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• Harper on CPP: it’s about individual responsibility
• Concerns rising temperatures and gusty winds could cause more power outages
• Holiday hangover arrives with credit card bills
• Blowing snow, extreme wind chills blast across southern Manitoba
• Ice storm aftermath: 25,000 customers still without power
• Montreal Mob boss Rizzuto's funeral set for Monday
• NB Power warns of outages into new year as storm threatens
• Online glitch gives Brick customers 50% discount; price cut won't be honoured
• Grey Cup-champion Saskatchewan Roughriders named CP Team of the Year
• Weird! Strangest science stories of 2013
• Ex-astronaut Hadfield says co-operation with China in space a logical step
• Oscar watch: Will Quebec directors' films get Academy Awards nods?
• Canadian tennis stars Raonic, Bouchard win opening matches at Hopman Cup
• Hadfield started growing his moustache when he was 18
• Reopened Alta. flu clinics busy as H1N1 cases rise
• Search-and-rescue crews busy a B.C. ski resort with two simultaneous searches

Harper on CPP: it’s about individual responsibility Posted: 28 Dec 2013 12:51 PM PST Prime Minister goes a long way toward explaining why the CPP meeting was so unproductive

Concerns rising temperatures and gusty winds could cause more power outages Posted: 28 Dec 2013 09:51 PM PST TORONTO - Notes of optimism were sounded Saturday that weeklong power outages from a massive ice storm could finally end within days, as hydro crews made steadfast progress getting lights back on despite shifting weather conditions. Utilities warn that's slowing repairs and even causing new outages as ice breaks off of trees and other structures onto power lines below. Toronto — hardest hit by the storm — had 16,000 hydro customers still waiting for the lights and heat to be restored on Saturday night, seven days after the power went out.

Holiday hangover arrives with credit card bills Posted: 28 Dec 2013 04:45 PM PST With post-holiday bills piling up even faster than food on Christmas dinner plates, experts say now is the time to stash credit cards away.

Blowing snow, extreme wind chills blast across southern Manitoba Posted: 28 Dec 2013 01:44 PM PST For anyone in southern Manitoba, the best bits of advice that can be given for this weekend are 'stay home' and 'bundle up'. A fast-moving Alberta clipper storm is spreading dangerous winter conditions through southern parts of Manitoba today. Roughly … Continue reading →

Ice storm aftermath: 25,000 customers still without power Posted: 28 Dec 2013 03:49 PM PST About 25,000 customers in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick remain in the dark one week after a major ice storm blanketed Central and Atlantic Canada, and warming temperatures have caused new power outages in Toronto.

Montreal Mob boss Rizzuto's funeral set for Monday Posted: 28 Dec 2013 09:25 AM PST A funeral for Montreal Mob boss Vito Rizzuto will be held Monday at the same church in Little Italy where both Mafia-linked his father and 42-year-old son were mourned in the past four years.

NB Power warns of outages into new year as storm threatens Posted: 28 Dec 2013 09:17 AM PST NB Power says some customers will be without power into the new year as another winter storm threatens to batter the province overnight Sunday, hindering efforts to restore electricity to thousands of homes.

Online glitch gives Brick customers 50% discount; price cut won't be honoured Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:55 PM PST If the deal on The Brick website seemed too good to be true, that's because it was.

Grey Cup-champion Saskatchewan Roughriders named CP Team of the Year Posted: 28 Dec 2013 07:21 AM PST TORONTO - Corey Chamblin could win another 10 football championships and never duplicate the one he earned this year with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The Roughriders successfully shouldered the weight of heavy expectations and overcame adversity in 2013, capping the year with a dominant 45-23 Grey Cup win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Nov. 24. The title was Saskatchewan's fourth but first on home soil before a rabid Mosaic Stadium gathering of 44,710. The Riders were rewarded for that accomplishment by sports editors and broadcasters across the country, who voted them The Canadian Press Team of the Year for 2013.

Weird! Strangest science stories of 2013 Posted: 28 Dec 2013 08:03 AM PST A new type of tissue was found in the eye, and was dubbed Dua's layer after its discoverer, Harminder Singh Dua, a professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Nottingham. The structure sits at the back of the cornea, the structure in the eye that helps focus light.

Ex-astronaut Hadfield says co-operation with China in space a logical step Posted: 28 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST MONTREAL - Retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is calling for more co-operation with China in space and he wants it to be part of any international effort to return to the moon. "I think right now a lot of people see it as kind of crazy to co-operate with the Chinese, but I think it's the next logical step," Hadfield recently told The Canadian Press. China sent its first astronaut into space in 2003 and Hadfield noted the country's ambitious space program aims to eventually put an astronaut on the moon. On Dec. 15, a Chinese Chang'e 3 rocket landed a rover on the lunar surface, making China the third country to do so after the United States and the former Soviet Union.

Oscar watch: Will Quebec directors' films get Academy Awards nods? Posted: 28 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST Jean-Marc Vallee and Denis Villeneuve both had cross-border cinematic success in 2013, with "Dallas Buyers Club" and "Prisoners" respectively, and it seems likely their projects will get some attention from Oscar. "Dallas Buyers Club": Matthew McConaughey surrendered himself to the role of Ron Woodroof, a Dallas rodeo cowboy who embarked on a medicine-smuggling mission after finding out he'd contracted HIV in the mid-'80s. Like McConaughey, who lost an extreme amount of weight for the role, Jared Leto also transformed himself to play a transgender HIV-positive patient.

Canadian tennis stars Raonic, Bouchard win opening matches at Hopman Cup Posted: 28 Dec 2013 07:51 AM PST PERTH, Australia - Canada made a winning start Saturday at the Hopman Cup, with Milos Raonic and Eugenie Bouchard both posting victories to set up an unbeatable 2-0 scoreline over Australia in the eight-nation team competition. Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., defeated Bernard Tomic 7-6 (8-6), 6-1. Montreal's Bouchard gave Canada the evening's winning point as she beat a grand slam champion for the third time in her career with a defeat of 2011 U.S. Open winner Samantha Stosur 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. It was a promising start to the season for Raonic and Bouchard, who were respectively named The Canadian Press male and female athletes of the year earlier this week.

Hadfield started growing his moustache when he was 18 Posted: 28 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST Retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield says he started working on his trademark growth when he turned 18 while taking a train to Turkey. "For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' — and it was pathetic for years— it was awful," he told The Canadian Press. Hadfield, 54, says he shaved it off only once — when he was at test pilot school. "In the U.S. air force, if you want to get promoted you can't have a moustache, for whatever reason,'' he said.

Reopened Alta. flu clinics busy as H1N1 cases rise Posted: 27 Dec 2013 11:50 AM PST Flu clinics in Edmonton say they are seeing a steady stream of people taking advantage of free vaccinations after cases of H1N1 doubled last week.

Search-and-rescue crews busy a B.C. ski resort with two simultaneous searches Posted: 28 Dec 2013 04:07 PM PST SUN PEAKS, B.C. - An American snowboarder who spent a cold night lost on a British Columbia mountain was found safe Saturday morning, following an evening that saw two simultaneous searches outside the boundaries of the same ski resort. A woman in her 40s from Washington state became separated from her partner after the pair went out-of-bounds at Sun Peaks Ski Resort, northeast of Kamloops, on Friday afternoon. Alan Hobler of Kamloops Search and Rescue said searchers faced challenging conditions looking for the women.

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