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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 ...

  • Calcavecchia looks to repeat in Montreal

    MONTREAL - Mark Calcavecchia likes the tree-lined fairways at Richelieu Valley Golf Club and hopes he can master them for a second straight year on the Champions Tour.The 53-year-old won the Montreal Championship by four strokes last year and will try to do it again when the US$1.6-million tournament returns to Richelieu Valley Sept. 6-8."It's a course I like, and that helps," he ...

  • TD best suited Canadian bank to respond to higher rates U.S. dollar

    this research report with permission of National Bank Financial. This should not be construed as an endorsement of the report's recommendations. For more on The Globe's disclaimers please ...

  • ‘Huge opportunities’ for Canadian mining industry to work in developing countries

    Minister of International Cooperation Julian Fantino responds to a question during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN ...

  • Quebec pro-independence party Option Nationale loses its founder leader

    Jean-Martin Aussant looks down as he announces his decision to resign from the Parti Quebecois caucus Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at the legislature in Quebec City. (Jacques Boissinot/THE CANADIAN ...

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Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty

The fact that commentators, pundits, and politicians on both sides of the political spectrum are condemning Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelows gripping hunt-for-Osama bin Laden procedural, is a sure sign that she and journalist-turned-screenwriter Mark Boal, reuniting afte ... ...

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  • Montreal to name next interim mayor Tuesday

    Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum walks away after announcing his resignation during a news conference in Montreal, Quebec, June 18, 2013. Applebaum was arrested at his home Monday morning and was charged with 14 offences including breach of trust and fraud. (CHRISTINNE ...

  • Toronto’s plastic bag debate is ‘dead’ committee says

    Customers receive plastic biodegradable plastic bags when shopping at Noah's Natural Foods on Yonge St., Toronto on November 26, 2008. Toronto's public works committee voted in favour of abandoning the issue once and for all on June 19, 2013. (Fernando Morales/The Globe and ...

  • Canada Raises Liability for Offshore Atlantic Arctic Operators

    The Canadian government will raise the absolute liability for oil and gas companies operating in the Atlantic Basin offshore eastern Canada from $1 billion to $30 billion and for companies working on the Canadian Arctic from $40 million to $1 billion. Officials said the changes would incentivize spill prevention by companies operating in the Atlantic offshore and support job and economic ...

  • Worrying Reports on Poverty in Canada

    Ottawa, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) At least 200,000 Canadians live in poverty in the streets of the northern country or seek shelter in friends' houses because they do not have their own, informed today non-governmental organizations. The research also brought about that nearly 1.5 million family groups, part of the low-income sector, are in danger of falling into extreme poverty conditions. ...

  • Canadian Freestyle Skiing Association searching for potential aerialists

    Canadian Freestyle Skiing Association , former Canadian Olympic aerialist Nicolas Fontaine of Magog, Quebec and Canadian national aerial ski team head ...

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