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CFL Declares Vancouver Host City of the 2011 Grey Cup

    CFL commissioner Mark Cohan announced Friday that the 2011 CFL Championship will be held in Vancouver's BC Place. This will be the third straight year that the Grey Cup will be hosted in Western...

Getting to the Root Cause of Grey Hair

  The New York Times had a story this week about President Obama going grey just 44 days into the Whitehouse job.  It happens to the best of them, but it seems that his has been turning incredibly...

Ireland too grey for the burqa

"Women wearing burqas in cold countries risk broken bones from vitamin D deficiency Muslim Women wearing veil  by Colin Gleeson MUSLIM women who wear the burqa in Ireland are at increased risk of pelvic...

Ministers plotting to oust Met police chief Sir Ian Blair, report says

According to reports, UK ministers are planning to request that the Metropolitan Polive commissioner of London to step down, after he has been embroiled in a series of controversies including accusations of institutionalized racism within the department."Ministers, officials...

African Grey parrot who speaks like a Dr Who Dalek

"Leonard, an African Grey parrot, imitates noises made by people and things around him and has developed perfect comedic timing, say his owners, Maya and Ian Brandt."

Man loses fight to keep painted flag on garage door

If he had just put the ol' Maple leaf next to it, he'd be ok. " MONTREAL _ A Quebec superior court told Theodore Antonopoulos last week that he had to remove the large Greek flag painted on his garage door. ...

Grey Britain has more pensioners than children

"Pensioners outnumber children for the first time as more and more people live longer, new figures show. The fastest-growing pensioner group is the over-80s, who are benefiting from improved diets and healthcare. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show...

Facebook tramp leaves £34,000 in unclaimed pension money

Tramps - real tramps with long beards who look, well look like tramps should look, are often loved and hated in the same measure and become someone to look out for. This tramp had a large facebook following and...

Berlin's 30th Annual Gay Pride Parade

Starting in 1979, Berlin's Gay Pride Parade, also known as "Christopher Street Day" was inspired by Gay pride gatherings in New York City.  Today was the 30th annual parade, packing the streets and heading...

N. Korea destroys nuclear tower

" YONGBYON, North Korea - North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program Friday, blasting apart the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor in a sign of its commitment to stop...

MP calls for mass squirrel cull

I have yet to photograph a red squirrel.I am not convinced that culling grey squirrels will solve the current problem and I would much prefer to see other solutions such as supplying red squirrels with additional...

Berlin: Memorial to the Nazis' gay victims

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly this gesture a long time in coming, shows Germany's desire to make amends to past atrocities that today are still being practised today in what is supposed to...

Squirrelburgers!

It would seem that a new food craze is afoot in Britain: squirrel meat. To what extent, though, is this a marketing thing? I don't know anyone in the UK who has tasted squirrel. At any rate, squirrels aren't...

And The Spoon Ran Away With ...???

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know if someone told me they discovered a Black Hole and a Parallel Universe, and it was in my dryer, I would honest to God believe them, no questions...

Visit to Montreal of the Emden was a coup for the Nazi regime

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorIn 1936,the first post WW I German Warship to come into service as the Nazi Regimes flagship Emden paid a visit to Montreal in time for Germany's 11th Olympiad. ...

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