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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 ...

  • Vancouver’s grand connectivity plan

    Vancouver, whose council has been accused of not listening to the public and whose residents say they are lonely and alienated, launched the first steps on Wednesday of a plan to make people who live there more connected. "Vancouver is a dynamic city undergoing a great deal of change," Mayor Gregor Robertson said. "The connection between city hall and citizens is tenuous at the ...

  • Montreals boil-water warning inflames an already simmering city

    A man pretends to drink water out of a fire hydrant while his friend, not seen, takes a picture in Montreal on May 22, 2013. Montreal has issued a boil-water advisory to a large swath of the city affecting over one million residents after a water-filtration station broke down. (PAUL CHIASSON/THE CANADIAN ...

  • Toronto mayor fired from coaching job

    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford enters a council meeting about casino proposals at Toronto City Hall on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday, a close ally of Ford, said Wednesday, May 22, 2013 that Ford has followed legal advice in remaining silent about a purported video that appears to show him smoking crack cocaine. Holyday is urging Ford to address the video. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, ...

  • Most of Montreal told to boil drinking water

    MONTREAL -- More than one million Montreal residents are being told to boil their drinking water after a malfunction at Canada's second-biggest filtration plant.The malfunction resulted in brownish water gushing from fire hydrants and an unpleasant aroma wafting over parts of the city on Wednesday.The advisory applied to most of Montreal. City spokeswoman Valerie De Gagne and others ...

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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