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• Owners of cruise ship aground in Nunavut plan salvage operation

  The Clipper Adventurer, shown on August 29, 2010, operated by Mississauga, Ont.-based Adventure Canada, became grounded on an uncharted rock Friday, August 27, 2010, while on an Arctic expedition.

• Parents peeved girl can't take school bus

  A Mississauga couple is disputing regulations and distance calculations that will keep their daughter off a school bus.

• Civil suit ends after 24 years

  The McLaughlins. Bruce McLaughlin, one of Mississauga's most important developers, is seen here with his wife Patricia at the Trillium Health Centre where the hospital's foundation announced a $1million gift donated by the McLaughlin family in honour of Patricia McLaughlin's birthday.

• Curvaceous Condos - The 'Absolute Towers' Project Impersonates Marilyn Monroe

  There's nothing the GTA needs more than some softness and femininity in its superstructures, and the 'Absolute Towers' in Mississauga, Ontario, will achieve just that.

• Cruise ship runs aground in Nunavut

  A Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker has arrived in western Nunavut to help remove about 200 passengers and crew from a cruise ship that ran aground Friday night.

• Cyclist struck by Mississauga transit

  A 45-year-old cyclist was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition after being struck by a Mississauga transit bus Thursday evening.

• Aging at Home program gets $11-million funding

  Oakville seniors who receive extra services at home or in long-term care facilities rather than hospitals are benefitting.

• Canadian PM visits Mississauga BRT corridor groundbreaking

  The long-planned Mississauga Bus Rapid Transit corridor is underway a ' finally.

• Toronto on radar as worst in Canada for speed traps: Online survey

  Canada's most populous city also has the country's largest number of speed traps, according to an online survey from the National Motorist Association , which lists the "Worst North America Speed Trap Cities, by State and by Province." Photograph by: GN, GN TORONTO - Canada's most populous city also has the country's largest number of speed traps, ...

• Councillor offers $1,000 reward

  Destroyed. Some 20 newly planted trees were vandalized along Falconer Dr. between Matlock Ave.