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TORONTO STAR News, Jul 25, 2012

Movie Travel: 50 years for James Bond and still no Canada scenes
Toronto Star
The gorgeous image of the brilliant blue lake bracketed by snow-capped mountains and a luxury hotel is one of the most recognizable Canadian views in the world, so we have to send Bond there. His mission? To push offshore in a canoe and prove that he is ...
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Toronto Star
Plant your future in the garden
Toronto Star
MARK CULLEN/FOR THE TORONTO STAR The world of horticulture offers a wide variety of job possibilities. I'm sure Mark Cullen's ... Currently there are over 100000 people working in the horticultural trades in Ontario; over 200000 in Canada. That is in the ...
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Toronto Star
Toronto Pearson International airport's booby traps for travellers
Hamilton Spectator
The Toronto Star offers five suggestions to help it along. Loading... loading. In Canada's busiest airport, pay phones and ... For the second time running, Pearson was named Canada's worst airport in a survey conducted by FlightNetwork.com, an online travel company. “The top three pain points were slow security, bad service and lack of ... As its vision statement puts it: “Toronto Pearson will be North America's premier portal to a world of possibilities.” Key word: will. The Star asked Pearson customers where they ...
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Jonathan Kay on gunplay hysteria at The Star: When will 'Toronto the Good' get ...
National Post
But it's not hard to figure out why scared housewives are canceling their zoo trips whenthe Toronto Star is blaring out headlines like “Mass shooting on Danzig puts the lie to Toronto's 'safe city' mantra.” Combine that headline with the lurid, disturbingly ...
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National Post
Canderel is building the tallest residential skyscraper in Canada
Toronto Star
They have raised the bar quite high: Aura at College Park, being built at Yonge St. and Gerrard St. W., holds the title of tallest residential skyscraper in Canada, soaring to 78 storeys once it's finished in 2014. Aura also boasts Canada's second largest ...
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Toronto Star
Chris Nardi: Phew! Despite what we think, Toronto is still a world-class city.
National Post
On Monday, the Toronto Star ran an article stating that “to the Brits and the Yanks, Toronto may be a 'world-class' city.” That conclusion was based on an Angus Reid opinion poll measuring the views of Britons, Americans and Canadians on various facets of ...
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National Post
London 2012: Blind Canadian judo champ Justin Karn fights for respect
Toronto Star
Matthew Sherwood for the Toronto Star Visually impaired Justin Karn, in blue, who will represent Canada at the 2012 Paralympic Games, competes against sighted Alexandre Di Bartolo at Judo Canada's national championships two weeks ago. Josh Tapper Staff Reporter. Justin Karn is ... Now ranked 10th in the world in his weight division, the native of Guelph said the national championships, where he went head to head against sighted athletes, was a “tune-up” for London. One would think Karn would be at a ...
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Toronto Star
Chinese bid for Nexen 'politically unthinkable' five years ago: Rubin
TheTyee.ca (blog)
“Are we the Boy Scout of globalization?" she told the Toronto Star. "Canada is the most open country in the world in terms of come on in and buy anything and we won't set any rules." Geoff Dembicki reports on energy and climate change issues for The Tyee.
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Violence invites poor solutions
StarPhoenix
Toronto is not the "safest city in the world," as Mayor Rob Ford claimed, but it's also not the new Tombstone. As of Thursday, the city ... The Toronto Star, Canada's largest-circulation newspaper, is calling for a total ban on private handguns. The Globe and Mail ...
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Travel Canada: Alberta has many kid-friendly attractions and activities
Toronto Star
Darcy Fedorchuk for the Toronto Star When you're done looking at the dinosaur bones at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, just ten minutes down the road you can try to find them yourself at Drumheller's Hoodoos. Or you can pretend you're Wile E. Coyote looking for...
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Toronto Star
A ban on guns won't curb violence in Canada's cities
Yahoo! News Canada (blog)
But is gun control in Canada even possible? According to the Toronto Star, there are almost 700000 legally registered handguns in this country. Toronto police estimate that about a ... "Canadashares a 5000 km undefended, and generally unpatrolled, border with the one of the most heavily armed countries in the world, a border that has proven entirely impervious to efforts to stop the flow of contraband, mainly drugs, previously," he wrote. "It is ironic that during an era of increasing calls for drug law reform, driven by ...
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Hall of Fame pep talk
Toronto Sun
Are you the first Canadian to win this award? Yes. Neil MacCarl of the Toronto Star was nominated twice. Who was your favourite interview, the guy you looked forward to talking to the most? You mean besides you? ... Wayne Parrish of the Toronto Sun interviewed me at the Harvard Square Book Store before Game 5 of the 1986 World Series in Boston and in January of 1987 I began at the Toronto Sun. But I was his second choice — someone else turned down the job. Did you have a guy at your paper who tried to ...
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In wake of Jun Lin murder, Chinese students in Canada worry for safety
Toronto Star
“Compared with parents in other countries, Chinese parents are paying more attention to their children,” noted Wang, whose centre, one of nine around the world, assists students interested in studying in Canada. “The one-child policy makes Chinese parents...
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Toronto Star
Toronto ERs feel weight of downtown condo boom
Toronto Star
That's more than five times the growth reported in the previous five-year period, according to Statistics Canada. The city of Toronto's website reports there are 132 high rises currently under construction. It's the most out of any city in the world. The Ministry of ...
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Toronto Star
Toronto shooting: Mayor Rob Ford says gang members should leave the city
Toronto Star
... future implications” with ripple effects that will be... GM Canada to invest almost $1B in R&D .... Ford said he is “very, very upset” about the shooting but believes the city remains the safest in the world. “I'm gonna emphasize — it's isolated. You don't see it ...
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Toronto Star
Should senior homes cater exclusively to ethnic minorities?
CanIndia News
A headline in the Toronto Star recently caught my attention. It read, “Canada's Ethnic Nursing Homes Are Multiculturalism's Failure. ... ethnic enclaves but was stunned to know it now had ethnic nursing homes. She, as so many Canadians are, a tad uncomfortable with the idea of segregating nursing homes and setting up new facilities exclusively on the basis of race, religion and language. ...Such an ideal world exists — in their country of origin. The same argument could be made when an immigrant leaves his ...
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What did we accomplish in Afghanistan?
Macleans.ca
It's really unfair—and that's why I take exception to the Toronto Star article—how you can be so critical of a nation, in our own country, that is so lauded, and appreciated, and recognized elsewhere in the world…be it NGOs, Canadian government, Canadian ...
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Jim Ogilvie seeks out romantic portraits he drew during World War II
Toronto Star
He estimates he produced 200 or so portraits during the course of World War II but has no idea what became of them. As far as he knows, they were sent to girlfriends and families in Canada by airmen he met stationed in such places as Bournemouth, ...
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Toronto Star
Earning a living on the homestead
Toronto Star
Sayed Shah Sharifi, who was an interpreter for Canadian combat troops, received hisCanadian. All the battlefield interpreter has to do now is ... STEVE MAXWELL/FORTHE TORONTO STAR This bookcase was built at home using simple materials and tools. Besides saving money ... One thing that makes homesteading economics more possible than ever is the Internet; it allows people from across the world to collaborate on all kinds of work that used to require travel and physical meetings. My recommendation is to ...
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Toronto Star
US drought set to harvest huge profits for Canadian fertilizer companies
Toronto Star
Agrium chief executive Mike Wilson also indicated that Agrium could be a beneficiary of the prolonged drought affecting much of the U.S. – the world's biggest producer of corn and soybeans. Conditions in Canada's Prairie region to the north of the U.S. ...
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Toronto Star
Stratford Festival is more than Shakespeare for actors
Toronto Star
Aaron Harris/For the Toronto Star When it comes to getting around Stratford, "I'd rather ride than walk," says Tyrone Savage, pictured with fellow actors Jennifer Stewart, Naomi Costain and Leah Doz. Trish Crawford Entertainment Reporter. When actress Cara ...
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Toronto Star
Canada gets weird
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In May, producer John Brunton told the Toronto Star that in the days following the show's initial announcement press release, staff were overwhelmed by response from hopeful contestants and hosts, eager to get under the Big Brother microscope. "People have been sending photos in. Weird photos. ... The premise is standard, elimination-based reality TV. A diverse group of sexy 20 and 30-somethings are plunked in a house, isolated from the outside world, their lives are taped and they're picked off one by one.
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Tour Report: Olympic golf trophy makes visit
Yahoo! Sports
Eric Bolte/Golf Canada Gordon M. Nixon (left), president and chief executive officer of RBC, and Scott Simmons, chief executive officer of Golf Canada, pose with the Olympic Golf Trophy at Hamilton Golf and Country Club. The last time an Olympic ... But due to the absence of many of the game's top golfers at the time, he also said, “I am not foolish enough to think that I am the best player in the world,” Lyon told the Toronto Star, according to Golf Digest, “but I am satisfied that I am not the worst.” Golf was an Olympic...
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Yahoo! Sports
Play the Slate News Quiz
Slate Magazine
Question 1 of 12. It was reported this week that for the first time, the average Canadianhousehold is richer than the average American one. But a Toronto Star article the same day reported what new problem with Canadian money? The new polymer bills melt when left near heat sources like toaster ovens, according to the Toronto Star. ...Question 8 of 12. The archaeological world was rocked Wednesday by the University of Innsbruck's discovery of what anachronistic-seeming item in the ruins of a medieval castle?
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Slate Magazine
Matthew Modine embraces conflicted cop role in Dark Knight Rises
Toronto Star
He was about to see the movie here for the first time Wednesday night at the Canadianpremiere. Modine, who first gained attention playing Pt. Joker Davis in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 Vietnam War film Full Metal ... Dark Knight Rises would “kick The Avengers' butt.” “Those fanboys attacked me viciously (on Twitter),” he said. “So I responded to say there are people dying in Iraq and Afghanistan and starving to death, and the world's climate is at a tipping point, and if you want to be angry, use your energy toward that.
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Toronto Star
Toronto Zoo Elephants waiting for cooler weather before move
DigitalJournal.com
Trending david c onley Anaheim Canada Public art Helio castroneves UK Soap keep the promise Greece crisis teen choice awards Mall · Arts Auto Business Crime Entertainment Environment Food ... Jul 23, 2012 - 4 hours ago in World. 2 comments. By Darren Weir. Toronto - Officials have decided a trio of ... even this past weekend two small, separate protests were held. The Toronto Star reports one group is worried about a recent case of tuberculosis at the PAWS sanctuary and says it isn't the best place for the trio.
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DigitalJournal.com
Ugly realities gain spotlight
StarPhoenix
A recent series by the Toronto Star's Paul Watson describes crumbling schools that lack furniture and even basic plumbing, the Canucks' signature Dahla Dam and irrigation project that can't hold enough water for a season except to sustain poppy growth, and a justice system that could qualify as a level of Dante's hell. In response to ... But with the world now watching, Canadians will be forced to ask some tough questions about how their leaders let them down while hiding behind the bravery of our frontline troops.
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Butterflies freed to assist group
The North Bay Nugget
True North Canada Day Photo Contest · Blogs · Connecting the Dots - Dave Dale · Beyond The ....There was an interesting article in the Toronto Star today. See below. http://www.thestar.com/​news/canada/articl​e/1230264--monarch​-butterfly-populat​ion-at-risk-as-hab​itat-declines-due-to-climate-change. Reply | Report | Page Top. Post #2 By leeds, 3 hours ... Why why why is there so much jealousy, hatred, and fighting in the world around us not to mention our own city? I remember a[...]By: boozer | Comments ...
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The Media's Straight-Shootin' Approach to Gun Violence
Huffington Post Canada (blog)
Friday's monstrous, senseless killing spree in Colorado obviously sucked the whimsy out of the news cycle this weekend, and even a cynic like me must concede that the Canadian press has largely responded with a rarely-seen abundance of dignity and ... In such an embarassing context, Atleo now has every political incentive in the world to be the precise opposite of what his media fanclub expects -- namely, obstinate and aggressive -- lest he confirm the worst suspicions of his own already skeptical electorate.
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Canadian soccer women open the Olympics Wednesday
YorkRegion.com
Led by captain and top scorer Christine Sinclair, of Burnaby, B.C., the Canadian team heads into the Olympic tournament ranked seventh in the world and coming off an eighth place finish four years ago at the Beijing Games. They will get a stiff challenge right ...
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End the Norman Bethune buffoonery: Worthington
The North Bay Nugget
An article in the Toronto Star quotes Treasury Board President Tony Clement: “When Chinese schoolchildren are taught about the value of helping humanity, the story they are told is the Norman Bethune story.” There are ... In the mid-1960s, the Canadian government suddenly realized that Norman Bethune's name was useful in selling wheat to China — the first billion-dollar contract signed at that time. .... Why why why is there so much jealousy, hatred, and fighting in the world around us not to mention our own city?
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Federal Court gives go-ahead to robocalls lawsuit
StarPhoenix
Business world is awash in buzzwords · Job vacancies up over 2011: StatsCan · When your boss is bad, 'manage up' · The CEO is pregnant .... "Far from being frivolous or vexatious, or an obvious abuse, the applications raise serious issues about the integrity of the democratic process in Canadaand identify practices that, if proven, point to a campaign of activities that would seek to deny eligible voters their ... In an interview with the Toronto Star in April, Hamilton predicted the council's case would be thrown out.
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London 2012: Hard work finally pays off for Olympic hurdler Nikkita Holder
Toronto Star
Pickering's Perdita Felicien, the 10-time national champion and 2003 world champion, was disqualified for a false start. But such is the depth of Canada's talent pool in women's hurdles that Holder, though she was aided by good fortune, is hardly a slouch.
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Toronto Star
Jaffer sought secrets, PI says
Windsor Star
Former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer sought secret information about Canadian military satellite technology after meeting with state-owned Chinese technology companies in China in 2010, says a document filed in an Ottawa courthouse Tuesday by private ... Guergis resigned from cabinet and was expelled from the Conservative caucus the day after the Toronto Star reported that Jaffer and business associates had partied with escorts at a pricey Toronto restaurant the night that Jaffer was charged with cocaine ...
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Northrop Frye, Pete Colgrove and the price of fame
rabble.ca
To mark the centennial of Northrop Frye's birth a week ago, I want to register -- not quite a disagreement with Martin Knelman's lament here about the lack of acclaim for our great Canadianliterary critic. More like a counterpoint. We live in an era of gradations of fame. ... Colgrove was in disguise, not just then but as a high-school teacher for decades after World War II. That's because he was a true truth-seeker. ... Not a chance. This article was first published in the Toronto Star. Photo courtesy of aulusgellius on Flickr.
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A Socialist in Canada » Canada's global military ambitions laid bare
By roger
The myth of Canadian overseas military deployments having much to do with humanitarian assistance has been exposed in a recent series of page one articles in the Toronto Star examining Canada's aid performance in Afghanistan, ... A directive signed by Natynczyk and obtained by Postmedia Newssays the initiative was launched to improve the Canadian Forces' “ability to project combat power/security assistance and Canadian influence rapidly and flexibly anywhere in the world.
A Socialist in Canada
Law Strengthens Protection of Confidential Sources and Solidifies ...
The Move to Online Journalism. In December, one of Canada's venerable papers, the Toronto Star, downsized their personnel with severance packages. The National Post, also in Canada, ... Armstrong is currently chief crime correspondent for Crime Report USA, and contributes to Films & Books Magazine, Advance Magazine, Canadian Money Magazine, Secure Net News, LINK World NewsMagazine, and EDI Weekly. Derek Armstrong is a member of the Canadian Association of ...
Next Generation Journalist
Nazi war crimes suspect arrested in Hungary | Houston Style ...
By Style News Wire
Using the last name Csizsik, Csizsik-Csatary arrived in Canada in 1949, telling immigration officials he was Yugoslavian, according to The Toronto Star newspaperCanadian authorities later investigated allegations that he had lied to ...
Houston Style Magazine - Urban...
The Scarborough shootings: Shyanne Charles, gun control, and the ...
By Michael Petrou
Michael Petrou writes about international news and Canadian foreign policy. Go back to regular view | Back to macleans.ca. We hope you enjoy this clean reading mode: Categories: The World Desk ...This morning we have the Toronto Star weighing in on Monday night's Danzig Street shooting, in which two people were killed and another 24 were injured when two men opened fire at each other at a neighbourhood barbeque. All the facts are not yet known, but police suspect gang ...
Macleans.ca
More Media Writers Are Helping Tell The Truth About Guns
By Ammoland
Canada - -(Ammoland.com)- Recent CSSA editorials have exposed several members of the media who have swallowed the anti-gun rhetoric hook, line and sinker – yet there is reason to celebrate. More writers and ... They know that The Toronto Star's predictable shriek for gun bans following every public shooting will have zero effect on future shootings. It's great to ..... Action hero and Second Amendment activist, Chuck Norris is one of the most enduringly popular actors in the world.
AmmoLand.com Shooting Sports News
Nazi war crimes suspect arrested in Hungary - CNN
Using the last name Csizsik, Csizsik-Csatary arrived in Canada in 1949, telling ... officials he was Yugoslavian, according to The Toronto Star newspaper.
articles.cnn.com/.../world_europe_hungary-suspected-nazi_1_...
Fantino criticizes Toronto Star reporting on Afghanistan | Embassy ...
Embassy - Canada's Foreign Policy Newspaper ... actually to get caught up on some of the reporting that the Toronto Star did, which is really unfair. ... You see how precarious things are around theworld and some of the countries that go ...
www.embassymag.ca/page/view/fantino-07-18-2012
Violence invites poor solutions
canada.com network ..... This is one rain forest the world has saved. .... The Toronto Star,Canada's largest-circulation newspaper, is calling for a total ban on ...
www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Violence+invites.../story.html
Nexen Deal Illustrates China's Canadian Appetite
... America Outlook & Insights News. Nexen Deal Illustrates China's Canadian Appetite. by The Toronto Star. July 24, 2012. Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories ...
www.downstreamtoday.com/news/article.aspx?a_id=36794
BBQ Party Shooting Leaves Two Dead In - Worldcrunch - All News ...
BBQ Party Shooting Leaves Two Dead In 'Safest City In The World'. Share on Facebook print. by: bertrand. CBC NEWS, THE TORONTO STAR (Canada), ...
worldcrunch.com/bbq-party-shooting-leaves-two.../5877
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