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3 hrs ago | Peterborough Examiner

City of Kawartha Lakes OPP takes to YouTube in effort to solve...

Investigators are hoping social media websites could help them solve a missing person case that arose as a result of the investigating human remains found near Bobcaygeon in 2005.

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8 hrs ago | Bloomberg.com

Xstrata to Take $2.4 Billion in Charges, Close Ontario Copper, Zinc Plants

Xstrata Plc will take about $2.4 billion of impairment charges on its earnings after cutting the value of nickel assets and closing Canadian copper and zinc smelters.

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Related Topix: Mining, Metals, Switzerland, World News, Canada,

12 hrs ago | Globe and Mail

Overdose deaths from painkillers skyrocketing in Ontario: report

Overdose deaths from painkillers skyrocketing in Ontario: report OxyContin pills photographed at a pharmacy in Toronto, Ont.

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Related Topix: Medicine, OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone (generic), Medication, Canada, Drugs, Percocet, Acetaminophen/Oxycodone (generic), Epidemic, Natural Disasters

16 hrs ago | PR-inside.com

DapTechnologya s FireLink 1394b LLC Ip Core Enhances PixeLINKa s Firewire Vision

DapTechnology, a leading world supplier of advanced IEEE 1394 technology solutions to the aerospace, defense, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics markets, announced today that PixeLINK of Ottawa, Ontario has selected and is currently integrating the DapTechnology FireLink 1394b Link Layer Controller IP Core as a key component of the ...

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Related Topix: Canada, Cameras

20 hrs ago | WSVN-TV Miami Beach

Toronto to host G20 summit in June

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday a G-20 summit planned for an Ontario resort town in June will be moved to Toronto instead.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Stephen Harper, South Korea,

Yesterday | Times-Transcript

Markets gains could be elusive

Stock markets could find gains elusive this week even as last week's U.S. employment report for November raised hopes that an economic rebound is under way.

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Mon Dec 07, 2009

Squamish Chief

Opioid deaths, most inadvertent, soar since OxyContin hits Canadian market

Accidental deaths due to use of opioid painkillers in Ontario have soared over the past couple of decades, increasing dramatically after a new long-acting version of the drug oxycodone - sold as OxyContin - hit the market, a new study suggests.

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Related Topix: Medicine, OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone (generic), Medication, Drugs, Canada, Health, Pain

Telegram

Victims remembered at ceremony: Massacre at Ecole Polytechnique brings country together

Does it make you angry that Newfoundland and Labrador is one of only two provinces that doesna t have a PET/CT scanner that can greatly advance cancer diagnosis and early treatment in patients? Yes No No, but concerned view past polls BLOGS CONTESTS Last updated at 8:35 AM on 07/12/09 Catherine Taylor has tears in her eyes recalls a personal ...

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News

Los Angeles Times

Weezer lead singer hurt in tour bus crash

Glen, NEW YORK -- The lead singer of rock band Weezer and one other person were hospitalized Sunday after their tour bus crashed in upstate New York.

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Related Topix: Canada, Weezer, Pop/Rock, Amsterdam, NY, Entertainment

680News

Toronto to host G20 summit in June 2010

Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirmed Monday that Toronto will host the G20 summit on June 26 and 27 in 2010.

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The Globe and Mail

Canada weighs end to Afghan army training after 2011

Canada weighs end to Afghan army training after 2011 Canadian soldiers accompanied by Afghan National Army soldiers secure the area near Howz-e-Madad ahead of a 'shura' in the Panjwaii District of southern Afghanistan as Chinook helicopters hover overhead.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, North America, Canada, Travel, Afghanistan Travel, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization),

The Brampton Guardian

Affordable housing units on the books for Peel Region

Peel Region is moving forward on a plan to build more affordable housing units in Brampton and Mississauga.

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Sun Dec 06, 2009

CANOE

Canadian books Virgin Galactic

After studying space physics and learning how to fly, John Criswick's childhood dream of becoming an astronaut was shattered in 1992 when he did not get selected by the Canadian Space Agency.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Canada, North America, World News, Canada Travel, Calgary, Canada Travel, Travel, Mojave, CA

Canoe

Experts want governing body to audit animal shelters

A raid on the Toronto humane society last month that has resulted in animal cruelty charges against some staff has prompted some animal welfare experts to call for a national governing body to regularly audit animal shelters.

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Related Topix: Animal Rights, Canada,

Hartford Courant

Weezer Lead Singer Hurt in Tour Bus Crash

Glen, NEW YORK -- The lead singer of rock band Weezer and one other person were hospitalized Sunday after their tour bus crashed in upstate New York.

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CANOE

Legal loophole cited in Ottawa sex trade

In the city of Ottawa, there are 28 body rub parlours. Twenty-seven of them have licences.

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Canada.com

U.S. urges Canada to 'stay as long as possible' in Afghanistan

A soldier from the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry patrols a field in Afghanistan during a 2008 operation in the Zhari district.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, North America, Canada, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Europe, Germany,

Sat Dec 05, 2009

Toronto Sun

Man slain, 3 shot in highrise

One of the victims of a Thursday night shooting being attended to by Toronto paramedics.

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Edmonton Journal

Missing Toronto teen may be in Grande Prairie area: RCMP

Alberta police say a missing Toronto teen may be in the Grande Prairie area, 450 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.

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SooToday

House of Commons approves HST

By a vote of 192 to 32, members of parliament today passed the Conservative government's proposed harmonized sales tax in British Columbia and Ontario.

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