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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 ...

  • Max Gartner longtime Alpine Canada official to leave post

    Max Gartner lists his career highlights as the back-to-back world downhill titles captured by Canadian skiers John Kucera and Erik Guay. But there's also been drawbacks to being president and CEO of Alpine Canada -- with potentially more on the horizon. And on Wednesday, Gartner announced he was leaving Canada's national skiing organization after more than three decades. "An ...

  • Soggy start to summer for B.C.

    Johanna Wagstaffe . The showers will become more steady early Thursday morning, before the rain tapers back down to showers in the evening. In total, Vancouver can expect between 15 mm to 30 mm of rain. Temperatures at the Vancouver International Airport will also come down on Thursday to a high of just 16 C. It will be one of the coolest days in a while and, just in time for the start of ...

  • RCMP identify remains found at Enoch Cree Nation

    (Facebook) Rain, a Stony Plain resident, went missing March 12. An extensive search for Rain didn't turn up anything at the time, despite a social-media campaign and the involvement of Rain's family, who RCMP say were strong advocates in the search effort. Spruce Grove/Stony Plain RCMP were called to the reserve early Sunday after a resident reported animals had found human remains. ...

  • 10 Trump tweets what the man behind the hair has to say

    U.S billionaire Donald Trump was in Vancouver today to lend his name to the city's first Trump Tower on West Georgia Street in the city's downtown core. Since he was renting out his name, CBC ...

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Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith

Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith

The brilliance of Darth Vader as a villain has always been that he started out on the good side. You can't say that of many baddies who carry with them the kind of menacing black doom inherent to Vader's raspy breath and hollow, mechanical ... ...

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