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Most of us have suffered the indignity of being given a nasty nickname - at summer camp, university or work - that stuck with us for years.
But imagine if such a nickname followed you throughout your entire life - and then stuck to your children, your..
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Overheard in an elevator, several years ago, at the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto: "I was at this party last night, and they had a bowl, kind of like a candy dish, of these diamond-shaped blue pills, so I took some."
We've come a long way from the da..
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Global warming theory has been in political and scientific trouble for some time, but who knew it had sunk so low it needed a boost from the Nobel Peace Prize committee?
Rescuing and rewarding the obscure and the absurd has been a Nobel sideline for so..
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An Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board judge has been accused of propositiong a refugee claimant in exchange for a favourable response to the woman's application.
CTV News obtained video of the judge suggesting to a South Korean woman that he would ap..
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An RCMP disciplinary board has fined a Kamloops officer two days' pay after he punched a diabetic man in the head because he thought, incorrectly, that the man was driving drunk.
In a recent decision, the RCMP board found Constable Burke Huschi used "e..
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The stereotype of the male stud who is always up for sex is being challenged by new research from the University of Guelph showing that men are almost as likely to be coerced in the bedroom as women.
A study of 518 university students found that 38.8%..
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he Bay, the Promenades Cathédrale, two other buildings on de Maisonneuve Blvd. and the métro Green Line between Lionel Groulx and Berri-UQÀM station will stay closed indefinitely until city officials are certain that a seven-metre-long fissure in the u..
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Politicians and environmentalists these days convey the impression that climate-change research is an exceptionally dull field with little left to discover. We are assured by everyone from David Suzuki to Al Gore to Prime Minister Stephen Harper that "the..
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Like children all over North America, pint-size Quebecers have been flocking to theatres recently to see the animated film Shrek the Third, or Shrek le Troisieme as it is known here. The only problem is they are leaving confused about what exactly that do..
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A British Columbia teenager's dream trip to Africa turned into a nightmare when bacteria began eating her eyes.
Trasey Plouffe, 18, lost her sight three weeks ago and nearly had to have her right eye removed after bacteria destroyed both her corneas...
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Yesterday was one major religion's holy day. Today is another's. Tomorrow is a third's. So I thought this is an opportune moment to say I think all three of these faiths -- these mighty institutions, these esteemed philosophies, these ancient and honoured..
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As much as 50 per cent of the world's pirated movies come from Canada, prompting the film industry to threaten to delay the release of new titles in this country.
According to an investigation by Twentieth Century Fox, most of the illegal recording, or..
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Canada's foreign affairs minister says he wants to crack down on Chinese spies who are stealing industrial and high-technology secrets at a tremendous cost to the economy.
"It's something that we want to signal we are prepared to address and continue t..
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A Canadian man was rescued from the Niagara River after trying to cross into the United States in the middle of the night in a rubber raft, telling U.S. authorities it was all so he could pay a credit card bill in person...
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Canada's spy master, of all people, is warning that excessive government secrecy and draconian counterterrorism measures will only play into the hands of terrorists...
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The telecommunications company Telus Corp. began offering adult content to its Canadian cellphone customers this month...
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With the winter finally in place and snow firmly underfoot, the time of the year has arrived where kids across the country, with or without parental approval, spend their days sliding down hillsides...
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Four years after he was tortured in a Syrian prison, Maher Arar has finally received an official apology - and $10.5 million in compensation - from the Canadian government for its role in the affair...
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A 71-year-old former member of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi who was believed dead, pleaded not guilty Thursday to the 1964 kidnapping of two black teenagers who were murdered...
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As much as 50 per cent of the world's pirated movies come from Canada, prompting the film industry to threaten to delay the release of new titles in this country...
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