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The Montreal International Jazz Fest is one of the best things you can possibly do with your summer vacation. A sublime party. Understatement reminds me that Montreal is in Canada.  < 10:54:15 PM>.Ontario will legislate end to Toronto strike Toronto's two-week-old garbage strike may be about to end. Ontario Premier Ernie Eves is asking the provincial legislature to reconvene for an emergency session as early as Thursday. [CBC News] < 2:02:29 AM>.No more talks planned in Toronto strikes 
Toronto's strike situation looks bleak. The sides aren't meeting, no talks are scheduled and the province says it won't provide a quick solution. [CBC News] < 1:56:15 AM>.I'll warm to Toronto once the air starts moving again By DAVID MACFARLANE -- It's been suggested that I should get out more, to which I reply: Are you crazy? Do you have any idea what it's like out there?Have you spent any time in your oven recently? Well, if you have, that would provide you with absolutely no insight into what it was like to be in Toronto last week. That's because it's unlikely that you shared your broiling pan with a mountain of rotting garbage, a family of skunks, a neighbour's air conditioner that sounds like a climbing 747, the exhaust fumes of several million cars, an idiot mayor, and a pack of local rats, all of whom believe they've died and gone to heaven. Which may explain why the Pope is wondering if he can come in, too. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] Always read Macfarlane. < 1:25:41 AM>.Canada among countries singled out for ignoring AIDS
Leading international human rights advocates and scientists lashed out at the world's political and economic leaders at the opening session of the AIDS conference in Barcelona, on Monday. [CBC News] < 12:50:28 AM>.Smoke from northern Quebec arrives in Maritimes 
The smoke has cleared over southern Ontario and southern Quebec, but the forest fires that spread the veil of smoke over the regions on the weekend are still burning just as intensely in northern Quebec. [CBC News] |
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