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Brampton, Mississauga at odds over transit projects
Which transit plan will get the green light in Peel: the north-south LRT favoured by Metrolinx and Mississauga, or an east-west line Brampton councillors are pushing for? On Wednesday, Brampton councillors unanimously supported a list of priority Big Move transit projects that departs significantly from top projects favoured by Metrolinx and ... (more)
U.S. man's "supportive" web chat with suicidal Canadian teen "free speech": lawyer
An American man convicted in 2011 of posing as a young, depressed woman in an online "suicide chat room" and helping a Canadian teenager kill herself in 2008 has appealed the verdict to Minnesota's top court, arguing this week that the free-speech provisions of the U.S. First Amendment should have protected his "supportive" conversations with the ... (more)
Peel Regional Police are asking for help finding a 12-year-old Brampton girl missing since this morning .
Fundraiser is all about love and faith
Last year, on a cold December day, the course of Derrek Moseychuk's life altered and has not been the same since.
A look at Canada's future: Why our reporter is embedded in Brampton, Ont.
From left, Abhay Dev Shastri leads Mayank and Nikita Thakkar, their grandmother Krishna Luthra, and mother and father Rimple and Satish Thakkar through the Diwali ceremony of prayers and offerings at the Thakkar home in Brampton, Ont.
Brampton actor makes doc about bizarre stardom
When an out-of-work Brampton actor accidentally discovers through Facebook that he's been wildly famous in Serbia for almost two decades, he sets out to discover the reasons why - and you can find out too, at Toronto's Carleton Cinema today through to May 16.
Abbotsford's Sikh population has doubled in the past 10 years
According to information from the 2011 National Household Survey, released on Wednesday by Statistics Canada , 28,235 people living in the CMA belong to the Sikh faith.
Closed. MISSISSAUGA - All four Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen restaurants in Mississauga have closed down.
Former Faribault nurse appeals convictions for assisting suicides online
Michael Cera wrote and produced new season of Arrested Development
It's been ten years since Fox meta-comedy Arrested Development thrust a 15-year-old Michael Cera into the spotlight as the adorably awkward George Michael Bluth.
Mount Allison/ MFC's first BSc aviation class takes flight
Pictured are members of Mount Allison University's first bachelor of science in aviation class Justin Dwyer and Ish Patel.
Indo-Canadian MP's proposed bill set to become law - Indiatalkies.com
Toronto, May 10: A bill proposed by an Indo-Canadian member of Canada's parliament to make recruitment of youths in criminal gangs a crime has secured the support of the country's justice minister and is set to become a law.
Slaughter Nick for President: From star of cheesy cop show to Serbian cult hero
Rob Stewart as Nick Slaughter in the Canadian TV series Sweating Bullets, known outside the country as Tropical Heat.
Wynne rejects NDP's time frame demand for auto insurance cuts
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne appears before the legislature's justice committee at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on April 30, 2012.
The Four Corners of Brampton was the center of the old town of Brampton and although city planners have tried to expand the notion to include a bigger footprint called the Central planning area, concentration on the Four Corners seems to be the drift some members of council continue to support.
Sikh population nearly doubles in a decade in Canadian city
Toronto, May 9 : The Sikh population in the city of Abbotsford in the Canadian province of British Columbia almost doubled in the period between 2001 and 2011, show official figures.
A leap for some faiths, but many Canadians are losing their religion
Mariam Butt, 19 works inside her father's Halal butcher shop in Brampton, May 8, 2013.
Waddington, Backed by Olympus, to Buy Par-Pak
Waddington North America , which is backed by Olympus Partners , is buying Par-Pak Ltd.
Brampton bank employees lauded
A Brampton small business advisor and bank manager have landed top honours from their employer.
New immigrants feel a simmering rage
When Franky Dias came to Canada in 1990 from Dubai, he faced a couple months of unemployment before landing a job at one of the Big Five banks.