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  • One-billion-year-old water saltier than seawater

    University of Toronto scientists have found pockets of water that had been sitting 2.4 kilometres underneath the Earth's surface for more than a billion years. Earth sciences professor Barbara Sherwood, who admitted that she had tasted it from time to time, revealed that the water has the consistency of maple syrup and is much saltier than seawater, News.com.au reported. She told the LA ...

  • Three cheers for Toronto

    Toronto fund, a community endowment built with contributions from Community Foundation Fundholders, individual donors, and the corporate sector. The grants fund inspired programs and individual work that aim to provide solutions to issues identified in Toronto's Vital Signs Report. The ...

  • Canada on ice as Harper fails to secure EU trade deal

    CANADIAN Prime Minister Stephen Harper will conclude his eight-day European trip unable to complete a trade agreement with the EU, just as the opening of EU-US talks raises the risk that his country will be left ...

  • ’Shocking’ half of Canada’s First Nations kids living in poverty new study finds

    NEW YORK, N.Y. - Thousands of screaming fans brought Times Square to a standstill as they waited to catch a glimpse of Brad Pitt at the premiere of his new thriller, "World War ...

  • Blue Jays go for series sweep behind Buehrle

    The Rockies will continue their quest for the franchise's first win in Toronto in the series finale against the Blue Jays Wednesday night at Rogers Centre. But the opportunity to break an 0-8 all-time record arrives at a difficult moment, with the Blue Jays riding a seven-game winning streak, the longest active streak in the American League. Mark Buehrle, fresh off his best start of the ...


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Boys Don't Cry [DVD]

Boys Don't Cry [DVD]

While Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry has been heralded as championing the notion of "being yourself," it is really about the dislocation of that most cherished of all bedrocks in life: identity. ...

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  • Cluster bomb victims call on Canada to ratify convention to ban dirty weapon

    Raed Mokaled is pictured in Geneva in April, 2013 at a major international meeting on the Convention on Cluster Munitions. His son, Ahmad, was killed on his fifth birthday by a cluster bomb near their home in Lebanon in February 1999. Mokaled now works to have the weapons banned. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mike ...

  • Of wetlands and waterfronts

    If our city fathers had known that one day in the future officials would be gathering on Toronto's shores to announce the creation of a swamp, they would have shaken their whiskered heads in disbelief.The marshland that covered much of the eastern waterfront in Toronto's early years was viewed as a threat to the city's health and welfare, a breeding ground for disease. Authorities ...

  • Misconduct investigations put Canada in different light

    MONTREAL - Canada, among the 10 least corrupt countries in the world the past six years according to rankings by Transparency International, is mired in scandals. Quebec’s anti-corruption task force Monday arrested Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum over fraud allegations, adding to controversies rocking political circles in Toronto and Ottawa that have taken the shine off Canada’s ...

  • 2 men jailed in Dominican wedding fight return to Canada

    Stacey Vernon poses with her new husband, Nick Miele, just hours before he was arrested after a fight at the Bahia Principe Esmeralda resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. (Courtesy Vernon ...

  • Ex-teammate Esmil Rogers tames Rockies as Blue Jays cruise to win

    More photos. (Fred Thornhill , Reuters) TORONTO - Esmil Rogers, a pitcher who could never harness his talent in Colorado and who happens to be the Blue Jays' best starter, couldn't help himself. When Toronto manager John Gibbons removed him in the seventh inning, the right-hander smiled like someone who had just talked his way out of a parking ticket. His growth in Colorado was not ...

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