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BY CANDLELIGHT: MP for Parkdale-High Park Peggy Nash (left) joins a throng of people gathered at the end of the Earth Hour candlelight walk Saturday in Roncesvalles. Another walk took place in Bloor West Village to celebrate the hour of no power. See photos page 3.
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For the first time in two months, Eva Szeman can finally rest
easy. Her sister Judy, who went missing on Jan. 27, was found two months to the day she disappeared, Friday, March 27.
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With days to go before the deadline to apply for a seat on a special advisory committee offering recommendations to Metrolinx after the removal of the Davenport Metrolinx says Diamond 10,000 invites rail crossmailed through ing, a local Canada Post resident said he and many others have yet to receive an invite. Metrolinx announced last month it was mailing out 10,000 invitations to residents to join a special panel to offer recommendations on what to do with lands following the Diamond’s removal which would become available if the provincial transit planning agency replaces the crossing – considered one of the continent’s busiest rail intersections – with a 1.5-kilometre bridge spanning from north of Bloor Street to past Davenport Road in order to elevate Barrie line GO train traffic over that of C.P. Rail’s. The panel is only tasked with >>>THOSE, page 6
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