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Canada faces crucial World Cup qualifying stretch with two games against Panama
TORONTO — To get to the 2014 World Cup, Canada faces at least 14 more matches. But the next two could shed a lot of light on how much of that journey the Canadian men’s soccer team will get to take....
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Canada edges Panama in World Cup soccer qualifying
TORONTO — The Canadian women got a pre-game ovation. And then it was the Canadian men’s turn. And while they took their time to pull ahead, the men ended up savouring their own curtain call after a key...
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Panama supporters pulling out all the stops ahead of qualifier versus Canada
By Gavin Day THE CANADIAN PRESS PANAMA CITY — If the Canadian men’s soccer team was hoping for a good night’s sleep Monday, here’s hoping the players packed some ear plugs. Noisy Panamanian supporters...
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Costly Loss: Canada falls 2-0 to Panama in key World Cup qualifying game
PANAMA CITY — Rolando Blackburn and Blas Perez each scored as Panama beat Canada’s men’s soccer team 2-0 on Tuesday in World Cup qualifying. Blackburn struck in the 23rd minute after rising above some...
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Canadian coach Hart hopes to avoid repeat of Panama debacle in Honduras
Stephen Hart has studied every angle of Canada’s World Cup qualifying loss to Panama — as much of what happened off the field as on. Fans set off fireworks and blared car stereos in front of the...
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Canada beats undermanned Cuba in World Cup qualifying, visitors have no subs
TORONTO — A crazy night of soccer. Missing Cubans, two red cards and 35 Canadian attempts on goal in a lopsided World Cup qualifier. Despite the wild shooting gallery in front of Cuban goalie Odelin...
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Canada controls World Cup qualifying destiny, heads to Honduras for key game
By Neil Davidson THE CANADIAN PRESS With one game remaining in this current round of World Cup qualifying, Canadian coach Stephen Hart is pretty much where he expected. Facing a deciding game in...
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Royal re-furbishment for Grandeur
Refurbished ships are appearing as if they were on an assembly line. Grandeur of the Seas, sailing under the Royal Caribbean banner and built back in 1996, has completed its refurbishing and, in parts...
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Baird to visit Cuba, Venezuela as political reforms appear imminent
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird launched a week-long tour of Latin America Thursday that will include stops in two countries the Harper government has long been at odds with: Cuba and...
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Travel Deals: Turks & Caicos – Central America – Chicago
Here are some interesting travel deals that crossed our desks recently: TURKS & CAICOS RESORT HAS LONG-WEEKEND DEALS The Alexandra Resort on Grace Bay Beach, Turks & Caicos has introduced a...
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Canadian criminal groups dealing directly with Mexican drug gangs to boost...
Some Canadian organized crime groups who may have used American middlemen in the past to supply drugs from Mexico are now ditching them, opting instead to deal directly with their Mexican counterparts...
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Canada’s hard line on drugs contrasts with Latin American shift in tone
OTTAWA — Canada‘s steadily increasing role in the U.S.-led war on drugs is bumping up against calls for change in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Conservative government has made tackling drug...
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Tennessee overcomes Calif. power surge to stay unbeaten at LLWS while Canada...
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — After his home run sailed over the left-field fence, Brock Myers raced around the basepaths as if he was running a 40-yard dash. The soft-spoken, Myers played it cool later in...
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Neil Armstrong, who gave world ’giant leap’ with his 1st footprint on the...
CINCINNATI, Ohio — Neil Armstrong was a soft-spoken engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made “one giant leap for mankind” with a small step onto the moon. The modest man,...
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Canada faces crucial World Cup qualifying stretch with two games against Panama
TORONTO — To get to the 2014 World Cup, Canada faces at least 14 more matches. But the next two could shed a lot of light on how much of that journey the Canadian men’s soccer team will get to take....
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Canada edges Panama in World Cup soccer qualifying
TORONTO — The Canadian women got a pre-game ovation. And then it was the Canadian men’s turn. And while they took their time to pull ahead, the men ended up savouring their own curtain call after a key...
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Warning letter on appointing Arthur Porter to oversee spy agency raised no...
OTTAWA – A letter warning in stark language against the appointment of Arthur Porter to oversee Canada’s spy agency in 2008 appears to have gone unheeded or unnoticed by the prime minister’s office at...
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Keeping an eye on Canadian spies a part-time job for pipeline lobbyist
On Dec. 6, former Indian Affairs minister Chuck Strahl filed a registration with the British Columbia registrar of lobbyists to set up a meeting for his client — the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline...
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Monday Travel Inspiration: Isla Palenque – 30 days in the jungle
I`ll be honest, before I saw this video, I had never heard of Isla Palenque. I had been to Palenque, Mexico, but this place is not the same. It`s an island off the southern coast of Panama. In 2012,...
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What free trade with South Korea means to Canada
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s trip to Seoul to finalize a free-trade agreement with South Korea is a milestone in Canada’s trading relationship with the rest of the world, and potentially an...
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