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R.I.P. Cronut Burger: Maple bacon jam IDed as toxic 27 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Maple bacon jam topping has been identified as the reason why the Cronut Burgers sold at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto made dozens of people sick. Epic Burgers and Waffles, the Food Bui...
Part of UBC website hacked, replaced with Insane Clown Posse fan page 27 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
Internet pranksters took over a University of British Columbia website over the weekend and reimagined it as a fan page for the Insane Clown Posse, reports the Ubyssey. According to the UBC student n...
Ontario to allow all frontline police officers to carry stun guns 27 Aug 2013 | 04:35 pm
TORONTO — The provincial government is going to allow all frontline police officers to carry stun guns following the fatal shooting of a Toronto teenager last month. Currently, only supervising and s...
Viking on the Mississippi in 2015? 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
When I first broke the story here at portsandbows.com that Viking River Cruises had an active committee working on the possibility of a river ship on North American waters, I had the impression it mig...
Cancer victim’s Iron Man journey inspires crowd 27 Aug 2013 | 06:20 am
VANCOUVER — As the midnight cutoff neared, the crowd remained. It was still several rows deep at the home stretch. And when Sindy Hooper crossed the finish line at 11:24 p.m., under the glow of spotl...
Dino lives a ‘dream come true’ with Team Canada 27 Aug 2013 | 05:58 am
CALGARY — Think about this scenario. You are a 21-year-old hockey player, minding your own business on a Sunday evening when your phone rings. On the other end, it’s your university hockey coach tell...
Elite team indulges in some ‘Pure Canadiana’ in Calgary 27 Aug 2013 | 05:40 am
CALGARY — Pure Canadiana, it was: $1.5 billion worth of elite professional hockey players wearing gloves and running shoes, carrying sticks, hitting a little orange ball around on an international-siz...
It’s time to deliver Canadians from Canada Post’s failing monopoly 27 Aug 2013 | 05:38 am
Sometime next month, it is reported, the Royal Mail will officially be put up for sale, after nearly five centuries in state hands. The public offering is expected to raise more than $3 billion, makin...
Robocalls court filings shed new light on case 27 Aug 2013 | 05:37 am
OTTAWA — An Elections Canada investigator alleges he had reason to believe that Michael Sona admitted he was involved in misleading robocalls in the 2011 federal election and also alleges that the for...
Canadians Bouchard, Dancevic win opening matches at US Open 27 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
NEW YORK — Canadians Eugenie Bouchard and Frank Dancevic won opening matches within seconds of each other to advances into the second round of the US Open on Monday. Bouchard, of Montreal, Que., mana...
