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  • One-billion-year-old water saltier than seawater

    University of Toronto scientists have found pockets of water that had been sitting 2.4 kilometres underneath the Earth's surface for more than a billion years. Earth sciences professor Barbara Sherwood, who admitted that she had tasted it from time to time, revealed that the water has the consistency of maple syrup and is much saltier than seawater, News.com.au reported. She told the LA ...

  • Two Canadian cities in search of ‘good government’

    The Week in Politics In Canada, these films confirmed that we in what used to be called the "peaceable kingdom" were somehow morally pure, at least in comparison to our American neighbours. Really?Where are the Canadian film and television producers, especially the ones in Quebec, to portray what's been going on for years and years in that province's municipal politics? And ...

  • Mixed reviews for Ottawas new open data website

    launch of the federal government's revamped data.gc.ca portal . Treasury Board President Tony Clement touted the revamped site, calling it Canada's "new natural resource." But that new window into federal data tables, statistics and other information available online is getting mixed early reviews and arrives at the same time as the government faces controversy over just how ...

  • Missing terns on Machias Seal Island baffle researchers

    For 150 years, terns have always come back to Machias Seal Island, but researchers are trying to find out why they are no longer returning to the tiny island located between New Brunswick and Maine. Arctic terns and common terns, two species of seabirds that use the island for nesting, have not been using the bird sanctuary since 2006. Researchers are trying to explain why the birds stopped ...

  • Gatineau promotes itself with free shuttle service

    Restaurant owner Eric Gaudreault, seen here riding the new free shuttle service, says Ottawa residents and public servants don't know about the hidden gems across the river. (Christine ...

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Fists in the Pocket (I Pugni in tasca) [DVD]

Fists in the Pocket (I Pugni in tasca) [DVD]

The provincial family at the center of Mario Bellochios morbidly comic feature debut Fists in the Pocket (I Pugni in tasca) is sick--literally sick. The various ailments the family members bear--the mother is blind, both sons have epilepsy, the youngest son is ... ...

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  • Half of First Nations children live in poverty

    First Nations Idle No More protesters hold hands and dance in a circle during a demonstration at the Douglas-Peace Arch crossing on the Canada-U.S. border near Surrey, B.C., on Jan. 5, 2013. Aboriginal peoples are a growing percentage of Canada's population, but the poverty rate for children is being called 'staggering.' (Darryl Dyck/Canadian ...

  • Whos who in the Senate expense controversy

    Keeping track of the names popping up in the ongoing Senate expenses controversy -- from the investigators to the four senators themselves -- could be a difficult task for even the most seasoned political ...

  • Man should be deported over gang ties Ottawa

    A man allowed into Canada 17 years ago should be kicked out of the country because there is ample evidence he was part of an Asian criminal gang, says the federal ...

  • Montreal mayor vows to fight charges

    Montreal - Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum resigned on Tuesday, a day after he was charged with fraud and corruption in the latest major Canadian municipal ...

  • US Canadian defense chiefs confer on shared security challenges

    US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday held talks with visiting Canadian Minister of National Defense Peter MacKay over bilateral defense cooperation and shared security challenges.During their meeting at the Pentagon, the two "discussed a wide range of topics related to their mutual interest in some of the world's ongoing security challenges," including the Syria crisis, ...

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