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Lifestyle | Stores Toronto Dec ‘ 11


Store Ben Sherman Ben Sherman store’s slogan is “A heritage of modernism,” and the 2,600-square-foot space speaks to that mix with heavy knits, utilitarian outerwear and handsome accessories displayed on vintage furniture and walls of subway tile. Timings: Monday to Friday 11 am to 7 pm, Saturday 11 am to 6 pm, Sunday noon to [...]

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World’s largest Ronald McDonald House opens in Toronto


The world’s largest Ronald McDonald House opened in Toronto on Friday after six years of planning and construction. The “Home of Hope,” a place for ill children and their families, is located on McCaul Street near Sick Kids and Mount Sinai hospitals. The Ronald McDonald Foundation said it had “outgrown” its home on Gerrard Street, [...]

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Canadians rush to preserve veterans’ memories


They wallowed in the filth of the trenches, exchanged gunfire in European towns that became historical touchstones, and triumphantly returned home to lands far away from the wartime memories they spent years suppressing. Now they lie in graves oceans away from Flanders Fields, their accounts of life on the front lines of the First World [...]

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Daily events Toronto Sunday 13, November 2011


Benefit Potters Fall Show And Sale (Red Door Shelter) Presented by Toronto Potters. Nov 11, 1-9 pm; Nov 12, 10 am-6 pm; Nov 13, 10 am-6 pm. Free. Leaside Memorial Community Gardens, 1073 Millwood, torontopotters.com. Celebrate Life Luncheon (The Olive Branch of Hope Peel Region Outreach) Breast cancer benefit with live music by Jay Harmony [...]

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Life Style, 11 November 2011


*  Potters Fall Show And Sale (Red Door Shelter) Presented by Toronto Potters Location:- Leaside Memorial Community Gardens, 1073 Millwood, Time:-1pm-9 pm Website:-torontopotters.com. * Lioness Woman’s Club Gala:- Debut of the women’s networking club with      speakers, a three-course dinner and more. Time:- 8:30 pm. Location:- Chateau Le Jardin, 8440 Highway 27, Woodbridge, Website:- lionesswomansclub.com.

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Lifetime ban on gay blood donors should be lifted


A gay rights activist hopes Canada will change its lifetime ban on gay blood donors after Britain lifted its own such ban recently. *   It says you are all presumed to be disease carriers and we are not worthy to help other people in our society, *   It’s really quite offensive. If it had some [...]

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Prostate cancer awareness, Movember helps raise money


For the next 30 days, hundreds of thousands of men around the world will be putting down their razors and letting the fuzz on their upper lip grow wild, in support of Movember, an international fundraiser for prostate cancer. “We wear our ribbon on our face and it’s that ribbon that gets people to go [...]

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Study backs up science behind barefoot running


A study out of Philadelphia’s Temple University took a look at the science behind ‘barefoot’ running and found that the popular but super-thin glove-like shoes offer more flexibility than other shoes. Runner Hay Wan Chiu uses the shoes, with spots for each of his toes, when he hits the road. “It feels like you’re running [...]

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Party store set to reopen after explosives found


An Etobicoke party supplies store is set to reopen Monday after the discovery of some suspicious packages prompted a closure before Halloween. Police are trying to determine why and how explosives were found at the Amazing Party Store at 923 Oxford St., near the Gardiner and Islington Avenue. Members of the Toronto Police canine unit, [...]

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Will Halloween play a trick on your health?


Elaborate costumes and sugary treats are the primary focus on Halloween, but health and safety including the need for dental hygiene are also considerations for parents. When the little princesses and zombies arrive home with bulging sacks of candy and unload them on the kitchen table to count, sort and take delight in their haul [...]

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