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A city report says Toronto is not short on homeless shelter spaces despite recent protests decrying the lack of beds. Members of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) camped out in Metro Hall last week to demand more spots for homeless people. But Mayor Rob Ford said the city's...

Whoever came up with the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" was a damn fool. For what can we actually glean from the photo of Toronto mayor Rob Ford and former mayoral candidate Sara Thomson at an event in Toronto last Thursday night? From my view, just two benign bits of...

The Nova Scotia man who captured dramatic video of a deer being rescued from the ice on Antigonish Harbour says he’s surprised the footage is attracting so much attention. “I am shocked,” Ian Waugh told CTV’s Canada AM in a phone interview Thursday morning. “But I just happened to be in...

For decades, mice have been the species of choice in the study of human diseases. But now, researchers report evidence that the mouse model has been totally misleading for at least three major killers -- sepsis, burns and trauma. As a result, years and billions of dollars have been wasted...

Chris Dorner at Feb 4, 2013 9:14:04 AM Last Resort From: Christopher Jordan Dorner /7648 To: America Subj: Last resort Regarding CF# 07-004281 I know most of you who personally know...

via 5FF and Mark Steyn: I’ll say it again. After all these years, I still haven’t actually seen the “white supremacist” writings of Marc Lemire. Not that I’ve looked that hard, but you’d think if they were really so dangerous they’d have effortlessly risen to the surface, given the amount of...

via 5FF As usual: the real story is in the (500+) comments A teenage girl–an honor student who had just performed at President Obama’s inaugural–was gunned down Tuesday afternoon in the Kenwood neighborhood [of Chicago], just blocks from the high school she attended. 15-Year-Old Girl Shot And...

Geezus h. Outrage grows over ‘racist’ cowboys and Indians party held at Toronto bar Outraged Torontonians banded together on Saturday night to descend on a “racist party in full swing” at a Parkdale bar: A “cowboys and Indians” gathering complete with war paint and faux headdresses. The...

These obvious partisan media scumbags are obvious. All of them. via sda Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors...

How could it not succeed? :lol: Sex toys for seniors. Donald Trump. A bombastic former felon possessed of a British peerage. All of this may be storming onto Canadian TVs by springtime, when a new weekly show for older viewers co-hosted by the former media mogul Conrad Black is slated to...

Some interesting bloggerism: The way a person speaks, their vocabulary, and their cultural practices will tell you, in very general terms, something about them. Even certain aspects about their physical appearance, such as whether they are unkempt or well-groomed, if their clothes are neat...

via sda The NDP's Apartheid Ruminations If there were a referendum in Canada, asking whether all citizens should be treated equally or whether...

Cute piece from Five Feet of Fury So who’s the broad? Meet Deborah Coyne, seen here at Trudeau’s state funeral with her love child by PET, standing next to the PM’s infamous ex-wife (and former Rolling Stones groupie turned bipolar drunk driver) Maggie and her kids, including Coyne’s future...

From Fark: Would-be carjackers to their victim: "What's this third pedal for?" ORLANDO, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 ORLANDO) - A Corvette owner said he was almost carjacked at gun point, but the would-be thieves ran away, because they couldn't figure out how to drive his car. It was just...

In the classic film To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch shoots a rabid dog that threatens the neighborhood. In 2010, my governor shot a coyote threatening his dog while jogging in Austin (not surprising given our coyote problem in Texas). It was in this tradition of protecting others that...

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Some insight into the great man's speaking fees, contract rider clauses and other sad tidbits. :lol: video: Saint Suzuki CBC Fruit Fly Guy "Have you selected the female students to escort Dr. Suzuki?" Holy crap...

Scientists have stored audio and text on fragments of DNA and then retrieved them with near-perfect fidelity—a technique that eventually may provide a way to handle the overwhelming data of the digital age. The scientists encoded in DNA—the recipe of life—an audio clip of Martin Luther King...

via LiveLeak: World's highest resolution video surviellience platform by DARPA. 1 million terabytes a day saved forever. The ARGUS array is made up of several cameras and other types of imaging systems. The output of the imaging system is used to create extremely large, 1.8GP...

via bcf "The Sun News Network believes in free enterprise, just like Sun Media newspapers do. But unlike the newspaper business, the TV business isn’t based on free enterprise. In fact, it’s one of the Canadian industries most regulated by the government. Everything from what channels are...