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WORLD / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 12:26pm neoform

Toronto Star -- QIAN'AN, China–The stars seemed to be in alignment for Jin Yani in the summer of 2000. She had just married. Her partner, Yang Zhongchen, was a loving husband with a good income. And the couple were looking forward to the birth of their first child â.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Aug 22, 2007 @ 10:09am neoform

Toronto Star -- Protesters are accusing police of using undercover agents to provoke violent confrontations at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que. Such accusations have been made before after similar demonstrations but this time the alleged "agents.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Aug 13, 2007 @ 10:16pm neoform

Toronto Star -- Canadian Mary McCarthy lives in the same mansion she and her millionaire husband moved into 62 years ago in the once-posh Country Club area of Havana. Peacocks still strut the garden under royal palm trees, but the lawn is overgrown and the house fille.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Aug 1, 2007 @ 10:14am neoform

Toronto Star -- You know you've made it in this political town when you have a car and driver. Boy, are a lot people making it. Politicians and senior mandarins, some living a short walk from Parliament Hill, climb each morning into the back of a taxpayer-supplied, ch.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jul 14, 2007 @ 2:36pm neoform

Toronto Star -- Prosecutors say they plan to launch a speedy appeal of a Toronto judge's ruling that Canada's marijuana possession laws are unconstitutional. CBC News reports the judge made the ruling in dismissing charges against a 29-year-old Toronto man charged wit.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jun 18, 2007 @ 12:27pm neoform

Toronto Star -- Standing beside two parked cars, two men in dark baseball hats wait for the signal. It's broad daylight and nearly rush hour on Bloor. A woman in paint-stained jeans sprints ahead of the men, scanning the street. Another stations herself across the roa.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 29, 2007 @ 9:19am neoform

Toronto Star -- Alcohol-related deaths on U.S. roads rose to their highest level in 14 years in 2006, while the overall number of people killed in traffic crashes declined slightly but still topped 43,000, according to preliminary government estimates Friday. The Tran.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun May 13, 2007 @ 7:38pm neoform

Toronto Star -- Maybe it was the shock of 9/11. Maybe it is the reality of Canadians dying in the "war on terror" or charges against so-called "home-grown" terrorists. Or maybe it's stronger recruiting efforts by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), incl.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Apr 19, 2007 @ 2:25pm neoform

Toronto Star -- Health outcomes for patients in Canada are as good as or better than in the United States, even though per capita spending is higher south of the border, suggest Canadian and U.S. researchers who crunched data from 38 studies. The findings were publish.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Apr 6, 2007 @ 11:26pm neoform

Toronto Star -- When the new chocolate-coloured sofa set was delivered to her Brampton home, Doris Moore was stunned to see packing labels describing the shade as "Nigger-brown." She and husband Douglas purchased a sofa, loveseat and chair in dark brown leather last w.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 9, 2007 @ 9:19am neoform

Toronto Star -- The city's debt level is skyrocketing and Toronto is falling further and further behind on much-needed repairs, city council was told yesterday as members approved this year's capital budget. "It's difficult for many people to fathom how deep in debt w.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Sun Mar 4, 2007 @ 3:38pm neoform

Toronto Star -- After worshipping at the Prayer Palace this morning, Hyacinthe Houghron will, as she does every second Sunday, stuff her tired green minivan with a small feast: six coolers of homemade soup, a mountain of sandwiches, cakes and sweets. Loaded down with.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jan 25, 2007 @ 7:55pm neoform

Toronto Star -- Bank customers would have more money in their wallets if Parliament acts on an NDP proposal and legislates automated teller fees out of existence... Read More

LIFE / OPINION Wed Jan 24, 2007 @ 10:50am mrmdc

Toronto Star -- No other anguish is quite like that of the procrastinator. He knows that the job has to get done, that putting it off just makes it harder, that the worry is worse than the work. And yet he can't ... quite ... get ... started... Read More

WORLD / OPINION Thu Jan 18, 2007 @ 10:51am neoform

Toronto Star -- Be worried. If you have given even a moment's thought to climate warming and its potential impact on our planet, be very worried. China, a nation of 1.3 billion people, has abandoned the bicycle as a principal mode of transportation and is now moving at.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jan 10, 2007 @ 8:07pm neoform

Toronto Star -- They say money talks, and a new report suggests Canadian currency is indeed chatting, at least electronically, on behalf of shadowy spies... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 10:28am mrmdc

Toronto Star -- Only in Europe could the production of a Mozart opera cause so much hand-wringing... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Dec 9, 2006 @ 10:38am neoform

Toronto Star -- People who donate to Mothers Against Drunk Driving are told by the charity that most of the $12 million it raises annually is spent on good works — stopping drunk driving and helping families traumatized by fatal crashes... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Dec 8, 2006 @ 1:54am neoform

Toronto Star -- The last major threat to same-sex marriage rights in Canada was soundly defeated in the House of Commons today, with MPs sending the message that they don’t want to revisit the emotional, divisive debate... Read More

LIFE / OPINION Thu Dec 7, 2006 @ 9:15pm neoform

Toronto Star -- They couldn't remember how to write the letter "I." Is it one loop or two? Does the pen start at the top of the squiggle or the bottom? "I forgot how to handwrite," says 18-year-old Kris Tofer Baker, as he mulls over the execution of a "w.".. Read More