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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 ...

  • Alice Munro wins Ontario’s Trillium Book Award

    Video: Check out this summer's best books for the beach The winner for the Trillium Book Award for Children's Literature in French-language is Claude Forand for "Un moine trop bavard."The winners of Ontario's foremost prize for literary excellence, were announced Tuesday evening in Toronto.The Trillium Book Award English-language and French-language winners receive ...

  • Quebec is trying to legalize euthanasia by calling it something else. It’s still wrong

    Quebec Minister for Social Services and Youth Protection Vronique Hivon explains legislation on the right to die in dignity at a news conference in Quebec City on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 (Jacques Boissinot/THE CANADIAN ...

  • France St.-Louis named Canadas Assistant Chef de Mission for Sochi

    Canadian Olympic Committee , former Canadian Olympic silver medallist France St-Louis was named on Monday as Canada's assistant Chef de Mission for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in ...

  • ‘Teen Mom’ star Jenelle Evans shares her plans to avoid judgment

    Jenelle Evans knows how people can be mean towards her when she tweets random things on the social media network. She has learned to keep some of her legal troubles away from the social media network, so she has been sharing news about her ...

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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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  • Khloe Kardashian thanks a certain person for being with her

    Khloe Kardashian was heartbroken when she learned that she couldn't have children as easily as her sister, Kourtney Kardashian, on a previous episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." She decided to focus on ...

  • Lauri Peterson’s daughter ‘None of my friends have slept with Brooks

    Brooks Ayers . Peterson has had a mission to bring down Gunvalson and during the last episode, she decided to reveal that her daughter's friend had been dating Ayers. And since many fans remember Ashley Zarlin and Sophie Waring on the show, some quickly assumed she was talking about Zarlin. According in a new tweet released on June ...

  • Southern Alberta man charged in $1-million cattle fraud case Edmonton RCMP say

    What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Edmonton? Is it landmarks such as our colossal mall or the four gleaming pyramids nestled in our river valley? Or might it be less obvious: the biting cold that strikes your bones in the dead of winter or the sizzle of green onion cakes at one of our many summer ...

  • Orascom withdraws bid for control of Wind Mobile

    Wind Mobile entered the Canadian wireless market in 2008 and has become the fourth largest carrier after the 'big three', Rogers, Bell and Telus. (Mark ...

  • Alain Vigneault gets plenty from NHL stars

    Daniel Sedin, bottom left, and his brother Henrik, right, enjoyed five consecutive regular seasons of at least 74 points under head coach Alain Vigneault, top, but their production did tail off somewhat in each of the past two campaigns. (Christian Petersen/Getty ...

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