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  • Man fights off cougar with skateboard Parks Canada tracking animal

    BANFF, Alta. -- Parks Canada officials are advising people in Banff to be on alert after a man told them he fought off an attacking cougar with his skateboard. Bill Hunt, the resource conservation manager for the Banff field unit, says the man was attacked Thursday and originally reported the incident anonymously. But Hunt says officials tracked him down to get more information in order to ...

  • Undeterred by drug allegations Toronto mayor vows to seek re-election

    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford arrives at a radio station in Toronto on Sunday May 26, 2013, for his weekly radio program with his brother Doug. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Vincent ...

  • Dave Brown a service for canada’s only second world war sub commander

    Fred and Mary Sherwood met in the dying days of the war in the Pacific when the sub commander took his boat into port on the east coast of the island nation of Ceylon — renamed Sri Lanka in ...

  • Voter suppression cannot be allowed to stand in Canada

    A federal court justice's ruling that misleading automated phone calls in six ridings during the 2011 federal election didn't affect the outcome should not be the end of this troubling story. Justice Richard Mosley ruled on Thursday that he will not overturn the results in the ridings where the "fraud" (his word) occurred, because there is no evidence the calls changed the ...

  • Tory MPP wants to bar Quebec construction workers from Ontario

    OTTAWA -- An Ottawa-area MPP wants to slam the door on Quebec construction companies who cross the border into Ontario and take jobs away from workers here.Conservative Jack MacLaren will introduce a private member's bill this week called the Fairness is a Two-Way Street Act. It revives a piece of legislation of the same name introduced in 1999 under former Tory premier Mike Harris and ...


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The Abyss: Special Edition [DVD]

The Abyss: Special Edition [DVD]

One of the best films of 1989 was a film no one got to see: James Cameron's powerful underwater epic The Abyss. I say no one got to see it even though it was put into wide release in the summer of 1989 because the film people saw on-screen was not what Cameron originally intended. Instead, it was a truncated 140-minute version that sacrificed several subplots, an important thematic element ... ...

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  • Museum picks up art by Canadas WWII prisoners

    From a human figure carved out of a block of wood to a turkey bone ship with turkey skin sails, it's definitely not your typical museum fare but it could offer an unprecedented glimpse into a little-known part of Canada's history. The Royal Alberta Museum has acquired a vast collection of art made by prisoners of war interned in Canada during the Second World War. While the art ...

  • Johnson Blows Save As Blue Jays Beat Orioles

    TORONTO (AP) — Baltimore closer Jim Johnson has blown more saves in the past two weeks than he did in all of 2012. Munenori Kawasaki hit a game-ending two-run double off Johnson in a four-run ninth inning, lifting the Toronto Blue Jays to a 6-5 victory over the Orioles on Sunday. ';We should be getting on the plane with three wins here, but I can’t hang my head too ...

  • Buehrle takes mound to open up Interleague series

    The Braves and Blue Jays may be kicking off a new age-type Interleague series on Monday, but the pitching matchup for the series opener will have a very old-school feel to it. As the clubs open a first-of-its-kind home-and-home series Monday in Toronto, the red-hot Braves -- winners of eight straight entering Sunday night's series finale against the Mets -- will send veteran right-hander ...

  • Toronto mayor says crack video doesn’t exist

    TORONTO -- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said Sunday that a purported video of him smoking crack cocaine does not exist and vowed to seek re-election next year, attacking the media again as a "bunch of ...

  • Toronto Mayor Calls Media Maggots

    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said Sunday that a purported video of him smoking crack cocaine does not exist and vowed to seek re-election next year, attacking the media again as a "bunch of maggots." The mayor of Canada's largest city, speaking on the weekly radio show he hosts with his brother Doug Ford, a city council member, reiterated that the allegations are ridiculous, but he ...

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