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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 ...

  • Hot Ticket Vancouver International Jazz Festival

    He was a member of the famed Miles Davis Quintet, a synth music trailblazer, an award-winning film composer, a genre-crossing collaborator, and even an interpreter of the music of Joni Mitchell. Now Herbie Hancock is returning to the coast for the Vancouver International Jazz Festival."He's a musical hero, and someone who has always been ahead of the curve," says festival ...

  • Lamphier Canada needs economic pipeline to Asia

    Protesters against Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline gather outside the joint review final argument hearings in Terrace on Monday. The joint review panel on the project sits through June ...

  • Full steam ahead for Vancouvers cruise ship industry

    Christine Duffy, president and CEO of Cruise Lines International Association, is in Vancouver this week for the industry’s largest annual ...

  • Talking Keystone Redford says Canada and U.S. share energy values

    Visting New York for the third time 18 months, Premier Alison Redford stressed that Canada and the U.S. share environmental and political values over Keystone XL pipeline. (Fred Chartrand/Canadian ...

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The Naked City [DVD]

The Naked City [DVD]

Shot on 107 different locations around New York City, Jules Dassins The Naked City was a new kind of a crime thriller, one whose striking originality when it premiered in 1948 subsequently paved the way for every detailed police procedural that followed, from Dragnet to ...

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  • B.C. First Nation sets fires to save bison

    A First Nation band is reviving the age-old practice of controlled burning in order to improve the health of forests and restore the population of the wood bison in a corner of northeastern ...

  • Status of Women conference aims to stop web exploitation

    Canada's ministers responsible for the Status of Women ended a two-day conference Wednesday in northern P.E.I. expressing concerns about internet luring, cyber bullying and child sexual exploitation. Valerie Docherty, P.E.I.'s minister responsible for the Status of Women, hosted the meeting of federal, provincial and territorial ministers. The conference looked at ways to promote ...

  • Couple plan to move business out of Ottawa after dispute with city

    OTTAWA -- The Vaughan Side Road paintball saga is over. The city has won in court, meaning Dag and Allison Militky can't operate their paintball field any more."I'm not a child. I won't scream and cry," Dag Militky said after a court ruling.But he still can't help but feel that the city treated him unfairly.It was in the fall of 2007 that the couple, now in their ...

  • Teachers disciplined for duct-taping mouths sex and gross stories

    (Fotolia) VANCOUVER -- A Vancouver teacher is being reprimanded for having chatty ...

  • Perjury trial hears from witnesses who saw RCMP officers use Taser on Robert Dziekanski

    In 2010, the RCMP introduced new policies on Taser use saying they will fire stun guns at people only when they're hurting someone or clearly about to do so. The directive mirrored a recommendation from a B.C. public inquiry on Taser use prompted by the death of airline passenger Robert ...

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