Toronto Times - Urban Canadian Living

A French court has found Ottawa academic Hassan Diab guilty in absentia on terrorism charges related to the bombing of a Paris synagogue.The Ottawa university lecturer, now 69, was accused by authorities of involvement in the 1980 Rue…
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Dear Urban Diplomat, Our neighbour’s outdoor cat, Bowie, is a major nuisance. He terrorizes our dog, claws at our patio furniture and sneaks in the front door when we bring in groceries. The last time he intruded, he peed on our $1,200 rug,…
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Breadcrumb Trail Links Retail & Marketing News With 700 restaurants in Canada, Pizza Pizza chief executive sensed it was time to start exploring new markets A pedestrian walks past a mural advertising pizza in Toronto. Pizza…
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Twitter removed the "government-funded media" tag on public broadcasters, including the CBC, on Thursday without any explanation.The move came after the Global Task Force for Public Media called on Twitter earlier in the day to correct its…
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Breadcrumb Trail Links Mining Economy Commodities Can Canada lead a global mining boom without any prominent global miners? Get the latest from Gabriel Friedman straight to your inbox Sign Up Teck signage at the Prospectors…
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In his notes, the iconic French director Robert Bresson tried to distill exactly what it was that made a good movie — or maybe more exactly, what it means for a movie to be good. "The greater the success," he wrote, "the closer it verges…
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New Mexico prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Western movie Rust in 2021, Baldwin's lawyers said on Thursday.Baldwin, 65, was…
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After Zahra Hassan’s students took note of her effortlessly trendy outfits, they persuaded the 28-year-old middle school teacher to start sharing her looks on TikTok. Posting as @misswondroussoul, she’s since proven that teachers can break…
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Neighbourhood: Leslieville Agent: Arty Basinski Price: $1.27 million Size: 1,100 square feet, plus a 450-square-foot rooftop Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1 Parking spots: 1 (underground) The place An industrial live-work Leslieville unit…
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BuzzFeed Inc. said it will shut down its news division with an aim to consolidate its news content in HuffPost and cut its workforce by 15 per cent, sending the shares of the digital media company down 10 per cent on Thursday.The second…
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