Brian Gallant picks innovation, jobs as top priority

Premier-designate Brian Gallant is continuing to underscore his top priority in government will be to create new jobs.

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2015 Women's World Cup organizers focus on positives

Ticket sales have started well and organizers of the 2015 Women's World Cup of soccer have plenty of good stories to tell. But thanks to the ongoing controversy of playing the Canadian tournament on artificial turf, not many of those storylines have got through yet.

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91-year-old waits several hours for ambulance

It was a frightening weekend for Garry Lynch and his family when his 91-year-old mother, Catherine, was forced to wait more than three hours for a Montreal ambulance, after having fallen and been stuck in a bathtub for 13 hours.

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Man, 61, accused of robbing 3 Toronto banks in 3 months

A 61-year-old man is accused of robbing three Toronto banks over a three-month period.

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Travis Lulay to forgo surgery, could return to Lions

B.C. Lions quarterback Travis Lulay has elected to forgo surgery and will continue to rehabilitate his right throwing shoulder as he aims for a late-season return to the lineup.

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Manitoba Tories demand Phoenix Sinclair report be made public

Manitoba's opposition is calling on the government to make public a report investigating how to implement the remaining recommendations from the Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry.

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Saskatoon man fined $6,500 for firearms-related charges

A Saskatoon man was fined $6,500 for firearms-related charges after being fined $5,600 earlier this year for hunting-related charges

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Hong Kong protesters perform Do You Hear the People Sing?

Watch this collection of images from the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong as protesters perform Do You Hear the People Sing? from the musical Les Misérables.

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Bill Bennett Alzheimer's prompts $9.1m donation from Charles Fipke

Multi-million dollar donation made to UBC to be put towards research in the disease.

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Community Services rebuked for court no-show in girl's case

A Nova Scotia youth court judge has delivered a strong rebuke to the Department of Community Services for the way it dealt with a troubled girl in its care.

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Mayoral candidate Brian Bowman eyes cost savings in pensions, salaries

Winnipeg mayoral candidate Brian Bowman wants the city to find cost savings yet improve or maintain services at the same time.

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This winter won't be quite as bad, Environment Canada says

Although some gloomy predictions have been made about the coming winter in Saskatchewan, Environment Canada's senior climatologist has a decidedly sunny outlook.

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EU Says Ireland Swapped Apple Tax Deal for Jobs

The European Union has accused Ireland of swerving international tax rules by letting Apple shelter profits worth tens of billions of dollars from revenue collectors in return for maintaining jobs. European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told the Dublin government in a letter published on Tuesday that tax deals agreed in 1991 and 2007 amounted to state aid and may have broken EU laws. “The Commission is of the opinion that through those rulings the Irish authorities confer an advantage on Apple,” Almunia wrote in the letter, which was dated June 11. Apple said it had received no selective treatment. “We're subject to the same tax laws as the countless other companies who do business in Ireland,” a spokesman said. An Irish government spokesman referred to previous statements saying it followed EU rules. When publication of the letter was flagged on Monday the Irish finance department said it was confident it had not breached state aid rules and had responded to the Commission to address “concerns and misunderstandings.” The Commission said the tax rulings were “reverse engineered” to ensure that Apple had a minimal Irish bill, adding that minutes from meetings involving Irish officials showed that the Irish tax authority did not even attempt to apply international tax rules in its deals with Apple. Instead, the company's tax treatment had been “motivated by employment considerations,” the Commission said, citing the minutes of meetings between Apple representatives and Irish tax officials. An Apple spokesman referred to previous statements where the company denied seeking any “quid pro quo” from Dublin. The company employs 4000 people at a manufacturing plant in Cork, south-west Ireland, its only such facility outside of the United States. Apple, along with other multinationals, has found its arrangements scrutinized in recent years as corporate tax avoidance rose to the top of the political agenda in the United States and Europe. Widespread profit shifting by tech giants was referred to by Britain's finance minister George Osborne on Monday as one of the problems his government would create new measures to tackle, and the G20 group of leading economies has also asked the OECD to review international tax rules. The EU is also investigating tax deals between coffee chain Starbucks Corp and the Netherlands and Luxembourg tax rulings received by a subsidiary of automotive group Fiat. A complex structure Apple Inc licenses the right to exploit Apple intellectual property in Europe, Africa and Asia to two Irish-registered subsidiaries that are not registered for tax in any country at all, a U.S. Senate investigation revealed last year. A series of inter-company agreements with contract manufacturers and other Apple distribution companies ensures that tens of billions of dollars of profits flow into Apple Operations Europe (AOE) and Apple Sales International (ASI), the Senate probe found. The European Commission is now questioning Irish tax authority rulings which allowed AOE and ASI to declare combined annual taxable profits of just 40 to 80 million euros in recent years. Those arrangements save Apple - the world's most valuable corporation - billions of dollars in tax each year, analysts said. Under EU rules, if the Commission's suspicion that the tax treatment amounted to illegal state aid is proven, the company could be forced to pay that money back to the Irish government. Apple paid an average tax rate of just 2.5 percent on around $109 billion of non-U.S. profits in the past five years - a fraction of Ireland's 12.5 percent tax rate. Even if the EU deemed an additional 10 percentage points in tax should have been charged in Ireland on all that money, the consequent hit of around $10 billion would scarcely dent Apple's $111 billion offshore cash pile. But any outcome is highly uncertain and potentially distant. The EU can take as much as five years to decide on state aid cases and Ireland could challenge any ruling in the European Court of Justice. Apple could also challenge any tax demand in court, said Neal Todd, corporate tax partner at Berwin Leighton Paisner. “We're in uncharted water here,” Sheila Killian, Assistant Dean in Accounting & Finance at the University of Limerick, said. Some experts think the most likely outcome is that Ireland would simply be forced to be less accommodating with multinationals in future. That could limit its ability to attract international investment, although the country hopes this could be balanced by planned OECD tax changes that may handicap low tax competitors, like Singapore and Switzerland, Killian said. The Commission also criticized the fact that Apple and Ireland's 1991 tax agreement had lasted 16 years - far longer than the five year limit that many other EU countries apply when issuing rulings about how transactions should be treated for tax purposes. One function of that tax agreement was that while revenues from the sale of Apple's hot products like the iPad soared, the group's taxable profit in Ireland did not. An unnamed tax advisor to Apple “confessed that there was no scientific basis for the figure” that Apple would declare as its Irish taxable income, the Commission noted, from minutes of meetings between Irish tax authority officials and the advisor. The minutes of another meeting say that a tax advisor for the company stated it was his view that Apple was deliberately shifting profits into the lightly taxed Irish operation.



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Calgary man rolled back odometers, sold vehicles online

A Calgary man has been charged with fraud after buying vehicles at auction with high kilometres, then rolling back the odometer.

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NCC wants anchor tenant for LeBreton Flats redevelopment

The National Capital Commission is turning to the private sector for ways to redevelop the next phase of Lebreton Flats but it says this time it wants an anchor tenant such as a national institution on the site.

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Oppenheimer Park homeless campers get break from court

Campers facing eviction from Vancouver's Oppenheimer Park have been given until Monday to prepare their legal opposition.

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Real City Matters: Civil talks about Toronto civic politics

A series of panel discussions ahead of the Oct. 27 municipal election aimes to inject some optimism into the discussion about Toronto's politics and the city's future.

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Snowfall slows traffic in Whitehorse

A late September snowfall has wreaked havoc on Whitehorse roads, where drivers weren't prepared for several centimetres of snow this early in the year.

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P.E.I. minimum wage versus inflation

The P.E.I. government is increasing the minimum wage to $10.35 this week. Is that enough to keep up with inflation?

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UNB faculty awarded 12.5% increase by arbitration board

An arbitration board has awarded faculty at the University of New Brunswick a pay increase of 12.5 per cent over three years.

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Bronze plaques stolen from Village of Dunnottar

Two bronze plaques, one that commemorates Olympic rower Colleen Miller, have been stolen from the Village of Dunnottar.

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Minister working to get Stoney Nakoda flood victims back in homes

The province is doing everything it can to help people affected by last year’s flood on the Stoney Nakoda First Nation, says David Doward, Alberta’s associate minister of aboriginal relations.

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Pot pooches

Pomeranian's drug habit was so bad SPCA officers raided owner's apartment.

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Canada's top soldier leaves cabinet meeting

Chief of Defence Staff Tom Lawson, Canada's top soldier, wouldn't discuss what advice he gave cabinet Tuesday about what the country can do to help fight ISIS.

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10 people in the race for Greater Sudbury mayor's job

Get to know the people running to replace Marianne Matichuk and what their priorities and policies would be as mayor.

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Thunder Bay marks Orange Shirt Day

Orange Shirt Day is taking place in Thunder Bay and communities across the country today.

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September snowfall slows traffic in Whitehorse

A late September snowfall has wreaked havoc on Whitehorse roads, where drivers weren't prepared for several centimetres of snow this early in the year.

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McMaster tests Hamilton's radioactive response

McMaster University staged a terrifying scenario on Tuesday, involving an accident at its Nuclear Research Building that critically injured a lab worker and potentially exposed others to dangerous nuclear material.

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Target baby PJs say boys are heroes, girls can date them

Baby onesies at a Target store that label little boys as future superheroes and little girls as their dating partners has sparked online outrage after two University of Waterloo professors called attention to their message.

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Interview: Chair of Hong Kong's Democratic Party

Emily Lau is a veteran of the political tug-of-war with Beijing and a key supporter of the Occupy movement

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Nova Centre crane climbers arrested, facing charges

Two men have been arrested after climbing a construction crane in downtown Halifax and one of them is accused of assaulting a police officer who was trying to get him to safety.

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RCMP officer accused of sex assault against 9-year-old child

A veteran RCMP officer in Manitoba was arrested on the weekend in connection to the sexual assault of a nine-year-old child.

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Cow Heads in High Demand Among South African Men

When cows are slaughtered in many nations, their heads are usually thrown away, as they are considered inedible. But in South Africa, this often-overlooked part is considered a delicacy — and drives a booming trade in Johannesburg. For VOA, Thuso Khumalo visits a cow-head processing factory in central Johannesburg.



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Guelph police investigating sudden death on Gordon St.

Guelph police are at a house on Gordon Street South to investigate a sudden death.

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Raven Recycling to shut down Whitehorse drop-off bins

After 22 years, Raven Recycling will shut down its recycling drop-off bins in Whitehorse.

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Streetcar service could extend to Whyte Avenue

The Edmonton Radial Railway Society is looking to expand its tracks to Whyte Avenue for passenger pick-up.

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Galiano Island rescue: Family of 7 had 2 life-jackets

A family of five children and two adults had only two life-jackets when they were plucked from the frigid waters of the Georgia Strait last night after their fishing boat overturned, the coast guard says.

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Don Pittis: report from Hong Kong Feb 25, 1990

Residents have long lacked faith that China will allow them to govern their own affairs.

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New Non-Invasive Colon Cancer Test Claims 94% Accuracy

According to the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide and the fourth most common cause of death for both men and women. Survivability rises if it is diagnosed early enough. A new type of test promises to replace the dreaded colonoscopy as the most reliable method for doing that. VOA’s George Putic reports.



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Apple's Irish tax deal being probed by EU

Apple Inc. may have to repay tax on billions of euros of revenues after the EU competition regulator called its tax deal with the Irish government “illegal state aid.”

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Vulgar graffiti spray painted in Montague

Montague RCMP say some cars and traffic signs in the downtown area have been spray painted with drawings of male genitalia.

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Nygren: "I never comment anything about people in Hamilton"

Bulldogs player Magnus Nygren responds to a Swedish blog post where he reportedly slams Hamilton.

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Soldier sues Ottawa over home sale losses

Master warrant officer Neil Dodsworth lost $72K when he had to sell his home following a new posting

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Sask. advised to find 10 big projects for Asian investors

The Saskatchewan government should work to find 10 big "investment opportunities" for Asian investors in the province, an advisory report on trade says.

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2014 RBC Canadian Painting Competition Finalists

Fifteen emerging Canadian visual artists are in the running for the $25,000 grand prize in the 2014 RBC Canadian Painting Competition. The winner, and honourable mentions, will be announced Wednesday at a gala at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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California bans plastic bags

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed legislation imposing the nation's first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags.

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Netflix targets big screen with Crouching Tiger sequel

Streaming service partners with Weinstein Co. and Imax for first feature film release

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Laurier student covers OutKast hit Hey Ya! on french horn

A YouTube video of Wilfrid Laurier music student Patrick Godfrey playing OutKast hit Hey Ya! on the french horn has more than 100,000 views.

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Michael Phelps arrested for drunken driving

Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps was arrested for drunken driving early on Tuesday after speeding and then crossing the double-lane lines inside the Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore, Maryland Transportation Authority Police said.

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Why won't you pay 25 dollars to check your bags?

Porter, WestJet, and now Air Canada are charging a new fee to check a bag on flights within this country. Open lines with Globe Travel Editor Domini Clark.

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Thunder Bay basked in warm fall weather, but cooler temps on the way

Despite some amazingly warm weather for northwestern Ontario at the end of September, the trend has come to an end.

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Havixbeck wants civic parkade site converted to housing if elected mayor

Mayoral hopeful Paula Havixbeck wants to see the long-shuttered civic parkade demolished to make way for a mixed use building with housing and retail options.

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