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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 ...

  • Canada should lift outdated visa restrictions on ANC members

    In this photo supplied by the Government Communications and Information Services (GCIS) South African President Jacob Zuma, right, and Governor General of Canada, David Johnston attend a welcoming ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (Elmond ...

  • Canada losing ground in global science race report

    Minister of State for Science and Technology Gary Goodyear responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons Monday February 4, 2013 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN ...

  • The rental-housing shortage is now a national disaster. It needs Ottawa’s help

    What would a Canadian rental-housing disaster look like?Would it look like 42 per cent of young adults between 20 and 29 living with their parents, up 10 per cent from the early 1990s?Would it look like 156,358 people waiting for affordable housing in Ontario? Or Vancouver seniors on $1,200 monthly pensions trying to afford that city's average one-bedroom rent of ...

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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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  • Why the next Canadian TV movie should be called Is Everybody High

    Where to start after watching TV - the news and the fiction - over the last few days?First, perhaps - it's not really a scandal until there's a TV movie about it. Second - possible title for the movie about ongoing events in Canada is ...

  • Sears Canada posts loss says transformation taking hold

    Sears Canada Inc. posted a $31.2-million loss as well as lower revenue in its latest quarter but says its transformation program is showing positive results that have improved margins and boosted some categories.Calvin McDonald, Sear Canada's president and chief executive officer, said the company had growth in its apparel and accessories segment for the second quarter in a row - the first ...

  • By branding the Taliban ‘terrorists’ Canada gave up on Afghan peace

    addition of the Afghan Taliban to Canada's list of terrorist entities came as a surprise. More than a surprise, it was disheartening. After more than a decade of engagement in Afghanistan, the Harper government has indicated it is no longer interested in finding a path to ...

  • One-third of Canadian households living paycheque to paycheque

    One-third of Canadian households over the past year never or almost never had enough money left over after paying essential expenses, says a new report.A survey conducted for the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada indicates that 29 per cent - or three in 10 - households found it difficult to sock away any money once key bills were ...

  • Saskatoon singer Alexis Normand gets second chance at national anthem

    They say that in life there are no second chances, but it would seem that for singer Alexis Normand, there just might be. Last Saturday night, Normand famously flubbed the lyrics to the U.S. national anthem in front of a crowd of thousands at a MasterCard Memorial Cup hockey game in Saskatoon. Video clips of her somewhat cringe-inducing performance went viral within hours and the singer ...

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