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Its over Toronto council votes overwhelmingly against downtown casino

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford walks the floor during a council meeting at Toronto City Hall on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Ford ignored a crush of reporters waiting outside his city hall office this morning in the hopes he would address allegations that he was recorded on video appearing to smoke crack cocaine. (Nathan Denette/THE CANADIAN ...
The IRCM announces the creation of a clinic subspecialized in metabolic disorders associated with cystic fibrosis - The IRCM becomes a pioneer in this field in Canada

May 21, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - This morning, the IRCM announced the creation of a new clinic subspecialized in the metabolic disorders associated with cystic fibrosis, in collaboration with the CHUM (Centre hospitalier de l'Universit de Montral). The IRCM and the IRCM Foundation also launched the Gosselin-Lamarre Chair in clinical research. Cystic fibrosis is among the best known rare ...
Media Alert - Canadas Doctors Make a House Call on Parliament Hill

May 23 when the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) will meet with MPs and Senators to discuss important health care issues. The CMA will also host a breakfast and health clinic on Parliament Hill on that day. At the breakfast, ...
OPP Report Two Long Weekend Fatalities Numerous Charges Laid During Canada Road Safety Week

Victoria Day Long Weekend, ensuring that people were keeping safe on roads, waterways and trails throughout the province. While the numbers are preliminary, over the long weekend, one pedestrian was killed in a motor vehicle collision and one person drowned while canoeing. Sadly, the pedestrian was a 79 year-old woman who died after being struck by a driver who was reportedly using a ...
Carneys parting advice play to Canadas strengths

Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is leaving Canada with some parting advice -- seize the country's natural advantages. The central banker said Tuesday in his last scheduled public appearance before departing for the Bank of England next month that Canada can coast and wait out the decade-long damage-repair process in the rest of the G7 economies, or build on its strengths for the ...

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Hart's War

Hart's War is an odd mish-mash, pursuing different ends at different times until, by the end of the film, we're not sure what it was about or how we should feel about what it's saying. Starting off as a straightforward World War II movie, it shifts into prison mode when the setting moves to a German prisoner-of-war camp, then it ventures deep into 1940s-era social-problem territory as it e ... ...

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Family not giving up finding Toronto-area man a Canadian Forces reservist in snowy mountains of Australia

OTTAWA -- Family members have joined a frantic search for a Canadian man with survival training who has been missing for more than a week in Australia's Gold Coast region. Prabhdeep Srawn of Brampton, Ont., hasn't been heard from since parking his rental car on May 13 in the village of Charlotte Pass in Kosciuszko National Park. The 25-year-old has been a law student at Bond ...
Council formally kills possibility of a Toronto casino

City council has formally killed the possibility of a new casino in Toronto. The vote comes just days after Mayor Rob Ford declared the casino proposal ';essentially dead,'; an announcement that presaged Paul Godfrey’s ouster as chairman of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, which has been pushing for a new gaming facility in the city. While council has been divided on ...
U.S. Tracked Foreigners Leaving for Canada

WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of thousands of foreigners passing into Canada from the United States have unwittingly been a part of a grand experiment by the Department of Homeland Security to crack down on visitors who violate laws governing the length of their ...
D.C. organizing biz trade missions to Colombia South Africa Toronto

Interested in globe hopping for the sake of your business? Now's your chance, with ExportDC. The District's Department of Small and Local Business Development on Tuesday released its calendar of upcoming trade missions to the membership of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce. Between June and September, they'll hit four continents, a pair of Caribbean islands and, for those wanting to stay ...
Bank of Canadas Carney says Europe needs big reforms

Reuters © Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney (L) speaks to the President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi as they pose for a group photograph at the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Aylesbury, southern England May 10, 2013. REUTERS/Alastair ...

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Toronto mayor denies video showing him smoking cocaine

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has declined association with video-related clips that show him smoking cocaine.

Someone who tried to sell it to Toronto Star newspaper filmed the footage on a smartphone.

Toronto Star reporters were shown the video by an anonymous tipster in a car park. The newspaper claims that it did not pay money for the video and did not obtain the copy of the same and hence could not verify the authenticity of the footage.

According to the BBC, Ford denied the allegations and claimed it was another defamatory story by Toronto Star against him. His lawyer Dennis Morris told the newspaper that a probe is on regarding the video's existence and authenticity.

The footage appeared to show the mayor in a well-lit room inhaling from what appeared to be a glass crack pipe.

The Toronto Star editorial demanded answers for the act.

Meanwhile, the editor of the U.S. online news website Gawker, John Cook, in his blog, has claimed to have seen the clip, but did not want to pay the six-figure amount asked for by the video owner.

Ford's lawyer has sent an email to Gawker, threatening legal action. (ANI)