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Family touched by support for tot battling rare cancer

'My phone has been ringing off the hook,' says mom Brooke Ervin

Single mother of 3 identified as body parts victim

A single mother of three whose body parts were found scattered in Torontoarea waterways over the past week largely kept to herself, say neighbours in the townhouse complex where she lived and in the business plaza where she worked.

Generous philanthropist, kind boss

John Chew, who died Sunday at the age of 87, is being remembered as a smart businessman, a great supporter of charities and an employer who treated his workers like family. Business, B1
American aborts latest Cuba-U.S. swim attempt

American aborts latest Cuba-U.S. swim attempt

Canadian teen raises $115,000 with Lake Ontario crossing

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Akin rebuffs Romney, Republican calls to quit U.S. Senate race

Heavy pressure follows controversial remarks on rape

Syria warns U.S. against intervention

Dozens killed in advance on Damascus suburb

Resident comes home to burglar trying to break in

Victoria police Const. Mike Russell said the suspect pretended to be smoking but didn’t fool the resident, who called police. After the suspect fled, the resident noticed damage to the door.

Editorial: Police ahead of privacy laws

Should the state and its police agents maintain computer files on where you drove last week, or a year ago? Or a personal file on you, available to employers and others, that indicates whether an officer thought you could have been charged with an of

Commentary: John A. Macdonald's white-supremacist views were shocking, even by the standards of his time

By Timothy J. StanleyIn 1885, Canada’s first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, told the House of Commons that, if the Chinese were not excluded from Canada, “the Aryan character of the future of British America should be destroyed.