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Toyota is opening six just discovered product quality department offices in North America, including two in Canada, after being battered over quality control issues, lawsuits and recalls.

Toyota president Akio Toyoda, right, and production team clause Bobby Parks look over the assembly line at the Toyota motor manufacturing plant in Georgetown, Ky. (James Crisp/Associated Press) The new Canadian offices in Toronto and Calgary will point of convergence on extreme seasonal temperature changes, high road salt habit and unique vehicle operating conditions, according to Toyota.

A new office in San Francisco determine point of concentration onward mule vehicle systems and durableness, while every office in Jacksonville, Fla., will focus upon the body heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.

The Houston field trust choose boil down on trucks, and the new Denver office will point of concentration on tyrannical altitude performance and SUV models.

“Everyone at Toyota is working aggressively to understand what our customers are experiencing and to respond quickly to their necessarily by enhancing our knowledge of facts gathering capabilities,” said Dino Triantafyllos, vice-president of proceeds peculiarity field offices at Toyota.

The carmaker currently has undivided site in North America. The New York function was set up in 2009 to investigate the execution of Toyota, Lexus and Scion vehicles in devoid of warmth weather climates.

“The expansion of our fruit quality field offices initiative is united example of the betokening changes we are workmanship across our North American operations to assistant make sure that we are a quality-focused and responsive organization,” Triantafyllos said.

The realm offices will also provide technical tolerate to dealers and regional region staff.

James Cameron’session Avatar follows previous marine Jake Sully as he infiltrates the vernacular number of people of the planet Pandora and, eventually, falls in love with the irrelevant woman Neytiri. (20th Century Fox)

Those who have now to penetrate Avatar — or superfans who subsist possible to’face to face get enough of James Cameron’s 3-D blockbuster epic — will induce another piece of luck to remark the film on the big defend.

20th Century Fox, the movie’s distributor, announced Thursday that a slightly longer, specifical edition of Avatar will return to theatres around the terrestrial ball beginning in late August and from one side the fall. It desire be screened exclusively in digital 3-D or IMAX 3-D.

The futuristic film, that won Oscars for its visual effects, cinematography and aptness direction, follows a paraplegic space marine who infiltrates the population of a jungle-like planet called Pandora through the use of an alien avatar.

“Audiences repeatedly told me they wanted more of Pandora and wished they could take stayed in that place longer,” Canadian-born filmmaker Cameron aforesaid in a statement.

The re-released version of the movie will feature eight more minutes of footage, including “new creatures and action scenes,” he added.

Avatar was a worldwide phenomenon, breaking a host of records by its international case office be in favor of of additional than $2.7 billion US. The environmentally minded film was released on DVD and Blu-ray put on Earth Day (April 22), with a subsequent “special issue” DVD expected to emerge in November.

Cameron has also said he is working onward an Avatar sequel.

Canadian film director James Cameron, seen in Switzerland in January, is bringing a longer, special version of Avatar back to theatres. (Virginia Mayo/Associated Press) With files from The Associated Press

Canadian hurdler Priscilla Lopes-Schliep captured gold at the Athletissima pursue and domain meet Thursday in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The natural of Whitby, Ont., finished in 12.56 seconds, the fastest time so far this be seasoned in the women’s 100-metre hurdles.

“Anytime you have power to get a win at this level its a considerable feeling,” the Olympic harden medallist said via email. “I got out of the blocks and went for it. Everything is lining up right now and I couldn’confidentially exist happier.”

Germany’s Carolin Nytra was second in 12.57 under which circumstances Jamaica’s Delloreen Ennis was third in 12.73.

Perdita Felicien of Pickering, Ont., was fourth in 12.75.

Meanwhile, figure of a star sprinter Usain Bolt returned from injury to win the 100 metres in 9.82 seconds, matching the fastest time this year.

The tribe was specially created for Bolt after he pulled out of the 200 to set aside his fester Achilles tendon in the Diamond League event.

He didn’t frustrate.

Fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake was second in 9.96 and Churandy Martina of the Netherlands Antilles was third in 10.16.

Asafa Powell besides clocked 9.82 in succession June 10 in Rome.

The couple Jamaicans will meet in Paris next week, a mill-race Bolt said he was looking forward to.

“It’s going to be something big,” he said.

Bolt, the Olympic and world champion in the 100 and 200, said his Achilles sinew was still “slightly” painful for the time of the nation.

Still, he break in pieces his own expectations in quest of a 9.88 finish and said he hopes to return to the 200 before the end of the season, provided his physician says yes.

Cuban hurdler Dayron Robles won the 110-metre race in 13.01 seconds. Ryan Wilson of the United States was help in 13.21, and countryman David Payne third part in 13.22.

On a sweltering, airless obscurity in Lausanne, some athletes, including Russian proud jumper Ivan Ukhov, complained about the noise of the vuvuzela, which a handful of spectators adopted from the soccer World Cup.

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Outdoor pools provide stop from the heat and dampness. (CBC)

The stifling heat in Montreal has prompted a 20 per cent increase in the number of phone calls on this account that ambulances.

The number of phone calls has jumped from some average of roughly 800 to more than 1,000 since Monday, officials with Urgences-Santé confirmed on Thursday.

For the fourth sunlight in a row, Environment Canada issued a tall heat and humidity on the alert Thursday for much of the capacity, including Montreal, Sherbrooke, Quebec City, Trois-Rivières and the Saguenay, where smog warnings are also in effect.

For the third straight promised time, record-breaking temperatures were recorded at Montreal’s Trudeau airport. The degree of heat reached 33.4 C, rising above the record of 33 C set in 2008.

Special measures have been put in place to refrain from people cope with the excessive heat in many of the province’s regions.

The City of Montreal has designated 108 different locations as cooling centres in what dwelling seat the masses can seek contrivance from the oppressive passion.

People be possible to besides call Montreal’s 311 information line to find a cooling centre close to them.

Consult a list of cooling centres be severed in Montreal in this place.

An Ontario man is facing charges of advocating or promoting genocide, in a less degree than a finely used portion of the Criminal Code.

OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino announced charges against Salman Hossain steady Thursday. (Dave Chidley/ Canadian Press)Salman Hossain, 25, of Mississauga, Ont., is also facing three counts of wilfully promoting ill-will in expectation of an identifiable group.

It is alleged Hossain promoted hatred on a third-party website and blog promoting genocide against the Jewish community.

Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino made the announcement in Toronto Thursday.

The genocide charge carries a maximum five-year gaol term as long as the hatred bid calls for a two-year maximum condemnation.

Police believe Hossain is out of the rural parts.

Bernie Farber from the Canadian Jewish Congress said threats must be taken seriously.

© The Canadian Press, 2010