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EDMONTON — James Roszko was a ticking bomb primed with a murderous lust for revenge long before he shot and killed four RCMP officers on a lonely Alberta acreage, says a forensic psychologist. "He was so revenge-oriented and he had for so many years been fantasizing about killing a police...

TORONTO - The first shipments of the H1N1 vaccine have already reached the provinces and territories to allow local health officials immediate access to the vaccine once it is approved, an official with the Public Health Agency of Canada said …

This is pretty cool! Clerk Kathelean Jordan, who was born blind, points a pen-like doohickey at a tiny label on a tin can and smiles broadly as it correctly announces, "Heinz Pork and Beans." The doohickey is called the PenFriend and it's the star attraction at the newly opened CNIB store on...

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This is an email I received today. Can you buy "Canadian"? Hello, I think this one is worth passing on…especially since the USA is preaching to their citizens to buy American. It is time we Canadians see the light! Subject: Fw: 1 bulb at a time. A physics teacher in high school, once...

Mondays and Tuesdays I look after my grandkids. Today my eldest son called to say that he himself had been exposed to Swine Flu. In the first couple of seconds of the call I felt he was over-reacting. I cont'd to listen. Last Thursday one of the guys working on his house was not feeling too...

You don't have to believe in God to appreciate the beauty here: http://www.greatdanepromilitary.com/Colors/index.htm

I was reading an article from yesterday's paper. It was in regard to keeping your business up and running in the wake of a pandemic which appears almost a certainty right now. Some of their suggestions were things like: Hold tele-conferences rather than board meetings; wash your hands...

The next time you take your children to the doctor for an ear ache or injury, it's probably a good idea to get their blood-pressure taken, advises Dr. Sheldon Tobe. As a spokesman for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and father of a 10-year-old daughter, Tobe says there's more reason...

This should bring major debates. Marijuana's painkilling properties are being called into question by new research that suggests the drug can amplify and prolong pain rather than relieve it. A study published in the current issue of Science suggests prescribing marijuana for pain relief...

Charisse Pempengco duet with Celine Dion or http://piperoo.multiply.com/video/item/23/Charisse_Pempengco_duet_with_Celin

I have cousins living in Lillooet, B.C. We have of course been worried about what may happen to them and their home. Anyone else with family in the areas that are being evacuated? Here is a letter my cousin sent this morning. I cannot imagine being in their place. Hi, Just wanted to let you...

OTTAWA - Some economists and small business leaders fear Michael Ignatieff is trying to revive employment insurance reforms that proved disastrous to the economy and Liberal political fortunes 38 years ago. The Liberal leader is pushing the minority Harper government to adopt a single national...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is declaring the recession essentially over in Canada. The central bank says the economy will expand by 1.3 per cent during the summer months after three straight quarters of sharp contraction. The new forecast puts Canada at the front of the line of countries that...

There was a chart here but it broke down into one very very long post that was difficult to read.

There's not much national pride to be drawn from a new poll published just in time for Canada Day. The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey suggests the country knows little about its own history - even its most recent history. Only 42 per cent of respondents knew Canada had three territories -...

This is a problem that has plagued me over the past 10 - 15 years. I used to be shy and never said much of anything. Then one day someone said to me "you talk so much" and I felt so hurt. For a number of years I felt two things about those words. First I thought she was obnoxious for saying them...

I would like to see one change. Threads disappear off the page much too quickly. Sometimes not quickly enough but that's the way it goes. I would like it if the names of the topics such as Club CC; Canadian Cafe etc. etc. were listed across the top of the page just as they are. Clicking on them...

Car makers, dealers, urge feds to help people buy more cars at 10:10 on June 5, 2009, EDT. THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Car makers and dealers are urging the federal government to spend $350 million to get people to scrap old clunkers and buy new vehicles. They say the government should offer...