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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 ...

  • Free the MPs Canada needs rules to restrict party whips

    The educational foundation Your Canada, Your Constitution recently released the results of a national survey that shows a large majority of Canadians (71 per cent) support legal restrictions on federal party leader powers to give more freedom and power to MPs, while only 20 per cent are opposed to such ...

  • Quebec enveloped in swirl of municipal corruption allegations

    The resignation of Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum was just one of three separate local news developments related to allegations of corruption in Quebec, underlining the head-spinning mood in Canada's second-largest city.While Mr. Applebaum was dealing with the fallout of his arrest earlier this week on 14 criminal counts, Claude Asselin, an engineering executive named as a co-conspirator ...

  • Bethenny Frankel makes sexual joke about sleeping with people

    Bethenny Frankel has been working hard on her talk show, which will premiere this fall. She has been meeting with producers, trying to find topics for the show, and wrapping up her newest book for her Skinnygirl brand. If that wasn't enough, she is still dealing with her very ...

  • ‘RHONJ’ Melissa Gorga on Teresa Giudice ‘It was like the cops grilling me’

    Teresa Giudice . On Sunday's episode, Giudice held Gorga responsible for her brother's absence from the hospital after Giudice's father went into the hospital because he couldn't breathe. However, Giudice didn't let Gorga slip away easily after learning that she claims she went to visit. According to a new Bravo article published on June ...

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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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  • ‘RHOOC’ star Lydia McLaughlin admits Slade was upsetting her

    Slade Smiley would attack her body considering she rarely knows him. Of course, she had been spending time in Mexico with Gretchen Rossi, but after the abandonment on the first night, McLaughlin and Rossi weren't exactly the best of friends. While some fans thought that McLaughlin overreacted with the comment, she was clearly hurt. According to a new Bravo blog published on June ...

  • Canadian dollar advances traders look to Fed statement Poloz speech

    TORONTO - The Canadian dollar was slightly higher Wednesday ahead of the mid-afternoon release of the U.S. Federal Reserve's latest policy statement and economic projections. It is hoped the Fed will shed some light on what it intends to do about curbing some of its economic stimulus. The loonie was up 0.06 of a cent to 98.02 cents US as markets also looked to a speech later in the day by ...

  • Meet Canada’s underused poet laureate Wordsmith bemoans lack of meaningful work

    Canada's national poet has warned that the taxpayer-funded position risks becoming "homogenized and diluted" and expressed frustration that during his two-year term in Ottawa he's been asked to produce just one work -- a "mediocre" poem about Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee -- while many more serious, controversial subjects have escaped the official attention ...

  • Imperial Oil refinery in Dartmouth to close

    Imperial Oil is closing its refinery in Eastrern Passage and converting it into a marine terminal. The company said it could not find a buyer for its facility to continue operating as a refinery. Imperial Oil said it will do all it can to protect the environment while it takes apart the facility. According to a news release, the conversion is planned for later this year. About 400 people have ...

  • Brazilian Confed Cup players say they support non-violent protests

    A demonstrator holds up a Brazilian flag in front of a group of protestors gathered in the main plaza of Sao Paulo on Tuesday, as some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship have broken out. (Nelson Antoine/Associated ...

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