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Yesterday | Canada.com

Veteran newspaper editor Neil Reynolds dead at age 72

The Ottawa Citizen, where he served as editor between 1996 and 2000, reported on its website that Reynolds died in Ottawa on Sunday of cancer.

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Related Topix: Journalism,

Yesterday | The Province

It's a monk's life at Westminster Abbey, Mission's own Benedictine Monastery

Father Alban Riley at the Westminster Abbey in Mission, which was built in the 1950s.

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Related Topix: Canada, Pope Benedict XVI, Home Gardening, Home

Sunday | Canada.com

Harper government buying ads to promote job grant program that doesn't yet exist

Prime-time ads began airing this week during NHL playoff games - currently the priciest advertising real estate on the dial - that tout a new federal Canada Jobs Grant for training workers.

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Wed May 15, 2013

The Miami Herald

Bryan Adams strips down in concert, shares photographs

On Friday, Adams brings his acoustic Bare Bones Tour to Miami's historic Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts.

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Related Topix: Miami, FL, Canada,

The Chronicle Herald

Making a Mark: Students argue way to victory

The two students at Sacred Heart School of Halifax won the International Competition for Young Debaters in Cambridge, England, on May 4. Flynn, a Grade 9 student, and Roach, a Grade 10 student, won first and second place respectively against debaters from England, Scotland, Greece, Dubai and Germany.

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Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, Cambridgeshire County, England, Canada, Knoxville, TN

Tue May 14, 2013

The Globe and Mail

Mark Mattson a defender of the lakes

Mark Mattson spent his summers growing up on Wolfe Island, near Kingston, where his family has owned property since 1865, swimming, fishing and watching the ducks scudding across the lake.

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SooToday

Andras accused of breaking into bank

ELLIOT LAKE, ON At approximately 7:39 p.m. on May 13, 2013, the East Algoma OPP received a call of a suspicious male on the roof of a local bank on Mary Walk in Elliot Lake.

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Related Topix: Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, MI

Wed May 08, 2013

Edmonton Journal

More Canadians denying religious affiliations, survey finds

The proportion of Christians in Canada has dropped over the past decade - in large part due to increases in religious minorities as a percentage of the population - but a closer look at Wednesday's National Household Survey data suggests The Shepherd has not lost His flock.

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Surrey Leader

First film with 3D thermal imaging screened at SFU Surrey

Still image from Philippe Baylaucq's film ORA, which features 3D thermal images unlike anything seen in film to date.

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Related Topix: Dance, Canada,

Tue May 07, 2013

Mi2n

Ottawa Rockers DOLL Announce 'Rolling To Rock Tour'; New Music Video 'Plastic Lies'

Website: http://www.dollband.net Music: http://youtu.be/8o-LiMAt5zM Ottawa, ON's female fronted alternative rockers DOLL are proud to announce they will be hitting the road for their 'Rolling To Rock Your' in Ontario and Quebec followed by US dates in support of their latest release 'The Ragdoll Diaries', the hard hitting follow up to their popular ... (more)

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Related Topix: Canada, Taylor, MI,

Mon May 06, 2013

Small dead animals

'No Visitors, No Auditors'

Imagine you'd enrolled in an undergraduate course last fall called "Jewish Women in Historical Perspective" at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

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Watertown Daily Times

Texas man admits trying to travel to Canada for purpose of sex with underage boy

A Texas man detained in July 2011 at the Alexandria Bay port of entry admitted April 26 in federal court that he was traveling in the area en route to Canada for the purpose of trying to engage in sexual conduct with a person under age 18.

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Related Topix: Prison, Elgin, TX, Canada,

Fri May 03, 2013

Lethbridge Herald

Calling all mad men: Harper government seeks bids for new 'action plan' ads

The Harper government is looking for a creative contractor to continue those feel-good "economic action plan" ads that have blanketed the airwaves for the past four years.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News,

Globe and Mail

Selection of central bank chief may raise questions about independence

Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, incoming Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz and outgoing governor Mark Carney pause before walking to a news conference announcing Mr.

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Thu May 02, 2013

Lake Cowichan Gazette

After seven decades, they'll rest together

With a parachute strapped to his back, Hugh Lockhart Gordon climbs aboard a Royal Canadian Air Force plane.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Boat Disaster,

Wed May 01, 2013

Ottawa Citizen

Suicide of soldier assigned to secret unit raises new questions about help for troubled vets

Master Corporal Charles Matiru in Afghanistan. Matiru killed himself in January after a battle with PTSD.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News,

CBC News

Gun seizures up but fears of porous border remain

The Canada Border Services Agency last year seized twice the number of weapons at border crossings compared to six years ago, according to a CBC News analysis of agency data, but experts fear little progress is being made in stemming the flow of illegal guns into Canada.

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CBC News

Gun seizures up but fears of porous border remain

The Canada Border Services Agency last year seized twice the number of weapons at border crossings compared to six years ago, according to a CBC News analysis of agency data, but experts fear little progress is being made in stemming the flow of illegal guns into Canada.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Prison,

Tue Apr 30, 2013

Kidney International

Dietary vitamin K and therapeutic warfarin alter the susceptibility...

Correspondence: Rachel M. Holden, Department of Medicine, 3048C Etherington Hall, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3V6.

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Related Topix: Supplement, Vitamin K, Canada,

Canada.com

Auditor general: By the numbers

Yes, the last name is real. That last name has followed me through my years in the news business, which includes stops in rural Newfoundland, Toronto and Kingston, Ont.

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