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  • Search on for Indo-Canadian man missing in Australia

    A frantic search is on for a 25-year-old Indo-Canadian man who went missing in a national park in Australia. Prabhdeep Srawn of Brampton in the Canadian province of Ontario was last seen May 13 parking his rental vehicle at village Charlotte Pass and entering the Kosciuszko National Park in the Australian state of New South Wales, according to local media. A law student of Bond University in ...

  • Deadly US Twister Hits Tornado Alley

    Monday's deadly tornado in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma struck in an area commonly known as "Tornado Alley" - home to most of the nation's tornadoes. Tornado Alley is generally seen to span north to south from South Dakota to Texas between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains, but there is no official consensus on the boundaries. Comparison of Tornado paths in ...

  • Technip Wins Canada LNG Project

    French oilfield services firm Technip announced Wednesday that it has been awarded a contract for an LNG project in Canada, along with Samsung and Huanqiu. The contract has been awarded by Pacific Northwest LNG and involves the front-end engineering design (FEED) and early detailed engineering services for an LNG project on Lelu Island, British Columbia. The project includes: Two six-million ...

  • 3 brothers charged in gang sex assault in club district

    Omeed Ahmadzai, 24, was among three brothers arrested early Saturday morning following an alleged sexual assault of a woman in the Entertainment District. (Toronto Police ...

  • Tim Bosma public memorial set for today in Hamilton

    Tim Bosma and his wife Sharlene, parents of a two-year-old daughter, celebrated their wedding at Carmen's Banquet Hall in Hamilton on Feb. 13, 2010. On Wednesday, the public will honour the Ancaster man in a public memorial at the same banquet hall. ...

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The Hills Have Eyes II

The Hills Have Eyes II

After the relatively positive critical and undeniably commercial success of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), writer/director Wes Craven followed it up with what is generally considered the worst film of his career, if not one of the worst horror fil ... ...

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  • UPDATE Ottawa Police have located missing male 52

    UPDATE: Police have located Rheo Ouellette.OTTAWA --The Ottawa Police Service is seeking the assistance of the public in locating Rheo Ouellette, 52. He is described as a white male, 5'11", 235 LBS, short salt and pepper hair, clean shaven, wearing a white tee shirt under a green and white checkered long sleeved collared shirt, black leather vest, blue jeans, brown leather belt and ...

  • Canadas west coast readies for LNG exports

    Malaysian energy company Petronas said it started work on a project that would facilitate liquefied natural gas exports from Canada's west coast. Technip announced it was awarded an engineering contract by Pacific NorthWest LNG Ltd. for a liquefied natural gas project slated for development on Lelu Island, British Columbia. The facility will have the capacity to process 6 million tons of ...

  • Sears Canada posts loss names CFO

    Wed May 22, 2013 7:14am EDT May 22 (Reuters) - Department store chain Sears Canada Inc posted a loss in the first quarter compared with a profit last year, and named E.J. Bird as chief financial officer. Bird was appointed interim chief financial officer on March 12. The company reported a net loss of C$31.2 million ($30.3 million), or 31 Canadian cents per share, compared with a net profit of ...

  • Lack of interpreters in Ontario courts becoming intolerable judge says

    An Ontario judge has blasted the province for failing to remedy a long-standing shortage of qualified interpreters in the courts.Frustrated over an impaired driving case he felt compelled to toss out, Ontario Court Justice Peter Tetley said the number of cases being adversely affected is at an intolerable ...

  • Slowdown Nearly half of Canadian home owners eager to buy property

    Undeterred by record-high housing prices and bolstered by low borrowing costs, nearly half of Canadian home owners plan to buy a property in the next five years, although intentions vary sharply from city to city, a poll released Wednesday has found.According to a Bank of Montreal survey, 45 per cent of Canadian home owners surveyed this spring are looking to buy a place in the next five years, ...

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