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  • Bachman and Turner expand 2013 tour schedule

    , the musical core of BTO, reunited with a self-titled album after an 18-year lay off in 2010. The "Takin' Care of Business" hitmakers will be touring in support of their recent release, "Live at the Roseland Ballroom, NYC," which hit U.S. shelves last summer, Bachman, also a former founding member of The Guess ...

  • Toronto Mayors Siblings Have Ties With Drug Traffickers

    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford may want to find a new spokesman. As the mayor has been engulfed by allegations that he was filmed smoking crack cocaine, his brother Doug Ford has largely acted as his spokesman. But it turns out he has links to drug dealing. For several years, Doug Ford "was a go-to dealer of hash" and had a small group of dealers who sold his product, according to ...

  • Canadian mine giant Barrick fined a record $16.4M in Chile

    El Corral, a village of 200 inhabitants, mostly from the Diaguita ethnic group, is downstream from the world's highest gold mine, Barrick Gold Corp's Pascua-Lama project in northern Chile. Since the project moved in, residents say river levels have dropped. (Jorge Saenz/Associated ...

  • Protesters march against GMO giant Monsanto in 250 cities

    Marches and rallies against seed giant Monsanto were held across Canada, the U.S. and in dozens of other countries Saturday. "March Against Monsanto" protesters say they want to call attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the food giants that produce it. Marches had been planned for more than 250 cities around the globe, according to organizers. Genetically ...

  • Brampton Ont. familys bitter money dispute

    Shanti Devi's son, Admon Devi-Biller, is left to comfort his mother and maintains that his cousin Boodhoo is a crook (STAN BEHAL/Toronto Sun). Shanti Devi’s health is a wreck and her personal life is hardly better. The single Brampton woman may lose her home after being financially ripped off for years by a nephew who also stole her identity. The 69-year-old retiree has lent her ...

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A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) [DVD]

A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) [DVD]

Asghar Farhadis A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) is a devastating, slow-burn portrait of how dozens of seemingly insignificant actions and decisionssome conscious, some otherwisecan accumulate into a ruinous scenario. The film opens in the midst of a judicial hearing ... ...

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  • Electrosmog may cause health problems group says

    Smart meters use electromagnetic frequencies to transmit consumption data to power companies, and some people believe they're a source of health problems. (Toby Talbot/AP file ...

  • Twitter Q A with Martin Brodeur

    Martin Brodeur joined Hockey Night In Canada as a guest analyst for the playoffs, and recently answered some questions from fans on Twitter. (File/Getty ...

  • St. Stephens church to sell pulpit pews

    It's out with the old and in with the new for one Calgary church this weekend. St. Stephen's Anglican Church is selling its pews, benches, kneelers, oak screens and even the pulpit to raise money for refurbishments. For many who came to the sale, it was a chance to hold on to a little piece of their history. "One person bought our baptismal font because he was baptized there as ...

  • Toronto Councillor Doug Ford denies newspaper report that he sold drugs in high school

    Toronto Councillor Doug Ford -- brother of Mayor Rob Ford, who is himself facing allegations he was filmed smoking crack cocaine -- has called a newspaper report that he sold drugs in high school "disgusting" and "a personal shot at our family." ...

  • Border traffic light after Washington bridge collapse

    A truck carrying an oversize load struck the four-lane bridge on Interstate 5 bridge - the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below Thursday night. ...

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