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  1. VanIsle

    I'm so glad I don't live in Calgary

    SNOW for May 27, 2010! What ever happened to planting your garden May 24th weekend??? CALGARY - The forecast for Calgary and area quickly became a lot whiter Thursday night with a snowfall warning issued by Environment Canada. The agency is predicting that 10 to 20 centimetres of snow will...
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    Recipes featuring Ground beef

    Taco Salad: Ground beef (lean or extra lean) 1 Pkg. taco seasoning Cook as per package instructions. There are two ways of making/eating this. Make a regular tossed salad then add the above mixture and some broken up taco chips and a mix of grated cheddar and mozza cheese plus the most...
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    Bureaucrats eyeing online forums to correct misinformation

    The next time you post an opinion in an online forum or a Facebook group message board, don't be surprised if you get a rebuttal from a federal employee. The government is looking for ways to monitor online chatter about political issues and correct what it perceives as misinformation. The move...
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    "Bartin" Alternate Theories Rants...just keeping them together....

    re: "Bartin" Alternate Theories Rants...just keeping them together.... I don't know what this is about because I don't feel like taking the time to read it. However, if you do genealogy, from time to time you get requests to have your DNA checked to see how it matches up with possible others...
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    Assembling a new barbeque

    Ours is nothing like that. We BBQ all year round. In this moist climate that means our BBQ has to be replaced about every 3 years. I don't like side burners so we avoid those and too many BTU's simply mean a lot of charred food. We have learned over the years that we should not buy the expensive...
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    Assembling a new barbeque

    We just bought a Master Chef a couple of weeks ago. I don't know which model and I'm not about to uncover the BBQ to find out. Bought it at Home Depot and paid $35.00 for it to be assembled. It was well worth it. We do that (burner off on one side) with chicken and with roasts on a spit. I do...
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    Gov't revamps pardon system

    "It's not in the business of forgiving": OTTAWA - New federal legislation tabled by the government would do away with pardons for criminals and replace them with harder-to-get ''record suspensions.'' Some criminals, those convicted of sex crimes against children or those with three or more...
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    Duceppe says it's up to NFLD whether it wants to leave Canada

    ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador has a strong nationalist history and would have to decide whether to follow a sovereign Quebec out of Canada, says Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe. Duceppe was talking separation in St. John's on Wednesday where opposition to the Meech Lake...
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    One down and Afghanistan to go!

    Canada has completed its nearly two-decade peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, where around 40,000 Canadian troops have served. The closing ceremony was held Monday at Camp Butmir in Sarajevo for the nine remaining Canadians. The first Canadians came as U.N. military observers in 1991. Canadian...
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    Wrongful Dismissal

    What do you know about wrongful dismissal, particularly in BC? I have a friend whom I believe was wrongfully dismissed from their job. Has anyone here been through this and if so ----- what did you do about it?
  11. VanIsle

    9/11, an inside job?

    Maybe it depends on what you get sent to you Juan. All the mail I have received regarding this issue clearly shows the towers falling straight down or imploding. Naturally at some point there is some debris from other areas but generally, all you notice is a complete drop from top to bottom...
  12. VanIsle

    9/11, an inside job?

    An explosion - not an IMplosion.
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    9/11, an inside job?

    Film footage appears to show the buildings imploding rather than expoding. The planes gave the image of them exploding to try to give credence to the idea that it was just caused by the planes.
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    Canada Post wants to truck mail to Vancouver

    A Canada Post proposal to truck mail from Victoria to Vancouver for sorting and then bring it back here for delivery will lead to job losses and service delays on Vancouver Island, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers warned yesterday. Union spokesman John Bail urged the public and elected...
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    Potato recipes

    The flour is only there to thicken your sauce. Juan is quite right. The flour gives it a more milky creamy look but there certainly isn't anything wrong with using corn starch or Tapioca starch. If you add cheese no one will ever notice the difference anyway.
  16. VanIsle

    Potato recipes

    My recipe is much the same as yours Juan but - I add the cheese to the sauce first because the sauce really is just an ordinary white sauce anyway. The next best thing to do though is to add the potatoes to the cheese sauce and heat them through before you put them into the casserole dish for...
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    Avalanche strikes Revelstoke Snowmobilers

    REVELSTOKE, B.C. - Rescuers were scouring a remote mountain in the Rocky Mountains into the darkness Saturday night after an avalanche struck a large gathering of snowmobilers, killing at least one person and leaving an unknown number missing. RCMP said said a dozen people were injured in the...
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    Break through in Hodgkins Lymphoma

    As always - I hope this works. If it doesn't, it's on the Telus home page. The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has hailed BC Cancer Agency-led research as the Hodgkin’s lymphoma “breakthrough we have been looking for” because it can predict which patients can be cured and which ones...
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    Buy American Exemption for Canada

    I know it's a copy and paste but it's not that long of an article. OTTAWA - The federal government confirmed Friday it has struck a deal with Washington that would protect Canadian industry from Buy American provisions. International Trade Minister Peter Van Loan and Foreign Affairs Minister...
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    Credit/Gift Card Theft Warning

    Recently, I had a customer come through my till very near closing time. I had watched her and her partner come through the doors about 15 minutes before closing time and groaned the usual groan that anyone does when people come in that late. They did a very quick shop. I believe we had already...