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3 hrs ago | Truck News

Road Today Truck Show coming to Brampton this weekend

The Road Today Truck Show is back for its fifth instalment this weekend with a change of venue.

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9 hrs ago | The Brampton Guardian

Residents concerned LRT will 'kill' the downtown

Light rail. A big-ticket item for Metrolinx's Big Move program is a proposed $1.6-billion LRT project to link Brampton and Mississauga along Hurontario Street.But as planning for the project moves forward, discussion is heating up among Brampton residents about the merits of the project, namely how the LRT would transform the historical downtown.

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Tue May 21, 2013

Canada.com

Family not giving up finding Toronto-area man in snowy mountains of Australia

Family members joined a frantic search Tuesday for a Canadian man with survival training missing for more than a week in Australia's Gold Coast region.

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Mon May 20, 2013

The Brampton Guardian

Region holds public meeting Thursday on official plan

Public meeting. Peel Region residents will get their chance on Thursday to weigh in on the municipality's Official Plan review.

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The Brampton Guardian

Peel MD Walk hopes to raise $30,000

Peel MD Walk. Annette Sultan, volunteer member of the Peel Region Walk for Muscular Dystrophy Planning Committee seen here with her 12-year-old nephew Lucas.

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Thu May 16, 2013

The Toronto Star

Brampton, Mississauga at odds over transit projects

Which transit plan will get the green light in Peel: the north-south LRT favoured by Metrolinx and Mississauga, or an east-west line Brampton councillors are pushing for? On Wednesday, Brampton councillors unanimously supported a list of priority Big Move transit projects that departs significantly from top projects favoured by Metrolinx and ... (more)

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Wed May 15, 2013

Canada.com

U.S. man's "supportive" web chat with suicidal Canadian teen "free speech": lawyer

An American man convicted in 2011 of posing as a young, depressed woman in an online "suicide chat room" and helping a Canadian teenager kill herself in 2008 has appealed the verdict to Minnesota's top court, arguing this week that the free-speech provisions of the U.S. First Amendment should have protected his "supportive" conversations with the ... (more)

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Tue May 14, 2013

The Brampton Guardian

Brampton girl is missing

Peel Regional Police are asking for help finding a 12-year-old Brampton girl missing since this morning .

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The Brampton Guardian

Fundraiser is all about love and faith

Last year, on a cold December day, the course of Derrek Moseychuk's life altered and has not been the same since.

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Globe and Mail

A look at Canada's future: Why our reporter is embedded in Brampton, Ont.

From left, Abhay Dev Shastri leads Mayank and Nikita Thakkar, their grandmother Krishna Luthra, and mother and father Rimple and Satish Thakkar through the Diwali ceremony of prayers and offerings at the Thakkar home in Brampton, Ont.

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The Brampton Guardian

Brampton actor makes doc about bizarre stardom

When an out-of-work Brampton actor accidentally discovers through Facebook that he's been wildly famous in Serbia for almost two decades, he sets out to discover the reasons why - and you can find out too, at Toronto's Carleton Cinema today through to May 16.

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The Abbotsford News

Abbotsford's Sikh population has doubled in the past 10 years

According to information from the 2011 National Household Survey, released on Wednesday by Statistics Canada , 28,235 people living in the CMA belong to the Sikh faith.

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The Brampton Guardian

Popeyes closes Peel locations

Closed. MISSISSAUGA - All four Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen restaurants in Mississauga have closed down.

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Mon May 13, 2013

TwinCities

Former Faribault nurse appeals convictions for assisting suicides online

Yes, argued the attorney for a Faribault man who lurked in suicide chat rooms and encouraged two people to take their own lives.

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Canada.com

Michael Cera wrote and produced new season of Arrested Development

It's been ten years since Fox meta-comedy Arrested Development thrust a 15-year-old Michael Cera into the spotlight as the adorably awkward George Michael Bluth.

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Sat May 11, 2013

Sackville Tribune-Post

Mount Allison/ MFC's first BSc aviation class takes flight

Pictured are members of Mount Allison University's first bachelor of science in aviation class Justin Dwyer and Ish Patel.

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Fri May 10, 2013

India Talkies

Indo-Canadian MP's proposed bill set to become law - Indiatalkies.com

Toronto, May 10: A bill proposed by an Indo-Canadian member of Canada's parliament to make recruitment of youths in criminal gangs a crime has secured the support of the country's justice minister and is set to become a law.

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Thu May 09, 2013

The Globe and Mail

Slaughter Nick for President: From star of cheesy cop show to Serbian cult hero

Rob Stewart as Nick Slaughter in the Canadian TV series Sweating Bullets, known outside the country as Tropical Heat.

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The Globe and Mail

Wynne rejects NDP's time frame demand for auto insurance cuts

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne appears before the legislature's justice committee at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on April 30, 2012.

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The Brampton Guardian

Queen St is the Downtown

The Four Corners of Brampton was the center of the old town of Brampton and although city planners have tried to expand the notion to include a bigger footprint called the Central planning area, concentration on the Four Corners seems to be the drift some members of council continue to support.

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