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Monkey wearing coat and diapers found in Toronto Ikea parking lot

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A monkey wearing a shearling coat and diapers was found wandering around an Ikea parking lot in Toronto, reported the CBC. The monkey’s owner, who was shopping at the home and furniture store, put the monkey in a crate inside her car, but it managed to escape. “It’s a smart…

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Stage collapse in Toronto kills one ahead of Radiohead show

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MONTREAL — A man in his 30s was killed when an outdoor stage raised in a Toronto park for a concert of the British group Radiohead collapsed, police said. “Shortly after 4 pm, a partial piece of stage at Downsview Park collapsed,” a Toronto police spokesman said. “There is one…

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‘Canadian Psycho’ arrested in Berlin

This image obtained from the Montreal Police Department shows Luka Rocco Magnotta. The murder suspect dubbed the "Canadian Psycho" has worked as a bisexual porn star, as a gay prostitute called "Angel," and is an alleged kitten killer with a string of fraud convictions. (AFP Photo/)

The murder suspect dubbed the “Canadian Psycho” has worked as a bisexual porn star, as a gay prostitute called “Angel,” and is an alleged kitten killer with a string of fraud convictions. Luka Rocco Magnotta, accused of chopping up his lover and filming the attack before mailing body parts to…

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Watchdog blasts ‘excessive’ policing at G20 Toronto summit

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OTTAWA — Canadian police used “excessive force,” ignored civil rights and made “unlawful” mass arrests in cracking down on unruly protests at a G20 summit in Toronto two years ago, a watchdog said Wednesday. Gerry McNeilly, head of the Office of the Independent Police Review Director, in a scathing 300-page…

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