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• Toronto Mayor Rob Ford ticketed for jaywalking while on Vancouver trip
• Prostitution bill to be introduced 'well before' December deadline: MacKay
• CSEC Wi-Fi snooping experiment prompts calls for review
• B.C. university’s law school plan still under threat over requirement viewed as anti-gay
• Roller-coaster winter brings messy mix of weather to southern Ontario
• Quebec village, dignitaries remember victims of deadly seniors' home blaze
• Good Keystone data for Harper government doesn't drain political swamp
• Former Yellowknife imam gets 33 months for fraud
• Fifth case of deadly pig virus confirmed on Ontario farm as outbreak spreads
• 'There will be more Phoenixes': reaction to inquiry report mixed
• The cruel logic of the fire in L’Isle-Verte
• Cash Store ordered to pay $1M for illegal payday loans
• Canadians prefer Super Bowl TV ads to game itself; survey suggests
• You crack me up: Toronto official denies tickling Rob Ford
• Grief-stricken Quebec town mourns victims of retirement home blaze
• Former Chicago Mayor Daley in intensive care at hospital

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford ticketed for jaywalking while on Vancouver trip Posted: 01 Feb 2014 06:01 PM PST VANCOUVER - Toronto's embattled mayor didn't succeed in leaving controversy behind during a trip to the West Coast this weekend, receiving a slap on the wrist from the law in a Vancouver suburb. Ford spokesman Amin Massoudi confirmed Rob Ford received a jaywalking ticket on Friday night. A Global News report cites a witness who said Ford, who was in B.C. to attend the funeral of a friend's mother, was crossing a road linking the Vancouver-area municipalities of Burnaby and Coquitlam when police stopped him. Global reported the mayor had visited a Coquitlam pub earlier that night, and some revellers snapped photos that were posted online of a smiling Ford dressed in suit and tie.

Prostitution bill to be introduced 'well before' December deadline: MacKay Posted: 01 Feb 2014 07:34 PM PST HALIFAX - Justice Minister Peter MacKay says the government will introduce its new prostitution legislation well ahead of a December deadline. Speaking in Halifax, MacKay said Ottawa has already started to draft the legislation, but more consultations must happen with police and provincial governments. The Supreme Court of Canada struck down the country's anti-prostitution laws late last year, ruling that laws banning street soliciting, living on the avails and keeping a brothel are unconstitutional.

CSEC Wi-Fi snooping experiment prompts calls for review Posted: 01 Feb 2014 06:28 PM PST A B.C. MP is calling for an independent review of the activities of Canada's electronic spy agency, after CBC News revealed this week that the agency conducted an experiment in tracking internet users who logged in through wireless access points at Canadian airports.

B.C. university’s law school plan still under threat over requirement viewed as anti-gay Posted: 01 Feb 2014 09:06 AM PST A bid by Trinity Western University (TWU) to set up its own law school may end up being torpedoed despite getting a green light from the group representing Canadian law societies. The privately run evangelical Christian school, based in the … Continue reading →

Roller-coaster winter brings messy mix of weather to southern Ontario Posted: 01 Feb 2014 09:04 AM PST Southern Ontario's roller-coaster weather continues this weekend. Temperatures across the southern half of the province have soared compared to earlier this week — from Tuesday's -30 degree wind chills up to highs today actually expected to climb above zero — … Continue reading →

Quebec village, dignitaries remember victims of deadly seniors' home blaze Posted: 01 Feb 2014 02:22 PM PST L'ISLE-VERTE, Que. - Gilles Moyen entered the church Saturday in the Quebec village of L'Isle-Verte with two goals — to honour 32 victims of a deadly fire at a seniors' home and to find the man who saved his mother from that same inferno. Moyen was among about 900 people inside the impressive Roman Catholic church to remember those who died, or are presumed dead, after a powerful blaze destroyed part of the seniors' residence on Jan. 23. Loved ones and neighbours joined many dignitaries, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Pauline Marois, for the hour-long ceremony. A man named Arnaud Cote, who lived at the Residence du Havre, has been credited with rushing to save the lives of three fellow residents, as the overnight fire quickly consumed the building around them.

Good Keystone data for Harper government doesn't drain political swamp Posted: 01 Feb 2014 03:00 AM PST OTTAWA - The Conservative government received some much-needed good news this week in the form of the U.S. State Department's massive and benign final assessment of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Ever since Stephen Harper called American approval of the $5.4-billion pipeline from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast a "no-brainer" back in September 2011, a lot has been riding on the eventual vindication of the prime minister's thinking. By January 2012, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver had elevated pipeline politics — and the diversification of the country's foreign energy markets — to "an urgent matter of Canada's national interest." Throw in the steady stream of Canadian supplicants to Washington on the Keystone file, a multi-million-dollar government ad campaign aimed at U.S. decision makers and consumers and, most recently, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird's impolitic push for U.S. President Barack Obama to make up his mind, and the whole saga is taking on the aura of a slow-motion policy sink hole.

Former Yellowknife imam gets 33 months for fraud Posted: 31 Jan 2014 05:37 PM PST Mohamed Basha, a former president and imam of Yellowknife's Islamic Centre, was sentenced this morning for defrauding the centre of more than $117,000.

Fifth case of deadly pig virus confirmed on Ontario farm as outbreak spreads Posted: 01 Feb 2014 12:06 PM PST SIMCOE COUNTY, Ont. - A fifth case of a deadly and highly contagious pig virus has been confirmed in Ontario. The provincial agriculture ministry says a pig from a farm in Simcoe County north of Toronto tested positive for porcine epidemic diarrhea on Saturday morning. Ministry spokeswoman Susan Murray says more pigs are expected to test positive for the virus — which has killed millions of piglets in the U.S.

'There will be more Phoenixes': reaction to inquiry report mixed Posted: 31 Jan 2014 06:56 PM PST Phoenix Sinclair's former caregiver Kim Edwards said she is pleased with the report's 62 recommendations, but she's not convinced anything will change.

The cruel logic of the fire in L’Isle-Verte Posted: 31 Jan 2014 03:43 PM PST The newer wing of the Residence du Havre in the Quebec village of L'Isle-Verte is a master stroke of vinyl-sided architectural banality. Built in 2005, it is the kind of building where you'd expect to find university students, or first-time condo dwellers. Until a fire ravaged the older section of the facility, killing an estimated 32 of its residents, it housed seniors.

Cash Store ordered to pay $1M for illegal payday loans Posted: 31 Jan 2014 07:48 PM PST The Cash Store, which also operates as Instaloans, has been ordered to repay more than $1 million to B.C. customers who were charged exorbitant interest rates on payday loans.

Canadians prefer Super Bowl TV ads to game itself; survey suggests Posted: 01 Feb 2014 08:47 AM PST TORONTO - The millions of Canadians tuning in the Super Bowl on Sunday night are more eager to take in the lavish television ads than the football game itself, a new survey suggests. A recent Harris/Decima poll found that while a third of Canadians plan to tune into the National Football League's marquee event, 46 per cent intend to watch the ads that air throughout the game. Of those who have no plans to watch the Super Bowl, one third still hope to check out the ads at some point. The survey results came as little surprise to marketing experts, who said the phenomenon of Super Bowl advertising has long threatened to outstrip the actual football game in terms of both spectacle and pop culture significance.

You crack me up: Toronto official denies tickling Rob Ford Posted: 31 Jan 2014 03:08 PM PST In a strange new photo, embattled Toronto Mayor Ford appears to be tickled by the city's chief budget officer.

Grief-stricken Quebec town mourns victims of retirement home blaze Posted: 01 Feb 2014 11:03 AM PST By Louise Egan L'ISLE-VERTE, Quebec (Reuters) - About 900 mourners in the small grief-stricken Quebec town of L'Isle-Verte attended a public mass on Saturday for the 32 people feared dead from a fire that ripped through a wooden retirement home. Somber-faced friends and relatives sat in the town's large 19th-century Roman Catholic church to hear prayers and tributes to victims of the January 23 blaze, one of the worst disasters to hit a Canadian residence for the elderly. Among those attending the nationally televised ceremony were Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Quebec Premier Pauline Marois. Governor-General David Johnston came as the personal representative of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Canada's head of state.

Former Chicago Mayor Daley in intensive care at hospital Posted: 01 Feb 2014 12:23 PM PST (Reuters) - Richard M. Daley, who was mayor of Chicago from 1989 to 2011, was in the intensive care unit of a Chicago hospital on Saturday after falling ill the day before, the hospital said. Northwestern Memorial Hospital said that Daley, 71, became ill after returning from a business trip in Arizona and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. "Mayor Daley's family is with him and they are visiting between tests." No further information was immediately available.

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