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Carlsberg, in Copenhagen, has recently released a 10.5% beer, at the price tag of $400 a bottle. Frankly, I can't imagine spending that, ever. No matter how many lotteries I win. I'd feel guilt every time I, literally, pissed away that $400...

It takes a special kind of freak to attack someone in a wheelchair.

Had Ali Mohammud known he'd be living in a deep freeze during winter, he wouldn't have moved to Edmonton. "It's very cold and chilly, I just want to go home," said the 23-year-old, who moved to Edmonton from Mogadishu, Somalia, three months ago. "I wished that I...

It's a valuable lesson that one Beaumont man learned the hard way. "Even though you buy insurance, you get a pink card, you pay the monthly premiums, you may not be insured," said Fred Davis, 54. Davis' insurance debacle began on Christmas Eve, when his son...

It might be hard to pronounce, but a Nigerian name meaning "God has made me happy" was too good to pass up for one Alberta family. Their son was the only one among nearly 25,000 boys born in Alberta last year to be named Oluwatimilehin. His name was among those of...

My frustrating phrase of the day.... "The weather is being blamed for an accident on highway...." No. No NO NOOOO. The weather is not to blame. The weather is never to blame unless it's a freak storm that pops up out of nowhere, grabs your car, and flings it into another car. Sure, it's...

SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian girl spontaneously changed blood groups and adopted her donor's immune system after a liver transplant, in what doctors treating her said Thursday was the first known case of its type Demi-Lee Brennan was aged nine and seriously ill with liver failure when she...

According to a news article I read this morning, a group of Baptists who objected to the film 'Brokeback Mountain' are intending to picket the funeral of its recently deceased star, Heath Ledger, to espouse their view that he died because of his participation in the film, and will now be resting...

Girl, oh boy Pregnant teenagers may not be taking their situation seriously enough By TANYA ENBERG Everywhere you look, women are either...

So, I tried to merge the threads about the palestinians crossing the border into egypt, and mucked it up, merging the POSTS, instead of the THREADS. Grrrr. If anyone cares to start one new thread on it, we'll try to sort out comments and get it back up and running, and delete my mistake...

edmontonsun.ca CROWSNEST PASS -- A paramedic used to saving the lives of others found himself having to eat rotten meat and fend off coyotes and wolves to ensure his own survival in rough Alberta bush country. Ken Hildebrand was riding his all-terrain vehicle as he collected animal traps...

CALGARY -- Amid predictable applause, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall told a Calgary business audience yesterday that his province has no intention of raising royalty rates in the oil and gas sector. Just hours into his first official trip to Calgary to drum up oilpatch investment dollars, Wall...

Listen up, Big Oil By NEIL WAUGH, Sun Media...

I don't know if I've really brought it up here much before, but, I was scared to have my babies in a hospital. Once I found out that the hospital in the town where I was delivering had a 30% cesarean rate, alarms went off in my head. My first child was born in the hospital, but with a doula...

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Okay. So, I don't follow politics as well as I should. This I will readily admit. But, I couldn't help but laugh at the attack ads against Ed Stelmach that have been airing lately. "Too many Albertans are still without regular doctors." "Surgeries are delayed." "Why doesn't Ed Stelmach...

A 12 year old boy has confessed to beating his infant cousin to death with a bat while babysitting, because she was crying while he was watching tv. But the 17 month old's parents don't believe their nephew really killed their daughter, and are petitioning the courts for leniency for him. more...

edmontonsun.ca By FRANK LANDRY It must have been quite...

Just incase New Years weight loss attempts hadn't already depressed you. By BROOKES MERRITT, SUN MEDIA...

I had a friend who was bitching a while ago about the damage that 'urban sprawl' does to the environment. I nearly choked on my coffee. And since hearing this, I've realized it's a notion a lot of people have... that large urban centers are more hard on the environment than having everyone...