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 Ontario Budget 2012: Liberals and NDP at odds over budget bill
“If the bill doesn’t pass, we’re going to have an election,” warned Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan, as the Liberals and New Democrats wrangle over the budget bill.
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 Broad inquest into deaths of seven native teens a step closerIn 10 years, seven native teens died in Thunder Bay while attending high school. An inquest into those deaths is a step closer to reality.
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 CP Rail: Canada Labour Minister Raitt Poised to Order End to CP Rail Strike
The Harper government moved Wednesday to be in a position to pass back-to-work legislation if the strike is prolonged.
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 How Lego toys led to the arrest of a high-flying Silicon Valley exec
A Silicon Valley software executive has been charged with four felony counts of burglary after allegedly printing his own discount bar codes and pasting them on Lego toys he would later resell online.
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 Bride who faked cancer to pay for wedding to be sentenced
Jessica Vega isn't likely to do prison time, but court officials say she'll have to repay $13,368 to her victims. She's been in Orange County Jail since she pleaded guilty April 25.
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 Toronto women stabbed in Atlantic City identified
Atlantic City officials have released the identities of two Toronto women stabbed to death in Atlantic City’s tourist district Monday.
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 Federal government appeals court ruling that said it broke wheat board lawThe Federal Court of Appeal will allow an appeal of a ruling that said the federal government broke the law with its plan to strip the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly over western wheat and barley sales.
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 Mounties take over as Queen's personal bodyguard ... for a day
The famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police given rare honour of participating in the Changing of the Guard.
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 Watch U.K. stuntman skydive without a parachuteNo parachute? No problem. That was the case Wednesday afternoon for a British stuntman who made history as the first skydiver to land without the use of a parachute. 
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 Family prays for miracle as baby clings to life after tumble into pond
The family is praying for a miracle, days after a baby boy fell into a backyard pond at his grandparents’ Erin Mills home.
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 Big unions want to open up membership in mergerIn a labour first, Canadian Auto Workers and Communications, Energy and Paperworkers unions look at adding members who don’t have bargaining status.
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 Fiorito: The Roma and the immigration bill
Gina Csanyi-Robah, a Canadian-born Roma, recently spoke to the senate committee hearing into Bill C-31.
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 The cop who said no to 'kettling'
OPP Staff Sgt. Bradley Thompson told the G20 review he set free a couple and two girls “in bad shape” as the rain drenched a “dumbfounded” crowd boxed in at Spadina and Queen.
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 Egyptians vote to pick president for first time
Egyptians queued patiently to vote on Wednesday, eager to pick their leader for the first time in a national history dating to the pharaohs, with Islamists and secular-minded rivals who served under deposed President Hosni Mubarak heading the field.
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 He shoots, he applies for a permit: City comes up with road hockey exemption plan
Officially, the sport is banned in Toronto, but individual streets could get exemptions to the (largely ignored) bylaw.
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 "Save me": Toronto woman who died on Mount Everest
Shriya Shah-Klorfine’s death on Everest this weekend has raised questions about training and the suitability of the weather.
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 Iran seeks concessions from world powers in key Baghdad nuclear talks
Iran and six world powers resumed talks Wednesday over Tehran's nuclear program, with the Iranians pushing for specific timetables and goals but Westerns leaders signalling they want more disclosures before offering rewards.
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 Doctor who helped find Osama bin Laden jailed 33 years for treason by PakistanA government official says a Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden has been convicted of high treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison.
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 Toronto trustees plead with the province for budget 'flexibility'The cost of full-day kindergarten is placing a huge burden on the Toronto District School Board, a group of trustees says.
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 Kidnappers of realtor Tony Han admit to manslaughter
Three men pleaded guilty to their roles in the ransom kidnapping of Jianguo (Tony) Han and Xiu Jun (Johnny) Fei in Brampton court on Tuesday.
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 How did these people survive a plunge over Niagara Falls?
In the past nine years, three people have miraculously survived the plunge over Niagara Falls -- the only three in modern history known to live without a safety device.
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 DiManno: 'Controversial' sex exhibit rather boringFederal museum displays sex as visualized by educators and public health officials.
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 Pride Toronto funding jumps first hurdle but still under threatCouncil will decide in June whether to reject funding for Pride Toronto if Queers Against Israeli Apartheid is allowed to participate in the parade.
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 Man who beheaded fellow bus passenger thought victim was an alien: supporter
A man who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus thought he was attacking an alien, according to a supporter.
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 Iran to allow UN nuclear inspectors more access as key talks loomThe UN's atomic watchdog agency said it's close to a deal giving inspectors access to some of Iran's disputed nuclear sites.
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