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Hudson Bay Company to go public again
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•The Hudson’s Bay Company is going public. . The venerable firm filed a preliminary prospectus for an initial public offering Wednesday. HBC has roots that go to 1670. The company is now controlled by Richard Baker, the U.S. shopping-centre tycoon, via a private holding company. His plan to take HBC public a year ago ran into a rough IPO market and was withdrawn.
Federal Liberal race will feel McGuinty impact
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•McGuinty throws political theorists into confusion What’s he going to do?
Toronto man loses job for nasty slur on dead teen
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•Our favorite pumpkin shot is from October 2010
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•NHL offers 50-50 split in bid to save season
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•The NHL made a new collective bargaining proposal on Tuesday at the NHLPA’s headquarters in Toronto, offering a 50-50 split of Hockey Related Revenue and seeking to fit in a full 82-game regular season by coming to settlement for a Nov. 2 start date. Who knows? Globe and Mail.
Posters warn that gasoline theft is a crime
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•Posters from Crime Stoppers |
Police have announced a new poster campaign to raise awareness among consumers and retailers about the dangers of gas theft. Three posters have been created for retailers to display at fuel pumps across Toronto. They feature mug shots of fictional gas theft suspects to remind the public that stealing gas is a crime. “Stealing gas is a crime – nothing less – and puts retailers and consumers at risk,” says Sean Sportun of Toronto Crime Stoppers in a press release. “We’ve spent the last few months working with our partner-associations to bring this campaign to light. We take safety at the pumps very seriously.” The announcement comes roughly a month after a man died as a result of a “gas and dash” in Toronto. Thirty-nine year-old Max Edwin Tutiven is sought in connection with that theft and the killing of 44-year-old Jayesh Prajapati, the gas attendant who was hit as he tried to intervene. “While this crime has brought the problem of gas theft to the forefront, we hope our campaign will make people inclined to steal gas think again, and encourage law-abiding consumers to be alert and provide information that will help police bring gas thieves to justice,” Sportun said in a press release.
Loblaws to elminate 700 office jobs in Brampton
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•Two girls rob a 16-year-old boy in TTC station
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•Noisy night for dog-walking in South Bayview
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•McGuinty resigns as premier, stays on as MPP
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Premier Dalton McGuinty has announced that he will resign as premier as soon as the party picks a new leader. Mr. McGuinty surprised the province with his dinner-time announcement, a fitting finale for a man renowned as a cagey political operator. Sixteen years into his stewardship of the party, and after nine years of running Canada’s largest province, it seems necessary in retrospect that McGuinty should go. Besieged by scandal and unable to muster enough support in the house to push through his austerity budget, it was the only way out. McGuinty prorogued the Legislature, suspending everything, and bought time for his party to get a new leader and make a new plan. In the scrum following his address to Caucus, McGuinty refused to rule out the possibility he might try for leadership of the federal Liberals. The most he would say is that he has no plans. Many will say “”Premier Dad” was paternalistic and full of populist blarney. But his frequently corny reasoning seemed to work for him. His announcement of the creation of Family Day was accompanied by a syrupy sermon on his regret that he had not spent more time with his father. In recent years, the financial scandals struck at the heart of public confidence. Desperate to hold power in last year’s election, McGuinty executed the crass decision to cancel the half finished gas fuelled electric generating plants at Oakville and Mississauga. The National Post tonight has called this naked political fix “the mistake that he couldn’t awww shucks away”. No doubt the premier knew he could not hope to lead the party back to majority government. For conservatives, Mr. McGuinty never looked better than when he began, late in his term, to tackle the province’s enormous debt. Now that thankless task will fall to a new leader and the province can only hope that he or she has the will to do the right thing for Ontario. South Bayview Bulldog
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Malala to get “specialized care” in Britain
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•A Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for the right to go to school has arrived in the UK. Malala Yousafzai, 14, was flown to Birmingham airport and will be taken to the city’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where she will receive specialist “prolonged care” to help her recover. The teenager was shot on a bus in front of her friends last Tuesday in what Foreign Secretary William Hague described as a “barbaric attack”. Her life was saved by neurosurgeons in a Pakistani military hospital and she has since been in intensive care. But doctors decided she needed “prolonged care” to help her recover from the physical and psychological effects of the attack. Mr Hague said: “Malala’s bravery in standing up for the right of all young girls in Pakistan to an education is an example to us all. Malala will now receive specialist medical care in an National Health Service hospital. Our thoughts remain with Malala and her family at this difficult time.” Sky News
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