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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 ...

  • Canada U.S. test at Edmonton rugby park as tune-up for World Cup qualifiers

    Opening game of Pacific Nations Cup runs on Saturday; Canadian manager ecstatic team will ‘get high-quality games’ against Fiji, Tonga next ...

  • Top hockeynight tweets from Wednesday

    The focus was on the Senators and the Penguins in Game 4 on Wednesday night, and the goals just piled up. The Twitter world was there to respond as Pittsburgh defeated Ottawa ...

  • Wharnsby Senators down to their final lifeline

    Dejected Ottawa Senators goalie Craig Anderson was peppered with six goals by the Pittsburgh Penguins before being pulled in the third period Wednesday night. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...

  • Boil-water advisory caused by a whoops moment in Montreal

    Café Joe employee Felix-Antoine Boily-Audet, left and café owner Mélanie Desjardins are using bottled water for the coffee they served at the restaurant. Routine maintenance gone wrong at one of Montreal’s biggest water filtration plants spurred the largest boil-water advisory in the city’s history on ...

Movie Review

Romeo + Juliet [DVD]

Baz Luhrmann's updated version of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet starts in high gear, pushes itself into overdrive, and eventually redlines and blows the engine long before its over. It's not that updating the Bard is a bad idea--it's been done successfully so many times before that it is literally de rigueur in the world of both theater and film, despite Luhrmann's claims tha ... ...

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  • Stanley Cup Stories Penguins stars burn Senators

    Pittsburgh Penguins' Jarome Iginla, centre, celebrates after scoring against the Ottawa Senators with teammates Evgeni Malkin, left, James Neal (18) and Kris Letang, right, during the second period of Game 4 on Wednesday night. (Blair ...

  • Prolific Penguins put Senators in 3-1 series hole

    Penguins' Chris Kunitz beats Senators goalie Craig Anderson in the second period Wednesday night in Ottawa. Pittsburgh erased a 2-1 deficit in the period, scoring six straight goals en route to a 7-3 win. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...

  • Canadian businessman goes on trial in Cuban corruption crackdown

    HAVANA (Reuters) - A Canadian businessman who has confessed to bribing Cuban officials was scheduled to go on trial in Havana on Thursday, almost two years after his arrest in a sweeping government crackdown on ...

  • Mirvish posts big and small wins in Toronto critics’ awards

    Good news came in all sizes for Mirvish Productions at the Toronto Theatre Critics' Awards this year, as the commercial producer picked up plaudits for both their biggest show and smallest show of the ...

  • Canadian Intellectuals to Give a Lecture on Hugo Chavez Legacy

    Ottawa, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Canadian intellectuals will deliver a lecture today, at the University of Ottawa, on the legacy of the deceased Venezuelan President for his country, Latin America and the Caribbean. The writer Arnold August and the economist Michel Chossudovsky will talk on the main aspects of the political life of the Venezuelan revolutionary leader, his efforts to recover ...

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