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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 ...

  • Video Canadian peacekeepers heading to Haiti

    Defence Minister Peter MacKay says 34 soldiers are going to Haiti as part of a UN peacekeeping operation. The troops are scheduled to arrive this week to begin a six-month tour under Brazilian ...

  • Canada buys rare War of 1812 collection for $573K

    A large collection of letters, maps and other papers that once belonged to Sir John Sherbrooke, the lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia who conquered Maine for the British during the War of 1812, has sold for $573,000 at auction in London. The winning bidder was Library and Archives Canada, and the future Canadian Museum of History. Including commission, the sale cost the federal government ...

  • Blue Jays Jose Reyes to play weekend series for triple-A Buffalo

    Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Jose Reyes appears to be getting closer to making a return to the big-league club. Reyes, who went on the disabled list April 13 after suffering a severe left ankle sprain, is scheduled to play for the triple-A Buffalo Bisons against the Durham Bulls this weekend. Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said Wednesday that Reyes is expected to be in the Buffalo lineup for ...

  • Hybrid icing mandatory visors could be in place in NHL next year

    Hybrid icing could be on its way to the NHL. The league's general managers have embraced many changes recommended by the competition committee, including hybrid icing and the mandatory use of visors for all players entering the league. The group met Wednesday before Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals between the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins. A blend of touch and no-touch icing that ...

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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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  • Boy charged with string of arsons in Saskatoon

    As the captain from the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke might describe it, the decade-old discussion of a Saskatoon centre to honour Joni Mitchell is a good example of a failure to ...

  • Council votes to expropriate City Centre Airport land

    Edmonton has taken another step towards redeveloping the City Centre Airport into a new neighbourhood. City Council Wednesday voted in favour of expropriating the property, which includes more than 200 individual landowners. "The city is moving closer to getting shovels in the ground next year," Coun. Kim Krushell said. "City council has been dealing with this issue for quite ...

  • Surrey woman apologizes for fatal drunken stabbing

    The sentencing hearing has begun for a young Surrey woman who stabbed a teenage girl to death at a house party in East Vancouver three years ago. Katey Renieta Gonzales stabbed 17-year-old Angela Qiu five times at a booze-fuelled party in May 2010. She was charged with one count of second-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month. Fighting back tears in Vancouver Supreme ...

  • Elderly woman killed in Cochrane crash

    A 70-year-old woman is dead this afternoon after a three-vehicle crash just inside the town limits of Cochrane, located west of Calgary. Police say the woman's car went into the oncoming lane on Highway 22 around 2:45 p.m. MT and struck a southbound van head on, which then bumped into a school bus in the next lane. The drivers of the van and bus were not seriously injured, but the woman ...

  • Vancouver man pleads guilty to beating his mother to death

    Richard Glenn Shields lived with his mother, Ethel Fenotti, in this apartment building at East 12th Avenue and Main Street in Vancouver. Shields pleased guilty Wednesday to second-degree ...

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