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  1. karrie

    Backlash Grows in Camrose Cat Case

    While I understand people's anger and frustration, some of the violence suggested, the hate speak, and the idea of targeting the families of these kids, just doesn't sit right with me. I applaud the man who started the discussed facebook group, for trying to get it taken down...
  2. karrie

    Nine Injured on Air Canada Flight.

    Apparently you want to keep that seat belt on, even when they say you don't have to. A 20 meter drop is pretty extreme. edmontonsun.ca Jan 10. CALGARY — Nine people on board an Air Canada jet were hurt — some seriously — Thursday morning when their flight from Victoria to Toronto...
  3. karrie

    A change in terminology: "Non-life threatening injury"

    edmontonsun.ca Hillier may cut term 'non-life-threatening injuries' Thurs. Jan 10 HALIFAX — Canada’s chief of defence staff says he plans to stop using the term “non-life threatening injuries” to refer to soldiers who survive attacks but are left with severe and often debilitating...
  4. karrie

    Edmonton's Valley Zoo's latest addition

    The latest addition to the zoo, a baby gibbon born one month ago. So cute! http://edmsun.canoe.ca/VideoBeta/?fr_story=92c90de6760fec8f2c81cb3292239419b26e9d08&rf=bm
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    Cuckolded husband awarded damages

    750,000 dollars in damages for cuckolded husband Mon Jan 7, 7:08 PM WASHINGTON (AFP) - A Mississippi...
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    Body found outside duplexes

    Police investigating suspicious death outside north Edmonton townhouse By GLENN KAUTH, SUN MEDIA...
  7. karrie

    Ottawa threatens to fire nuclear safety president

    Ottawa threatens to fire nuclear watchdog head Last Updated: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 | 3:35 PM ET CBC News The federal government has threatened to fire the head of Canada's...
  8. karrie

    Woman wins law suit against her drug dealer

    Sask. woman wins legal battle against drug dealer Last Updated: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 | 5:49 PM CT CBC News A Saskatchewan woman who says she nearly died from an overdose of crystal meth is claiming a legal victory over the man she claims sold...
  9. karrie

    Anti-kosher view = Antisemitic?

    Okay, I have to ask. We have the thread running right now in which a new member is complaining about having to pay for kosher food as it is so prevalent where he lives in Montreal. He doesn't want his hard earned dollars going to a religious organization without his having consented to it, and...
  10. karrie

    IOC prepares to crack down on gene doping

    IOC hopes to crack down on 'gene doping' in 2010 Updated Sun. Jan. 6 2008 9:01 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff The International Olympic Committee is hoping a test will be available to expose the next generation of athletes who engage in gene doping. "Gene therapy--molecular based medicine--is...
  11. karrie

    Crown May Appeal Pickton Verdict

    ctv.ca Crown may appeal Robert Pickton verdict Updated Mon. Jan. 7 2008 12:35 AM ET The Canadian Press VANCOUVER -- The B.C. Attorney General's department will announce as early as Monday whether they will appeal Robert Pickton's second-degree murder conviction in the death of six...
  12. karrie

    More news on the Camrose Cat Cookers

    edmontonsun.com One of the four Camrose teens accused of microwaving a cat to death is on probation for setting his own brother on fire earlier this year, his mother told Sun Media yesterday. None of the kids allegedly involved in the heinous Dec. 30 cat-cooking can be identified because...
  13. karrie

    Avalanche survivor may be charged

    B.C. avalanche survivor could be charged: police Updated Thu. Jan. 3 2008 2:36 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff RCMP in Whistler, B.C. say criminal charges could be laid against a 21-year-old snowboarder who survived an avalanche that killed a 29-year-old skier on New Year's Day. Both men were...
  14. karrie

    When does pro-choice become pro-abortion?

    I hear the term bandied about all the time. Pro-choice. It speaks of empowerment. It speaks of a woman's rights. But at what point is our country no longer a 'pro-choice' country, and merely a 'pro-abortion' country? To me, that fine line is crossed when we refuse to stand up for the...
  15. karrie

    The movie "Enchanted"

    Anyone with small kids who enjoy fairy tales... go see this movie this holiday season. It's a guaranteed hit, and full of chuckles for the whole family. My husband, daughter, son and I all went today and all enjoyed it. Laughed through the whole thing. The overly optimistic world of fairy...
  16. karrie

    A special kind of grinch

    It takes a special kind of grinch to attack children's dreams at Christmas, but one of the Canada Post volunteers writing Santa letters has done just that. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/071214/odds/odd_badsanta1_dc Talk about the king of grinches!!
  17. karrie

    Saturn's rings older than first thought?

    Saturn's rings older than first thought? Updated Thu. Dec. 13 2007 8:21 AM ET The Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- Saturn's shimmering rings may be as old as the solar system, scientists said Wednesday, debunking earlier theories that the rings were formed during the dinosaur age...
  18. karrie

    CSI Miami: exercises in imagination

    For pete's sake. I can't stand CSI:Miami. And after the opening for tonight's show, where assorted gun runner vanish into mists of gun and debris, presumably assassinated by the new Metal Storm gun (they call it the 'vaporiser'), I just couldn't bear to watch any further. The physics of their...
  19. karrie

    To gift or not to gift

    Okay, so, our gift list this year off the top of my head... hubby's family.... 2 grandparents, 5 neices. my family.... 2 nieces, 1 brother+girlfriend, 2 grandparents, hostess gift for sister, gift exchange, santa gifts for kids, mom and dad gifts for kids, kids gifts for kids, kids gifts to...
  20. karrie

    Should the US brace for another attack?

    If conspiracy theorists are even patially correct, and 9-11 was allowed to happen, or brought about by the american government to justify the Iraq invasion, then why is no one (or perhaps I'm missing it), voicing concern over an impending terrorist attack to cement the invasion of Iran?