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If you're searching for new reading material, and up for some feisty competition to help you decide, look no further than the literary version of Survivor — better known as Canada Reads. 
The annual weeklong debate starts Mar. 25 and pairs famous Canucks with a Canadian book of their choice as they duke it out to select a winner.
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A 22-year-old man is the victim of an armed kidnapping in Markham, Ont., York Regional Police say.
Wanzhen Lu was forced into a vehicle by three men in the underground parking garage of a condo building at 15 Water Walk Dr, in Markham, shortly before 6 p.m.
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Due to weather, Nunavut Emergency Management workers have temporarily paused the search for Ambar Roy, an 18-year-old Ontario university student who was reported missing while visiting his parents in the Nunavut capital more than a week ago.
On Friday, emergency management workers searched the Road to Nowhere area with snowmobiles, calling off the search after dark for safety reasons, according to an RCMP news release.
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Brampton, Ont., residents are "livid" over a decision by the federal government to move a woman with multiple convictions for sexual assaults against small girls to their city, Mayor Patrick Brown said. 
Peel Regional Police issued a community safety advisory on Friday about Madilyn Harks, formerly Matthew Harks, alerting residents that she now resides in the Brampton area.
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MONTREAL -- A 26-year old man has been charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of a Catholic priest during morning mass at Montreal's St. Joseph's Oratory on Friday.
Vlad Cristian Eremia, who appeared in a Montreal courtroom via videoconference Saturday afternoon, is also charged with assault with a weapon for allegedly attacking the Oratory's 77-year-old rector with a knife.
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MONCTON, N.B. -- An overdue book is finally back at the public library in Moncton, N.B., -- 63 years after it was borrowed.
Librarian Chantale Bellemare says a senior was cleaning his house and discovered the volume of Relax and Live, a self-help book for relieving tension and getting better sleep.
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Police in southwestern Ontario have arrested one suspect and are searching for another after a man said he was bound, beaten and confined in a basement for up to 20 hours.
Police in St.
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CALGARY -- Police in Calgary say an officer shot a man when police responded to a report of an armed home invasion.
Officers arrived at the scene early Saturday and say they found two men allegedly attempting to flee in a vehicle.
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PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. -- Four men and a woman have been charged with first-degree murder in a death in Saskatchewan.
Police in Prince Albert say a 22-year-old man was found in critical condition by officers responding to an assault-in-progress call at a downtown apartment building Friday afternoon.
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CALGARY -- Police in Calgary say an officer shot a man when police responded to a report of an armed home invasion.
Officers arrived at the scene early Saturday and say they found two men allegedly attempting to flee in a vehicle.
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Two people are in hospital after a tractor-trailer in Calgary crashed into a concrete median and burst into flames.
Calgary police said the tractor-trailer was travelling on Stoney Trail near Country Hills Blvd. around 11 a.m.
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Premier Doug Ford says mainstream journalists have become irrelevant because social media allows him to speak directly to Ontarians.
The Ontario premier told a conference of conservative thinkers, strategists and politicians Saturday that journalists are "losing the battle" to inform people about the news.
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