As beleaguered Mayor Rob Ford maintained his silence over a crack cocaine crisis that shows no signs of waning, his brother, Councillor Doug Ford, blasted the media in an unusual speech at city hall. Doug Ford spent much of the speech reciting what he said were the mayor’s accomplishments. Repeatedly interrupted by reporters who sought [...]
Kids exposed to a suicide by one of their school peers are far more likely to consider or attempt suicide themselves, a new study shows. The study, published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, concluded 12- and 13-year-olds are at least five times more likely to “seriously consider attempting suicide” after learning one of [...]
Mike Duffy is radioactive. The one-time Conservative cheerleader is now the poster boy for the filth which envelops the party brand. The man holed up on Friendly Lane in Cavendish, P.E.I., has brought down one of the most powerful men in Canada, shaken the Stephen Harper government to its core and blown a hole in [...]
A week from now, thousands of people will fan out across Greater Toronto to take advantage of a once-a-year opportunity to poke inside intriguing buildings that are often closed to the public. As in previous years, the Doors Open roster includes architectural gems, cultural or religious institutions, and heritage buildings. But there will be no [...]
Even in the moments before hope collapsed into grief, before a grisly discovery they prayed would never come, hundreds were tweeting: find Tim Bosma. Bosma was a 32-year-old, churchgoing husband to his wife, Sharlene, father to a 2-year-old daughter and owner of a beloved Great Dane. He listed his 2007 Dodge Ram pickup truck online [...]
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You know there’s a problem when the minister gets involved. Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton this week weighed into the growing disconnect between hip-hop and big brands by sitting down with PepsiCo, which recently dropped brand ambassador Lil Wayne over insensitive lyrics. Also attending the meeting were relatives of Emmett Till, who’d complained the [...]
And you thought they were done nickeling and diming us. Hardly, and Frontier is not alone with new or newly increased fees. Have they all gone nuts? ABC News: Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this [...]
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is upping the ante in a high-stakes game of political poker with Premier Kathleen Wynne. With a -million June election on the table, Horwath on Wednesday said Wynne must sweeten the pot to win NDP support for the Liberal budget. To that end, she wants an independent “Financial Accountability Office” — [...]
More than 23 kilograms of suspected heroin was seized at Pearson International Airport in April, the Canada Border Services Agency said Monday. The seizures, which occurred on April 21 and 28, came off of flights from Pakistan. After monitoring the baggage off-load, officers seized two suspicious pieces of luggage and found several taped packages of [...]
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