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A story from the AP makes one wonder about how silly some schools are:

I'll make it things you did or didn't do, so that I cover myself: Great idea; I'll jump in with the bravado aquired from a bottle of Bordeaux: 1 Drove while over the limit (didn't get caught, but it was stupid) 2 Got a girlfriend pregnant 3 Didn't stand up for my wife when I should have 4...

From today's Toronto Star: A leading astrophysicist who has worked on space missions claims that he and his colleagues are in contact with extraterrestrials who are "living among us." And they don't like what they see. Latchezar Filipov, head of the Space Research Institute at the Bulgarian...

With all the discussions about Trudeau and 'his' Charter, I thought it would be interesting to see what people think about Ontario's 'stunt driving law'. It's blatantly unconstitutional - you can go to jail for 6 months and are not allowed to present a defense. Ontario is still in Canada...

Warning to all young men out there - a frustrated cougar could be a dangerous creature. (from cbc.ca) An 11-year-old female lion is being removed from the Magnetic Hill Zoo after sexual tension between her and a young male turned to violence. Bruce Dougan, general manager of the zoo in...

So, Danny wants to develop the Lower Churchill hydro development. He tried to negotiate a power corridor through Quebec, but Quebec won't agree. So his alternative is to run an underwater cable to Nova Scotia, then power lines through NS to NB to Maine. Now, Hydro Quebec is going to buy...

Why do people start multiple threads covering the same old ground?

Saw the end of an interesting progam on PBS last night about Brooksley Born (chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Comission under Clinton. She tried to push for some regulation of the derivatives markets, but was thrashed by Greenspan and his pals, who convinced Clinton that no regulation was...

So, I was doing some digging on photobooks, and on another forum I came across a discussion on Blacks. Interesting, if you use Blacks to pmake your photo books, their terms of use give them the right to use YOUR pictures for anything they want, without compensation...

This will be an interesting story to watch - did he kill the cyclist deliberately? Ontario's ex-AG Bryant tied to fatal accident

Out of curiousity, what are people using for email clients on their Vista machines? I hate Outlook, so I never use it. I'm not too thrilled with the other Microsoft email offerings. I've always used Eudora, but I'm afraid I may have to change (shudder)...when my hard drive went kablooey, I...

I heard an interesting documentary last night from Australia about the Heimlich Maneuver, and Dr Heimlich. Despite his claims, there seems to be no proof that the maneuver is any better than the previous back slaps etc that were used to stop choking - in fact, in Australia, they specifically...

Anyone have any experience with hard drive recovery services? My home machine died - the HD will spin, and on startup you can hear the clicking as it tries to read itself, but nothing. I put it in an external SATA box, hoping I could get it to come to life and recover the files, but it...

Amazing story from today's Globe and Mail: Black belt teen strikes back at bully, and rallies community against racism JOE FRIESEN From Thursday's Globe and Mail April 30, 2009 at 4:21 AM EDT KESWICK, ONT. — The 15-year-old black belt thought he was doing his tormentor a favour when he...

even Don Cherry says you have no business playing in the NHL. Sean Avery, mature sage that he is, got a couple of stupid penalties last night that left even his coach shaking his head. But what I hadn't seen, until the highlights, was that at one point, when Ovechkin was down on the ice, Avery...

One of the shuttle flights from St John's to Hibernia/White Rose ditched this morning with 18 people on board. As far as I can tell, either one or two have been rescued, but no word on anyone else yet.

I looked around, and my Canada is gone. Sure, there's traces here and there, but somehow, it got lost. Why do I think so? Hi, I'm a youth jail guard. I want to make sure that you know that if you decide to strangle yourself, in a cry for help, that we'll stand at your cell door, watching...

Well, I see the Hairy One has been given the unanimous boot.One thing I'm questioning, though: if I follow correctly (and there's no guarantee of that), he's being impeached and booted out of office simply because he's been charged by the FBI with corruption? Is that really why they've...

Okay, enough is enough. All Israel and Hamas, all the time? it seems like every thread is version 37 of the same pointless conversation. Give it a rest, already.

So I had to run out and buy a bottle of Lagavulin, Oban, and Talisker today....no Lagavulin in the liquor store; some woman came in last night and bought every bottle they had left. I did find it at another store, but there's only 5 bottles left. What is the world coming to? How are we...