No charges in Megan Meier's MySpace Teen Suicide

While there may be no criminal charges arising from a group of adults who faked being a boy on myspace and culminated in the suicide of a 13 year old girl who was 'in love' with him, there's certainly no reason...

"Ocean" To Be Built In Arizona Desert

Suburban Mesa is to get its very own bit of the Ocean right in the middle of the Arizona desert. Mesa known as 'the Valley of the Sun' is just 15 miles east of Phoenix."A project reminiscent of Ski dubai - the...

Oaxaca Remembers Brad Will

"Oaxaca Remembers Brad Will October 29th, 2007 · No Comments As many as 20,000 people gathered in Oaxaca City on Saturday this weekend to remember Brad Will, the American journalist shot dead a year ago. The...

Two Of Six Surrey Murder Victims Were Innocents Caught In Gang Hit

Tuesday October 23, 2007 CityNews.ca Staff Details of a mystery that's captivated Canadians coast to coast came to light Tuesday, when police identified six men murdered in a suburban Surrey, B.C. apartment last week, adding two were not only victims of an alleged gang hit,...

Herbicide banned to protect compost

Hopefully people will not use the intervening 12 months to stock up their garden sheds."A group of councils and "green waste" companies has succeeded in persuading an environmental regulator to block householders'...

We Are Not Satisfied: Save Darfur!

I attended the Save Darfur Conference in Montreal this past weekend as a performer, but came away with so much more.  It quickly turned into a gig with a cause (which doesn't happen so much.) Baryl Wajsman,...

Local trains in Mumbai - A daily death trap?

   There used to be a time, not too long ago, when the local trains of Mumbai, or Bombay as it was called back then, had acquired a cult status, thanks to them being made popular thanks to Indian...

Web Time Stamps Indicate Nancy Benoit's Death Reported on Web at Least 13 Hou...

This is just getting more strange as time goes on.------------------------"An anonymous user operating a computer traced to Stamford, Conn. — home to World Wrestling Entertainment — posted an entry to pro...

FBI raids New Orleans film production company

"NEW ORLEANS -- FBI agents raided New Orleans' most prominent film production company, and a newspaper reported Saturday that federal investigators are looking into whether there were any bribes or kickbacks for Louisiana's generous tax breaks. Nobody at the Louisiana...

Progressive Pragmatism -- A Conversation With The Left

"Tonight in the United States, the wealthiest nation on earth, one in five children will go to bed hungry. If this sounds depressing, preachy, or moralistic that's because it is. The United States today exhibits...

Harper to Toronto: Find your own money

The Canadian Federal budget, announced yesterday, is being called a "rebuke" and a "slap in the face" to the municipal governments of Canada's cities, specifically Toronto. Along with shifting the focus away from...

Pole Dancing Parties in Suburbia

My gym offers a strip-aerobics class, but guys aren't allowed to watch. But that's not the issue here. Having once dated a girl with a pole-dancing history, I can attest to the athletic ability required to do it well. Hey, whatever gets people into fitness is fine by me, and...

Troops Died After, Not In, Sneak Attack

Last week, we learned that several US security contractors had been shot execution-style after their helo crashed north of Bagdhad. Now, details are emerging that the commando raid south of Bagdhad, in Karbala by insurgents using American vehicles, and wearing American...

Business good and bad for suspect in suburban prostitution case

"Lisa Ann Taylor's real estate career may be in jeopardy, now that she's accused of running a prostitution ring at her suburban Atlanta mansion, but business is booming for the adult entertainer who is preparing for sold-out audiences on a whirlwind exotic dancing tour. The...

Theatre serves the nation

"Theatre serves the nation Another year of the Prithvi theatre festival brings all of India to the stage. by | Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta Six decades ago, when Zohra Sehgal asked Prithviraj Kapoor why his traveling theatre company was called Prithvi Theatres, in the plural, he...

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