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Students protest high tuition during G20 summit

Toronto G20 Summit Coverage

by Alexandra Posadzki - CUP Ontario Bureau Chief in News

June 29, 2010 - 1:29 p.m. TORONTO (CUP) - Chants of "Whose campus? Our campus!" echoed through the empty walkways of the University of Toronto as a procession of students snaked its way through the campus to reclaim the space. The campus had been shut down for the duration of the G20 summit and on June 26, roughly 150 students marched through its deserted streets on their way to Ontario's legislative building.…
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Global economy top priority during G20

Toronto G20 Summit Coverage

by Danielle Webb - CUP National Bureau Chief in News

June 30, 2010 - 9:48 a.m. TORONTO (CUP) - While the G20 leaders have committed to halving their deficits by 2013, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada will meet this goal as early as next year. At the summit's closing press conference on June 27, Harper announced that the G20 countries had agreed to Canada's agenda for making the global economy stable once again.…
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G20 protest erupts in violence

Toronto G20 Summit Coverage

by Alexandra Posadzki - CUP Ontario Bureau Chief in News

June 27, 2010 - 12:59 a.m. TORONTO (CUP) - Saturday's anti-G20 protest culminated in over 500 arrests, after a mob numbering in the hundreds stormed downtown Toronto streets, smashed shop and bank windows and set police cruisers ablaze. The riots were largely led by a group donning black clothing, goggles, bandannas and ski masks, who some news outlets are identifying as a black bloc group - a protest tactic in which participants aim to conceal their identity in order to carry out acts of violence.…
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Harper promises billions to maternal health

Toronto G20 Summit Coverage

by Danielle Webb - CUP National Bureau Chief in News

Harper promises billions to maternal health
June 25, 2010 TORONTO (CUP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced Canada will spend $1.1 billion more in maternal health funding over the next five years. Harper made the announcement - known as the Muskoka Initiative - at the opening press conference of the G8 summit in Huntsville, Ont.…
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Retired Brock Professor sentenced to 20 months in prison for child pornography

On April 22, 2009, Brock University professor, Keith Tinkler - the now-retired Chair of the Earth Sciences Department and Geography professor - was charged with one count of possession of child pornography, one count of distribution of child pornography, and one count of making child pornography after Niagara Regional Police searched his St.

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Business

BP's Deepwater Disaster: more to clean up than just oil

It has been almost two months since a BP oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing 11 deaths and the biggest oil spill in US history. Since that time the oil giant has been under constant scrutiny in the media, with various experts claiming more could be done to get the leak under control and clean up the oil already spilled.

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Focus

It's not all water under the bridge

It's not all water under the bridge

It is the day you've been waiting for since you walked out of your trial and behind bars for 12 years; the day your victims' families has been dreading for just as long. But, thanks to the Canadian government's post-release criminal protection policy, you were able to start a new life despite your crimes.

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Opinion

You're hired

Summer is in full swing, and there are probably still a gaggle of you out there desperately searching for jobs that won't interfere with your beach party/beer-drinking schedule. I know it can be discouraging to continually apply to establishments, only to be shot down because of their judgment of your 'personal hygiene' issues (whatever that means), but fret not little kittens.

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Arts and Life

Been there, S.C.E.N.E. that

1995-2000 Fifteen years ago, a man by the name of Chris "Cashmere" Wojtowicz started a grassroots music festival that would ultimately change the standard perception that St. Catharines was a city filled with cover and tribute bands, but a city that had a vibrant and now prospering original music scene.

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Sports

Second Team Canada camp on the horizon for Badger netminder

One of the ultimate privileges in an elite athlete's career is to be given the opportunity to bear their country's colours and represent the nation they call home. In late May, Beth Clause, the starting goaltender of the Brock women's hockey squad, took the first step towards realizing her fantasy of standing between the pipes for Canada on the international stage.

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