Rudolph the black-nosed Reindeer: “Leave it in the ground!”
Thousands gather in Canada-wide protests against Alberta Oilsands and the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline proposal.
In-hail Mary
Pope Francis promotes prayer as a “medicine for the heart” and offers “prescription” boxes containing rosaries resembling pill packets to pilgrims in St Peter’s Square
Don’t “Reign” on our parade!
The Toronto Santa Claus Parade requests that controversial alcoholic, drug-taking, profanity-spewing Mayor Rob Ford NOT march in the parade this year.
Lessing no more
Famous British author and Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing who penned “The Golden Notebook”, dies at the age of 94
Menace sans frontières
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The devastating global super-bug, C. difficile, may have originated in Quebec, Canada. [And Canada is very sorry!]
John Tavener joins the Song of Angels
Famed British Composer, Sir John Tavener, known for his religious and mystic compositions, dies at age 69.
Lost, Nazi-looted art trove discovered
1406 paintings by famous artists worth billions, 590 of which are believed to have been looted by the Nazis, have been discovered in a small German apartment.
Pat Pimm: Backing the wrong horse
The B.C Agriculture Minister is rebuked for pressuring the independent Agricultural Land Commission to allow the development of a rodeo ground, race track and parking lot on high-quality farmland.
The present[s] trumps the past?
Many complain that stores’ early, pre- November 11th Christmas promotions show lack of respect for Veterans.
End of a checkered career?
New forensic evidence shows that Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned
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