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It's a twisted contest between The Globe's Montreal bureau and the Toronto newsroom: Who gets the front page with the most insanely crazy municipal politics? So on Monday Montreal came from behind and won. Hands down.
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Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum gets into a car outside police headquarters in Montreal, June 17, 2013. Applebaum was arrested earlier as part of a bribery case. (Ryan Remiorz/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
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For more than 50 years now, there has been a quaint ritual performed after most provincial elections in B.C. - the brain trust of the New Democratic Party gathers to hold a debilitating session of second guessing, inevitably leading to harsh denunciations and bitter recriminations, and often ending in political bloodshed.
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The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. spent a half-million dollars over the last four years on promotional giveaways for its employees and fans, according to documents made available through an access to information request. View the documents below.
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Last Tuesday, a few days short of the first anniversary of his election, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras took the biggest risk of his political career. With only a few minutes notice, he pulled the plug on the Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., throwing almost 2,700 state employees out of work.
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Sitting in his small office at Mountain Equipment Co-op headquarters, a backcountry splitboard in one corner, a city bike in the other, chief executive officer David Labistour is dressed in a sweater, jeans and sneakers - and he's quoting Jack Welch.
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Canada needs to end its cultural tolerance for assault in hockey games, and a good place to start would be in Woodstock, Ont. A 16-year-old boy was punched viciously in the head nine or 10 times while down on the ice, by an opposing player standing over him, in an incident videotaped by his parents and now viewed by a national audience on news broadcasts.
The justice system needs to confront Canada’s cultural acceptance of assault in hockey. Last sentence in graf 3, ppl:
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Amid questions about the Prime Minister's Office, Senate spending, Justin Trudeau's work for charities and Thomas Mulcair's run-in with Mounties on Parliament Hill, MPs have agreed to adjourn the House of Commons.
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Did Kim Kardashian and Kanye West really name their new daughter Kaidence Donda West? That's the name according to Media Takeout, who reportedly got the scoop from a nurse at L.A.'s Cedars Sinai Hospital, where Kardashian gave birth last Saturday five weeks before her scheduled due date.
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McGill University has joined the billion-dollar fundraising club, announcing a formal end to its latest campaign which surpassed the original goal by a third. The nine-year campaign, originally intended to raise $750-million by 2012, topped $1-billion this year.
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A top-ranking executive at Verizon Communications Inc. has confirmed the U.S. telecom giant is mulling an entry into Canada's $19-billion wireless market in the wake of a report this week by The Globe and Mail. Chief financial officer Fran Shammo told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that New York-based Verizon is in the preliminary stages of weighing a potential expansion into Canada.
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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is extending an olive branch to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, offering to repair their rocky relationship and insisting she would not "stand in judgment" over the drug allegations dogging his administration. In an interview at her Queen's Park office on Tuesday, Ms. Wynne acknowledged her rapport with the chief magistrate of her province's largest city has been difficult.
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Journalism schools are caught in a dilemma: Should journalism curricula reflect the media's needs as they are now or should J-schools be more experimental and in effect, become think tanks and laboratories for the new, new journalism and an audience that may - or may not - materialize?
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Scotia Capital Inc. has admitted it failed to adequately supervise clients who were doing "high closing" trading manipulations to boost share prices at the end of trading days in 2009. The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, which is Canada's brokerage industry regulator, approved the settlement details at a hearing Tuesday, requiring Scotia Capital to pay $150,000 in penalties and $10,000 to cover IIROC's investigation costs.
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To be a peace officer is to be a public figure who can be criticized, even mocked in a pornographic movie, a Quebec judge has ruled in the case of a Montreal policewoman famous for her foul mouth and coarse tactics.