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  • Space was too good not to share it says Canadian astronaut

    Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has said that he his life in space was "too good" to not share on social media. With nearly 1 million Twitter followers, Cmdr Hadfield, who was on the International Space Station (ISS) since December 2012 and landed on Tuesday, has a following of nearly 1 million people on Twitter. Hadfield, who was in command of the vessel since March, tweeted about his life ...

  • Stanley Cup Stories Crosby helps Penguins fly

    Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Tomas Vokoun, left, is congratulated by teammates Sidney Crosby and Paul Martin after they defeated the Ottawa Senators in Game 2 in Pittsburgh, Penn., Friday. (Jason ...

  • Lawyer says RCMP refuses to mediate harassment suit

    A lawyer representing 300 women who worked for the RCMP alleging harassment and gender-based discrimination in a lawsuit says the national police force is declining an offer to mediate. "The RCMP indicated they have no interest to discuss settlement. It comes as a big surprise to us," said Vancouver class action lawyer David Klein. But earlier this year, RCMP commissioner Bob ...

  • Why the Liberals were able to predict their victory in B.C. while public election polls missed the mark

    Late last week, four days before ';E-Day,'; pollster Dimitri Pantazopoulos met senior members of the B.C. Liberal Party’s campaign team, including former MLA and finance minister Colin Hansen. ';We’ve got 48 seats,'; Mr. Pantazopoulos told them. Popular support was in their party’s favour, enough to win a fourth consecutive Liberal majority government. ...

  • U.S. Russia and Canada failed to share information from investigations into Canadian jihadi Boston bomber

    Set among auto shops on an industrial backstreet, the Imdadul Islamic Centre occupies a low building that housed a furniture business before it was converted into a mosque with a shiny silver dome. Founded by Guyanese Muslims, it has been a federally regulated charity in good standing since 1986. The mosque secretary, Osman Khan, co-chairs Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair's Muslim ...

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Ocean's Thirteen

Ocean's Thirteen

If one were superstitious enough, one might imagine that there is some danger involved in having the word Thirteen in the title of a movie about conning a Las Vegas casino out of millions of dollars. However, in the case of Ocean's Thirteen, the dreaded unlucky number turns out ... ...

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  • Canada’s NDP denounces China signals support for Obama’s “Asia Pivot”

    Canada's Official Opposition, the trade union-backed New Democratic Party (NDP), brought forward a motion last month to scuttle the recently negotiated Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA).Though their motion was doomed to be overwhelmingly defeated and quickly forgotten, the social democrats used the occasion to repeatedly denounce the ...

  • Photos London beats Saskatoon 3-2 in Memorial Cup

    Saskatoon Blades goaltender Andrey Makarov stops a shot from London Knights centre Ryan Rupert during first period Memorial Cup action in Saskatoon, Sask., on Friday, May 17, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam ...

  • Wharnsby Senators in need of home cooking

    Ottawa Senators goalie Craig Anderson, left, lets in a goal by Pittsburgh Penguins sniper Sidney Crosby, not shown, as Penguins forward Pascal Dupuis, right, and Ottawa Senators winger Cory Conacher watch during the first period of Game 2 in Pittsburgh, Penn. (Jason ...

  • Did You See That Crosby burns Senators with hat trick

    Pittsburgh Penguins sniper Sidney Crosby almost single-handedly took down the Ottawa Senators on Friday, scoring a hat trick in his team's 4-3 Game 2 win. (Justin K. Aller/Getty ...

  • Update Man charged in deaths of Calgary woman and her son

    Calgary police have charged a man in the deaths of a woman and her young son. Thirty-five-year-old Chona Manzano and five-year-old Gabriel Manzano were found dead Thursday in a home on the northwest edge of the city. Police say a family member was alerted to a problem and went to the home around lunch time. He found the woman’s body on the main floor of the house and the child ...

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