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Lionsgate scoops up TV Guide Network

Source: Los Angeles Times

Toronto :: Canada | about 12 hours ago | Business News

In a surprise move, Lionsgate Entertainment Corp. has agreed to acquire TV Guide Network and TVGuide.com for $255 million, torpedoing a deal announced just over two weeks ago with media entrepreneur Allen Shapiro. TV Guide Network owner Macrovision Solutions Corp....

Lottery victory to defeat

Source: Delhi News-Record

Toronto :: Canada | about 2 hours ago | No category

You can easily see the pain in Thomas Noftall's eyes. "They're going to take away my dream. They're going to take it all away," the 27-year-old said yesterday, staring at what he feels are $135,000 in winning scratch tickets the...

Edmonton Sun, Canada: Budget crunch time

Source: Androscoggin News

Toronto :: Canada | about 15 hours ago | Political News

Three weeks before Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tables his recession-fighting budget, the government faces a sprawling list of contradictory demands from economists and lobby groups. "Given the gravity of the economic situation facing us and the time frame that we...

City ponders banning donations from unions, companies

Source: Toronto Star

Toronto :: Canada | about 3 hours ago | Political News

Vanessa Lu city hall bureau chief Toronto could soon become the first city in Ontario to ban corporate and union donations in municipal election campaigns. The executive committee voted 7-4 yesterday to ask for a draft bylaw outlawing such donations,...

Edmonton Sun, Canada: Opposition faces uphill battle

Source: Uinta County News

Toronto :: Canada | about 4 hours ago | Political News

While the rest of the province is down, the only way for Alberta's struggling opposition parties to look is up. That's because 2008 was not a very good year to be a Liberal, New Democrat or Wildrose Alliance politician or...

Auto bailout funds will 'keep lights on' rather than retool factories: ...

Source: Macleans

Toronto :: Canada | about 13 hours ago | Business News

Billions of taxpayer dollars aimed at bailing out struggling automakers will more likely be used to "keep the lights on" rather than directly transform the companies into more innovative businesses, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty acknowledged Monday.

McCabe feels revived, ready for boo birds

Source: The Globe & Mail

Toronto :: Canada | about 7 hours ago | Sports News

Bryan McCabe's return to Toronto means Vesa Toskala will likely be given a break from the fickle fans at Air Canada Centre tonight. The inconsistent Toronto Maple Leafs goalie occasionally has felt the scorn this season that was reserved for...

Elderly Montreal man facing murder charge in death of 83-year-old ...

Source: Macleans

Toronto :: Canada | about 17 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Maclean's is Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine. Maclean's enlightens, engages and entertains 2.8 million readers with strong investigative reporting and exclusive stories from leading journalists in the fields of international affairs, social issues, national politics,...

Montreal police in standoff with armed man

Source: Delhi News-Record

Toronto :: Canada | about 21 hours ago | Business News

Montreal police have surrounded a west-end apartment building where an armed man is holed up with at least one hostage. One gunshot was heard although there were no reports of injuries. Police say two detectives who went to the building...

New test weeds out 'rogue' stem cells

Source: Toronto Star

Toronto :: Canada | about 21 hours ago | Technology News

Health Reporter Scientists at McMaster University have found a way to tell the difference between normal stem cells and cancer stem cells, a discovery that removes one of the hurdles to the long-awaited promise of using human embryonic stem cells...