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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 ...
Quebecers polled on ‘problem’ of religious accommodations as PQ delays introduction of Charter of Secularism

The Parti Quebecois government, already involved in a political battle to toughen the province’s language law, has placed another emotionally charged identity issue on the back burner. The government has delayed its plan to set limits on religious accommodations until the fall and even begun referring to it in less contentious terms. The PQ campaigned last year on a promise to introduce ...
Iron ore copper gold potash to drive Canadian 2013 exports--EDC

Iron ore shipments, strong copper production and a 20% increase in Ontario's gold output are expected to give a huge boost to Canada's exports, advises Canada's export credit ...
Anti-abortion group targets Calgary MP

Calgary Centre-North Conservative MP Michelle Rempel’s image is on postcards featuring photos of aborted fetuses and they’re being distributed in her ...
Senators Alfredsson on defeating Penguins Probably not

The Ottawa Senators will have to prolong their season in enemy territory after a disappointing 7-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 4, and their captain struggled to see the series ending in his team's ...

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Chicago 10 [DVD]

Give due credit to Brett Morgen: He has taken an already well-trodden piece of recent American history and not only made it vibrant and new, but also painfully, strikingly relevant. Chicago 10, a bravura documentary-cum-polemic about the circus trial of eight (later seven) defendants ... ...

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Exhibit celebrating defunct WHA coming to Calgary

Don (Smokey) McLeod played in goal for the Calgary Cowboys in the World Hockey Association. The team played two seasons in Calgary, from 1975 to ...
Conservative Senate leader calls for ‘greater transparency’ in order to ‘regain the public’s trust’

Senators should disclose their expenses just as cabinet ministers do, the top Conservative in the Senate says, meaning the details of every trip and every receipt could be made public. The comments from Sen. Marjory LeBreton came as the Conservatives began their push in the Senate to tighten spending rules on travel and housing allowances. Approval of the changes is unlikely to occur until next ...
AL roundup Jose Bautista hits 2 HRs in Torontos 4-3 win over Tampa Bay

TORONTO - Jose Bautista homered twice and drove in the winning run with a 10th-inning single, leading the Toronto Blue Jays to a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday.Bautista went 4 for 4 with a walk and four RBIs. Three other players had one hit, but that was it for Toronto's offense.Facing Cesar Ramos (1-1), Colby Rasmus reached on an infield single to begin the 10th. Rasmus ...
Canada U.S. test at Edmonton rugby park as tune-up for World Cup qualifiers

Opening game of Pacific Nations Cup runs on Saturday; Canadian manager ecstatic team will ‘get high-quality games’ against Fiji, Tonga next ...
Top hockeynight tweets from Wednesday

The focus was on the Senators and the Penguins in Game 4 on Wednesday night, and the goals just piled up. The Twitter world was there to respond as Pittsburgh defeated Ottawa ...

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Smallest known plant-eating dinosaur found in Canada

A team of paleontologists from the University of Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, Cleveland Museum of Natural History and University of Calgary have identified a new dinosaur, the smallest plant-eating dinosaur species known from Canada.

Albertadromeus syntarsus was identified from a partial hind leg, and other skeletal elements, that indicate it was a speedy runner. Approximately 1.6 m (5 ft) long, it weighed about 16 kg (30 lbs), comparable to a large turkey.

Albertadromeus lived in what is now southern Alberta in the Late Cretaceous, about 77 million years ago.

Albertadromeus syntarsus means "Alberta runner with fused foot bones". Unlike its much larger ornithopod cousins, the duckbilled dinosaurs, its two fused lower leg bones would have made it a fast, agile two-legged runner. This animal is the smallest known plant-eating dinosaur in its ecosystem, and researchers hypothesize that it used its speed to avoid predation by the many species of meat-eating dinosaurs that lived at the same time.

Albertadromeus was discovered in 2009 by study co-author David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum as part an on-going collaboration with Michael Ryan of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History to investigate the evolution of dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of North America. ...