Outrageous spending by Toronto city councillors has generated plenty of embarrassing headlines, but they are not the only local leaders indulging in questionable use of public dollars. They are joined by municipal officials in Brampton and Mississauga who are spending almost $100,000 to [...]
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Dec
REALITY STRIKES: With the writers’ strike in full bloom, networks are scraping the bottom of the barrel. ABC has just greenlit a new %26quot;reality%26quot; game show that promises %26quot;all the fun of Fear Factor, with none of the gross.%26quot; Wipeout, as it [...]
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Dec
Looking to shuffle their roster after an embarrassing collapse this past season, the New York Mets found a new catcher and right fielder yesterday. The price: prized outfield prospect Lastings Milledge. After holding on to Milledge through years of trade speculation, the Mets [...]
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Dec
OTTAWA – Today marks the 10th anniversary of an international treaty signed in Ottawa that bans anti-personnel landmines.
In the past decade, millions of landmines have been rendered harmless, about 38 countries have stopped making them and countless lives have been saved.
Former Liberal foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy, who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize [...]
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Dec
TheStar.com | Horse Racing | Woodbine thoroughbred selections
Posted by admin Published in Novel PrizePost time: 1:10 p.m.(Horses listed by prog. #)FIRST – 3-year-olds %26amp; up; Claiming $20,000-$19,000; 7 furlongs; Daily Double, Tri, Exactor.5 ST REGS (Pizarro) G Cox 2-17 CLEVER EVENT (Stein) J Charalambous 4-14 GREAT ADDICTION (Wilson) M Doyle 7-21 GARZON (Deverell) J Cardella 8-12 Smoke the Bandit (Giddings) T Rigby 10-13 Divine Touch (Cuthberston) K ranford [...]
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Dec
OSLO, Norway–Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore skipped the traditional airport motorcade and took public transportation when he arrived Friday in Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize he shared for his campaign against global warming. Gore will accept the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize he shared with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at a [...]
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Dec
National pride, millions of dollars in prize money at stake in Euro ‘08 draw
Posted by admin Published in Novel PrizeLUCERNE, Switzerland%26ndash;One week after the 2010 World Cup qualifying draw, 16 teams today will discover their path to the 2008 European Championship and millions of dollars in prize money. The prize money has been increased by more than 50 per cent since [...]
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Dec
Yorkville mixologist Hugo Silva went into the kitchen at Pangea Restaurant and came out a cocktail champion.A week ago he was named %26#34;Toronto’s best bartender%26#34; by vodka-maker Finlandia and is headed to Kittila, Finland, in February as Canada’s entry in the International Finlandia [...]
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Dec
Fifty years ago, external affairs minister Lester B. Pearson stood in an auditorium in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. He was tagged %26quot;the man who saved the world%26quot; for his role in defusing a crisis over the Suez Canal by helping to launch a pioneering international peace force.
The prize won him, and Canada, [...]
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Dec
Like WKRP But Colder? Elizabeth Hay’s Giller Prize-winning book Late Nights on Air, set at a Yellowknife CBC Radio outpost in the mid-1970s, is to be turned into a TV series by Shaftesbury Films. Shaftesbury’s also turning last year’s Giller winner, Bloodletting %26amp; Miraculous Cures, by Vincent Lam, into a limited-run series for TMN.
For the [...]
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