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    CRTC changes rules for cellphone cancellation fees

    CRTC changes rules for cellphone cancellation fees By Cassandra Drudi, QMI Agency Canadians will soon be able to cancel their wireless contracts after two years without paying any cancellation fees and travel with their phones without fear of returning home to a shocking data-roaming...
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    Crash Taxes

    Brantford driver surprised by post-crash fire truck bill TORONTO - Brantford resident Kevin Maguire was on his way to a business meeting in Mississauga in April when everything went pear-shaped. It was a bright, sunny day. The weather was good and everything was going well. Travelling east...
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    Bureaucracy At It's Finest

    Canadian relief for Moore tornado victims denied at border A Canadian shipment of relief goods bound for storm-ravaged Oklahoma has been stopped at the Canada-U.S. border in Windsor, Ont. American officials will not allow the 20,000 kilograms of food, blankets and diapers into the country...
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    Men's Chorus Covers........

    .....Fat Bottomed Girls. Cottontown Chorus - Fat Bottomed Girls - YouTube :D
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    Those Darned Slacker Kids

    Battery invented by teen could charge cellphone in seconds Running out of juice for your mobile device has to be one of the biggest problems that smartphone and tablet users face during their day. Now, a California teen has come up with a way to save you from a dead phone in just 20 seconds...
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    I Guess They Didn't Have Anything More Important to Do.

    EU finds time to tell restaurants how to serve olive oil By Charlie Dunmore BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Critics ridiculed European Union bureaucrats on Saturday for taking time off fighting the euro zone's debt crisis to impose strict new rules on how restaurants serve olive oil...
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    Water found below earth's surface could be a billion years old

    Water found below earth's surface could be a billion years old By QMI Agency Scientists have found a source of water 2.4 km below the earth's surface near Timmins, Ont., that's believed to be at least a billion years old. The water was found by geochemists...
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    Daughter evicting veteran from home he built

    Daughter evicting veteran from home he built By QMI Agency A 91-year-old war veteran is being evicted from the Ohio house he built and has lived in for 56 years after signing over his power of attorney to his...
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    Wife pleads for Hamilton man's safe return

    Wife pleads for Hamilton man's safe return HAMILTON - It’s just a truck. Sharlene Bosma looked into the cameras and with tears streaming from her eyes and a flash of anger in her voice pleaded with the men she believes took her 32-year-old husband Tim. All for his 2007 Dodge Ram 3500 diesel...
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    Children of missing women sue serial killer Robert Pickton

    Children of missing women sue serial killer Robert Pickton By Tyler Orton, QMI Agency VANCOUVER -- The children of four women who disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside while Robert Pickton prowled the...
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    Students build robotic locker opener for disabled classmate

    Students build robotic locker opener for disabled classmate No rockets or egg drops for these students. A pair of seniors at a Michigan high school used their school's resources to build something more useful: a device that allows a disabled classmate to open his locker with a simple...
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    The Good News is it's not Horse Meat this time!

    Rat meat sold as lamb in latest China food safety scandal; top court beefs up food safety laws BEIJING, China - Chinese police have broken up a criminal ring accused of taking meat from rats and foxes and selling it as lamb in the country's latest food safety scandal. The Ministry of Public...
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    'Exhausted' parents leave autistic son at government office

    'Exhausted' parents leave autistic son at government office Unable to get enough help from social services, an Ottawa family says they had no choice but to leave their son — who is living with severe developmental delays — in the hands of the government. Amanda Telford said she brought her...
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    Kids re-enact shocking news events in controversial photos by Canadian photographer

    Kids re-enact shocking news events in controversial photos by Canadian photographer Ottawa photographer Jonathan Hobin doesn't shy away from controversy nor divisive politics. He has received death threats and accusations of pedophilia for his latest photo exhibit, "In the Playroom," but this...
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    Murderer walks away from prison, grabs a taxi

    Murderer walks away from prison, grabs a taxi By Nathan Taylor, QMI Agency ORILLIA, Ont. — Cops have arrested a murderer who walked away from prison over the weekend and hailed a taxi to a casino...
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    Loblaw to compensate victims of Bangladesh collapse

    Loblaw to compensate victims of Bangladesh collapse Loblaw has said that it will provide compensation for the families of victims who worked at the Bangladeshi garment factory that collapsed last Wednesday leaving more than 380 people dead and hundreds missing. The company, whose Joe Fresh...
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    Nurse earns over $315,000 by working overtime

    Nurse earns over $315,000 by working overtime MONTREAL — A part-time nurse at a Montreal hospital has earned over $315,000 in the past year through overtime and bonuses, raising questions about workloads, staffing and hospital spending priorities. The nurse at Jean-Talon hospital made...
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    Omar Khadr to appeal terrorism convictions, will walk free if successful: lawyer

    Omar Khadr to appeal terrorism convictions, will walk free if successful: lawyer TORONTO - Omar Khadr's lawyer says the former Guantanamo Bay detainee plans to appeal his terrorism convictions. Dennis Edney says if the appeal is successful, the Toronto-born 26-year-old will walk free. Khadr...
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    What Price Freedom?

    A bleeding ulcer and nerves shot to hell? Fugitive on the run for 14 years turns himself in By Brendan O’Brien, Reuters An Oklahoma fugitive who escaped from a county jail 14 years ago while being held on charges of murdering his ex-wife and her boyfriend...
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    Susan Griffiths’ appointment with death

    Susan Griffiths’ appointment with death: Ailing Winnipeg woman commits assisted suicide in Switzerland Susan Griffiths kept her appointment with death on Thursday. The 72-year-old Winnipeg woman who went to Zurich, Switzerland to seek final relief from a horrifying disease that was slowly...