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Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla says she has been tailed by supporters of rivals and subjected to other forms of harassment as she seeks re-election in the Brampton-Springdale riding. Dhalla said that the campaign is one of the nastiest she has ever been involved with. "I suspect these acts are...

Help! I've stripped a 3GP file off a blackberry and converted it to an avi file for use on other media devices. However, I get an error message telling me I'm missing the proper codec to run the avi file. It might be the cheap (free) converter I downloaded. Has anyone on CC ever come...

The balladeer was in fine form last night at the Jubilee Auditorium. At 62 years old his voice is stronger than ever. What a treat to hear his songs done with just an acoustic guitar and vocals. Thumbs up Mr. Browne.

Trapped drunk driver opens another beer as awaits rescue You might as well go down drinking I guess. Drinking and driving is a very serious offense and I don't want to make light of the subject but man this guy really didn't give a damn. I suppose he could argue he wasn't driving when he...

VanIsle, the Master Chef S480 has the quad burners, flame tamers and electric start...ar ar ar. I've already curled the vinyl siding on house with the heat from this thing. You can't approach the unit unless you have a hazmat suit on and fire retardant oven mitts. Welders goggles are also...

I sold my old BBQ 3 years ago when I moved out here to Alberta. We never bothered to buy another until yesterday. I assembled the Master Chef S480 from Canadian Tire last night. I worked late into the night and I got the darned thing together with only 4 screws left over. We had our first...

There's some exciting stuff coming down the pipe. The projector/camera is a neat idea. Not so sure about 3-D TV. Good bye cable TV....hello internet streaming. Video Boxes, ‘Notbooks’ and E-Books to Dominate Gadgets in 2010 | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Hiroshi Sugimoto has taken some interesting photos by sending up to 400,000 volts through film onto a metal table. Arts: Japanese Photographer Bends Electricity to His Will | Magazine

Bus driver attacked over fare Third assault in five weeks has ETS operators more cautious than ever, says union president Edmonton - Bus drivers are looking over their shoulders more often following the third attack on a transit...

I came across this interesting website today. Where did all this stuff come from? The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts The Bible tells us that God created Adam and Eve just a few thousand years ago, by some fundamentalist interpretations. Science informs us that this is mere fiction and...

PM apologizes after wrongly attributing quote to Ignatieff By THE CANADIAN PRESS L'AQUILA, Italy — Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized to his chief political rival Friday, after attacking Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff for comments he never made. "During my press conference I attacked...

SNC-Lavalin To Design Algerian City Contract could be worth up to $500M for the engineering firm.

There's no gorilla warfare going on at the Calgary Zoo. Photographs taken after a keeper accidentally left a knife in the zoo's gorilla enclosure appear to tell a menacing story. One shows a gorilla, named Barika, clutching the blade in her black, hairy hand, seemingly pointing the sharp end...

Report exposes 'endemic' abuse of Irish children DUBLIN (AFP) - Sexual abuse was "endemic" in boys' homes in Ireland and church leaders turned a blind eye to it, according to a report Wednesday on mistreatment in church-run institutions dating back to the 1930s. The head of the Catholic...

Shrimp could be 'canary' of climate change Fishery HALIFAX RICHARD FOOT Canwest News Service The survival of northern shrimp -one of the most important players in the food web of the North Atlantic - could be jeopardized by climate change, says a group of...