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Three new picks to make your life more interesting The Gadget Zone By James Careless – In line with the New Year’s tradition of losing weight, the folks at TomTom have slimmed version of their portable in-car navigation system. The ...

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Toronto Police should discard sound cannons as gesture of good faith

Toronto Police Services Board should deny Chief Bill Blair’s request tomorrow By Dylan Penner – The Toronto Police Services Board should deny Chief Bill Blair’s request tomorrow to buy the controversial sound cannons that the federal government lent them for ...

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Internet radio, smartphone-Ipad keyboard, snow shovel

The Gadget Zone By James Careless – Your regular dose of cutting-edge consumer high-tech to ward off the winter blahs!   Internet radios are receivers that can tune to the thousands of stations on the Web, via an Ethernet or ...

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Does Toronto really want a financial centre?

It would bring some of the worst people on earth to our city and pressure for more neocon deregulation of the financial scammers. Below, see former top banker Nomi Prins explain how they run the government. By Frank Touby – ...

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Will Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame open the door for cricket?

‘Today, cricket in Canada is experiencing renewed popularity. Immigration in the 1970s sparked new interest in the sport and participation is increasing’ By Chris Redford – Ask Canadians who Frederick Heather is and the universal response is, “I never heard ...

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The Gadget Zone. 3 cool items to warm you up!

Do you ever need to take a scanner with you, to copy documents into your laptop? If so, then check out the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100. About the size of an baguette (but only 11′ long), the uber-small S1100 can scan ...

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RRSP Checklist and Tips

10 RRSP tips from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario By Dana Newton – RRSP Checklist •    The RRSP deadline is March 1, 2011. •    To qualify as a 2010 deduction, contributions to your personal or spousal RRSP must ...

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CEO pay an outrage as Canadians grow poorer

‘This handful of elite CEOs pocket the equivalent of the average Canadian wage by 2:30 pm on January 3’ By Trish Hennessy – Canada’s best-paid 100 CEOs breezed through the worst of the recession with earnings 155 times higher than ...

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Can Toronto avoid becoming a police state?

The land of my birth, where I was educated, in whose army I served, has become a police state, abandoning the high-minded principles under which it was founded. It has demolished its once-sacred Constitution and is sponsoring a continental tyranny ...

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