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Canadian Army used unarmed plane for flights over Kandahar: reports - Toronto Star
An air force official who spoke on background said the C-150 was always considered a “back-pocket capability” to be used only when necessary. The closure of Camp Mirage following a diplomatic spat with the UAE over commercial landing rights proved to ...
University not warning us of assaults, York students say - Toronto Star
“My friends and family warned me about the other incidents,” said the young woman who declined to give her name. “But I felt safe until now.” Last Monday, the woman said, she met a man at the Norman Bethune residence. He said he was a student at York ...
Saint John police search for clues into the murder of Richard Oland - Toronto Star
Two officers were stationed at the road to stop anyone from approaching the home, a source said. At a news conference earlier this week, Police Chief Bill Reid said police believe Richard Oland knew the person responsible for his death, which he said ...
Needless census reminders cause frustration - Toronto Star
The reason for the repeated reminders, according to a census official reached by the Star who declined to give his name, is that finished forms can take a few weeks to register in Statistics Canada's system. The information then has to be sent to ...
RIM facing challenges, CEOs tell shareholders - Toronto Star
It was close to an apology, but it wasn't enough for one institutional who asked that his name not be used. “I would have liked to have seen them own up to some things,” he said after the meeting. RIM shares closed on the Toronto Stock Exchange Tuesday ...
Liberals invest $22.5 million in new U of T athletics centre - Toronto Star
“(We are) … partnering with the University of Toronto to build a state-of-the-art research and educational facility to better prepare Ontario athletes compete on the world stage,” a senior government official said Monday. “The province's investment of ...
Child custody dispute in fatal Whitby shooting - Toronto Star
... dispute and that the father had been issued a restraining order to stay away from the house. “He was waiting inside until mum and the baby came home at five o'clock and then all hell broke loose,” said the friend, who did not want to be identified.
Yemen protesters rally in major cities, demand ouster of embattled president - Toronto Star
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters. Mahmoud Taha, a Taiz resident and activist, said that the shelling has been rattling several districts in Taiz, and that armed tribesmen responded by ...
82-year-old man dies a day after car ran over him - Toronto Star
A man who works in plaza, who refused to be named, provided police with the security video. “I just went over to one of the attending police officers, gave him my card and said 'I have this on video.' And he came up and ultimately I had three or four ...
Driver 'devastated' after 82-year-old father run over - Toronto Star
A man who works in plaza, who refused to be named, provided police with the security video. “I just went over to one of the attending police officers, gave him my card and said 'I have this on video.' And he came up and ultimately I had three or four ...
Three 13-year-old boys charged with assault in school bullying attack - Toronto Star
A Grade 8 student, who did not want to be identified, said she saw two police cruisers outside and at least five officers combing the building. “We knew something was up,” she said, adding that rumours started spreading about drugs. ...
Tourists to be banned from buying pot in Dutch cafés? - Toronto Star
“The black market is going to flourish because of this,” said a chef at Barney's Coffee Shop in Amsterdam who declined to give his name to the Star. “It's not going to work. There will be a lot more people producing weed and selling it on the street ...
Community mourns Brampton boy's brutal death - Toronto Star
She wouldn't give her name. As for Shakeil's mother herself — a tall, striking woman with long black hair in a black mourning dress — she told a reporter before the service she might be willing to make some remarks later, but that proved impossible. ...
Visa from India? Show us your fingerprint - Toronto Star
Ottawa has decided on fingerprint technology instead of facial recognition software, and according to people familiar with the matter, India is a favoured candidate to be one of the first countries for the rollout of the $200 million program. ...
Daycare caterer passes off discount food as organic, kosher, halal - Toronto Star
One former employee, who asked not to be named because she fears legal retribution, said the company did not deliver what it promised. The former employee said Blouin is “telling them the food is organic, it's halal, it's kosher. ...
Daycare caterer passes off meals from discount stores as organic, kosher, halal - Toronto Star
One former employee, who asked not to be named because she fears legal retribution, said the company did not deliver what it promised. The former employee said Blouin is “telling them the food is organic, it's halal, it's kosher. ...
Coroner in Ashley Smith inquest faces barrage of criticism - Toronto Star
He has noticed a narrowing of the scope of inquests over the years and so have other medical health professionals and lawyers who were interviewed but asked not to be named. Anecdotally, this appears to be true, but is likely driven by a desire to ...
Should doctors be playing lawyer? - Toronto Star
He has noticed a narrowing of the scope of inquests over the years and so have other medical health professionals and lawyers who were interviewed but asked not to be named. Anecdotally, this appears to be true, but is likely driven by a desire to ...
Dog crawls home on broken legs 3 weeks after tornado - Toronto Star
Despite days of desperate searching by his owners, who asked not to be named and are not granting media interviews, Mason was nowhere to be found. With most of the garage destroyed, family members resigned themselves to the likelihood that their ...
Air France 447 said to have stalled on airspeed failure - Toronto Star
The chief pilot, Captain Marc Dubois, was not in the cockpit when the Airbus A330's airspeed sensors malfunctioned, causing the autopilot to disengage over the Atlantic Ocean, the sources said. A low-speed stall occurs when an aircraft slows to the ...
How transgender United Church minister Ruth Wood came out to her parishioners - Toronto Star
“Terry was really loved by everyone in the congregation,” says an elderly woman, a retired teacher who asked not to be named. “I'm still speaking to him, but many have never seen him since he left. “The letter, to me, was a way of getting it out ...
How transgender United Church minister Ruth Wood came out to her parishioners - Toronto Star
“Terry was really loved by everyone in the congregation,” says an elderly woman, a retired teacher who asked not to be named. “I'm still speaking to him, but many have never seen him since he left. “The letter, to me, was a way of getting it out ...
Syria feels squeeze from UN and the West - Toronto Star
Diplomats, who refused to be named because an official announcement had not been made, told reporters on Tuesday that Syria would withdraw its candidacy before the May 20 election, under pressure from western countries who have been waging a weeks-long ...
Harper plans 'minor' cabinet shuffle - Toronto Star
... with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty since the election to go over the federal budget, the budget that will ultimately be tabled is expected to be “essentially” the same as introduced on March 22 “with some tweaks to it,” a government official said. ...
What will happen to Osama bin Laden's children? - Toronto Star
It's unclear where his children were born but a person familiar with the matter told the Star that Pakistan's foreign ministry on Tuesday asked Saudi officials to take custody of the bin Laden children. The request was refused, the source said. ...