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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 ...

  • Senators on thin ice after Penguins crush Ottawa in Game 4

    Pittsburgh Penguins' Jarome Iginla (centre) is congratulated by teammates Evgeni Malkin (left) and James Neal after scoring against the Ottawa Senators during second period NHL playoff action in Ottawa, Wednesday May 22, 2013. (Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN ...

  • Calls mount for Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to address drug allegations

    With crack cocaine allegations involving Toronto Mayor Rob Ford swirling into a sixth day, and the city becoming fodder for late-night talk shows, the mayor's brother took to the microphone to try to quell the continuing scandal - but councillors and public relations experts said the damage control attempt was unlikely to ...

  • Judge concludes convicted dealer’s rights ‘were not taken seriously’ by Ottawa police

    OTTAWA -- A defence lawyer said she plans to seek a reduced sentence for a convicted drug dealer after a judge concluded that an Ottawa police officer repeatedly violated the man's rights, including intentionally causing him pain by standing on his ankles in the cellblock.Ontario Superior Court Justice Timothy Ray found that while Const. Paul Greenwood "might have gained ...

  • Prolific Penguins regain momentum in Game 4

    OTTAWA (AP) Jarome Iginla and James Neal each scored twice and the Pittsburgh Penguins routed the Ottawa Senators 7-3 on Wednesday night to take a 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal series. Sidney Crosby, Chris Kunitz and Pascal Dupuis also scored for Pittsburgh, and Tomas Vokoun made 30 saves. Down 2-1 after the first period, the Penguins scored twice in a 40-second span early in the ...

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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  • Cherry says Canuck coaches thrown down the drain

    Hockey Night in Canada's Don Cherry says three good guys in Canucks head coach Alain Vigneault and assistants Rick Bowness and Newell Brown go down the drain for the poor performance of GM Mike Gillis. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian ...

  • Lindale fire doubles in size within hours

    A fire which was discovered west of Lindale, Alta. around 3 p.m. Wednesday more than doubled in size over a couple of hours. According to Brazeau County, the fire grew from 17 hectares around 6 p.m. to 36 hectares just after 8 p.m. One out-building has been destroyed so far. The fire jumped Township Road 500 early Wednesday evening. The evacuation order affects people who live along Township ...

  • Smudge the Hotel Macdonalds friendliest greeter

    Edmonton's Hotel Macdonald has taken an unusual step to help stressed-out travelers feel at home --a "canine ambassador'" who welcomes guests with a wag of her tail. Smudge the yellow Labrador Retriever "works" from Monday to Friday. Her duties include offering a friendly greeting to anyone who passes through the doors of the elegant Fairmont hotel and ...

  • Housing slowdown to worsen cost 7500 jobs in Vancouver mortgage group says

    Almost a year after the federal government's latest tightening of the rules for insured mortgages, the association that represents mortgage brokers has come out with a dire assessment of the effect of those changes.Canada's housing market is slowing dramatically in terms of both sales and construction, dragging down economic growth and putting some 150,000 jobs at risk in coming ...

  • Task force finds ways for Vancouver to engage its citizens

    Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson, flanked by several members of the city’s Engaged City Task Force, announces the task force’s initial recommendations for better civic engagement at the Collingwood community centre on ...

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