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Government waste highlighted at 'Teddy' awards (ADD YOUR COMMENTS)  Share Comments 
Posted 6 hours ago
OTTAWA — MPs sending out junk mail, the City of Toronto's homeless audit and the Nova Scotia's MLA expense scandal earned golden sows in the annual awards for taxpayer waste. [more]
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Feds spend $6 billion to maintain 320 buildings (HAVE YOUR SAY)Share Comments 
Posted 4 hours ago
OTTAWA – Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose is asking her department to review a controversial contract following revelations that changing a doorbell in a federal government building in Gatineau cost Canadian taxpayers $1,000 while installing six light fixtures racked up a bill of $5,000. [more]
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Parliament puts seal meat on the menu (HAVE YOUR SAY)Share Comments 
Posted 4 hours ago
OTTAWA — Forget the Winter Olympics, what really unites Canada's parliamentarians is a bit of furry sea mammal. MPs and senators of all stripes broke bread today at a special luncheon on Parliament Hill, united by a menu that featured seal meat. [more]
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Brant teen caught up in massive child porn bust (UPDATE)Share Comments 
Updated 7 hours ago
A Brantford teen has been caught in a massive, province-wide child pornography bust that has resulted in more than 120 charges against 35 people. The 17-year-old Brantford resident has been charged with one count of possession of child pornography and one count of accessing child pornography. [more]
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Corey Haim dead at 38: reportsShare Comments 
Posted 9 hours ago
LOS ANGELES — Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles in "Lucas" and "The Lost Boys" whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38. The Toronto-born actor died at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday at a Burbank hospital, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. [more]
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Funeral Friday for Const. PhamShare Comments 
Posted 9 hours ago
WINGHAM, Ont. — Police from across the country will gather in Wingham, Ont., for the second police funeral in Ontario this week. Services for Ontario Provincial Police Const. Vu Pham will be held Friday at 1 p. [more]
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Mustangs hope to build on experience  Share Comments  
Updated 10 hours ago
CWOSSA BOYS HOCKEY FERGUS -Competing at the Central Western Ontario Secondary School Association AAA/AAAA boys hockey championships was a giant step for the Brantford Collegiate Mustangs program. Now they know what it takes to get to the next level. [more]
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Wanted: volunteers to help sell daffodilsShare Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
The Brant-Norfolk unit of the Canadian Cancer Society is looking for volunteers to sell daffodils later this month. A sign of spring and the Cancer Society's "symbol of hope" for more the 50 years, the daffodil is a big seller for the local society. [more]
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Tributes flow online for slain police officerShare Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
Thousands of people -- strangers, friends old and new and police officers -- have expressed condolences to the family of slain Huron OPP Const. Vu Pham. [more]
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Pair sent to prison in robberyShare Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
A man and a woman who robbed a 69-year-old vegetable farmer are headed to penitentiary. Kenneth Halliday, 39, of Brantford, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison and time served for his part in the home-invasion style robbery last November of the Middle Townline Road farmer. [more]
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Vegas a la carteShare Comments 
Posted 13 hours ago
You know the old saying what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas? Not the food! After a whirlwind tour and dining marathon, I discovered there's more to Vegas than slots, sin and sensational shows -- the place has an excess of awesome eateries. [more]
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Eagles score often against DutchiesShare Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
The Brantford Golden Eagles are one win away from advancing in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League's Mid-Western Conference playoffs. Brantford can clinch a spot in a best-of-seven semifinal series with a win on Thursday at the civic centre at 7:30 p. [more]
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Speedy opponent ousts TrojansShare Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
North Park Collegiate's run at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations senior boys basketball AAA championships in Kingston is over. The Trojans were eliminated Tuesday after a 42-28 loss to a tough Toronto team from Jarvis Collegiate that was played at Queen's University. [more]
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Women urged to speak up about abuse this International Woman's DayShare Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
If you can't talk about it, you can't change it. That was the message that journalist Sally Armstrong delivered to a sold-out crowd of 300 women gathered at the Best Western Brant Park Inn on Monday to celebrate International Women's Day. [more]
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Suspect known as a 'nice guy'Share Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
The 70-year-old man identified as the suspect in the shooting death Monday of a Huron OPP constable is a retired logger whose marriage recently fell apart, a work colleague says. The SIU Tuesday identified the suspect as Fred Preston of Burk's Falls, Ont. [more]
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Money shuffled to pay for treatment plant fixShare Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
The city will take $5 million from its water treatment reserve fund to help pay for repairs to the Holmedale water treatment plant, after council approved a resolution to that effect on Monday night. [more]
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Letters to the editorShare 
Posted 13 hours ago
You can pay but climate change won't go away The other day, when I was flipping channels hoping to find some intelligent comments on the budget, I happened to hear Jack Layton criticize: "There is nothing in the budget about climate change. [more]
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Ideas pitched to strengthen the tree bylawShare Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
A small but hardy band of arboreal advocates came out Tuesday in a bid to strengthen the city's nine-year-old bylaw protecting trees in private woodlots. [more]
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Ontario natives join club for broken Liberal promisesShare Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
It really didn't matter what was in the speech read by Lt.-Gov. David Onley on Monday afternoon; there was no way it was going to please everybody. That is standard fare when it comes to throne speeches. [more]
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Mohawk considers all options for futureShare Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
Mohawk College is proud to have served students and employers in Brantford since the early 1970s, when we were the first postsecondary institution to open our doors in the city. [more]
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Broadening his horizonsShare Comments 
Posted 13 hours ago
Robert Pattinson admits he was in denial when he signed up for the tragic-rebel/romance film,Remember Me. Yes,Twilighthad just come out. [more]
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Groups push for greenbelt expansionShare Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
A push to get the Dalton McGuinty government to approve a major expansion of the greenbelt westward through Brant County and in other directions in southern Ontario is gaining fresh energy with the entry of new groups and controversial development activities. [more]
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OMB to decide fate of Penman projectShare Comments 
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Developers seeking to build an apartment complex on the former Penman brownfield site and the project's opponents are heading to a full Ontario Municipal Board hearing in July On Tuesday, a pre-hearing co-ordinator heard Tuesday that differences remain over the proposed development of the vacant [more]
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Funding set aside for waterfront planShare Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
City council is setting up a multi-million-dollar reserve fund, after all, to pay for projects under the proposed waterfront master plan. Council has reversed itself two weeks after defeating on a 5-5 tie vote a resolution from Coun. [more]
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Six Nations firm lands contractShare Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
A Six Nations company has been awarded a contract to construct a campus for a post-secondary institution in Manitoba. [more]
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Full-day kindergarten will create funding shortfall for public boardShare Comments 
Updated 10 hours ago
The Grand Erie District School Board could be looking at a $500,000 shortfall in funding for the first year of full-day kindergarten. [more]