Bouchard of Canada 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-3 on Friday to reach the final of the Strasbourg International. Cornet broke the Canadian teenager twice in the last set of the French Open clay-court tuneup and saved six break points. Bouchard, 19, had reached the semifinals of a WTA event for the first time in her career. She was looking to become the first ...

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Smallest known plant-eating dinosaur found in Canada

A team of paleontologists from the University of Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, Cleveland Museum of Natural History and University of Calgary have identified a new dinosaur, the smallest plant-eating dinosaur species known from Canada.

Albertadromeus syntarsus was identified from a partial hind leg, and other skeletal elements, that indicate it was a speedy runner. Approximately 1.6 m (5 ft) long, it weighed about 16 kg (30 lbs), comparable to a large turkey.

Albertadromeus lived in what is now southern Alberta in the Late Cretaceous, about 77 million years ago.

Albertadromeus syntarsus means "Alberta runner with fused foot bones". Unlike its much larger ornithopod cousins, the duckbilled dinosaurs, its two fused lower leg bones would have made it a fast, agile two-legged runner. This animal is the smallest known plant-eating dinosaur in its ecosystem, and researchers hypothesize that it used its speed to avoid predation by the many species of meat-eating dinosaurs that lived at the same time.

Albertadromeus was discovered in 2009 by study co-author David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum as part an on-going collaboration with Michael Ryan of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History to investigate the evolution of dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of North America. ...