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Quebec MDs won't get paid for Haiti workQuebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc has turned down a request by some of the province's doctors that each be reimbursed $704 per day for volunteer work in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
Olympic floating-hotel scheme sinksA cruise ship that was to serve as a floating hotel in the port of Vancouver during the Olympics will not be showing up, leaving hundreds of tourists high and dry.
Domestic threats biggest Olympic security concern: expertA University of Calgary expert in modern terrorism says small disruptions by domestic groups are the most likely security threat to the upcoming 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, but organizational issues are also a critical concern.
Downtown Eastside kiosks connect media with homelessA new Olympic information centre for international journalists opened on Vancouver's troubled Downtown Eastside on Monday, designed to help the visiting media understand life on the streets just a few blocks away from the main Games venues.
Olympic cruise ship hotel plan in jeopardyAn Alberta company's plan to charter a cruise ship and use it as a floating hotel in Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games has run into financial problems and could leave hundreds of guests stranded.
Coyote spotted at south Ottawa playgroundA thin coyote spotted roaming around a playground in Ottawa's south end just metres away from children playing on a play structure has prompted a call for the city to hire a trapper to remove the animal.
Intrawest owner wants Ottawa to pay $90M US: reportThe New York Post reported Monday that the parent of Intrawest ULC, the company which owns one of the venues for the Vancouver Winter Olympics, wants the Canadian government to put up $90 million US before the Games start or it will sue.
Students failing because of Twitter, textingTORONTO - Little or no grammar teaching, cellphone texting, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, all are being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write properly.
Dog torn apart in front of ownerOTTAWA - A Barrhaven couple are in shock after a neighbour’s pitbull tore apart their five-month-old puppy Bam as it was being walked Thursday evening near their home on Chapman Mills Dr.
Hockey Day draws thousandsIt was a quintessential Canadian moment, albeit one created for a television special. There were thousands of people — young and old — skating on the Avon River in Stratford, Ont., as part of the Tim Hortons Hockey Day in Canada festivities on Saturday.
Google camera appears to catch illegal tree-cuttingThree people have been charged with violating Vancouver's tree-cutting bylaw after trees were illegally removed from a property on the city's West Side – in an incident apparently caught on a camera operated by the internet giant, Google.
TTC chair hints at mayoral run in video Toronto Transit Commission chair Adam Giambrone has released a flippant YouTube video that all but declares his intention to jump into the race to replace Mayor David Miller.
Facebook threats a joke, student saysBARRIE, Ont. -- A college student who posted photos on the Internet of himself posing with guns and stating he was going to shoot everyone was just "kidding around," he told a judge yesterday.
Glass falls from Toronto skyscraperTORONTO -- A stretch of road in the heart of Toronto's financial district was shut down after "three big windows" fell 26 storeys to the ground Thursday morning, police said
Abandoned puppies saved from Alberta winterAnna Schneider and her sister, Lena, trudged through deep snow and battled frigid temperatures for four consecutive days last week, searching for a litter of abandoned puppies
Man shot dead driving in East VancouverA man was shot and killed Wednesday while driving in East Vancouver. The victim — described as an Asian male in his early 20s — was shot in the torso shortly after 1 p.m. PT while driving in the 1500 block of East 10th Avenue
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