Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach have pledged to get to the bottom of what happened to allow more than 500 ducks to get trapped in an oil sands tailing pond in northern Alberta. ...
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Update May 02, 2008: Brenda Martin returned home today from a Mexican prison, and now is on Canadian soil, arriving quietly at Waterloo International airport to a regional women's institution,where it is said she...
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What exactly makes for a good record store? Is it a certain elegant insouciance on the part of staff? A deliberately lo-fi yet charming decor? An overwhelming potpourri of dusty record sleeves?The folks over...
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OpinionBarry artsite, Now Public ContributorCertainly the question that begs answering is, how come he wasn't deported on his first serious criminal offence. This would have prevented a Rape of a woman. ...
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A 17 year-old girl was on her way to the back of the school bus to go to school yesterday morning in Rimbey, Alberta, when the bus was struck by a gravel truck and she was ejected from the bus and died from her injuries. Her name was Jennifer Dawn Noble and she dreamed of...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCanada's anti smoking ban may be the Prison reform needed to rehabilitate criminals who smoke. Die hard Convicts with a die hard cigarette habit may think twice next...
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Turns out Vancouver's countless Lulu Lemon lovers aren't wearing all that bum-enhancing workout gear for show--Vancouver really is the healthiest city in Canada, according to Best Health Magazine.Vancouver always...
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A cruel and tragic case of deja vu. A toddler has now survived two deadly plane crashes in five months."Five people died Friday morning when a small airplane owned by an Edmonton engineering company crashed while travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg.""The wreckage was located...
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"EDMONTON - Murray Balsom was trying to launch a weather balloon when a huge fireball burst across the sky over his small Arctic village of Resolute."This was humongous," he said of the gaseous light show he...
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The Defence Department is advising Canadian soldiers not to post personal photos and information on social networking websites like Facebook, citing security concerns.
An ice sculptured Bugs Bunny was awarded with $2,000 at a simple contest held in Edmonton, Canada. One of the guys who created it made $10,000 from ice sculpturing so far. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1054493/bugs_bunny_2000/
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One has to wonder the mentality of Liquor manufactuerers and Customs officers who allow such stupidity to hit our shores.
" Talk about tequila shooters.
Cops are pledging to hammer down hard on anyone else dumb...
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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
John Manley's report of the dire straits Canadian Troops are in fighting in Afghanistan, certainly shows other NATO countries imbedded in Afghanistan are not...
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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
I am certainly not one to bring up the past, but since I was a student of Military history, I felt this story important, especially for those today who take freedom...
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