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Toyota denies Prius recall coming
Toyota Motor Corp. Tuesday denied reports by the Wall Street Journal that the automaker plans to recall the Prius model involved in Monday's high-profile case of unintended acceleration in San Diego.
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School pop campaign in U.S. cuts calories
Sales of sugary drinks have fallen in the U.S., the result of an effort to tackle obesity, the beverage industry says.
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Minorities to rise significantly by 2031: StatsCan
About one-third of Canada's population - up to 14.4 million people - will be a visible minority by 2031, Statistics Canada projects.
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U.S. telemarketer wakes up Calgarians
A California telemarketing campaign had dozens of Calgarians jumping out of bed in the early-morning hours.
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Recall of tainted food additive grows
The list of processed foods being recalled because of salmonella fears continues to expand as authorities in Canada and the U.S. track down tainted products.
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Keep Amazon out of Canada, booksellers ask
The Canadian Booksellers Association is trying to block Amazon.com from setting up a distribution centre north of the border.
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Sex.com goes on auction block
Sex.com, a popular domain name on the internet, will be auctioned off in New York this month after its owners defaulted on debt payments.
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Tim Hortons busts gift card scam
A Surrey, B.C., mother and son have been charged with defrauding the Tim Hortons restaurant chain by using illegally reloaded gift cards to make major purchases.
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Rothesay man wins $1 million
New Brunswick's newest millionaire, Steven Hanrahan, of Rothesay, says he's still in shock about his Lotto 6/49 win and plans to take some time before deciding how to spend the money.
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Sony to start selling 3-D TVs in June
Sony says it will start selling 3-D televisions in June, joining a competitive industrywide push to convince consumers to embrace the technology for their living rooms.
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Ontario college students failing math: study
A new study shows a third of first-year college students in Ontario are in danger of not graduating because they flunked or barely scraped through their math course.
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Natural gas customers stuck with costly contracts
Thousands of B.C. residents who switched to new natural gas providers after deregulation are now paying significantly more than market rates and discovering they can't get out of multi-year contracts.
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Sandwiches short on veggies after freeze
Some restaurant chains are rationing tomatoes and green peppers because freezing temperatures in Florida have cut into supplies.
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Toyota rebuts engineer's claim about faulty electronics
Toyota gave detailed evidence Monday it says disproves claims that faults in the electronics used in its vehicles are behind the acceleration malfunctions that led to the recent recall of more than eight million cars and trucks.
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Flatscreen TVs should have energy labels: FTC
Mandatory EnergyGuide labels are being proposed for all televisions sold in the United States in an effort to give consumers more information about the energy cost of watching TV.