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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 ...

  • Canadian Olympic Committee in Sochi plotting strategy for 2014 Games

    The Olympic rings are seen in front of the airport of Sochi, the host city for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, February 18, 2013. (KAI ...

  • Ottawa’s Shopify partners with Singapore telecom firm

    The Next Web reports . Co-founder and CEO Tobias Ltke launched the e-commerce platform in 2006, enabling other companies to use it to create their own online stores. Shopify now has tens of thousands of customers in more than 80 countries. The deal with SingTel covers four countries: Singapore, India, Malaysia and Indonesia. Services in the first two are already online, with the latter two ...

  • Crown argues woman who stabbed teen girl to death at Vancouver house party should serve eight years

    Kamloops RCMP continue to investigate an alleged sexual assault they believe may have been caught on video camera during a wild high school grad party attended by more than 1,000 ...

  • Kamloops RCMP fear witnesses photographed sex assault of teen at grad party

    KAMLOOPS -- Mounties in Kamloops are investigating the alleged sexual assault of a teenager at a bush party attended by as many as 1,000 high school graduates.Police say the 17-year-old girl became separated from her friends, was approached by a male she didn't know and was taken into a wooded area where she was sexually assaulted on Tuesday night.When the teen arrived home from the party, ...

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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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  • Vancouver city council to get latest report on future of viaducts next week

    If you’re young and hoping to work your way up into a high-paid position, here are 10 jobs you’ll probably want to avoid. People in these jobs work at the bottom strata of the labour market, according to the latest survey by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage ...

  • West Vancouver kids find discarded guns

    WEST VANCOUVER -- Children playing in the woods near Rockridge secondary in West Vancouver found two pistols late Tuesday afternoon, according to police.The children stumbled on a starter pistol and an antique Webley .455 from the seldom-travelled area, according to West Vancouver Police Department spokesman Const. Jeff Palmer."(They) picked it up, had a look at them, and then realized, ...

  • Cross-Canada bike stolen in break-in returned to Burnaby man 85

    Cornelis Dykstra speaks to reporter at his home in Burnaby on Tuesday, a day before his bicycle was returned to him by a woman had read about his loss and found the bike in a back ...

  • Joni Mitchell puts in rare public performance singing three songs in Toronto

    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 ...

  • MLBs next wave of potential superstars

    Zack Wheeler of the New York Mets had a tough assignment for his major league debut on Tuesday night. Not only was the 23-year-old pitcher facing Atlanta, the National League's sixth-highest scoring team this season, but he had a tough act to follow in the back end of a day/night doubleheader. Earlier in the day, fellow hurler Matt Harvey flirted with a no-hitter in a 4-3 Mets victory, ...

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