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Here are the most recent news stories posted for Moving In Canada:
Niagara Falls plunge survivor in stable condition(Posted:05/22/2012)
ON:: A man who is one of the rare survivors of a plunge into Niagara Falls is in stable condition in Hamilton General Hospital after a dramatic rescue on Victoria Day.
The man had climbed a retaining wall above the Horseshoe Falls at about 10:30 a.m. ET on Monday, witnesses told police.
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Water bomber battles forest fire in Deep Bight, near Clarenville (Posted:05/22/2012)
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Fraser Inst. says toll highways to pay for upgrades(Posted:05/20/2012)
Canada: Tolls are not unfamiliar ways to finance highway or improvements to the same. They are widely used in Europe. Here in Canada, Toronto was able to build the 407 express toll route through a public-private partnership and applied tolls to make it work.
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TCH near Bishop’s Falls to reopen after damaged trailer removed from highway(Posted:05/18/2012)
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State of emergency, travel ban, in southeastern Manitoba due to fire (Posted:05/14/2012)
MB:
The RM of Piney declared a state of emergency Sunday, giving it the power to close roads in the wake of two days of wildfires that consumed 30 square kilometres of forest over the weekend in the Sandilands Provincial Park.
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Clarenville mayor calls for overpass (Posted:05/13/2012)
NL: Clarenville Mayor Fred Best has renewed his calls for a new highway overpass following a fatal car accident near town on Thursday.
A woman died after the car she was riding in collided with a transport truck at the west entrance to Clarenville, where the highway intersects with Manitoba Drive
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On this day in 1870, Canada acquires Rupert's Land from Hudson's Bay Company(Posted:05/11/2012)
Canada: The lands draining into the Hudson's Bay, which incoprorate portons of Quewbec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchwan, Alberta, and today's Nunavut were acquired by Canada, just after Confederation for 300,000 pimds ($1.5 million). The land that covered 3.9 million square kilometres (1.5 million sq mi), is over one-third of Canada's area today. It was acquired following the Red River Rebellion.
Victoria Region's top traffic bottlenecks, as identified by BC Transit.(Posted:05/08/2012)
BC: The Greater Victoria Transit Commission agreed on Tuesday to look at ways to prevent buses from getting stuck in traffic on Douglas Street, the Trans-Canada Highway, the Island Highway, McKenzie Avenue and the Pat Bay Highway.
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Manitoba CAA Announces province's worst roads(Posted:05/04/2012)
MB: 7 of 10 in Winnipeg, plus various sections of the Trans-Canada highway #TCH
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Deadly interchange closing(Posted:05/04/2012)
AB: The family of a boy who lost his life in a car crash outside Calgary is praising the province for its plans to shut-down the intersection where the fatal collision occurred. The location is at Paradise Rd in Chestermere just east of Calgary.
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