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Upgrades to Toronto Stadium unveiled with World Cup games on horizon
Officials revealed Tuesday that all major updates for Toronto Stadium at Exhibition Place are finished in advance of World Cup games this summer.
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Montreal-area byelection to use write-in ballots due to dozens of protest candidates
The head of Elections Canada said voters will have to write in their pick in next month’s byelection in an off-island Montreal suburb due to the long list of protest candidates running in the riding.
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Gold heist ringleader pleads guilty to theft of $22M in gold and cash from Toronto’s Pearson airport
A ringleader of Toronto’s Pearson Airport gold heist has pleaded guilty for his part in the alarming plot that saw bandits brazenly steal more than $22 million in gold and cash from an Air Canada cargo warehouse in 2023, most of which remains missing. Arsalan Chaudhary, a 43-year-old man formerly of Mississauga, pleaded guilty Monday,…
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Mexican man arrested for attempting to smuggle family into U.S. across Niagara River in rubber raft
U.S. Border Patrol agents have arrested two men and one woman after they entered America by crossing the Niagara River from Canada in a rubber raft. On March 15, the people involved were spotted on infrared camera inflating a raft on the Canadian shoreline at Boyers Creek, says the CBP. (Boyer’s Creek is a tributary…
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Porter to launch flights from revamped Montreal airport
Porter Airlines plans to launch a dozen routes this summer from the overhauled Montreal Metropolitan Airport, as Canada’s third-largest carrier seeks to gain purchase in the competitive domestic market and start putting its half-billion-dollar investment to work.
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Air Canada cockpit voice recorder reveals what happened in lead up to LaGuardia crash
Officials investigating the collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck on a New York airport runway this week revealed on Tuesday what was captured by the cockpit voice recorder in the final three minutes before the crash, shedding more light on the last moments of two deceased pilots. In a National Transportation…
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Close nomination loopholes exploited by Longest Ballot Committee, MPs say
OTTAWA — A committee studying the impact of protest group the Longest Ballot Committee (LBC) in recent Canadian elections is calling on Parliament to close nomination loopholes the group has used to flood ballots with paper candidates. In a report released Tuesday , MPs representing a multipartisan House of Commons committee on democratic procedures recommended…
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RCMP probe corruption allegations at Calgary city hall; warrants executed on current, former councillors
An RCMP-led corruption investigation is underway and at least one current and one former Calgary city councillor, as well as a business were subject to search warrants executed last week, CBC News has learned.
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Hiker dies after slipping down B.C.’s Brunswick Mountain while trying to help companion
A man who slipped and fell between 100 and 150 metres while trying to help a companion during a hike on one of the tallest mountains in Metro Vancouver’s North Shore has died of his injuries.
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Montreal Victoire captain Marie-Philip Poulin to sit out at least 2 more weeks with leg injury
The Montreal Victoire have placed captain Marie-Philip Poulin on long-term injured reserve, the Professional Women’s Hockey League team announced Tuesday.