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    Advice for designating a power of attorney

    “I will be forever haunted by the memory of the look of horror on my mother’s face when she saw the balance on her TD account was $14.54,” Royale’s other son Ron Klimitz said in a victim impact statement he prepared for the sentencing. Solomon Klimitz died in July 2007 of health issues. At that...
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    Lottery winner on his way to jail

    Ten years ago, Dan Carley was a young man celebrating a $5-million lottery win with his parents, friends and fiancée. Today, the 35-year-old St. Catharines man is locked up in a detention centre en route to a federal penitentiary, sentenced last week to two and a half years for cocaine...
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    Candidate for UNSG denied a visa by Canada

    Traoré called the ordeal a "worrying" and "dreadful lesson in democracy." A candidate to succeed Ban Ki-moon as United Nations secretary general is among those denied a visa by Canadian immigration officials for this week's World Social Forum in Montreal. Aminata Traoré, a high-profile...
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    Nova Scotia councillor "I'm not your n--ger"

    A town council in Nova Scotia has decided not to reprimand a veteran councillor, police board member and mayoral candidate who admitted to using a racial slur. George Baker is a councillor in Amherst, a town of nearly 10,000 near the New Brunswick border. Baker, who is white, admits he said...
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    Do you ever lie awake wondering what it is that

    Finance Canada, the Privy Council Office and Treasury Board Secretariat actually do? Well, wonder no more ........ Calgary Homeless Foundation » Ten things to know about central agencies in Canada
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    NDP releases documents showing birth of 'Enron' clause

    The provincial government is on the offensive after facing tough backlash regarding a lawsuit they brought forward late last month against several energy companies. The NDP government faced almost immediate criticism from the Wildrose Party, the PC party of Alberta and the likes of Calgary...
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    Did Pharma and Insurance Issues Cause These 5 Deaths

    Police found a handwritten “murder-suicide” note in a Pennsylvania home where a family of five, including a toddler who underwent a heart transplant a week after birth, was found dead of gunshot wounds, prosecutors said Sunday. Mark Short was 40 and his wife was 33. Their three children were...
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    Report on Body Found a Week After Death i

    A coroner has issued his recommendations after the body of an elderly woman was found one in a St. Jean sur Richelieu seniors' home a week after her death. The body of Jeannine Benjamin, 85, was found by a maintenance worker at the Chartwell Oasis St. Jean on May 14, 2015. While she died...
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    Being lazy is a sign of high intelligence

    New research seems to prove the theory that brainy people spend more time lazing around than their active counterparts. Findings from a US-based study seem to support the idea that people with a high IQ get bored less easily, leading them to spend more time engaged in thought. And active...
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    Looks like Wynnetario Will Privatize the LCBO

    I believe that the Ontario Liberal government, should it win re-election in 2018. is planning to privatize the LCBO, surely one of our crown jewels, given the huge profits that go into the provincial treasure each year. Indeed, in fiscal 2013-2014, it made a record profit of $1.74 billion, more...
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    Last journalists leave Fleet Street

    At its height, "the Street of Shame" - as it was dubbed by some - was the pinnacle of a journalist's career, with nearly every national paper and several provincial newspapers having offices within a half-mile radius. Reporters Gavin Sherriff and Darryl Smith worked for the Dundee-based Sunday...
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    Ontario winery wins fight to tell people its location

    An Ontario winery has won its battle against a provincially regulated body over whether it can put its Prince Edward County location on its website. The Old Third Vineyard was established more than a decade ago in Hillier, Ont., on the western side of Prince Edward County, one of Ontario's...
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    6 conditions worse than death?

    The survey found that a majority of respondents considered six conditions as bad as or worse than death: Bowel and bladder incontinence, cited by about 70 percent as equally as bad as or worse than death; Reliance on a breathing machine, cited by about 70 percent of respondents; Inability to...
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    Wynne calls byelection in Scarborough

    After four months without an MPP, citizens of Scarborough–Rouge River will head to the polls in a Sept. 1 byelection that has been unofficially underway all summer. Premier Kathleen Wynne set the date Wednesday in the wake of veteran Liberal Bas Balkissoon’s sudden resignation March 22 – the...
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    Separatist Northern Ontario Party officially registered

    When Ontario Northland motorcoach driver Trevor Holliday started a petition in March calling for Northern Ontario's independence, he never envisaged becoming the leader of a political party with the aim of making it a reality. That’s exactly what happened within only a season. “I go from...
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    Buffalo's Only Black Firefighter Has House Burnt Down

    The family of Kenneth Walker, North Tonawanda’s only black firefighter, whose home was burned down Wednesday in what was feared to be a racially motivated attack, was stunned to learn that a neighbor and fellow former firefighter was arrested for the arson. They were also shocked when they...
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    An ardent Canadian nationalist has died

    He remained involved in political activism throughout the '70s through the '90s. An economic nationalist, he was a founding member of the Committee for an Independent Canada, the Council of Canadians and led the National Party of Canada. Describing him as a "Canadian nationalist of a rare ...
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    One year ago, Harper, master of all he surveyed, called an election

    What could possibly go wrong? At the time of Mr. Harper’s visit to Rideau Hall, he was thought by the entire political commentariat to be the Smartest Man in Canada, and his idea of an 11-week election campaign was seen as a stroke of pure political genius. It was the longest campaign in...
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    Albertan rowing solo across the Atlantic for Cancer

    Follow Laval on his trek across the Atlantic Thank you for coming alongside me and supporting my efforts in helping the Alberta Cancer Foundation make life better for the 43 Albertans who are diagnosed with cancer every day. Every dollar raised will make a difference for cancer patients across...
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    $2.5M for boy permanently disabled by E. coli-beef

    Two Canadian companies have reached a $2.5 million settlement with a Manitoba teen who is disabled for life because he consumed ground beef tainted with E. coli in July 2004. Court documents say the boy was two-and-a-half years old when his mother fed him the meat, which she bought at...