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Tim Hortons, franchisees spat over $700M plan to reno most Canadian locations
Tim Hortons plans to renovate most of its Canadian restaurants over the next several years in what some franchisees say is another “ill-conceived” move that will cost individual restaurant...
Mar 27, 2018
NHL GMs starting to think about next expansion draft with Seattle looming
Kevin Cheveldayoff isn’t expecting NHL general managers to completely rewrite the script when the next expansion draft rolls around. He does, however, believe some tweaks are in order with it se...
Mar 27, 2018
Feds designate Dionne quintuplets birth as nationally historical event
The federal government has deemed the birth of the Dionne quintuplets as an event of national historical significance. The story of the northern Ontario sisters is among 12 events, people or places gi...
Mar 27, 2018
Space Cowboy’s “Million Volt Man” Is Shocking
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Space Cowboy Chayne "Space Cowboy" Hultgren, a street performer from Australia, is one of the most extreme performers Ripley's has ever encountered. Beside...
Mar 27, 2018
A Relic Of Brutal Foot Binding: Lily Foot Bath
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: A Relic Of Brutal Foot Binding: Lily Foot Bath
Mar 27, 2018
After crowded playoffs last spring, Jets and Leafs to carry Canada's post-season torch
When the Calgary Flames meekly lost their sixth straight game in regulation Monday - the culmination of an epic stumble that finally and officially put the club out of its misery - Canada was left wit...
Mar 27, 2018
Indigenous B.C. treaties, recordings on first Canadian UNESCO memory register
VICTORIA - A mother, son and uncle performed together Tuesday at a ceremony that added British Columbia’s first Indigenous treaties and decades-old recordings of traditional First Nations’...
Mar 27, 2018
2019 Canada Winter Games torch relay to be largest ever
The torch relay for the 2019 Canada Winter Games will be the largest in Games history. The 40-stop tour sponsored by new national partner MNP was announced Tuesday at the Enmax Centrium. It will begin...
Mar 27, 2018
Uber gives up autonomous vehicle testing rights in Calif.
DETROIT - Uber will not renew its permit to test autonomous vehicles on California public roads when it expires Saturday. And the company will have some explaining to do if it wants to get a new permi...
Mar 27, 2018
Figures indicate rise in rate of opioid-linked deaths last year
OTTAWA - The number of apparent opioid deaths in Canada in the first nine months of last year almost matched the figure for all of 2016. The Public Health Agency of Canada released the grim figures on...
Mar 27, 2018