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  • `Ageing Asia to strain worlds long-term economic growth

    The Asia-Pacific region will continue to power global economic growth in 2013, but the region's increasing ageing population will cast a shadow on the long-term development, according to a Canadian think-tank. "Productivity gains and a large, young working-age population have done much to boost Asian economic growth over the past three decades. But Asia's demographic dividend is quickly coming ...

  • Canada terror suspect says attorney must use holy book

    TORONTO (AP) — A man accused of plotting to derail a train in Canada with support from al-Qaida is asking to be represented by a defense attorney willing to use the "holy book" as a reference in his case.During a hearing Thursday Chiheb Esseghaier requested a court-appointed lawyer who will use the "holy book" as a reference. The Tunisian-born Muslim was apparently ...

  • On Site Contemporary design for a new Toronto hub

    redpathcondos.com Peter Freed, the pioneer developer behind a string of popular King West condominiums, is now planting the flag in midtown Toronto with a plan to develop a series of contemporary high-rises in the Yonge-Eglinton ...

  • Finally signs of progress at Sears Canada

    There's still a long and difficult road ahead - especially given Target's arrival this year in the Canadian retail scene - but there are early signs that the turnaround efforts ...

  • Read the letter that the RCMP sent the Senate

    Senator Marjory LeBreton talks to media in Senate Foyer on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Thursday, May 9, 2013 regarding an audit on Senators housing expenses. (Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN ...

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The Exorcist

The Exorcist

"The Exorcist" is a great, stunning contradiction of a movie. At once an honest, disturbing exploration of the darker aspects of religion and the spiritual world, it is also an unabashed horror movie, a drive-in splatter flick with an Oscar-winning director and expensive production values. When the film was completed, no one was exactly sure what it was: was it an art film or a exploitation shocke ... ...

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  • TV importers accuse Ottawa of misleading tariff rulings

    Importers of popular electronics such as big-screen TVs and MP3 players are ramping up their fight against federal tariff changes, accusing the government of misleading them by offering tariff breaks that it planned to claw back later.Importers of televisions are already on the hook for about $16-million in retroactive duties from 2011 after last year's crackdown on a particular tariff ...

  • RCMP now looking into Senate expenses scandal

    The RCMP has come calling at Canada's beleaguered Senate, asking for documents that it says will help determine "whether there are grounds to launch a criminal investigation" of expense claims filed by Mike Duffy, Patrick Brazeau and Mac Harb. ...

  • Ontarios LCBO goes casual as union wins right to ditch the ties

    They also bargained for the right to ditch their ties."The employer agreed to discontinue use of ties and cross-over ties," the Ontario Public Service Employees Union says in the highlights of the tentative deal.(There's also now a $200-a-year clothing allowance for seasonal workers, but presumably that money won't be spent on ties.)The opt-out-of-the-tie provision of the ...

  • Embattled Toronto mayor fires chief of staff

    While the firing comes amid a scandal involving a video purportedly showing the mayor smoking crack cocaine, City Councillor Jaye Robinson said it had to do with football. Ford was fired as coach of a Catholic high school football team on ...

  • Boards Of Canada Share New Video Song

    Scottish brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin -- known almost exclusively as Boards of Canada -- have had the electronic music world ...

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