quote [ Toronto's iconic shopkeeper turned theatre impresario and philanthropist, Ed Mirvish, has died at the age of 92. ]

quote [ While most people are raising a toast to Canada on July 1, Quebecers will be hoisting sofas, tables and boxes. ]

quote [ Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn spent almost $150,000 on rental aircraft flying around Quebec last year but didn't declare any of the flights as a travel expense, documents show. ]

quote [ Administration officials acknowledged in February 2006 that they were ill prepared to coordinate and distribute foreign aid and that only about half the $126 million received had been put to use. Now, 20 months after Katrina, newly released documents and interviews make clear the magnitude of the troubles ]

quote [ A leading Moscow university ordered its foreign students on Thursday to remain in their dormitories for the next three days because of fears of ethnic violence before Adolf Hitler's birthday, students said. ]

quote [ Civilian deaths from insurgent attacks in Afghanistan increased dramatically over the past 15 months, and many were the result of insurgents’ failure to respect the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. ]

quote [ What we see on our television screens does not demonstrate even one per cent of the reality of the atrocity of Iraq today

—Andrew White, Anglican vicar of Baghdad ]

quote [ Citing unnamed sources, the Globe and Mail reported Thursday that two million Visa credit card accounts in Canada and 20 million Visa cards globally have been affected. ]

quote [ A 13-year-old boy who vanished from a gravel road in Missouri five days ago was found alive Friday in a house near St. Louis, along with a 15-year-old boy who had been missing since 2002. ]

quote [ Montreal police have surrounded several buildings at Concordia University's western campus following reports of an armed gunman Tuesday morning. ]