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Yngwie Who?
By Kate Campbell The doors of the Phoenix Concert Theatre opened a little later than scheduled leaving an enormous crowd lining the sidewalk of Sherbourne St. in Toronto, buzzing with the anticipation of seeing guitar legend Yngwie J. Malmsteen. I had overheard one of the doormen say it had taken longer than anticipated to load [...]
New City. New bartending gig. New patrons. Same nightly antics.
By Kaitlyn Sawyer Our travel and features writer for Thursday Night Magazine, Kaitlyn Sawyer, has just moved to Portland, Maine. She’s spent the last while residing in Bar Harbor with Acadia National Park as her backyard. Now she is shifting gears and moving into the city scene, and as she writers in her column, she [...]
Bombing probe focuses on 2011 warnings, 2012 Chechnya trip
With one suspect dead and the other captured and in hospital wounded, the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings turned Saturday to questions about the men’s motives and to the significance of a trip one of the bombers took to Chechnya. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed early Friday after a shootout with police in Watertown, [...]
Boston in lockdown
1 bombing suspect killed, 1 on run Tensions remained high Friday as thousands of police officers searched for the fugitive suspect wanted in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings, after another suspect died overnight following a violent standoff with police. The City of Boston and several surrounding suburbs are under a “shelter in place” request, [...]
Bombs dirty and deadly
The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with metal shards, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday. The details on the apparently crude but deadly explosives [...]
Mayan apocalypse: End of the world, or a new beginning?
One in 10 of us is said to be anxious that December 21, 2012 marks the end of the world. The Ancient Mayans predicted this doomsday, and the press is eating it up. But where are all the believers? That the world will end in 2012 is the most widely-disseminated doomsday tale in human history, [...]
The 27-year-old who triggered Rob Ford’s downfall
By Daniel Dale In the wake of Mayor Rob Ford’s stunning ouster from office on Monday, someone started a “Thank You Paul Magder” group on Facebook. The group would have more aptly been called Thank You Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler. Magder, a businessman, was the Average Joe face of the lawsuit that brought Ford down. Celebrated lawyer [...]
Rob Ford says he’s sorry, but pledges to fight
A contrite Rob Ford finally apologized Tuesday to those who don’t like the way he handled his conflict of interest situation, but said he would fight to stay on as mayor. Ford also said his appeal of a judge’s decision to boot him from office should not be construed as criticism of the courts, although [...]
Diploma Goes Up in Smoke
Court asks Appleby College to reconsider denial of diploma to student Tony Van Alphen A lot of hard school work literally went up in smoke and out the window for student Gautam Setia at prestigious Appleby College in Oakville on the last night of his final year. The 101-year-old private college, whose motto is “reflecting [...]
Canada is Dangerous: Iran
By Paul Koring Tehran has officially warned its citizens and expatriates that Canada is a dangerous place in the latest swipe as both government’s trade accusations. So many Iranians live in Canada’s largest city that it’s often called ‘Tehranto’ among the moneyed elites in the Islamic Republic and thousands among the Iranian diaspora travel back [...]
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Yngwie Who?
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New City. New bartending gig. New patrons. Same nightly antics.
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Bombing probe focuses on 2011 warnings, 2012 Chechnya trip
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Boston in lockdown
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Bombs dirty and deadly
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