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• Toronto @MapleLeafs forward @ZachHyman has scored a different kind of ‘hat trick’ with #TheMagiciansSecret, his thi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 23:59 via twitter.com
  Toronto @MapleLeafs forward @ZachHyman has scored a different kind of ‘hat trick’ with #TheMagiciansSecret, his thi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Before the 2018 Ontario election campaign even started, polling agencies had been providing snapshots of voter supp… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 23:53 via twitter.com
  Before the 2018 Ontario election campaign even started, polling agencies had been providing snapshots of voter supp… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• TTC accuses personal injury law firm of filing fraudulent accident claims

  29-05-2018 23:51
  The Toronto transit agency claims a law firm filed false claims related to bus and streetcar collisions.
  
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• 'Roseanne' yanked from CTV lineup and streaming platforms

  29-05-2018 23:45
  CTV says it is pulling "Roseanne" from its television and streaming platforms following a racist tweet on Tuesday by the show's star Roseanne Barr.
  
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• Police release composite sketch of fake Uber driver accused of sexual assault

  29-05-2018 23:41
  Police have released a composite sketch of a man accused of posing as an Uber driver before sexually assaulting a woman in the city’s downtown area last month.
  
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• Leafs' Hyman releases his 3rd children's book

  29-05-2018 23:41 via cbc.ca
  His latest title, The Magician's Secret, is Hyman's third. Illustrated by Joe Bluhm, it's a paean to the power of imagination — the story of a young boy who is enchanted by his grandfather's stories which transport him though history.
  
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• Tortoise, gibbon and lemur stolen from Ontario zoo, police say

  29-05-2018 23:11 via cbc.ca
  Three animals were stolen during an alleged break-and-enter at a central Ontario zoo, police say.
  
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• Fraudulent immigration consultant gets 7-year jail sentence for bilking thousands from clients

  29-05-2018 23:09 via cbc.ca
  A Toronto woman convicted of bilking tens of thousands of dollars from multiple clients in a fraudulent immigration scheme over three years was given a seven-year jail term on Tuesday.
  
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• Elections Ontario is still looking to fill a number of positions for election day on June 7. ow.ly/8hJU30keZ80 #CityVote #ONelxn

  29-05-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  Elections Ontario is still looking to fill a number of positions for election day on June 7. ow.ly/8hJU30keZ80 #CityVote #ONelxn
  
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• NDP sticks with Brampton candidate photographed holding anti-police sign

  29-05-2018 22:45
  Ontario's NDP leader is standing by a candidate who was photographed more than a decade ago holding a vulgar anti-police sign at a demonstration, the latest instance in which she's had to defend past actions of those on her roster.
  
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• Edward Keenan: We own Toronto Hydro. We should know what it’s doing

  29-05-2018 22:33
  Governments, their agencies and government-owned corporations too often act as if information they possess should be concealed by default, and they often go to great lengths to fight requests from the press, writes Edward Keenan.
  
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• Hussen floats ideas to modernize Safe Third Country Agreement with U.S.

  29-05-2018 22:28 via cbc.ca
  Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says he's approached American government with ideas for modernizing a 14-year-old agreement on refugee claimants who attempt to cross the border between Canada and the United States.
  
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• The riding of Toronto Centre has traditionally been a Liberal stronghold, but it may turn orange come June 7th.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 22:26 via twitter.com
  The riding of Toronto Centre has traditionally been a Liberal stronghold, but it may turn orange come June 7th.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• A Canadian man has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for a massive security breach at Yahoo that U.S. federal age… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 22:20 via twitter.com
  A Canadian man has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for a massive security breach at Yahoo that U.S. federal age… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Police probe music video that 'threatens extreme violence' against TTC

  29-05-2018 22:08 via cbc.ca
  Toronto police say they are investigating after receiving a complaint about a music video that the city's transit authority says takes aim at its workers.
  
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• Toronto police say they are investigating after receiving a complaint about a music video that the TTC says takes a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 22:04 via twitter.com
  Toronto police say they are investigating after receiving a complaint about a music video that the TTC says takes a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Hamilton 'hacker for hire' Karim Baratov sentenced to 5 years for Yahoo security breach

  29-05-2018 22:04 via cbc.ca
  A Canadian man has been sentenced to five years in prison in connection with a massive security breach at Yahoo that U.S. federal agents say was directed by Russian government spies.
  
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• Ontario Greens would close nuclear plant this summer

  29-05-2018 21:58 via cbc.ca
  If his party were to win office, Ontario Green Party leader Mike Schreiner said it would close the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station this summer, invest in clean energy and buy more cheap power from Quebec.
  
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• Corrupt Hamilton police officer Craig Ruthowsky sentenced to 12½ years

  29-05-2018 21:53 via cbc.ca
  Justice Robert Clark said Craig Ruthowsky, a Hamilton police officer guilty of a pay-for-protection scheme with a crew of drug dealers, was arrogant, motivated by "unbridled greed" and still has no remorse for his crimes.
  
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• Corrupt Hamilton cop Craig Ruthowsky sentenced to 12 and a half years

  29-05-2018 21:53 via cbc.ca
  Craig Ruthowsky, a Hamilton cop who was found guilty in a pay-for-protection scheme with a crew of Hamilton drug dealers, has been sentenced to 12 and a half years in a federal penitentiary.
  
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• School, city condemn neo-Nazi posters plastered in St. Clair West area park

  29-05-2018 21:44 via cbc.ca
  Hillcrest Community School has condemned the posters in St. Clair West promoting neo-Nazis.
  
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• Canadian Karim Baratov sentenced to 5 years in Yahoo breach

  29-05-2018 21:38
  A Canadian man has been sentenced to five years in prison in connection with a massive security breach at Yahoo that U.S. federal agents say was directed by Russian government spies.
  
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• Toronto police investigating music video that takes aim at TTC system

  29-05-2018 21:37
  Toronto police say they are investigating after receiving a complaint about a music video that the city's transit authority says takes aim at its workers.
  
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• Fired Toronto justice of the peace charged with assaulting partner

  29-05-2018 21:37
  Tom Foulds’ lawyer says “there is no merit” to the charge against the former justice of the peace.
  
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• Plight of panhandlers only made worse by fines, legal clinic says

  29-05-2018 21:25
  Giving people tickets when they ask for money further traps society’s most marginalized members in a cycle of poverty, according to challenge of Ontario’s Safe Streets Act.
  
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• Canadian Facebook whistle-blower: I did no voter targeting for Liberal entities

  29-05-2018 21:24 via cbc.ca
  The Canadian data expert whose allegations set off an international uproar about the inappropriate use of private Facebook data says there was nothing at all nefarious about his work in early 2016 for the federal Liberal caucus research bureau.
  
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• Looming CP Rail strike could cause 'significant delays' on key GO Train lines

  29-05-2018 20:42 via cbc.ca
  Metrolinx says GO Trains on its Barrie, Mitlon and Hamilton lines could face lengthy delays starting Wednesday if a CP Rail strike goes ahead as planned.
  
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• Child rescued from hot car in Hamilton

  29-05-2018 20:39
  A passerby coached the boy, 7, to unlock the door. A 53-year-old Hamilton man is charged with leaving a child unattended.
  
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• Vote Compass: Who won Sunday's leaders' debate?

  29-05-2018 20:28 via cbc.ca
  NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is on a roll this week, first pulling even with the leading Progressive Conservatives in the polls, and now – according to a CBC Vote Compass survey – winning last weekend’s leaders’ debate.
  
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• #BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' after star's racist tweet ow.ly/mrsB30keFgJ https://t.co/aBPycimXY0

  29-05-2018 19:56 via twitter.com
  
  #BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' after star's racist tweet ow.ly/mrsB30keFgJ https://t.co/aBPycimXY0
  
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• Pedestrian struck on Hwy. 401 after getting out of disabled vehicle

  29-05-2018 19:37
  A pedestrian was struck on Highway 401 on Tuesday morning after getting out of their disabled vehicle and attempting to cross live lanes of traffic.
  
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• Recalling a time before universal suffrage, 95-year-old Toronto woman hoping for big turnout on June 7

  29-05-2018 19:34 via cbc.ca
  A week before Ontario's election, one of the province's few people who remembers a time before universal suffrage is urging everyone to take part in the democratic process.
  
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• One man is in hospital after he was struck by a vehicle on the westbound Highway 401 near Westney Road in Ajax. ow.ly/bq3c30keD8N

  29-05-2018 19:33 via twitter.com
  One man is in hospital after he was struck by a vehicle on the westbound Highway 401 near Westney Road in Ajax. ow.ly/bq3c30keD8N
  
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• Borduas, Kurelek among postwar Canadian artists to headline auctions

  29-05-2018 19:07 via cbc.ca
  Works by Canadian postwar artists are among the highlights at auctions being held in Toronto this week.
  
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• Police investigating after animals stolen from zoo near Barrie

  29-05-2018 18:53
  A zoo north of Barrie is appealing for help to find three missing animals that were stolen from the facility by thieves who appear to have cut their way into the facility.
  
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• A pedestrian has been struck by a vehicle on Highway 401 westbound at Westney. OPP said the pedestrian had exited a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 18:46 via twitter.com
  A pedestrian has been struck by a vehicle on Highway 401 westbound at Westney. OPP said the pedestrian had exited a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• One suspect in Mississauga restaurant bombing may have been a woman: police ow.ly/RoSz30keyOf https://t.co/z5pI3IgIWM

  29-05-2018 18:42 via twitter.com
  
  One suspect in Mississauga restaurant bombing may have been a woman: police ow.ly/RoSz30keyOf https://t.co/z5pI3IgIWM
  
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• Gardiner Museum visitors can take home pieces of Yoko Ono exhibit

  29-05-2018 18:37
  Visitors to a Yoko Ono art exhibit in Toronto will get a chance to take home pieces of the installation as it winds down this weekend.
  
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• Woman facing charges after allegedly writing graffiti on bank window in Kingston

  29-05-2018 18:31
  Police say a 36-year-old woman is facing charges after allegedly writing graffiti while knowingly being recorded by bank security cameras.
  
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• Toronto is warning residents of red-winged blackbirds' aggressive behaviour

  29-05-2018 18:23
  Visitors to three Toronto parks are being warned about the risk of being dive-bombed by red-winged blackbirds.
  
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• 3 in custody after gun call in Cabbagetown ow.ly/KTqX30keu66 https://t.co/2lb5weG0vW

  29-05-2018 17:56 via twitter.com
  
  3 in custody after gun call in Cabbagetown ow.ly/KTqX30keu66 https://t.co/2lb5weG0vW
  
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