CBC.ca Victims face Graham James at sentencing hearing CBC.ca Former NHLer Sheldon Kennedy says it felt weird seeing his former junior coach and abuser Graham James after 14 years. James and Kennedy passed each other in the hall outside a Winnipeg courtroom Wednesday morning

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New Yorker Assad forces try to bomb Homs into submission | Reuters By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Angus MacSwan | AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs on Wednesday, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than … West slams Syria over killing of journalists AFP Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and French photojournalist Remi Ochlik in … National Post Fisher: Among the latest journalists killed in Syria, a brave, vivid raconteur Vancouver Sun The Associated Press  - Telegraph.co.uk  - BBC News all 2,492 news articles »

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If there's one goal Maple Leafs netminder Jonas Gustavsson would like to take back after a shaky performance against New Jersey on Tuesday, it's undoubtedly Mark Fayne's overtime game-winner. CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS

As the trade deadline nears and the losses pile up, the shopping list in Leafland only seems to get longer.

Toronto’s NHL team, like a lot of clubs on the playoff bubble, could use an upgrade in almost every segment of its lineup.

Certainly the in-house goaltending is currently atrocious, the latest evidence coming in Tuesday night’s 4-3 overtime loss to the Devils, wherein Jonas Gustavsson, in the culmination of an evening of minor-league-worthy misadventures, turned a shot that likely would have gone wide into the game winner. Continue reading

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National Post Scott Stinson: A play-by-play of Diane Finley’s speech on public pension reform National Post Diane Finley, bearer of the exceedingly long job title “federal Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada,” was in Toronto on Tuesday to give a speech on public pension reform. Scott Stinson provides the play-by-play: 11:30: We are in … Young people will pay price of inaction on OAS: Finley CTV.ca Inaction on OAS not an option: Finley Toronto Sun Old age security: Feds aim pension message at young Canadians Toronto Star CBC.ca  - Financial Post  - Montreal Gazette all 101 news articles »

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CBC.ca NDP memberships skyrocket heading into leadership vote Vancouver Sun OTTAWA — The number of NDP members has increased by about 50 per cent in the past few months, a sign that interest is rising as the party approaches its leadership vote next month. The climbing numbers are staggering in Quebec, which went from a little … NDP boasts nearly 130000 voters for leader London Free Press New Democrat ranks swelled to record 128000 during leadership race Global Winnipeg NDP leadership contenders scramble for top-tier status Globe and Mail Macleans.ca all 76 news articles »

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