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Entries by Lauren Strapagiel from 08/2012

Enbridge Oil Spill: U.S. Officials Block Company From Reopening Pipeline After Wisconsin Incident

Posted 08.01.2012 | Canada Business
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MADISON, Wis. - U.S. officials are demanding Calgary-based oil giant Enbridge submit a re-start plan before it can re-open a pipeline which spilled th...

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India Blackout: Power Restored Across Country After Historic Outages Affected More Than 600 Million People

Posted 08.01.2012 | Canada
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NEW DELHI - Factories and workshops across India were up and running again Wednesday, a day after a major system collapse led to a second day of power...

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Transform A Street: Charlottetown's Street Project Creates A New Space For Residents (VIDEO)

Posted 08.01.2012 | Canada Impact
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Strolling down the street can be a walk in the park -- as illustrated by this video. Residents of Charlottetown, P.E.I. recently released a video ...

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Quebec Election 2012: Jean Charest Calls Election For Sept. 4

Posted 08.01.2012 | Canada Politics
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MONTREAL - Jean Charest is calling upon a "silent majority" to restore him to office in a Sept. 4 Quebec election, when he will seek to tie a provinci...

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Attawapiskat Crisis: 'Unreasonable' To Send Third-Party Manager Says Federal Court

Posted 08.01.2012 | Canada Impact
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OTTAWA - It was "unreasonable in all circumstances" for the federal government to appoint a third-party manager in response to an unfolding humanitari...

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Top 25 Strangest Car Crash Photos

Posted 08.01.2012 | Canada
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In the connected age of smartphones and social networking, today's drivers are able to instantly capture and share bizarre crash footage with the worl...

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TIFF 2012: Toronto Film Fest Rocks With Rob Zombie 'Lords of Salem,' Peaches Musical + Snoop Doc

Posted 08.01.2012 | Canada Music
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Documentary films featuring Snoop Dogg and 30 Seconds to Mars, the latest Rob Zombie horror flick The Lords of Salem and a Peaches musical have all be...

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Justin Bieber '8 Kilometers': 'Gritty' Bieber Movie Spoof Is Our Viral Video Of The Day - AOL Music Blog

Posted 08.01.2012 | Canada Music
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We've seen Justin Bieber's meteoric rise to fame documented in his hit concert movie "Never Say Never" -- but what if the teen sensation's story was r...

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Nelly Furtado Performs Live At AOL Music Sessions, Talks Motherhood, Africa And Hometown Pride - AOL Music Blog

Posted 08.01.2012 | Canada Music
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Nelly Furtado sits across from our Los Angeles AOL Sessions crew on a high stool, making bird noises....

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Men Without Hats, 'This War' -- Song Premiere - Spinner Canada

Posted 08.01.2012 | Canada Music
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Men Without Hats are back! Yes, you read that correctly. The "Safety Dance" creators are gradually returning to the spotlight after a decade-long hiat...

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Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson Flies Vintage Plane For Ice Pilots NWT Show - Spinner Canada

Posted 08.01.2012 | Canada Music
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When not on stage belting out Iron Maiden hits, Bruce Dickinson can occasionally be found controlling another big metal machine: an airplane. And Satu...

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Margaret Thatcher Told Pierre Trudeau She Didn't Want to Deal With 'Indians' During Constitution Patriation: Docs

Posted 08.02.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - Margaret Thatcher told Pierre Trudeau she had no desire to deal with "queues of Indians" knocking on her 10 Downing Street door to voice obje...

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Conrad Black Visa Lands Jason Kenney In Legal Flap

Posted 08.02.2012 | Canada Politics
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More than 80 lawyers have written an open letter to Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney challenging his assertion that he was not involv...

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Olympics Day 6: Canada's Second Silver, American Swimmers Make A Splash And 'Bruce Li' Play For Bronze (PHOTOS)

Posted 08.02.2012 | Canada
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Day six at the London Games began with a bang but ended with a whimper for Canada. Thursday saw Canada's women's eight rowing team start the morning w...

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City and Colour's Dallas Green Too Scared to Meet Neil Young (VIDEO)

Posted 08.03.2012 | Canada Music
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The central lyrics to Neil Young's classic song "Old Man" from 1972's Harvest album go "Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were." City and...

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Curiosity Mars Landing: Canadian Scientists Cross Fingers For NASA's Newest Rover

Posted 08.04.2012 | Canada
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MONTREAL - Canadian scientists are keeping their fingers crossed as NASA's Curiosity — the largest Mars rover ever built — heads for a rendez vous...

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Federal Cuts Threaten Program Hiring Medically Discharged Vets

Posted 08.04.2012 | Canada
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Federal cuts are threatening the future of a program that hires veterans who have been medically discharged from the Canadian Forces, according to a L...

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Police Arrest 2 After Spa Raid Finds 16-Year-Old

Posted 08.04.2012 | Canada
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York Regional Police raided a "body rub parlour" on Friday night where a 16-year-old girl had been working. A detective with the force sa...

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Northern Gateway Pipeline Could Go North

Posted 08.04.2012 | Canada Politics
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Should B.C. Premier Christy Clark follow through on her promise to block the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline if her conditions for the project aren...

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Camp Hill Veterans Memorial Patients Ask For Audit Of Food Amidst Complaints About Quality

Posted 08.05.2012 | Canada Politics
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HALIFAX - Some elderly residents of a veterans hospital in Halifax are asking that someone take a closer look at the food they're being served, claimi...

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Quebec Student Strike: Pivotal Week Ahead With Return-To-School Vote

Posted 08.05.2012 | Canada Politics
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MONTREAL - Quebec's student strikes, which gained international attention in the spring, now face a pivotal week as students start voting on whether t...

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Canadian Traveller Dies In Vietnam

Posted 08.05.2012 | Canada
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The Foreign Affairs Department is confirming that a Canadian citizen has died in Vietnam but has not divulged details about the circumstances of the d...

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Northern Gateway Pipeline: Churches Speak Out Against Oilsands Project

Posted 08.06.2012 | Canada Business
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Churches across Canada say they have a religious duty to speak out on the proposed Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline.Next week, delegates at the Unit...

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U.S. Drought Will Raise Food Prices 3 To 4 Per Cent In 2013

Posted 08.06.2012 | Canada Business
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TORONTO - Food prices may grow by as much as four per cent next year, economists predict, as drought conditions in the U.S. are expected to inflate th...

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Information Sharing Evaluation Committee, Secret CSIS Initiative, Weighs Torture Issues In Fulfilment Of Tory Directive

Posted 08.06.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - A secret high-level committee at Canada's spy agency is tasked with deciding whether information received from abroad is tainted by torture, ...

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