Articles Posted in 2015
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Thousands of blood donors needed in Alberta
Canadian Blood Services is seeking 16,000 new blood donors in Alberta for 2016, saying that’s how many people are needed to replace its aging donor base and meet the ongoing demand. “Because older donors tend to donate more frequently…
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Another Jeweller targeted
A brutal home invasion that saw three men hold the jewellery store owner and his family hostage this week comes as a fourth such robbery attempt in the area where jewellery store owners have been…
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Ontario falls short of goal to digitize all health records
Despite a 2015 deadline for all patients to have an electronic health record, only two-thirds of Ontarians have a digital medical file as the year draws to a close, according to the latest figures from…
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1 dead, 3 seriously injured, in Scarborough house fire
Toronto Fire Services has reported that one person is dead and three others are seriously injured after a two-alarm house fire in Scarborough. One of the three people injured is in life-threatening condition. A number of…
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NAPA hails PM Modi visit to Pakistan
US based North American Punjabi Association (NAPA) in a press release issued here today hailed Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi for visiting to Pakistan as a path breaking step.NAPA executive director Satnam Singh Chahal said that this was the…
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Uncle of drowned Syrian toddler arrives in Canada
The waiting is over for some relatives of the Syrian family that made headlines around the world after a tragic attempt to escape from their war-torn home country. Mohammad Kurdi, his wife and their five children have arrived…
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Israel ex-PM to serve jail term for bribery
The Israeli Supreme Court partially accepted an appeal by former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a corruption case under which he will serve 18 months in prison instead of the six years handed out to him. Olmert,…
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Obama, Hillary are America’s ‘most admired’,
President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton have topped the list of America’s “most admired” man and woman respectively, a latest US poll said. Americans named 68-year-old Hillary, record 20th time and 54-year-old…
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Sikhs in US feel they are victims
Sikhs have been mistaken for terrorists and radicals and continue to suffer after 9/11terror attacks in the US, community members feel following the latest attack on an elderly Sikh man in California which is being…
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Vietnamese national sentenced to life in China
A Vietnamese national was sentenced to life for murdering a Chinese citizen in 2014 over an economic dispute in south China’s Guangdong Province. The Zhuhai Intermediate People’s Court found the 25-year-old Vietnamese man surnamed Cao guilty of…
