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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 ...

  • PQ to unveil secular ‘Charter of Quebec Values’ next fall

    The Parti Qubcois government will unveil its controversial secular charter under the more "positive" title Charter of Quebec Values next fall, postponing what is expected to be heated debate on religious accommodations.The Minister Responsible for Democratic Institutions, Bernard Drainville, said he hoped that widening the scope of the secular charter - which was originally scheduled ...

  • Why Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was deemed an unfit high school coach

    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford speaks to his Don Bosco Eagles team during the Metro Bowl quarter-final at Birchmount Park on Nov. 15, 2012. Ford has been dropped as volunteer coach of the high school football team. (Christopher Drost/THE CANADIAN ...

  • The Canadian government’s delaying tactics involving native children are harmful and wrong

    Nearly half of the 30,000 children in foster care in Canada are aboriginal, a horrifying figure first revealed by Statistics Canada's National Household Survey this month. In light of the magnitude of the problem and the vulnerability of the children, it's doubly horrifying to learn of the federal government's delaying tactics at a human-rights hearing into a complaint that Ottawa ...

  • Canada sets new aid for Peru linked to mining

    LIMA, Peru -; Canada's prime minister has announced a new package of development aid for Peru that environmentalists are viewing warily because it is closely tied to Canadian mining investments in the South American ...

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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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  • Busy inner-city parking spots may soon cost more in Calgary

    A council committee has accepted a plan to base inner-city parking rates on how popular parking is on any given street. The two-hour parking rates would also vary depending on the time of day. The new Calgary Parking Authority system would see the most expensive on-street rates drop from $5 to $4.50 an hour, but go up by at least $0.25 in other places depending on how busy those zones are. ...

  • Evacuation order issued for residents near Lindale Alta.

    An evacuation order was given to residents west of Lindale, Alta., after a new wildfire was discovered just before 3 p.m .Wednesday. High winds are fanning the fire which is listed as being out of control. The evacuation order affects people who live 4.8 kilometres north of Township Road 493, just over 3 kilometres west of RR 55 to Highway 759. Brazeau County officials said that evacuees can ...

  • Postal workers strike in Fort McMurray

    Postal workers in Fort McMurray held a wildcat strike on Wednesday after learning Canada Post plans to hire contractors to handle parcel deliveries. The workers, who are represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, set up pickets outside the postal depot after receiving a letter from management. Canada Post says the move is necessary because it can't hire enough workers in a ...

  • Woman injured after falling on Montreal metro tracks

    A woman is in hospital this evening with injuries she sustained after falling onto the tracks in the Plamondon metro station. Urgences Sant said the woman appears to have only minor injuries, but was taken to hospital as a precaution. Witnesses said she fell onto the tracks after stepping between two metro cars of a train that was stopped in the station. The STM is ...

  • End solitary confinement says former female inmate

    A Saskatchewan woman who was held in solitary confinement in B.C. for a total of 3 years has issued an emotional plea to end the practice in Canada's prisons. BobbyLee Worm, 26, has just settled a lawsuit filed against Corrections Canada on her behalf by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. But because of a confidentiality clause in the agreement, neither Worm nor the BCCLA was able to ...

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