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When the sun rises on December 22, as it surely will, do not expect apologies or even a rethink. No matter how often apocalyptic predictions fail to come true, another one soon arrives. And the prophets of apocalypse always draw a following—from the 100,000 Millerites who took to the hills...

in my Apple:lol: CORRECTED-Apple's home-grown Maps leaves users lost | Reuters By Poornima Gupta (Reuters) - An entire city is in the ocean, a farm has been labeled as an airport, highways end in the middle of nowhere and a hospital now covers the entire center of British city...

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Freshly sworn in as Quebec Premier, Pauline Marois expressed her “firm conviction” that Quebec’s future is as a sovereign country. “A normal country that makes all its laws, decides for itself how to use its taxes and speaks with its own voice in the world,” she said Wednesday. The problem...

SOON AND BRIGGS: Global-warming fanatics take note - Washington Times Scientists have been studying solar influences on the climate for more than 5,000 years. Chinese imperial astronomers kept detailed sunspot records. They noticed that more sunspots meant warmer weather. In 1801, the...

I always thought it was a slow thing;-) A shark bite, sure. That's definite cause for terror amongst the world's ocean swimming lot. But Lillian Peterson wasn't swimming in an ocean. The 83-year-old was climbing out of the water after a dip in Virginia's Lake Barcroft when she felt an...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In 2008, Al Gore strode onto the stage at Denver’s Invesco Field to a hero's welcome, throwing his support behind Barack Obama to take on the "global climate crisis." When Obama takes the stage this week, Gore will be nowhere in sight...

Bob Is A Racist - YouTube

I am beginning to hope that someone strikes oil in a really big way in Quebec — and then moves to ship it south or west with a pipeline. Because it occurs to me that only the presence of oil in Quebec will move the federal NDP or its leader, Thomas Mulcair, to give their voice to what goes...

New film: The Boy Who Cried Warming Posted on August 29, 2012 by Anthony Watts From the producer: I wanted to reach out and inform you that the film was...

Looks like the grave digger and the cradle robber are not getting along8O Wife of Canadian senator arrested after disturbance on Saskatoon-bound plane SASKATOON — The 23-year-old wife of a Canadian senator appeared dishevelled and emotional as she sat in the prisoner’s box of a provincial...

YELLOWKNIFE - It might be too much to say Yellowknife is over the moon about NASA's decision to name a section of the red planet after the northern capital, but officials do have one question: Is it too late to attach one of the Northwest Territory's...

Look well O Wolves (of Google);-) IQALUIT, Nunavut -- The Canadian Coast Guard helped an Arctic expedition called "Students on Ice" get on its way this weekend after the students ended up with a lot more ice than anticipated. Over 100 students, teachers and guides had...

Hope none of you needs tech support;-) India power blackout leaves 670 million without electricity | News | National Post

Saws. The kind you buy at the hardware store to cut wood. That's what the play-group teacher dumped on the ground for 3- and 4-year-old kids to play with. Knowing that doing this, in the U.S., would result in the teacher being, at minimum, fired and most likely charged with child...

Bowing to criticism from the sports community on Monday, City of Toronto staff reversed a decision that barred two teen sport shooting champions from speaking at an Ontario Summer Games ceremony. In the wake of the Scarborough shooting last week, organizers thought it best that national...

Canadian National Canthem - YouTube

PINCHER CREEK, Alta. - An RCMP officer was driving down a forest access road in rural Alberta when he spotted something unusual among the trees — a drum set. "That's not something you see every day," Const. Doug Sokoloski said in an...

:lol: BRUSSELS (Reuters Life!) - Tourism officials on Belgium's coast are so upset about a long-term forecast for a rainy summer that they are considering legal steps against the weather service. The officials say a report by private weather bureau Meteo Belgique, which was...

Despite a recent poll surge that put the NDP ahead of the Tories, Thomas Mulcair’s party is now tied with the Conservatives, according to a new Forum Poll for the National Post. The poll has the NDP and Tories neck-and-neck with 35% of the national vote, with the Liberals on 19% followed by...