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An eight-year-old BMX athlete from Abbotsford, B.C., has become an online sensation and won an award from the camera company GoPro for a video he made of himself riding a bike.
In the 90 second video, the GoPro camera faces Rex Johnson’s face as he provides a running commentary of a ride with his friend Jack, capturing his open-mouthed and wide-eyed facial expressions as he barrels down the track and tackles jumps.
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OTTAWA - Paramedics say five people were taken to hospital with apparent drug overdoses on the first day of Escapade, an electronic dance music festival in Ottawa.
The Ottawa Paramedic Service says one of the patients was in critical condition and another was in serious condition on Saturday.
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BAMAKO, Mali -- When Canada's first peacekeepers to this West African nation arrive at their new home Sunday, they will find a country riven by rampant poverty, internal divisions and strife -- but where sprigs of optimism exist.
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GAO, Mali -- About a dozen Canadian troops landed at a UN base in Mali this morning, marking the official start of a yearlong mission to the West African nation and a new era in Canada's long history of peacekeeping.
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Five people were taken to hospital to be treated for overdoses on Saturday during the Escapade Music Festival in Ottawa. 
Paramedics say one person is in critical and another is in serious condition because of overdoses involving GHB, a common street drug, which has the potential to be fatal.
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TORONTO -- Swaths of Toronto will burst with colour today as LGBTQ revellers hit the streets for the Pride Parade against a backdrop of tensions between the community and the city's police force.
More than 120 groups will march along the downtown route in this year's parade -- but uniformed officers won't be among them.
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