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Ron Hynes diagnosed with cancer

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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Singer-songwriter Ron Hynes has been diagnosed with throat cancer. Lynn Horne, Hynes' manager, said Hynes will be starting treatments of r...

U.K. Media Reviews Are In About Opening Ceremonies

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada

The reviews are in, and in Britain at least, the London Olympics opening ceremony was a smash hit. The Sun tabloid had a one-word, front-p...

Lingering hack can signal whooping cough

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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Some people who've been coughing for weeks might actually have highly contagious whooping cough. The bacterial infection spreads through c...

The 8 Worst Presidential Campaign Gaffes

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada Politics

Mitt Romney's questioning of Britain's readiness for the Olympic Games probably wasn't the most politically astute thing to say before a visit to the ...

Crown says $2M counterfeiter should get 4-year sentence

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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A Vancouver man who produced about $2 million in counterfeit Canadian currency should spend four years in prison, a Crown prosecutor says. ...

Playing 'Price Is Right' With Pipeline?

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada British Columbia

B.C. Premier Christy Clark is playing The Price is Right over the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline, but the land that the project would traverse...

Liberal spending spree suggests upcoming election

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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Quebec Liberal ministers have committed about $2 billion this week to various projects across the province. On Friday alone, the party pledged $60 mil...

P.E.I. Premier takes aim at EI changes

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada Politics

P.E.I. Premier Robert Ghiz took aim at changes to employment insurance Friday at the premiers' meeting in Halifax. Ghiz challenged the fed...

High-tech equipment used to study monster N.B. fish

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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A Mount Allison professor is doing some high-tech research on a monster fish in New Brunswick's St. John River. Dr. Matt Litvak and his co...

Toronto police seek church vandal

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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Toronto police are looking for suspect after a west-end Toronto church was vandalized. Officials at the Kingsway Baptist Church at Bloor S...

Captain John's buoyed by hope of buyers

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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The fate of a longtime fixture on the Toronto waterfront remained unclear Friday, with Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant staying closed but with ...

Enbridge gets OK to reverse pipeline flow east

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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Pipeline giant Enbridge Pipelines Inc. will be allowed to reverse the flow on a portion of its Line 9 pipeline between Sarnia and Hamilton to flow eas...

It's The Lactating Cow Poop That Makes It Special

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada Travel

Summerhill Pyramid Winery has become B.C.'s first bio-dynamic certified winery, and is using some unique methods to create its award-winning organic w...

Feds to inspect Enbridge's Edmonton control room

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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Federal regulators are reviewing the operations of Enbridge's pipeline operations control room in Edmonton after staff was characterized as "Keystone ...

Olympics opening ceremony underway in London

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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The opening ceremony for the Games of the XXX Olympiad is under way before a packed house of 60,000 people in London. Viewed by her Majes...

Polar Bear Attack In Quebec

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada

An Inuk woman underwent surgery in Montreal Friday afternoon, four days after she was mauled by a polar bear near Kangiqsualujjuaq, a small Inuit comm...

Severe weather events spur insurance industry changes

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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The increasing frequency of the kind of severe weather that uproots trees and rips roofs from Ontario homes is also forcing changes in the insurance i...

Alward 'open' to Saint John refining Alberta crude

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada Politics

Premier David Alward says profits, not politics, will determine whether Alberta crude ever comes east for refining in Saint John. On Frida...

Charges Recommended In Vicious Dog Beating

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada British Columbia

The B.C. SPCA says it is recommending charges of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal after Captain, a German shepherd dog, was found beaten and...

Police make 2nd arrest in stabbing death

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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Police have made a second arrest in connection with a homicide in Toronto's east end last weekend. Nirosan Thillainathan, 22, was found in...

B.C. pulp mill fined $150k in 'acutely lethal' spill

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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Zellstoff Celgar has been fined $150,000 for spilling millions of litres of effluent into the Columbia River, from their pulp mill near Castlegar, B.C...

TTC on track to hire 500 operators

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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The Toronto Transit Commission unveiled plans Friday to hire 500 subway, streetcar and bus drivers. The new operators will start this fall...

Former N.S. cabinet minister gets house arrest

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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Former Nova Scotia cabinet minister Richard Hurlburt was sentenced to 12 months of house arrest this morning for his part in Nova Scotia's MLA expense...

8 memorable Olympic opening ceremonies

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada
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As London gears up to launch the 2012 Olympics, CBC News looks back at some memorable Summer Olympics opening ceremonies, from controversy in 1908 to ...

EI changes upset northern N.B. residents

CBC | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada Politics

People in northern New Brunswick who receive employment insurance are upset about letters they've received about changes to the program. T...