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Man beheaded on bus
Seeded on Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:53 PM EDT (The Globe and Mail)
A young man traveling on a Greyhound bus to Winnipeg was stabbed to death and beheaded by a stranger in a horrifying act of apparently random violence.
Omar Khadr: The interrogation
Seeded on Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:08 PM EDT (The Globe and Mail)
Remarkable footage of Canadian federal agents questioning Omar Khadr - a16-year-old al-Qaeda suspect - was released after a series of court orders.
Buying local becoming impossible
Seeded on Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:23 PM EDT (Toronto Star)
The last Canadian fruit canning plant in plant east of the Rockies, and located in Ontario, served notice that it is shutting down in June.
Pickton convicted of 6 counts of 2nd degree murder
Seeded on Sun Dec 9, 2007 5:49 PM EST (The Globe and Mail)
Pig farmer Robert Pickton has been convicted of six counts of second-degree murder related to dozens of missing women from Vancouver's impoverished Downtown Eastside.
Water bottles pulled from Canada's largest outdoor-goods retailer
Seeded on Fri Dec 7, 2007 9:52 AM EST (The Globe and Mail)
Mountain Equipment Co-op has quietly pulled most food and beverage containers made of polycarbonate plastic (such as those made by Nalgene) from its shelves, citing concern over possible health risks caused by by hormone disruption.
Honest Ed is dead
Seeded on Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:58 AM EDT (The Globe and Mail)
Toronto's Ed Mirvish -- the man who helped establish the city's theatre community and is famous for his brightly illuminated discount store -- has died, just weeks before his 93rd birthday.
Reporter to be Ontario's next Lieutenant-Governor
Seeded on Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:59 PM EDT (The Globe and Mail)
David Onley, a long-time reporter, anchor and host of Toronto's CITY-TV, will be the lieutenant-governor of Canada's most populous province.
Free speech goes up in smoke at school
Seeded on Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:40 AM EDT (The Globe and Mail)
A Saskatchewan high school student does research on the effects of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana that prompts a school lockdown, calls to the police, and a suspension from school that prevented the student from writing his final exams.
Warners cuts Canadian promo screenings
Seeded on Tue May 8, 2007 11:27 AM EDT (The Globe and Mail)
It's the first major salvo in a long-simmering dispute: Warners won't be pre-screening its movies in Canada because it claims that "within the first week of a film's release, you can almost be certain that somewhere out there a Canadian copy will show up."
Sarkozy wins French election
Seeded on Sun May 6, 2007 2:33 PM EDT (The Globe and Mail)
Conservative reformer Nicolas Sarkozy has been elected president of France by a comfortable margin in what is likely a record voter turnout, according to exit polls. His Socialist opponent, Segolene Royal, conceded minutes after polls closed.
Rheostatics say farewell
Seeded on Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:11 PM EDT (The Globe and Mail)
The band that helped define Canadian indie rock is calling it quits after nearly 27 years, and their rhythm guitarist Dave Bidini recalls underage shows, Creed, and cops rescuing cassettes from a burning car.
CBC keeping Hockey Night in Canada
Seeded on Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:04 AM EDT (globesports.com)
The Canadian broadcasting institution, Hockey Night in Canada, will stay on CBC for at least another five years, despite increased pressure to move it to TSN.
Glitch shuts down Web tax filing
Seeded on Wed Mar 7, 2007 8:31 AM EST (The Globe and Mail)
The Canada Revenue Agency shutdown its online tax filings service indefinitely after discovering data irregularities in some of its 75 databases related to the electronic filing of personal taxes. Canada's deadline for filing taxes is April 30
DNA used to hunt poachers
Seeded on Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:10 AM EST (The Globe and Mail)
With more than 20,000 elephants being illegally killed for their ivory tusks, DNA may help authorities track down poaching hotspots.
Giant sinkhole swallows homes in Guatemala City
Seeded on Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:36 PM EST (The Globe and Mail)
Two teenagers were killed and dozens of home disapeared as a massive 100-metre-deep sinkhole in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood.
ThinkFilm sale puts Cdn. films at risk
Seeded on Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:52 PM EST (The Globe and Mail)
Almost 50 Canadian movies that havn't yet been distributed, are trapped in limbo after ThinkFilm was sold to an American.
CanWest to buy Alliance Atlantis
Seeded on Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:31 PM EST (The Globe and Mail)
CanWest Global has partnered with Goldman Sachs to purchase Alliance Atlantis for about C$2.5 billion. CanWest is Canada's largest media company; Alliance owns a number of specialty channels, a major movie distribution company, and a 50% in the CSI television franchise.
Canadian money talks -- literally
Seeded on Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:22 AM EST (The Globe and Mail)
At least three American contractors visiting Canada, have found in their pockets coins containing tiny transmitters.
iPhone hits Blackberry stock
Seeded on Tue Jan 9, 2007 2:16 PM EST (The Globe and Mail)
RIM -- the maker of the Blackberry -- shed more than 5% of its stock price after Apple introduced its iPhone. Apple's share price, coincidentally, was up 5%.
Canada's Harper: Kyoto still not doable
Seeded on Mon Jan 8, 2007 8:41 AM EST (The Globe and Mail)
Despite a recent cabinet shuffle and internal pressure to emphasis environmental issues, Stephen Harper's government doesn't seem willing to become more green. On Sunday he reiterated the government won't meet its Kyoto pledge, and will in fact by 50% above its target in 2012.
Canadian actors on strike
Seeded on Mon Jan 8, 2007 8:24 AM EST (The Globe and Mail)
ACTRA has told its 21,000 members not to go to work in three of Canada's provinces as a negotiations over wage equity came to a end.
Stéphane Dion wins Canada's Liberal leadership
Seeded on Sat Dec 2, 2006 6:33 PM EST (The Globe and Mail)
Dion's surprising victory sees the staunch federalist, and former professor and environment minister assume the role of Canada's Leader of the Opposition.
Toronto's NFL push
Seeded on Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:42 AM EST (globesports.com)
With the NFL expansion beyond the U.S., a powerful group of pro-team owners in Toronto is pushing to get regular-season NFL games played there by 2009.
Alternative proposed for Canada's Clean Air Act
Seeded on Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:16 PM EST (The Globe and Mail)
The widely panned Clean Air Act proposed by Canada's government has a challenger in the form of a bill proposed by NDP leader Jack Layton. Unlike the government's act, the NDP version calls for the rapid regulation of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.
George Romero haunts Toronto
Seeded on Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:37 AM EST (The Globe and Mail)
The creator of the zombie genre, which started with "Night of the Living Dead", is living in Toronto and filming a new "Dead" movie to help reclaim what he lost.
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