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GM cutting shift at Oshawa: CAW

Toronto :: Canada | about 7 hours ago | Business News

Source: The Globe & Mail

The CAW says GM will temporarily lay off the third shift at its Oshawa car plant in the first week of February, putting about 700 workers out of a job. The line that builds Impalas is already scheduled to be...

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Committee urges judge be removed from bench

Toronto :: Canada | about 16 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: Toronto Star

After 24 years on the bench, Justice Paul Cosgrove was told yesterday that he so abused his powers during a murder trial that he's no longer fit to be a judge. In a 4-1 decision, a committee of the Canadian...

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The J.S.R. Creba jury never saw

Toronto :: Canada | about 2 hours ago | No category

Source: Toronto Star

Peter Small Courts Bureau A youth punched and robbed the son of a prominent community activist and was party to a scuffle at the Eaton Centre minutes before he is alleged to have murdered schoolgirl Jane Creba. But these incidents...

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ICBC to pay staff fired over chop-shop scheme

Toronto :: Canada | about 11 hours ago | Political News

Source: The Globe and Mail

56 PM EST Insurance Corp. of British Columbia will pay up to $825,000 in severance to employees fired over their role in a chop-shop scandal in which damaged vehicles were fixed and sold without buyers being told of the history...

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Toronto Raptors sack coach after worst defeat

Toronto :: Canada | about 12 hours ago | Sports News

Source: China Post

Triano is in his seventh season on the Raptors staff and was head coach of the Canadian men’s national team from 1998-2004...He amassed a 156-189 record and was named the NBA’s Coach of the Year in 2006-07 after guiding the...

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Vaughan mayor cleared of expense accusations

Toronto :: Canada | about 16 hours ago | Political News

Source: Toronto Star

An audit of Vaughan mayor Linda Jackson's 2007 office expenses has cleared her of the charge of billing personal expenses as business expenses...The report also noted that Jackson, whose expenses were approved by city manager Michael De Angelis, failed to...

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BCE shares rise on deal talk

Toronto :: Canada | about 15 hours ago | Business News

Source: The Globe & Mail

54 PM EST Shares of BCE Inc. rose 5 per cent Thursday afternoon after a report said the leveraged buyout of the telecom giant may be partly salvaged. Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Providence Equity Partners Inc., Madison Dearborn Partners LLC...

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Foreign spy ring infiltrated in Canada report says

Toronto :: Canada | about 15 hours ago | No category

Source: The Globe & Mail

Federal agents say they have infiltrated a foreign spy ring based in Canada that illegally exported sensitive goods, while engaging in tens millions of dollars worth of financial transactions. Canadian government spy agency created in 2000 that probes suspicious transactions...

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Markets open on happy note

Toronto :: Canada | about 14 hours ago | Business News

Source: Canada.com

On the New York Mercantile Exchange, crude oil was down $1.04 to $45.75 US a barrel. Gold was ahead by $7.50 to $778 US an ounce. The TSX index was up as much as 186 points at one point in...

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College Buzz: KU's Little cleared to practice

Toronto :: Canada | about 6 hours ago | Sports News

Source: Kansas City Star

Kansas junior transfer Mario Little, who sat out the first month of the basketball season because of a stress fracture in his left leg, has been cleared to participate in limited practice today. “We’ll monitor his progress as we go...

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