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One Canadian soldier dead, five injured in roadside bomb blast
Repatriation ceremony will be Monday afternoon
The war mission in Afghanistan has taken the life of another Canadian soldier and injured five others. Corporal Nicholas Bulger, 30, was travelling behind his senior commander on Friday when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device.
Jul 03, 2009 - 02:56 PM
DURHAM/NORTHUMBERLAND -- The war mission in Afghanistan has taken the life of another Canadian soldier and injured five others.

Corporal Nicholas Bulger, 30, was travelling behind his senior commander on Friday when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device.read more
Calling all smokers
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Boy, 15, charged in Pickering sex assault
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Ajax student overcomes personal challenges Video
DURHAM -- Growing up, Drew Mastromartino often cried himself to sleep. As a deaf boy raised in a... read more
Illegal trash piles up in Pickering (0)
Jul 03, 2009 - 04:30 AM
PICKERING -- Cathy Bitondo lives in Pickering but believes she's being affected by the Toronto garbage strike. The 61-year-old said the land she and her husband own in north... read more
Vandalism destroying the dignity of downtown Whitby
Jul 03, 2009 - 04:30 AM
WHITBY -- Two months ago David Crabb was torn out of his sleep by an unsettling phone call from the police in the middle of the night, alerting him his store window had been... read more

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