CFL Week 7 Review....Week 8 Preview

CFL Week 7: Review Thursday, August 7 -Toronto Argo’s stunned by visiting Ti-cats 45-21 the east gets a shade murkier no Lumsden, no Printers, 508 total yards from  scrimmage? -Calgary knocked off the...

Montreal riot result of pent-up anger, community worker says

Opinion Barry Artiste. Now Public Contributor Certainly until answers come from the Police, pent up anger over the murder of a teenager will continue. The family of the victim demanding answer, with the sister...

Victim's sister condemns Montreal North riots

Opinion Barry Artiste. Now Public Contributor Certainly a sister who is now thrust into the spotlight to defend herself in the riots in which she had no part but felt a responsibility to comment on the media,...

Montreal Riots: What's the root Cause in All this?

Opinion Barry Artiste. Now Public Contributor Certainly many arguments what are the Roots of the Montreal Riots, one Root I know plain and simple are people on the lookout for a riot to party and fill their...

Montreal Riots: Death brings "FREE STUFF, FREE STUFF" Looters get an Early Ch...

Opinion Barry Artiste. Now Public Contributor All I can say is, to many New Canadians during the Riots, a Human life is an opportunity for Scum of the worst kind to take advantage of Free Stuff. This rough...

Montreal Riots: The Aftermath after Police Shoot Teen Dead

Opinion Barry Artiste. Now Public Contributor This story is conjunction with Rob Peters story of a teen killed by Montreal police, and now the aftermath of the shooting, with riots taking place as this story...

Canadians deported after pro-Tibet protests in China

Not much to say about this one...more Canadians have been sent home after pro-Tibet demonstrations in China. Not exactly surprising. One of the deported Canadians, a spokesman for Greenpeace, says he wasn't...

One dead after Montreal cop opens fire on teens

Montreal Police have yet to explain why it was necessary for an officer to open fire on three teenagers in a Montreal park last night, killing one of them.Police said officers initiating an arrest were surrounded by about 20 youths before the shooting occurred, but an...

Kunstler Reviews Batman

"How appropriate, since we have become a cartoon of a society living on a cartoon of a North American landscape, that the deepest source of our mythos comes from cartoons. We're so far gone that real human emotion...

Chilling Police Radio Leak - Greyhound Bus Killer "Defiled Body with Scissors...

  The Canadian Press have confirmed the release of the police tape in which it was claimed the alleged killer, Vince Li, cannibalised the body.    " TORONTO — A chilling...

84-year-old Quebec man bikes his way to Olympics

84-year-old Albert Leblanc from Maria, Quebec, biked 800 km from his native town to Montreal to catch a plane to Beijing, from where he will bike again to the Olympic Bird Nest Stadium. It won't be the first time...

The difference between farming and gardening

An interesting post from the Urban Farmer, one of the Vancouver Sun's blogs.  As a novice gardener I'm pretty easily impressed with my own mild victories in the backyard.  But as Nick Read points out,...

Free and open, the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Popular University

Starting on September 9th, 2008, a Popular University will open it's doors in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. On the model of the French Université Populaire, as proposed by French Philosopher Michel Onfrey, it will offer...

National Bank Financial Group Recovers Used Tennis Balls

I'm all for recycling, but this seems a bit strange to me.  National Bank Financial Group is encouraging the public to bring in their used tennis balls as part of an environmentally conscious act in which...

Hijacker returns to Croatia after serving 30 years in USA

 A Croatian terrorist has been granted parole and will be deported to his homeland after serving 30 years of a life prison term for hijacking a plane and planting a bomb that killed a policeman. " Zvonko Busic, 62, came back to a warm welcome from several hundred...

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