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Entries by Christian Cotroneo from 12/2011

Canada Sea King Delay Pinches $250 Million From DND's Pocket

Posted 12.01.2011 | Canada Politics
Read More: Canada New Helicopters, Canada Sea King Delay, Canada Helicopter Delivery, Sea King Canada, Sea King Delay Canada, Canada Sea King, Canada Maritime Helicopters, Kevin Lindsey, House of Commons Committee Sea King, DND Helicopters, Cp, Canada Politics News

OTTAWA - Delayed delivery of the air force's new maritime helicopters has cost the Defence Department $250 million in lapsed funding, senior defence o...

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Dinosaur Skin Bones Were Developed To Store Minerals In Tough Times

Posted 12.01.2011 | Canada
Read More: Dinosaur Research, Ontario Veterinary College, Guelph University Dinosaur Study, Dinosaur Skin Bones, Skin Bones Dinosaurs, University of Guelph Dinosaur Study, Nature Communications, Matthew Vickaryous, Osteoderms, Cp, Canada News

TORONTO - A new study suggests dinosaurs may have coped with tough times by developing "skin bones" to store vital minerals.A research team, including...

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Omnibus Crime Bill: Mental Illness Not A Consideration

Posted 12.01.2011 | Canada Politics
Read More: Irwin Cotler, Canada Justice Minister, Canada Omnibus Crime Bill Mental Illness, Canada Omnibus Crime Bill, Stephen Harper, Rob Nicholson, Tory Crime Bill, Mental Illness Crime Ill, Canadian Council of Criminal Defence Lawyers, Conservative Party of Canada, Canadian Pediatric Society, Mental Illness Canada, Canadians Living With Mental Illness, MP Irwin Cotler, Cp, Canada Politics News

OTTAWA - Justice Minister Rob Nicholson ignored questions Thursday about how a massive new crime bill will deal with Canadians living with mental illn...

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Quebec Day Care Corruption Probe Looking For Potential Irregularities

Posted 12.01.2011 | Canada Politics
Read More: Corruption Quebec Daycare Program, Quebec Daycare Irregularities, Daycare Corruption Quebec, Quebec Daycare Program, Robert Lafreniere, Quebec Daycare Investigation, Quebec's Daycare Program, Quebec Daycare Program Corruption, Cp, Canada Politics News

MONTREAL - Quebec's $7-a-day public daycare program, considered a landmark piece of legislation in the province and a potential model for the rest of ...

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Northern Gateway Pipeline: First Nation Leaders Say They Are Closing B.C. Borders To Pipeline

Posted 12.01.2011 | Canada
Read More: Northern Gateway Pipeline, B.C. First Nations Pipeline, Alberta Tar Sands, Video, Cp, Gateway Pipeline, BC Pipeline, Saik'uz First Nation, B.C. Pipeline, Alberta Oil Pipeline Protest, Coastal First Nations, Enbridge Pipeline, Pipeline B.C., Canada News

VANCOUVER - First Nations' leaders in British Columbia say they've built "an unbroken wall of opposition" from the U.S border to the Arctic Ocean agai...

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Langley, B.C. Teacher Charged With Sexual Assault

Posted 12.01.2011 | Canada
Read More: Langley Fundamental Elementary School, Deborah Ralph Langley Teacher, Langley RCMP, Teacher Charged With Sexual Assault, Langley, James Kennedy Elementary School, B.C., Cbc, Canada News

An elementary school teacher in Langley, B.C., has been charged with sexual assault and sexual interference of one of her former students...

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Tom Glocer, Thomson Reuters CEO, Steps Down

Posted 12.01.2011 | Canada Business
Read More: Canada Thomson Family, Tom Glocer Retirement, Jim Smith Thomson Reuters, TSX:TRI, Tom Glocer Replacement, CEO Thomson Reuters, Canada's Richest Person, Roy Thomson, David Thomson, Canada Media Mogul, Tom Glocer, Tom Glocer Thomson Reuters CEO, James Smith Thomson Reuters, Cp, Canada Business News

TORONTO - Tom Glocer is stepping down as CEO of Thomson Reuters Corp.(TSX:TRI) after a decade-long run as boss of the embattled global data and news g...

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Attawapiskat: Charlie Angus And John Duncan Meet In A Stairwell

Posted 12.01.2011 | Canada
Read More: Charlie Angus, Attawapiskat, Attawapiskat First Nation, Charlie Angus First Nation, Canada Aboriginal Affairs, Attawapiskat Reserve, Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan, Attawapiskat State of Emergency, Attawapiskat Charlie Angus, Attawapiskat Emergency, Canada News

Far from the shambling tents and tarps that the world now knows as Attawapiskat -- a northern Ontario reserve that catapulted to public attention just...

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Dangerous Debris Falling On Vancouver Daycares

Posted 12.01.2011 | Canada
Read More: Vancouver Daycares Falling Debris, Vancouver Daycares, Needles Vancouver Daycares, Broken Glass Daycares, Vancouver, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, Cbc, Canada News

The City of Vancouver is doing everything it can to minimize the problem of debris falling on downtown daycares from high-rise buildings,...

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B.C. Police May Cut Back On Holiday Drunk Driver Screening

Posted 12.01.2011 | Canada
Read More: Canada Drinking and Driving Laws, B.C. Association of Police Chiefs, Drinking and Driving B.C., B.C. Charter of Rights and Freedomspeter Lepine, Vancouver, B.C. Drinking and Driving Law, BC Police Drunk Driving, B.C. Police Drunk Driving, B.C. Drunk Driving, B.C. Police, Drinking Driving B.C. Unconstitutional, Cbc, Canada News

British Columbia police expect to scale back their roadside screening program aimed at catching drunk drivers during the holiday season, ...

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Edmonton Doctor Peeked At Health Records Of Girlfriend's Ex

Posted 12.01.2011 | Canada
Read More: Canada Health Record Privacy, Health Records Edmonton, Edmonton Doctor Health Records, Privacy Commissioner Frank Work, Edmonton, Edmonton Health Records, Covenant Health Edmonton, Covenant Health, Frank Work, Cp, Canada News

EDMONTON - Alberta's privacy commissioner says a doctor in a Covenant Health hospital emergency room peeked at electronic health records of his girlfr...

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Perry Kendall Report: B.C. Women Among Healthiest, But Some Diseases Rising

Posted 12.02.2011 | Canada
Read More: B.C. Women's Health, Gonorrhoea B.C., Women Health Canada, Life Expectancy B.C., Perry Kendall Report B.C. Women, Chlamydia B.C., Dr. Perry Kendall, Perry Kendall Report, B.C. Women Healthiest, B.C. HIV Rate, Canada News

VICTORIA - Women in B.C. are among the healthiest in Canada, according to a new report by provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall, who says some p...

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Cosmic Rays Tracked To 'Cocoon' In Star Nursery

Posted 12.02.2011 | Canada
Read More: Where Cosmic Rays Come From, Isabelle Grenier, Cosmic Rays, Video, Cygnus X, Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope, Origin of Cosmic Rays, Cosmic Rays Cocoon Star Nursery, Canada News

Astrophysicists think they may have partly solved the mystery of where cosmic rays come from. Cosmic rays are beams of high-e...

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Zurich: A City At The Water's Edge

Posted 12.02.2011 | Canada
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Zurich frequently tops livability indexes and now I know why. There are the basic qualifications--efficient transportation, low crime and almost no un...

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Sherbrooke, Quebec Wall Collapse Kills Worker, Injures Another

Posted 12.02.2011 | Canada
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SHERBROOKE, Qc - A Quebec construction worker has been crushed to death and another seriously injured after part of a wall collapsed on them.The accid...

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Edmonton Biopsies Review To Cover 1,600 Cases

Posted 12.02.2011 | Canada
Read More: Edmonton Prostate Biopsy, Edmonton Biopsy Review, Chris Eagle, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Edmonton Biopsies Review, Edmonton Pathologist, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Alberta Health, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Cbc, Canada News

Alberta health officials have ordered a review of nearly 1,600 tests interpreted by one pathologist after 29 prostate biopsies were found ...

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Teen Jailed For Killing Man Who Answered Online Ad

Posted 12.02.2011 | Canada
Read More: Saint John Online Ad Murder, Hampton New Brunswick, Online Classified Ad Murder, Saint John, Marina Dow, Barker Street Saint John, Lucie Mathurin, Cbc, Canada News

NEW BRUNSWICK -- A Saint John teenager has been sentenced to two years behind bars for manslaughter in the stabbing death of a man who res...

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Drug-Dealing Ex-Cop Stabbed In B.C. Prison

Posted 12.02.2011 | Canada
Read More: Vincent Michaels, Drug-Dealing Cop, Vancouver, b.c. Civil Liberties Association, Peter Hodson, Vancouver Police Officer Stabbed, Hodson Marijuana Trafficking, Video, Cbc, Canada News

A former Vancouver police officer was stabbed in the neck while serving a sentence for drug trafficking despite prison officials being war...

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Two Colonels Court-Martialled Over Gun Handling

Posted 12.02.2011 | Canada
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Two colonels in the Canadian Forces are each facing a court martial, CBC News has learned. They are charged with failing to h...

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Quebec Police Investigations Bill: Civilians Monitoring Police To Be Part Of Proposed Legislation

Posted 12.02.2011 | Canada Politics
Read More: Public Safety Minister, Quebec Police Bill Civilians, Raymonde St-Germain, Robert Dutil, Police Bill Quebec, Quebec Civilian Investigatory Body, Quebec Bill Civilians Monitor Police, Cp, Canada Politics News

QUEBEC - A new bill tabled in Quebec's legislature will maintain the practice of police officers investigating police in the province but they would n...

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B.C. First Nation Backs Northern Gateway Pipeline

Posted 12.02.2011 | Canada
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A B.C. First Nation has announced it is backing the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline project to ship oilsands and crude to the West...

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Dustin Paxton's Prairie Torture Trial Over

Posted 12.02.2011 | Canada
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The defence team in the Dustin Paxton trial wrapped up its final arguments Friday after three days of trying to poke holes in the testimon...

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Scientists To Bring Mammoth Back To Life From Cloned Bone Marrow

Posted 12.05.2011 | Canada
Read More: Cloning Wooly Mammoth, Woolly Mamoth Cloning, Canada News

Biologists are saying they may be able to clone a woolly mammoth from bone marrow extracted from a well-preserved thigh bone recovered from permafrost...

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Credit Downgrade Warning For 15 Eurozone Countries

Posted 12.05.2011 | Canada Business
Read More: Eurozone Credit Downgrade Warning, Eurozone Credit Downgrade, Credit Downgrade Warning Eurozone, Standard & Poor Credit Warning, Angela Merkel, Stand & Poor, Cetera Financial Group, Nicolas Sarkozy, Brian Gendreau, Cbc, Canada Business News

Standard & Poor's confirmed Monday it is examining the long- and short-term credit ratings of 15 eurozone countries for a possible downgra...

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Tergiversate: 2011 Word Of The Year From Dictionary.com

Posted 12.05.2011 | Canada
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TORONTO - Here's a word to throw around at your next cocktail party — tergiversate (TUR-ji-ver-seyt).You may not have heard the word before now but ac...

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