DUBLIN, Ohio - Wendy's International Inc. said on Friday that it plans to sell a portion of its Tim Hortons business, weeks after a major shareholder sent a letter urging a spinoff of the profitable doughnut and...
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Nine 'women clerics' defy Vatican
Ordination ceremony
The ceremony took place on a boat on the St Lawrence River
Nine Roman Catholic women have been unofficially ordained as priests and deacons in North America, risking excommunication by the Vatican.
The ceremony took place...
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After reported sighting of sasquatch, hair found
Canadian Press
Jul. 21, 2005 04:10 PM
WHITEHORSE - A University of Alberta scientist is offering to run a DNA test on what some believe is a sample of sasquatch hair found in the Yukon.
The sample is heading to Edmonton...
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OTTAWA (CP) - Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson was unexpectedly admitted to a Toronto hospital with heart problems Friday and scheduled to undergo surgery. She was to have a pacemaker implanted over the weekend after doctors noticed an abnormality during a routine checkup....
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Sunday, October 2, 2005 is the day you can make a difference. Help the
Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast
cancer.
The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure is...
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The Death Of Alberta Packing Houses,Lack Of Feedlot Inspections, And Privatization, Led To The BSE CrisisAgribusiness and its friends in the Klein government are directly responsible for the BSE crisis we now...
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ON THE U.S.-CANADA BORDER (AP) -- Nearly four years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks and after billions in security investment on both sides of this frontier stretching from Atlantic to Pacific, authorities and...
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Museum of Civilization donates aboriginal exhibit
Canadian Press
July 2, 2005
GATINEAU, Que -- The Canadian Museum of Civilization has donated to the Kitigan Zibi native community an exhibition tracing the history of aboriginal culture in the Ottawa Valley.
Artifacts in...
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ive8, the biggest event in music history, today stepped up pressure on G8 leaders ahead of their summit in Scotland next week with a warning that failure to secure a "historic breakthrough" on action...
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Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - A key RCMP officer in the Maher Arar investigation says the normal safeguards on sharing intelligence with U.S. authorities were dropped in the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Parliament was set on Tuesday to approve legislation that will allow same sex marriages across the country, despite fierce opposition from conservative legislators and religious...
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Perhaps I'm obsessed with lists and numbers, but it dawned on me that I don't think I've ever seem a comprehensive lists of blog networks: so welcome to the Blog Network List v1 beta (list in no particular order). I'll seek to update this list from time to time as a reference...
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Bush administration officials working behind the scenes have succeeded in weakening key sections of a proposal for joint action by the eight major industrialized nations to curb climate change.
Under U.S. pressure, negotiators in the past month have agreed to delete...
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