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GRAVENHURST — There’s already a lot of buzz building about the third semi-annual Muskoka Chainsaw Carving Event. Organizer and local carver John Kerr already has 14 fellow artists lined up for the Feb. 17-19 event when sawdust and the zing of saws will h

The grandson of Jewish immigrants from tsarist Russia, Sir Zelman Cowen, who has died aged 92, became the master of an Oxford college, chair of the British Press Council, professor of law and governor general of Australia. He is best remembered for resto

Shoppers walk along Regent Street after it and Oxford Street were closed to vehicle traffic for a pre-Christmas shopping weekend in London December 11, 2011. Long dismissed as "Little Englanders" living on the fringe of politics, Britain's vocal band of

Public opinion is starting to move in that direction too. An Ipsos MORI poll in October found 49 percent of British voters would choose to leave the EU in a referendum, compared with 41 percent who would vote to stay in. A similar poll in 2007 found 51 p

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