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  New House of Commons buses from Saskatchewan dealer get bum rap from drivers

  July 23rd, 2009 - 5 h 00

  OTTAWA - House of Commons bus drivers say they're getting a bum rap. The Commons spent more than $430,000 for a new fleet of six small buses to shuttle MPs around the parliamentary precincts. The passenger seats are comfortable enough for the...

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  Window pain troubles restaurateur

  July 9th, 2009 - 5 h 00

  The swinging tunes coming from La Gotta Fria now pour through a smashed window. The restaurant's owner, Jess Camalari, rushed to his business Tuesday morning when someone from neighbouring Scizzors Salon called him to say both businesses had been...

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  City stands by consultant

  July 7th, 2009 - 5 h 00

  In Brief - The city will stand by embattled consultant Troy Metz. City manager Robert Cotterill said Metz, charged recently with fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, was "innocent until proven guilty" and that the city "would be...

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  Globe and Mail employees vote 97 per cent in favour of strike

  June 22nd, 2009 - 5 h 00

  TORONTO - TORONTO - Unionized workers at the Globe and Mail newspaper have voted overwhelmingly to give their bargaining committee the authority to call a strike, unless the company improves its contract offer. The editorial, advertising and...

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  Old goal for soccer centre missed

  June 16th, 2009 - 5 h 00

  The soccer centre took a kick to its budget numbers Monday. In a report presented to the city's executive committee meeting, city manager Robert Cotterill brought forward a revised budget for the Alfred Jenkins Field House of $16,867,091 - about...

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  Let's be sensible about pigeons

  June 12th, 2009 - 5 h 00

  Every now and then a quirky city bylaw finds its way into the news. The pigeon racing restrictive animal control bylaw certainly fits the mould. As it stands now, anyone with pigeon racing ambitions can have only five birds in most residentially...

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  Council grounds pigeon racer

  June 11th, 2009 - 5 h 00

  Dr. John Steel, local dentist and pigeon racer, can't fly his flock just yet. City council moved a motion by Coun. Ted Zurakowski to postpone changing a city bylaw that restricts racing-pigeon ownership in the city Wednesday night. "Before I...

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  Public transit gets public input

  June 4th, 2009 - 5 h 00

  A public forum addressing proposed transit changes has provided city administration with a few new thoughts. About 10 people showed up to the Wednesday meeting, but the entire city could be affected by route changes as early as July. A number of...

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  City benefit policy ages

  May 13th, 2009 - 5 h 00

  City employees sporting a touch of grey on top can receive benefits up to age 75 thanks to a new policy passed at Monday night's city council meeting. Councillors moved a report initially discussed in camera to the public agenda on upping the...

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  It's no joke: chortling good for mind and body

  May 2nd, 2009 - 5 h 00

  TORONTO - Go ahead, laugh at Montreal-based journalist Albert Nerenberg. He'll welcome it. As director of the documentary "Laughology," a buzz-worthy offering at the Hot Docs festival, the writer-filmmaker journeyed the globe to investigate the...

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