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Nigel Wright, MPs, senators to testify at Duffy trial
The PM's ex-chief-of-staff resigned after giving Duffy, who faces 31 charges, a $90,000 cheque to reimburse the Senate for expense claims.
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Oil glut: US running out of room to store crude; prices for oil and gasoline could plunge
NEW YORK, N.Y. - The U.S. has so much crude that it is running out of places to put it, and that could drive oil and gasoline prices even lower in the coming months.
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Girl, 14, forced into week of sex work at downtown hotel
Three people have been charged with human trafficking after Toronto police rescued a 14-year-old girl who they said was forced into sex work at a downtown hotel. Police said security staff responded to a noise complaint in a hotel room in the Bay Street and Dundas Street West area last Friday night. The teen told police she had been invited to the hotel by the three accused, and was then held in the room and forced to provide sexual services for a week. The girl said she feared for her safety and couldn't contact anyone because her cellphone was confiscated and the hotel phone was disabled.
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Helen Mirren, 69, Is a Total Bombshell in Semi-Sheer Dress on the Red Carpet: See the Photos!
Helen Mirren attended the Roundabout Theatre Company's 2015 Spring Gala in NYC on Monday, March 2, dressed in a semi-sheer dress that made jaws drop; see the red carpet photos!
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Kessel says Toronto media should be 'embarrassed' for treatment of Phaneuf
Phil Kessel is mad as hell about how Dion Phaneuf is treated by the Toronto media, and he's not going to take it anymore. Kessel offered a passionate defence of the Maple Leafs' captain on Tuesday and said he was fed up with how certain media members talk about the team's No. 1 defenceman. Kessel said there was no one thing that set him off on the rant about Phaneuf and that he was just "tired of it." He said media members should be "ashamed" of what they've said to and about Phaneuf. Phaneuf has three goals and 20 assists in 51 games, and is tops in scoring among Toronto defencemen since Cody Franson was traded.
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Japanese YouTube star covers himself in Mentos, jumps in a bathtub of Coke Zero
Japanese YouTube star Hajime covered himself in hundreds of Mentos, then took a bath in 350 litres of Coke Zero.
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Privacy breach under review as T4 tax forms go astray
The Finance department prepares the T4s, but the Department of Transportation and Works is responsible for the mailroom and the machine. Transportation and Works Minister David Brazil said government workers have been notified of the snafu. So has the information and privacy commissioner.
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Erin Osmond, teacher accused of sexually exploiting student, in court
A 29-year-old teacher from Prud'homme, Sask. is on trial right now, charged with the sexual exploitation of a high school student in Watrous. Erin Osmond is accused of touching a young person for a sexual purpose and inviting him to touch her for a sexual purpose. Because of the transcripts of hundreds of text messages sent by Osmond and the student, a clear picture of how the relationship began has emerged.
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Netanyahu assails potential Iran-nuclear deal that US seeks; Obama pushes back strongly
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Congress on Tuesday that an emerging agreement between Iran and the United States would all but guarantee that Tehran gets nuclear weapons and would be a very bad deal, drawing an extraordinarily blunt rebuttal from President Barack Obama. Netanyahu said "Iran has proven time and again that it cannot be trusted," no matter what it says about permitting verification of the terms of any accord designed to prevent it from getting a nuclear bomb. "The greatest danger facing our world is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons," he said in remarks before a packed House chamber that drew loud applause from Republicans and a more restrained reaction from Democrats in an appearance that has stirred political controversy in two countries..
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Just add methane: Liquid water may not be required for strange new lifeforms
“It is possible to construct structural analogs to terrestrial bio-membranes that may work in the Titan environment, and it also demonstrates the flexibility of chemistry in making structures that could function for biochemistry in an exotic environment,” said co-author and astronomer Jonathan Lunine in an interview with Yahoo Canada News. Besides Titan, there are other possible places where liquid hydrocarbon abounds within our solar system worth looking for this new possible life form too. “So far, Titan seems to be the only locale in our solar system where methane is stably a liquid on the surface,” said Lunine. Of course the ultimate test would be to go to Titan and attempt to hunt for these exotic forms of life on its surface.
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Sex shows streamed from Windsor libraries probed by police
Sex shows streamed live online from two branches of the Windsor Public Library are being investigated by police. CBC News discovered more than 50 graphic sex shows were streamed from the Riverside and Fontainebleau branches in east Windsor between November of last year and the end of January. Police spokesperson Sgt. Matt D'Asti said investigators are asking for the public's help and for anyone who saw anything to come forward. The woman, who used the screen name "lilsecrett," streamed video of herself flashing her breasts, masturbating and using sex toys in front of a webcam for an online audience while using computers at the Riverside and Fontainebleau branches of the library.
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Mom who blogged about son's constant health woes is convicted of his salt-poisoning death
A jury in the New York suburbs found Lacey Spears, of Scottsville, Kentucky, guilty of second-degree murder in the death last year of 5-year-old Garnett-Paul Spears. The defence portrayed Spears as a caring mother and her son as sickly, but the prosecution argued Spears reveled in the attention his illness brought her. Video showed Spears twice taking him into a hospital bathroom with a connector tube and him suffering afterward. "The motive is bizarre, the motive is scary, but it exists," Assistant District Attorney Patricia Murphy said in closing arguments Thursday.
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Temperature lowered: Brier fuss over Northern Ontario broom tap handled by team, Curling Canada
After Monday night's 7-3 win over Ontario by Northern Ontario, issues of curling etiquette were brought to the fore. With statements from Team Jacobs and Curling Canada, seems the teapot is once again without a tempest
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Computer expert warns Canadians: Watch out for 'Superfish'
A Whitehorse computer expert is warning Canadians about a computer vulnerability — and he's mentioning one computer brand by name.
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Yankees fire employee who harassed Curt Schilling and his daughter
Schilling previously exposed the Twitter trolls who were sending vulgar Tweets about his daughter.
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Trial delayed for woman accused of committing indecent act on aircraft
The trial of a 25-year-old woman accused of committing an indecent act on a Toronto-to-Halifax flight has been delayed because her lawyer is ill. Alicia Elizabeth Lander has pleaded not guilty to committing an indecent act, assaulting a police officer, committing an act of mischief and causing a disturbance at Halifax Stanfield International Airport on Jan. 24, 2014. Jason George Chase had pleaded not guilty to committing an indecent act, but he later changed his plea to guilty and waived his right to a trial.
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Researchers probe link between bariatric surgery and higher colon cancer risk
Bariatric surgery has been a boon to obese patients hoping to shed significant pounds or to treat weight-related diabetes, but the downside is an increased risk of developing colon cancer. In studies in laboratory mice, a research team led by Drucker found the digestive hormone GLP-1 was "a pretty potent growth factor" for the intestine in the animals, as well as a catalyst for intestinal tumours in other lab mice specially bred to study colorectal cancer. The concern about colon cancer made headlines in 2013 when a Swedish-U.K. study of more than 77,000 obese patients showed that those who had undergone bariatric surgery had a 60 per cent increased risk of developing the malignancy compared with the general population. Since the risk of developing many other cancers fell with the weight-loss surgery, doctors were puzzled at the rise in colon cancer risk.
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Vancouver real estate shifting to first sellers' market in 4 years
The latest real estate numbers for Vancouver confirm what agents and buyers have been noticing: it's been a hot winter, and shifting toward a sellers' market. In February, Metro Vancouver home sales were up 20.2 per cent compared to the 10-year average for the month, according to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. "This is a very, very strong February, stronger than normal," said board president Ray Harris. The Fraser Valley Real Estate Board called last month its busiest February since 2007.
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Ronda Rousey's latest movie project revealed amid criticism from rival
If fans were wondering what’s next for UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey after her UFC 184 win, they needn’t wonder any longer.
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Parole Board of Canada says Robert Latimer can travel freely outside Canada
The Parole Board of Canada's appeal division has ruled Robert Latimer can travel freely outside Canada. The ruling reverses a November decision that said Latimer, who was convicted of the 1993 second-degree murder of his disabled daughter Tracy, had to remain in the country. The appeal division ruling says the November decision was contrary to an earlier Federal Court ruling that found the Saskatchewan farmer does not pose a risk to anyone. "The appeal division is satisfied that ... in view of the Federal Court decision of Sept. 14, 2014 ... a further delay in relieving you from adhering to the condition would be unfair," members of the appeal division wrote.
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