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    Montreal protest deemed illegal after Molotov cocktails thrown

    Authorities cracked down on thousands of protesters, many of them students, flooding downtown Montreal near the Berri-UQÀM metro station Friday night after Molotov cocktails were thrown. As many as 10,000 people attended a march against an emergency law passed by the government to end the...
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    N.J. man jailed after bank teller accidentally gives him an extra $2,700

    A Burlington County man was put in jail after he didn't return money mistakenly given to him by a teller while cashing a check at a bank, according to a report on PhillyBurbs.com Felipe S. DePadula, 27, of Riverside is charged with receiving stolen property after a teller at Delanco Federal...
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    Antarctic ice shelves have not been changed in a significant way

    At my age it's cold everywhere. :lol:
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    Antarctic ice shelves have not been changed in a significant way

    Oh fuk...I forgot about the models.
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    Judge tosses Etobicoke Centre federal election result

    TORONTO - A judge has thrown out Conservative MP Ted Opitz's 2011 election win in Etobicoke Centre after a challenge by Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyj. If the Ontario Court of Justice ruling delivered Friday is appealed it will be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada. The case represents the...
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    Antarctic ice shelves have not been changed in a significant way

    New paper using RADARSAT data: Antarctic ice shelves slowed down – “…have not been changed in a significant way in the past 12 years” A new paper published May 15th in the the journal The Cryosphere utilizes 12 years worth of RADARSAT data to determine the rate at which some well known...
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    US Navy ships collide in the Pacific

    D'oh! The collision between the assault ship USS Essex and the oil tanker USNS Yukon occurred about 120 miles off Southern California during a refueling exercise, according to a statement. The Essex was approaching the Yukon to get in position to be refueled when a steering...
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    More growing own food to save cash

    Nearly a third (31%) of all British adults now grow their own food while 64% of those interested in growing their own say it would be to save money, the study for the City of London found. Celebrity chef Raymond Blanc and actress Joanna Lumley are launching the City of London's one-off £2...
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    RCMP arrest 23 people in Portage drug sting

    Portage la Prairie. That's right. Geez. An RCMP bust targeting street level drugs in Portage la Prairie has led to the arrest of 23 people and police hunting for two more. The arrests took place Wednesday, after months of investigation dating back to...
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    You may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

    You may find yourself in a strange burial plot, wearing a stranger's clothes. And you might say, these are not my beautiful clothes. And you may ask yourself, how did I get it here? But probably not because you are dead WHITTIER (CBS) — The family of a woman who was mistakenly buried in...
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    Minute Maid wins 'Pomegranate Blueberry' case

    Minute Maid labels beverage 'Pomegranate Blueberry' despite only having 0.3% pomegranate juice and 0.2% blueberry juice. Judge: Drink up Minute Maid can keep labeling one of its beverages "Pomegranate Blueberry" even though it's made up almost entirely of apple and grape juices and contains...
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    Florida lowers passing grade for state writing exam

    The Florida Board of Education voted unanimously to lower the passing grade for a state writing test after complaints from educators that the state pushed through tests with inadequate time for teachers and students to prepare, the News-Press out of Fort Myers, Fla., reports. The educators...
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    Loser wants state to help pay his child support

    That's 30 kids. Desmond Hatchett of Tennessee is pleading with the state to help him pay for child support he simply cannot afford. Hatchett, 33, has 11 different "baby mamas" and the state of Tennessee says there is nothing that they can do to limit him from having more children. WGCI...
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    Montreal mayor's associates nabbed in probe

    MONTREAL -- Police arrested nine people in an anti-corruption sweep that nabbed several former key members of Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay's inner circle. With Thursday's dragnet, the corruption scandals that have rocked Quebec...
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    800-year-old cedar taken from B.C. park

    A giant 800-year-old red cedar tree has been poached from a provincial park on southern Vancouver Island, but the culprits who repeatedly returned to the site to hack it down may never be brought to justice. Torrance Coste of the Wilderness Committee said consistent budget cuts over the...
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    Now THAT is scorn

    Angry ex-wife puts hate for husband on display :lol: SUPERIOR, Wis. - It's not unusual for a divorce to end in anger. But a woman who lives in Superior, Wisconsin took things to a new level this week with a traffic-stopping gesture that was carried out at the expense of her ex-husband...
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    More PC madness

    An official at the U.S. Naval Academy strongly is urging officers to no longer refer to the exercise “Indian runs” as such in order not to offend Native Americans, according to a series of emails sent from the academy’s equal opportunity adviser and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon...
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    64 lbs of mercury found on Craigslist

    ST. PAUL, Minn. (KMSP) - The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency was able to capture 64 pounds of mercury that a Craigslist seller found in his late grandfather's garage. Someone in Floodwood, Minn., posted an ad to sell the 64 pounds of elemental mercury for $650. An alert...
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    Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme

    Long before GM pulled its $10M in advertising from Facebook, I lost my faith in the platform. As an online media buyer for American Apparel, I had cut the majority of my spend each month for the preceding 12 months. From the time that Facebook stopped serving banner ads through Microsoft to...
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    Florida says more than 53,000 dead people on voting rolls

    The Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. -- Florida is calling on county election supervisors to remove more than 53,000 dead people from the state's voting rolls. State officials this year checked Social Security files and concluded that people...