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TORONTO STAR News, Jul 18, 2012

Milos Raonic carries hopes of a nation to London
Toronto Star
Hard-serving Thornhill native not totally comfortable with role as the face of Canadiantennis. ... DAVID COOPER/Toronto Star Canadian tennis star Milos Raonic is ranked 24th in the world but hopes to crack the top 10 by the end of the year. Josh ...
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Toronto Star
Shawn Atleo will defend post as national chief
Toronto Star
Canada is moving to develop precious resources in Alberta's oilsands and Ontario's Ring of Fire — where one of the world's largest chromite finds in the James Bay lowlands is said to exceed $30 billion — but they have to deal with the First Nations ...
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Toronto Star
Toronto distance swimmer Shirley Campbell gets back trophy
Toronto Star
Stories and photos of Campbell, then a 16-year-old beauty born in Fergus, Ont., first splashed across Toronto newspapers when she won a three-mile, Lake Ontario worldchampionship against an international field. The race was part of the 1953 Canadian ...
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Toronto Star
Revoking Order of Canada diminishes award's worth
Toronto Sun
For reasons best-known to itself, the Toronto Star seems intent on getting revoked the Order ofCanada that was awarded to Conrad Black in 1990. According to Bob Hepburn, the Star's principal attack dog against Black, there have been “several years of ...
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BBQ party shooting leaves two dead in 'safest city in the world'
SBS
CBC NEWS, THE TORONTO STAR (Canada), ... TORONTO - A shooting at a barbecue street party in Toronto's residential east end left two dead and 19 injured, in what the Canadian police called "the worst incident of gun violence" the city has ever seen.
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Is Canada ready for its own screen superhero?
Toronto Star
The Toronto Star has learned that Arne Olsen, who wrote the 2010 Canadian sci-fi film Repeaters, directed by Carl Bessai, will write the screenplay with input from Comely and executive producer David Cormican. While the ... Lost Heroes, a documentary ...
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Toronto Star
Is Calgary becoming the new Toronto?
Yahoo! News Canada (blog)
From the blog Canada Politics: Prime Minister Harper caused a bit of a stir Tuesday, dubbing Calgary — his adopted hometown — "the best city in the world." [ Related: Harper's ... Five reasons why Calagary Tops Toronto, The Toronto Star. - Calgary ...
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Yahoo! News Canada (blog)
London 2012: For swimmer Julia Wilkinson, even edginess works like a charm
Toronto Star
In qualifying for the Canadian team, Wilkinson broke the minute mark in the 100m backstroke for the first time, placing her amongst the world's best. Second, the IM's four strokes complicate training. Maybe you've guessed the third, which is that ...
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Toronto Star
Canada is less energy-efficient than China, new study shows
Toronto Star
Canada comes in 11 out of world's top 12 economies when it comes to energy efficiency, new study shows. ... “We accounted for those differences, adjusting Canada's scores for the number of days above or below the average of 65 F (18 C), for example ...
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Asbestos will bring a black eye to Canada
Blue Mountains Courier-Herald
A reminder: The World Health Organization describes asbestos as "one of the most serious occupational carcinogens." And the WHO also reports ... A final quote from The Toronto Star, "Reviving this industry can only bring Canada a black eye ...
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Canadian track team shows off sleek new uniforms
YorkRegion.com
Canadian track team shows off sleek new uniforms. ... Olympic Uniforms. uniforms.jpg. Olympians (left to right) Justyn Warner, Phylicia George and Sarah Wells, surrounded by teammates, model the new Nike uniforms Canada's track and field team will wear ...
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Ontario corn farmers wait for the million-dollar rain
Toronto Star
Blair Gable/for the Toronto Star On Don Kenny's 1200-acre farm in Stittsville, near Ottawa, the corn plants have been curling their leaves during the day to preserve moisture. Just like southern Ontario, the ... The perfect rain would be a “weekend ...
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Toronto Star
Marnie McBean still pulling hard for Canada
Kawartha Media Group
In the nearly 20 years since Marnie McBean struck double rowing gold at the Barcelona Olympics, she has cycled in Tuscany, written a book, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro (twice) and introduced herself to Sidney Crosby as the border collie of the Canadian ...
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Canada's New Currency Melts in the Heat
AccuWeather.com
The Bank of Canada introduced their new $100 bill in November of 2011 and their new $50 bill was introduced early in 2012, according to the Toronto Star. The new bills are made of polymer ....Today's Worst Weather; World Hot Spot. AccuWeather Premium ...
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Women win battle of sexes based on IQ tests
Hamilton Spectator
Both genders' IQ scores have improved over the past century, yet women's scores typically lagged four or five points behind, psychologist Flynn told the Toronto Star in a phone interview from Oxford. But in the last few years, women's ... Israeli women ...
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Mark Cullen's gardens that appeal to the senses
Toronto Star
lavender. MARK CULLEN/FOR THE TORONTO STAR Lavender is pretty, grows well in a pot and smells devine. ... Whether it is appetite stimulation, clearing the sinuses with a whiff of menthol scented mint, or enjoying the feel of a Lamb's Ear on the skin of ...
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Toronto Star
Christopher Hume: Stephen Harper is blind to science
Toronto Star
Protest by Canadian scientists on Tuesday struck at the dark heart of the New Canada, a nation more interested in exploiting resources than conserving them, writes Star columnist Christopher Hume. ... Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision to search ...
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Toronto Star
Toronto barbecue shooting 2012: Teenage girl and man dead after gunmen ...
Daily Mail
At the time of last shooting in Toronto's Eaton Centre the city's mayor, Rob Ford, described it as an isolated incident in 'the safest city in the world.' Claudia Wilson, toldthe Toronto Star that her 20-year-old daughter was at the barbecue when the ...
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Daily Mail
Scarborough shooting: 'Gang involvement' in shootout that killed 2, police ...
Toronto Star
Scarborough shooting neighbours. Aaron Vincent Elkaim/THE CANADIAN PRESS Police interview neighbours on Tuesday near the scene of a shooting on Danzig Street in Scarborough, where two people were shot to death more than 20 others were injured at an ...
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Toronto Star
Nikita Holder wins star-studded hurdles race in Toronto
Mississauga
As a brilliant late-afternoon sun sank into a mauve sunset west of the track, several hundred spectators -- including Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell, a former 100-metre world record holder -- watched some of Canada's top track and field performers, a ...
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Small tool makes a big difference
Toronto Star
STEVE MAXWELL/FOR THE TORONTO STAR Impact drivers make driving screws faster and much less frustrating. These tools don't have a chuck, like drills do, but are made to quickly ... Better batteries and more efficient brushless motors are the two most...
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Toronto Star
Canada's New Money Melting
Newser
Canada switched to "indestructible" polymer $50 and $100 bills a few months ago, but it turns out that both are prone to melting and curling in intense heat "like bacon in a frying pan," reports the Toronto Star. ... World's Heaviest Woman Loses 98 ...
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London 2012: Quebec diving icon an inspiration to Marie-Andree Lessard
Toronto Star
Neither of the Canadian teams will be seen as medal threats in London, going in ranked in the bottom half of each pool. The top men's seed is the Brazilian duo of reigning world champions Emanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti, the reigning worldchampions.
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Toronto Star
Jackie Peng, 14, becomes second youngest player ever on Canada's national ...
Yahoo! News Canada (blog)
From the blog Good News: A Richmond Hill, Ontario, teen will be competing at the World Chess Olympiad in Turkey this August. Jackie Peng, 14, started playing chess four years ago. She's now the second youngest player ever to play on a Canadian national ...
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Canadian company develops an apple that doesn't turn brown
DigitalJournal.com
But the Toronto Star says a recent Canadian survey by the B.C. Fruit Growers Association and the Quebec Apple Producers Association found that nearly 70% of consumers surveyed, wouldn't support government approval of the genetically modified fruit. The ...
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Canada's Money Might Be Melting
Gawker
... book, for many people the Canadian dollar has value. So it's a bit of a problem that some ofCanada's money has reportedly started melting in the summer heat. ... Actually, notes the Toronto Star, the notes in question aren't melting that into ...
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Auto news: Fiat 500 gains a new family member
Toronto Star
John Leblanc for the toronto star Fiat has released details of the production version of the 500 L, first seen as a concept at this year's Geneva Auto Show. John LeBlanc ...Two surveys have shown that traffic congestion in Vancouver is far worse than ...
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Toronto Star
Ontario trades get own regulatory college
Toronto Star
Chris So/The Toronto Star Ron Johnson, chair of the board of directors at the new Ontario College of Trades, stands in the main training hall where students will learn drywalling. ... and the fees work out to an $84 million tax on trades that will ...
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Toronto Star
Georgina beauties vie for Canadian crown
YorkRegion.com
Keswick's Christina Logan, 18, and Miranda Kennedy, 18, will compete against 80 contestants from across the country at the Miss Teen Canada World pageant in Toronto July 14 to 21. Perhaps sole survivor is a better term. Considering the gruelling ...
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Bacon sundaes, bacon-wrapped hot dogs coming to Toronto's CNE
DigitalJournal.com
It's all about the bacon (and past favourites such as deep-fried butter) at Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition this summer. The Toronto Star Food Building will offer bacon sundaes, bacon popcorn, pulled meat on pancakes and much more. ... Op-Ed ...
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Officials: Alleged Nazi war criminal found in Hungary
KETK
Using the last name Csizsik, Csizsik-Csatary arrived in Canada in 1949, telling immigration officials he was Yugoslavian, according to The Toronto Star newspaper. A spokeswoman for Canada'sDepartment of Justice, Carole Saindon, said Monday that "It ...
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Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival Kicks Off at City Hall
Canada NewsWire (press release)
Calypso Monarch Finals- July 28, 2012 and All-Star Showcase - July 31, 2012: Many of the world'sbest Calypso performers will show their stuff at the contest and the showcase taking place at Harbourfront. ... Corporate sponsors of this year's festival ...
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Two Canucks vie for Saving Lives at Birth grants
Toronto Star
Canadians Christy Gombay and Dr. Ivar Mendez are up for Saving Lives at Birth grants, funded partly by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ... Every two minutes, somewhere in the developing world, a mother dies in childbirth from preventable causes.
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Toronto Star
Pressure mounting for arrest of alleged Hungarian Nazi war criminal
World Jewish Congress
World Jewish Congress. ... Using the last name Csizsik, he arrived in Canada in 1949, telling immigration officials he was Yugoslavian, according to the 'Toronto Star'. He leftCanada when he was unmasked by war crimes investigators in 1995.
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World Jewish Congress
'Terrifying' Nicolas Cage Photo Teaches Student an Email Lesson
ABC News (blog)
Such is the example of Vanessa Hojda, the Canadian college student who earlier this week accidentally attached a picture of Cage instead of her resume to an email inquiring about a summer job as an administrative assistant at her school, York ...
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ABC News (blog)
Jekyll & Hyde musical coming to Toronto
Toronto.com
Comments (0). A rocking American Idol and a soulful Canadian diva are joining forces this fall for one of the most potentially exciting shows to hit Toronto. ... That original production ran four years and toured the world in numerous incarnations ...
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Toronto.com
Spreading the word about world's most famous Canadian
CottageCountryNow.ca
THE MUSKOKAN - The birthplace of the most famous Canadian is receiving a bit of an upgrade. The new visitor centre is part of a $2.5-million government investment in the site recognizing the birthplace of battlefront surgeon and inventor Dr. Norman ...
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Is Canada's plastic money melting?
Los Angeles Times
A man in Halifax told the Toronto Star that when he left the money on a toaster, it curled up like a Coke bottle. ... "Bank notes printed on polymer material have been used in many countries for years, most of which have climates far hotter than Canada ...
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From slavery in Maryland to freedom in Canada
Toronto Star
Gairey, a vivacious 65-year-old who is the human rights director for the Ontario Federation of Labour, is one of the “cousins” who will proudly discuss her family history; from slavery in Maryland to freedom in Canada. “I know what my ancestors, who ...
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Toronto Star
17 hospitalized after lightning hits Canada food festival - World News
By NBCNews.com staff
More than a dozen people were hospitalized after lightning struck an outdoor food festival in Whitby, Ontario, on Sunday, according to Canadian news reports. Lightning struck a tent at the Whitby Ribfest, about 40 miles east of Toronto, just ...
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Burmanet » The Toronto Star: Burma's bumpy march toward ...
By editor, BurmaNet
“It would be pretty naïve of us to come in and think we could do business as we do in the Westernworld,” he added. “But I think a lot of Canadian companies are going to see that there is good opportunity”. Amid political and economic reforms, ...
Burmanet
WPR Article | Mexico's Peña Nieto Will Have ... - World Politics Review
By info@worldpoliticsreview.com (David Agren)
His work has appeared in USA Today, the Catholic News Service, the Toronto Star, CTV (Canada) and the Independent. Photo: Mexican President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto (photo by Wikimedia user Sandrodeamerica, licensed under ...
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Feature article in Toronto Star on justice for victims of cholera ...
The following article appears in the July 16, 2012 print and online editions of the Toronto Star. The Star is Canada's largest circulation daily newspaper.
www.canadahaitiaction.ca/.../feature-article-toronto-star-justice...
Could the new Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto, end the War ...
Canada's hub for international affairs. Home · About ...
www.opencanada.org/.../could-the-new-mexican-president-enr...
LankaWeb – The Toronto Star – Staff Reporter in Canada violates ...
The Toronto Star – Staff Reporter in Canada violates the Ethics Guidelines of the ... told the NationNewspaper Journalist that he did swear during the exchange ...
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