Month: March 2018

Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leadership candidate Doug Ford is calling on the party to extend voting by a week and for the ability for members to vote by paper ballot. “As of right now, close to 100,000 people have not received their PIN number — that’s staggering,” Ford told The Andrew Lawton Show on Global News Radio 980 CFPL Monday afternoon. Story continues below “I’m calling on the party to make sure that they step up to the plate,…

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“I can’t see him actually proposing anything,” Oded Revivi, chief foreign affairs envoy for the Yesha Council, which represents West Bank settlers, said of Mr. Trump. The president seems unlikely to come up with a plan more acceptable than those that have been rejected in the past, Mr. Revivi said, and “he doesn’t want to fail where others have failed.” The meeting between Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu, their fifth since the president’s inauguration 13 months ago, demonstrated just…

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March 5 2018 6:42pm Mon, Mar 5: As Catherine McDonald reports, Toronto police investigators say they’ve also found more dismembered human remains in a flower planter at a property connected to Bruce McArthur. ‘ }); } else { var rel_id = svp.releaseInfo.contentId+””; if( typeof gnca_social_share_collection ); } }; // don’t do on IE, doesn’t work…

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March 5 2018 6:38pm Mon, Mar 5: A Brampton man says a large, North American retailer sold him a counterfeit basketball jersey this winter. As Sean O’Shea reports, Amardeep Singh says Foot Locker is not standing behind the merchandise it sold on its website. ‘ }); } else { var rel_id = svp.releaseInfo.contentId+””; if( typeof gnca_social_share_collection = resp; } jQuery(‘#videoContainer’).gnca_socialVideoShare(‘init’,…

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Mon, Mar 5: The City of Toronto has installed a temporary barrier along a pathway where 11-year-old Duncan Xu was killed last week. Councillor Jim Karygiannis says students often run through the pathway and jaywalk across the street it exits onto. Kamil Karamali reports. Powered by WPeMatico

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March 5 2018 6:31pm Mon, Mar 5: Teaching and graduate assistants are among the nearly 3,000 faculty set to strike at York University. This marks the third labour disruption the school has seen in less than a decade. Shallima Maharaj reports. ‘ }); } else { var rel_id = svp.releaseInfo.contentId+””; if( typeof gnca_social_share_collection ); }…

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March 5 2018 6:31pm Mon, Mar 5: Hamilton police are appealing to the public for any video and information that could lead to the identification of black-clad rioters who marched down Locke Street on Saturday. Mark Carcasole reports. ‘ }); } else { var rel_id = svp.releaseInfo.contentId+””; if( typeof gnca_social_share_collection ); } }; // don’t…

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Mon, Mar 5: Twenty-five-year-old Alicia Lewandowski was found shot and killed behind the townhouse she lived in on Rathburn Road. Police say they are now looking for 39-year-old Joseph Chang. As Jamie Mauracher reports, detectives say he is armed and dangerous. Powered by WPeMatico

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