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Canadiens match Lightning by acquiring Petry from Oilers for picks
It didn't take long for the Montreal Canadiens to match the rival Tampa Bay Lightning by getting better before the NHL trade deadline. The Canadiens acquired defenceman Jeff Petry on Monday morning from the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for a second-round pick and a conditional fourth-rounder that could be worth as much as a third depending on playoff performance. Overnight, the Lightning improved their defence corps by getting Braydon Coburn from the Philadelphia Flyers for defenceman Radko Gudas and first- and third-round picks in this year's draft. The Lightning also sent forward Brett Connolly to the Boston Bruins for second-round picks in the next two drafts.
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Toronto tunnel dug by 2 men for 'personal reasons': police
Two men built a mysterious tunnel in north Toronto for "personal reasons," and it posed no threat to the public, Toronto police said today. Last week, police released an image of a rosary adorned with a Remembrance Day poppy that had been nailed to a wall and told reporters they had also found food containers at the site.
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Charmayne Maxwell Dead: Grammy-Nominated Brownstone Singer Dies at 46
Charmayne Maxwell, the Grammy-nominated singer in '90s girl group Brownstone, has died at age 46, her brother confirmed via Twitter
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Daylight saving time starts this weekend
Daylight saving time kicks in this weekend, costing Canadians an hour of sleep but giving many a daily dose of waking sunshine.
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Lady Gaga Takes the Polar Plunge With Fiance Taylor Kinney: Cute Photos Including Vince Vaughn
See photos of a shirtless Taylor Kinney giving his fiancee Lady Gaga a piggyback ride after they both participated in the Polar Plunge on Mar. 1; Plus, Vince Vaughn also joined the fun!
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Montreal erotic parlours flourishing despite federal anti-prostitution law
One year after the mayor promised to crack down on erotic massage parlours, Montreal still doesn't know what it's going to do with the hundreds of establishments operating right across the city. City officials are still debating how to tackle the issue of erotic parlours, many of which are open 24/7 and illegally employ women who have sex with men in the massage rooms. Without a firm policy, community groups and massage parlour owners say the police are letting the de-facto brothels operate under a tacit agreement: don't hire minors, don't force women to do anything they don't want to do, and keep organized crime out of it. Yanik Chicoine, 37, operates two erotic massage parlours in Montreal's east-end and said police leave him alone despite the fact some of his employees sell their bodies for money inside his business.
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8 things you need to know before claiming new family tax cut
Call it income splitting-lite. The version of the family tax credit announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper last October was a tweaked version of a family income-splitting announcement he'd first made in the throes of the 2011 election campaign.
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Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Celebrity New
Charmayne Maxwell -- part of the 90s R&B group Brownstone -- died Friday night in L.A. after her husband found her bleeding from a cut to her neck ... TMZ has learned. A family member tells us Charmayne had come home from her son's soccer game, and was home alone with him. Later in the evening ... around 9 PM her husband, music producer Carsten Soulshock, came home and found her unconscious and bleeding. LAPD went to the home ... and tell us it was a broken wine glass that cut Charmayne's neck.
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Cars burn in warehouse fire
Building owner Barry Cudmore has checked the building every day for years. Cudmore is still searching for some vehicle owners to break the news.
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SUNshineGirl | Toronto Sun
SUNshine Girl Cassandre is an aspiring chef who likes baking and other culinary pursuits. Cassandre, 24, loves cats, but has a particular fondness for her own, named Teddy. Cassandre’s also an avid snowboarder and video gamer. (Jack Boland
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Dustin Penner pulled from TSN trade deadline coverage
Dustin Penner has been pulled from TSN’s Monday trade deadline coverage, TSN confirmed to Yahoo Sports via email. On Saturday night, Penner, who most recently played for the Washington Capitals made a joke about rape on Twitter, which wasn’t exactly funny. Penner was slated to provide coverage on TSN with "Cabral ‘Cabbie’ Richards to give a different-type of take on the deadline.
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Oil falls to $61 on dollar, Iran, supply concerns
Brent crude oil fell more than 2 percent to around $61 a barrel on Monday after Iran said a deal on its nuclear program could be agreed this week if the West lifts sanctions, which could boost the country's oil exports. Oil prices were also depressed by a stronger dollar and reports of a rise in Libyan crude output, traders said. Brent crude hit a low of $60.86 a barrel and was at $62.00 by 9 a.m. ET, down $1.58. "If there is the political will to accept that an agreement and sanctions cannot go together, then we can have an agreement this time," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.
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Irvine Welsh’s ‘The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins’
It is not advisable to read Irvine Welsh’s 13th book, “The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins,” and snack simultaneously. Because Welsh, known for his gleeful depictions of the depraved degenerates who populate Scotland’s seediest hollows, has turned his attention to one of his adopted homes, Miami Beach, that “sun-drenched refuge for strutting grotesques and desperate narcissists.” This is not Welsh’s first Rollerblade around Florida; “Crime” followed a coke-addled Edinburgh detective along the same bright sidewalks. Meanwhile, the 200-pound Lena Sorenson (her weight is “a crime against the aesthetic order in South Beach”) is the sole witness to this scene, which she captures on her phone. When she shares the footage with a local news station, Lucy is painted as a hero.
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Marrying a Twin (and Her Sister)
Beyond telling them apart, there is a unique set of issues that go with marrying someone who is the product of a multiple birth. It demands a special sensitivity to family dynamics and, in most cases, a tolerance for the special closeness among the siblings.
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Demi Lovato: Forget Thigh Gap!
Demi Lovato posted a message of empowerment on Instagram on Friday. In a caption to a photograph of herself sunbathing in a bikini, the singer said that having a thigh gap does not necessarily equal beauty. Demi Lovato posted a bikini shot on Instagram on February 27, 2015 with the caption, ‘Regardless of what society tells you these days… You don’t have to have a thigh gap to be beautiful.
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First Look: Better design, camera among the things Samsung gets right in new S6 phones
Samsung's new Galaxy smartphones improve in two major areas: design and picture quality. Samsung ramped up its camera technology in last fall's Galaxy Note 4, and the camera is even better in the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge announced Sunday. For years, Samsung phones have had removable backs made of plastic.
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Drug drivers targeted by new rules
For the first time, motorists face prosecution if they exceed limits set for the presence of eight illegal drugs, including cannabis and cocaine. The new regulations set low levels for the eight illegal drugs, with higher levels set for eight prescription drugs, including morphine and methadone.
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TV plea over 'appalling' acid attack
A renewed appeal to find those responsible for an "appalling" acid attack on a father-of-two is to be screened on BBC One's Crimewatch. Darren Pidgeon, 27, from Rayleigh, Essex, had the corrosive liquid sprayed in his face, on 3 June last year. Essex Police is still trying to identify and find those responsible.
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Myanmar captures rare white elephant celebrated by kings and believed to bring good luck
Myanmar's forestry department has captured a rare white elephant in the jungles of the country's western Ayeyarwaddy region, an official said Sunday. The 7-year-old female was captured Friday, six weeks after it was initially spotted in a reserve in Pathein township, forestry official Tun Tun Oo said. White elephants, which are actually albinos, have been revered for centuries in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and other Asian nations. Myanmar already has eight white elephants in captivity, most from the Ayeyarwaddy region.
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Anti-turbine farm families fight whopping legal bill from wind-farm companies
A demand that four Ontario families pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal costs to billion-dollar companies is a thinly disguised warning to anyone pondering a challenge to industrial wind farms in Ontario, the families say. In asking the courts to set the legal bill aside, the citizens say the award would cripple them financially and undermine access to justice, even in important public-interest cases. The families, who worry wind turbines near their homes could harm their health, had challenged the constitutionality of Ontario's approvals process before Divisional Court. Shawn Drennan said his $240,000 bill was excessive given that he was only looking to protect his rights.
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