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Ottawa Senators home has a new name Canadian Tire Centre
OTTAWA - The home of the Ottawa Senators has a new name. Scotiabank Place has been renamed the Canadian Tire Centre, with a long-term agreement taking effect July 1. The name was announced at a morning news conference. Signage at the 19,153-seat arena will be in place for the start of the 2013-14 National Hockey League ...
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Pavel Datsyuk agrees to 3-year extension with Red Wings
Pavel Datsyuk has agreed on a three-year contract extension with the Detroit Red Wings that ties him to the club through the 2016-17 season. Datsyuk took to Twitter to confirm the deal on Tuesday, soon after the team made its announcement of the extension. The Russian centre has one more year remaining on his current pact. "Signed 3 yr. extension. Detroit, glad to be here for 4 more ...
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Blue Jays Jose Reyes Brandon Morrow nearing return
Shortstop Jose Reyes, left, and starting pitcher Brandon Morrow, right, began their rehab assignments with Class-A affiliate Dunedin (Fla.) on Monday night with mixed results. (Associated Press/Getty ...
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Liberals want higher threshold for union salary disclosure
Rathgeber clause: Liberals in the Senate are seeking to amend a Conservative bill forcing disclosure of union expenses saying it ought to match another Conservative bill on disclosure of public sector salaries. That bill had been sponsored by backbench Tory MP Brent Rathgeber and had sought the publication of which civil servants made more than $188,000 a year. But then the Conservatives ...
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FHS students arrive in style to their prom
Fredericton High School graduates showed up in style to their prom on Monday night and continued a tradition of finding the most creative way to make their way to the event. Parents, friends and onlookers lined up on the campus of the University of New Brunswick to watch the FHS grads arrive for their prom. Alex Landine, a FHS student, said it was great to see so many people showing up to ...
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Moncton council passes climate-change plan
The city of Moncton has passed a climate-change adaptation plan and flood strategy, covering buildings, flood-plain standards and planning for emergency evacuation. The adaptation plan is based on an environmental report prepared for Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview. Eric Arsenault, the city's fire chief, said staff at emergency services are already working on a plan to implement the ...
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Canadians a silent threat to the U.S. blogger warns
(Shutterstock) An open letter to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio warns that Canadians are a "silent threat" to the U.S. and shouldn't be allowed to stay in the state longer than six months. But many people who commented on the blog post in ...
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Video Montreals interim mayor a self-styled corruption fighter faces fraud charges
The head of Quebec's anti-corruption squad says Michael Applebaum is facing 14 charges related to real-estate projects. The interim mayor of Montreal was arrested at his home Monday ...
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Elderly man desperate for the return of bike he rode across Canada
METRO VANCOUVER - Burnaby Mounties say an 85-year old man is devastated over the theft of a bike he rode across Canada in the mid-1980s.Cpl. Rick Skolrood, a spokesman for the RCMP, said the man kept the 10-speed Apollo bicycle mounted on the wall in his garage to remind him of his trip.In 1981, then 53, the man attempted to cross Canada on his bike but fell ill in Regina and had to abandon his ...
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‘Emergency’ crew response on UBC campus Tuesday is a mock training exercise RCMP
FILE PHOTO: Emergency responders occasionally conduct mock training exercises such as this one involving Vancouver Police Department at the West Coast Express tracks in 2009. Police and other agencies will do a similar exercise at UBC ...
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Senate hires motivational speakers to make them feel better about themselves
OTTAWA -- In the midst of a raging scandal over the abuse of taxpayers' money by senators, the Senate has hired two speakers to help denizens of the maligned upper chamber feel better about themselves. All senators, their staff and Senate employees have been invited to attend talks by communications consultant Barry McLoughlin and motivational speaker Marc-Andre Morel. According to an ...
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Posh Ottawa neighbourhood deporting squirrels across border into Quebec
It's a secret and illegal deportation that's apparently been going on for years. To outside observers, it appear a little, well, nuts. Some Ottawa residents are apparently spiriting their unwanted squirrels across the bridge and dumping them in neighbouring Quebec. Daniel Sylvester of Ottawa's posh Westboro neighbourhood said he recently noticed a squirrel in his ...
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Montreal mayor held in graft probe
The Toronto Comics Arts Festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, has of late made its name bringing over cutting-edge Japanese artists for signings, live drawing sessions and speaking events. The atmosphere at this year’s event, held in May, in many ways like ...
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Fitch Rates Air Canadas Proposed Senior Secured Credit Facilities BB-RR2
Fitch: Market Moves Bring Bank Interest Rate Risks to Forefront The recent rise in U.S. Treasury yields and speculation surrounding possible changes in the Fed's bond buying program have highlighted the potential risks faced by U.S. banks in a rising rate environment, according to Fitch Ratings. A sustained increase in interest rates, potentially signaling an end to the prolonged low rate ...
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Canada to maintain military counter-narcotics operations in Americas Peter MacKay
Canada will continue to deploy warships and military aircraft to joint anti-drug operations in the Caribbean and off the Pacific coast of Central America to show Ottawa's ongoing commitment to the counter-narcotics effort in the Americas, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said June 18, 2013. (Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN ...
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Montreal constable fails in bid to ban mocking ‘sexplosive’ porno flick
Stfanie Trudeau, a constable notorious because she has been dogged by complaints of police brutality, had complained that the Montreal adult-movie production house AD4 Distribution Inc. last fall released a film parodying her. In this Youtube framegrab, Constable Trudeau is pepper spraying student protesters. ...
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Lydia McLaughlin reveals she has made peace with Slade Smiley
cheeseburger , even though McLaughlin was right there. She was supposed to hear the comment, but she took great offense to it. Even though Smiley didn't mean anything rude about it, he didn't apologize for it. And all of a sudden, Gretchen Rossi got involved and fans quickly wondered if they would start feuding. According to a new tweet released on June ...
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Kate Gosselin ‘Fixing babies is part of my usual routine’
toys . And now, she is revealing that fixing her children's babies has become a routine for her. And with eight children, one can imagine that lots of toys break on occasion. According to a new tweet released on June ...
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Bethenny Frankel takes her daughter out of school to go to the zoo
daughter lots since she filed for divorce from her estranged husband Jason Hoppy around Christmas time. She hasn't really spoken out about the divorce on Twitter, but she has given a couple of interviews about her feelings, revealing that she is very heartbroken that things didn't work out with her and Hoppy. Just last week, she revealed that she would probably never get married again. ...
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Montreal Mayor Applebaum yet to respond after corruption arrest
Montrealers are awaiting a response from the city's embattled interim Mayor Michael Applebaum, one day after he was arrested by police, questioned, and charged with 14 offences including fraud, conspiracy, breach of trust, and corruption in municipal affairs. Applebaum was one of three Montreal-area public figures arrested early Monday morning. "He did suggest and he did indicate ...
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Bonnie Brooks out as president in HBC management shakeup
Hudson's Bay Company shook up its management team Tuesday, moving president Bonnie Brooks upstairs to the role of vice-chair of the company's board of directors and tapping chief merchant Liz Rodbell to take over the president's job. Canada's oldest retailer announced the changes in a press release Tuesday. Both individuals will report directly to company chairman Richard ...
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Stanley Cup Playoffs Tuesdays Need To Know
The Bruins seem to have the upper hand in the Stanley Cup final after a Game 3 shutout of the Blackhawks for a 2-1 series lead. However, there are plenty of questions ahead of Game 4 on Wednesday night (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 7:30 p.m. ET). Get up to speed on that contest and the rest of the news from around the NHL with this list, which will be updated throughout the ...
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Sharks extension for Logan Couture reportedly done
San Jose Sharks centre Logan Couture celebrates a playoff goal, with the club falling in the seventh game of the second round. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated ...
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Disabled womans care before dying on bus still a mystery
has broadcast a documentary about a 48-year-old Alberta woman with developmental problems, Betty Anne Gagnon, who died in November 2009 in a filthy converted bus that had no heat, electricity or running water. The relatives who were supposed to take care of her -- Gagnon's sister and the sister's husband -- await sentencing in her death, but friends of Gagnon say the pair's ...
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MPs and senators should meet higher ethical expectations
The debate over Justin Trudeau's speaking fees has raised questions about what MPs and senators should be allowed to earn on top of their parliamentary ...
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