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  • Toronto mayor denies video showing him smoking cocaine

    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has declined association with video-related clips that show him smoking cocaine. Someone who tried to sell it to Toronto Star newspaper filmed the footage on a smartphone. Toronto Star reporters were shown the video by an anonymous tipster in a car park. The newspaper claims that it did not pay money for the video and did not obtain the copy of the same and hence could ...

  • Criminal probe sought against Indo-Canadian politician

    A criminal investigation has been sought against an Indo-Canadian member of legislative assembly (MLA) of the ruling Progressive Conservatives party in the Canadian province of Alberta in a case of ethics violation. Leader of the opposition Wildrose party, Danielle Smith, has requested the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to conduct a criminal investigation into the actions of ...

  • Giant pandas settle into new home at Toronto Zoo

    The two giant pandas on a 10-year loan from China are living up to their rock-star status as they make their first public appearance in their new home at the Toronto Zoo on ...

  • Two men rescued from near-drowning after homemade boat capsizes in Ottawa River

    Peter Jiles, left, and Steve Brown look over a makeshift boat left at the scene of a near-drowning earlier Saturday, where the two helped save two men who encountered trouble after taking the craft onto the Ottawa River at Crystal Bay, May 18, ...

  • Whitecaps surrender late goal settle for draw with Timbers

    Vancouver Whitecaps' Erik Hurtado, right, and Portland Timbers' Jack Jewsbury vie for the ball during the second half. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian ...

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The Losers

The Losers

The best thing The Losers has going for it is its utter and complete lack of pretension. Based on a DC comic book series of the same title, it offers plenty of hyperkinetic violence whose purposeful lack of bloody verisimilitude both ensures a PG-13 rating despite massive levels of carn ... ...

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  • MacKinnon bests Jones leads Mooseheads over Winterhawks

    Halifax Mooseheads winger Stephen MacAulay congratulates Halifax Mooseheads centre Nathan MacKinnon after he scored his third goal against the Portland Winterhawks at the Memorial Cup in Saskatoon, Sask., on Saturday. (Liam Richards/Canadian ...

  • Three companies recall antipsychotic drug quetiapine Health Canada says

    Health Canada says the possibility of contamination was spotted at the pharmaceutical factory in China that produces quetiapine for the three companies -- Cobalt Pharmaceuticals Company, Laboratoires Riva Inc. and Sanis Health ...

  • MLS Columbus 1 Toronto FC 0

    Dominic Oduro scored in the 42nd minute Saturday and the Columbus Crew sent Toronto FC to a fourth straight loss, 1-0. The contest was scoreless until Oduro received an accurate pass from Federico Higuain and beat TFC defender Doneil Henry to find the net. The Crew broke a two-game winless streak with the result, improving to 4-4-3. The Reds, meanwhile, dropped to 1-6-4 and still had trouble ...

  • 1 person hurt after trains collide near Medicine Hat

    The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is sending a team to the site of a two-train collision on the CP line east of Medicine Hat. Officials say one CP freight train hit another Saturday afternoon. One person was injured and taken to hospital. "Our investigators are currently en route to the scene," said John Cottreau, manager of media relations for the TSB. ...

  • Crews respond to Inglewood blaze

    Crews were called to the scene of a second, two-home fire Saturday afternoon, this time in the southeast community of Inglewood. The blaze happened around 1 p.m. MT near Eighth Street S.E. and MacDonald Avenue. When crews arrived, one home was engulfed in flames which quickly spread to another home. "I just closed the door and ran outside the house," said Sadaf Habibi, a resident of ...

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