CFL: Hamilton eliminates Winnipeg from playoffs
Markeith Knowlton and Jykine Bradley returned Michael Bishop interceptions for touchdowns in the fourth quarter as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats eliminated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers from the playoffs with a 39-17 victory Sunday afternoon.
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U of T teachers avert strike
A strike by contract faculty at the University of Toronto that had been set for Monday has been averted after a tentative agreement was reached Sunday.
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91 die in flooding in El Salvador
El Salvador's interior minister says the death toll is now 91 from floods and slides touched off by three days of heavy rains.
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Hurricane Ida picks up steam
Hurricane Ida strengthened to a Category 2 storm on Sunday, and a hurricane watch was extended to the Florida Panhandle as Ida made its way across the Gulf of Mexico.
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U.S. House passes health bill but Senate will be tougher
The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed far-reaching health care legislation, handing U.S. President Barack Obama a hard-won victory on his chief domestic priority though the road ahead in the Senate promises to be tougher.
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Hurricane Ida sweeps into Mexico
Hurricane Ida swiped the resort city of Cancun on Sunday and officials issued a hurricane watch for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi.
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Drunk driving charge laid after car sails into Humber River
A 25-year-old woman appeared in court Sunday morning, charged with drunk driving after an apparent incident of road rage that sent a vehicle flying over a cliff into the Humber River.
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40 die in flooding in El Salvador
Forty people have died in El Salvador following three days of heavy rains, Interior Minister Humberto Centeno said Sunday.
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Road rage blamed as car sails off cliff
Booze and a bout of road rage are believed to be the catalysts that sent a woman plunging 25 metres over a cliff and into the Humber River Saturday morning.
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Arrest made after stabbing death in Annex sushi bar
A man is under arrest and will be charged after a 27-year-old was stabbed to death Saturday night in the kitchen of an Annex sushi bar.
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Steven Tyler quits Aerosmith, guitarist says
The rock band Aerosmith may really be living on the edge, as reports surface that lead singer Steven Tyler has left the band.
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No real surprise in Dallas, right?
Kind of saw that one coming, didn’t you? Back-to-back, good opponent, hangover from an unexpected win in New Orleans. Maybe not as bad as it was, but tell me who out there is surprised by the loss? Anyway … -...
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Landmark U.S. health bill narrowly passes in House
The Democratic-controlled House has narrowly passed landmark health care reform legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard won victory on his signature domestic priority.
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Man stabbed to death in Annex sushi restaurant
A man was stabbed and killed in an Annex restaurant kitchen last night.
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Pan Am bid win just a beginning
Pride mingled with relief as Toronto scored a first-round win in its breakthrough bid for the 2015 Pan Am Games. In the end, in contrast to past defeats for Olympic bids, this one wasn't even close.
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Distorting the gun facts
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's law-and-order Conservatives have no valid reason to kill off Canada's rifle and shotgun registry, beyond pandering to their rural constituencies. So they've resorted to playing up the cost of the so-called "long gun" database...
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The endless assault of advertising
Would you enjoy a tour of the Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua, Italy? Here are relics of the saint, there, sculptures by Donatello. And over there? Recently, there were also posters advertising favourable rates for mortgages and car loans at a local...
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Online scams abound
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Leafs blueprint for victory
It's hard to say which club caused the old eyebrow to raise more in Spockian surprise.
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Fanelli OUT OF hospital
Kitchener Rangers rookie Ben Fanelli has been released from Hamilton General Hospital and is recovering at home, according to the team. The defenceman was released a week after a hit from Erie Otters forward Michael Liambas saw him airlifted to hospital...
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Terrifying hockey injuries are no surprise
It's a wonder there aren't more fractured skulls in hockey.
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Fanelli home after week in hospital following hit
After an emotional week, the Kitchener Rangers received some welcome news on Saturday as rookie Ben Fanelli was released from Hamilton General Hospital.
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Kessel gets on the board
Phil Kessel simply shrugged his shoulders, wondering what all the fuss was about, and had an almost sheepish grin on his face.
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Martinek finished for season
Oft-injured New York Islanders defenceman Radek Martinek is out for the season with a knee injury.
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From bad to worse for Canes
Rick Nash scored the Columbus Blue Jackets' third goal in a 2:41 span of the third period to beat Carolina 3-2, the Hurricanes' franchise-record 12th consecutive game without a win.
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U.S. is no match for Canadian juggernaut
The Canadian women's hockey team snapped a four-game losing streak in international finals with a 5-1 victory over the U.S. on Saturday to take the Four Nations Cup.
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Overbay could be headed for desert in swap for a catcher: Report
The Blue Jays may be working on a deal that would send first baseman Lyle Overbay to the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for catcher Chris Snyder.
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No quick fix for Blue Jays
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Galileo was wrong, Earth spins around Planet Chad
"You don't get it. You don't understand the world I live in. You don't understand the confidence I have. You don't understand my ability. You don't live on Planet Chad."
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Bell tolls at school of hard knocks
As the 2009 Argonauts filed off the field for the last time Saturday, Rogers Centre workers started preparing for a post-game Christian gathering and concert.
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Riders claim first title since 1976
Rob Bagg's second-quarter touchdown reception stood up as the difference maker as the Saskatchewan Roughriders clinched their first West Division title since 1976 with a 30-14 win over the Calgary Stampeders in CFL action Saturday.
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Cobb and his Ticats face the Bombers
After impressing the Tiger-Cats at a free-agent workout in California in May, DeAndra' Cobb (photo) was signed to a contract before training camp even though the team was deep at running back. The 28-year-old native of Las Vegas has started 16 straight...
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Mustangs say Ar-Riva-derci to Hawks
The good times keep on rolling for the University of Western Ontario Mustangs and running back Nathan Riva.
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Chilling out with curling's Wizard of Ice
The phone rang the day after Russ Howard won the Canadian Olympic curling trials in December 2005.
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Thumbs up ... thumbs down
UP: No, they are not the Olympics, but the Pan Am Games are a giant step in the right direction.
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Raptors buried by hot-shooting Mavericks
The Raptors weren't historically bad here Saturday night.
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The Box: Cash conundrum tale won't push your buttons
The Ontario Film Board rating for The Box is 14A to alert moviegoers to "disturbing content" within.
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Where credit is due
The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History takes a look at television's longest running comedy and examines its impact on a generation.
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Blue Rodeo's writers get ambitious, and get along
Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor are putting their best marketing feet forward, offering fans a seemingly more valuable product, a bigger slice of Blue Rodeo and a more formidable package with their new album.
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Breslin a no-brainer for book
When HarperCollins decided to commission a book on the history of Canadian stand-up comedy, there was really only one candidate for the job: Yuk Yuk's founder Mark Breslin.
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Rare finds: Beatles albums in every colour of the rainbow
It's the kind of treasure that sets collectors' hearts racing – a find so rare that there may be no limit to its monetary value: some colourful old vinyl of Beatles albums.
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Crusade for copyright-free literacy
Cory Doctorow will have mixed feelings when the news reaches him that employees of the Toronto Public Library system will not be on strike this week.
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The bear facts about the polar bear hunt
For thousands of years, Inuit hunters have stalked polar bears across the Arctic, killing animals they revere to keep themselves, and their culture, alive.
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Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon still Mum in a new biography
At 1096 pages, it's a door-stopper of a book. But then, why not? The life it chronicles, that of the universally adored Queen Mother, began in 1900 and didn't end until 2002.
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Toronto's oldest tree
This Bur Oak, located on a private property in the Annex, is a giant among giants. With a diameter of 1.8 metres and a circumference of 5.8 metres, its massive trunk holds a web of limbs that curve symmetrically and conically to support a canopy over...
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Tropical Storm Ida threatens Cancun
Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun.
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The Pan Am Games home field advantage
There are no cheering crowds at the pool at 5:30 a.m. Sixteen-year-old competitive swimmer Amanda Reason is there, focused on being her best as she glides into the water.
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Teen finds helping kids is 'a great feeling'
Seeing the looks on children's faces when they receive Star Santa Fund gift boxes at their homes makes all the effort involved in helping out worthwhile, says teen volunteer Grainne Heaney.
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Our six-year Pan Am marathon will begin with a sprint
After ensuring a decisive win on the first ballot to host the Pan Am Games in 2015, David Peterson returns to his other life this week, which includes presiding over seven convocations as University of Toronto chancellor.
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DiManno: Olympics will miss the Queen's touch
By rights, in fact by all that is holy about Olympic, Commonwealth and royal protocol, Queen Elizabeth II should open the Vancouver Olympics.
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Wells: It's time for another leave-taking
So many experiences left undone, yet home beckons, Jennifer Wells says in her last dispatch from India.
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Potter: Fort Hood's second hero
As U.S. President Barack Obama clears his schedule to attend a memorial service for the fallen, the survivors of a deadly shooting rampage at America's largest army base are deepening their appreciation for the police duo that ended it.
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Pearson airport: Flu magnet
Passengers are streaming through the glass doors and into the muted light of the public hall at Pearson's Terminal One. Some march, almost head down, toward the exits and waiting limousines. Others linger, searching for loved ones among the welcoming...
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Ex-cop, wife accused of faking bank records
Cullen Johnson was a top Toronto cop. Elaine White was a dogged investigator at a downtown accounting firm. Now the husband and wife team of private detectives are accused of forging and selling bank records that make clients believe an ex-spouse, friend...
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It's hit and miss as far as getting flu shots in GTA
When it comes to getting an H1N1 shot, it's still a matter of where you live and who you are.
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Schiller: Comrade Norman Bethune still a force in China
Canada's Dr. Norman Bethune was a force of nature in his late 40s when he landed in China, then at war with Japan in 1938.
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Olive: Can Chrysler be fixed?
Sergio Marchionne and his executives set the appropriate tone this week at their marathon, six-hour-long unveiling of Chrysler's rescue strategy. The strategy is bizarre, and so was the meeting.
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Roseman: Online scams abound
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Persichilli: Voracious banks have confused ends and means
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Cox: Leafs blueprint for victory
It's hard to say which club caused the old eyebrow to raise more in Spockian surprise. Was it the Leafs, suddenly a very competent looking hockey club? Or was it the Detroit Red Wings, the squad that went to the Stanley Cup final the past two springs...
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Lyle Overbay could be headed for desert in swap for a catcher: Report
The Blue Jays may be working on a deal that would send first baseman Lyle Overbay to the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for catcher Chris Snyder.
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No quick fix for Blue Jays
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Raptors buried by hot-shooting Mavericks
The Raptors weren't historically bad here Saturday night. Not far off it, though.
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Sesame Street: Sweeping the clouds away
As Sesame Street turns 40, its accomplishments remain the pinnacle of children's TV, thanks to aiming high from the start.
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Denying Canada's environmental truths
To understand the challenge of tackling climate change in Canada, picture a 10-year old boy.
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Perkins: Freedom sounds like Beethoven, tastes of oranges
Oranges, Kleenex and a little impromptu Beethoven. Those are the memory keys that jump out first for a guy dumb lucky enough to have been in Berlin when the wall opened, 20 years ago Monday.
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Woolsey: Terrifying hockey injuries are no surprise
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Ben Fanelli home after week in hospital following hit
After an emotional week, the Kitchener Rangers received some welcome news on Saturday as rookie Ben Fanelli was released from Hamilton General Hospital.
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Phil Kessel gets on the board
Phil Kessel simply shrugged his shoulders, wondering what all the fuss was about, and had an almost sheepish grin on his face.
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Hockey Notebook: Islanders' Radek Martinek finished for season
Oft-injured New York Islanders defenceman Radek Martinek is out for the season with a knee injury.
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Under Review: Ocho Cinco: What Football and Life Have Thrown My Way
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Bell tolls at Argos' school of hard knocks
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Roughiders claim first CFL West title since 1976
Rob Bagg's second-quarter touchdown reception stood up as the difference maker as the Saskatchewan Roughriders clinched their first West Division title since 1976 with a 30-14 win over the Calgary Stampeders in CFL action Saturday.
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DeAndra' Cobb and surprising Ticats playoff bound
Hamilton Ticats' rookie running back DeAndra' Cobb, at the start 2009, was out of football and working as a security guard at a high school in Lancaster, Calif. Four weeks from now he's hoping for a trip to the Grey Cup, followed by a victory parade through...
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Mustangs say Ar-Riva-derci to Golden Hawks
The good times keep on rolling for the University of Western Ontario Mustangs and running back Nathan Riva.
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From bad to worse for Canes
Rick Nash scored the Columbus Blue Jackets' third goal in a 2:41 span of the third period to beat Carolina 3-2, the Hurricanes' franchise-record 12th consecutive game without a win.
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Measuring the impact of The Simpsons
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Mavericks dominate weary Raptors
DALLAS— There was no magic on this night, no barrage of three-pointers and no defence as it was scripted.
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Kessel scores 1st goal as Leaf in 5-1 win
Phil Kessel is on the board, and the Maple Leafs appear to be on their way.
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Phil Kessel is on the board, and the Maple Leafs appear to be on their way.
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Kessel scores 1st goal as Leaf in 5-1 win
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Haye beats Valuev by decision for WBA heavyweight title
David Haye certainly backed up his brash prediction. Haye used his superior quickness to surprise Nikolai Valuev, winning a majority decision on Saturday night and winning the WBA heavyweight title.
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David Haye certainly backed up his brash prediction. Haye used his superior quickness to surprise Nikolai Valuev, winning a majority decision on Saturday night and winning the WBA heavyweight title.
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David Haye certainly backed up his brash prediction. Haye used his superior quickness to surprise Nikolai Valuev, winning a majority decision on Saturday night and winning the WBA heavyweight title.
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Alberta premier Stelmach gets majority support
Premier Ed Stelmach got 77 per cent support in a leadership review vote by Tory delegates meeting in Red Deer, Alta.
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Preliminary Fort Hood inquiry finds no link to terror plot
After two days of investigation into the mass shooting at Fort Hood, investigators have tentatively concluded that the attack was not part of a terrorist plot.
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Shooting suspect taken off ventilator
A U.S. Army spokesman says the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood has been taken off a ventilator but still remains in intensive care at a military hospital.
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