media madness Post Source: www.thegarnetspur.com Posted: Dec 03 2008 13:14:28
The best chance Texas has to be crowned national champion this season likely lies with the members of the media who vote in The Associated Press college football poll.
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They have yet to meet the megastar, but three Canadian musicians penned a song on the new Britney Spears album, Circus , which arrives in stores next Tuesday. Halifax musicians Adrien Gough , Henry Walter , and Peter-John Kerr - who work under the name Let's Go To War - wrote the music for the Spears' track "Mmm Papi" .
"It’s a great, fun track, something...... [Show More]
Metro Canada has laid off four employees due to a drop in national advertising, Greg Lutes, the publisher of Metro’s Halifax edition, told The Chronicle Herald. Lutes said the layoffs are part of an overall Metro reorganisation in Canada.
“Local (adver tising) ; is not the issue,” Lutes said. “It’s national (adver tising) ;.” Metro’s Halifax edition is pub...... [Show More]
Researchers high on ancient pot find : Scientists uncovered what they believe to be a stash of 2,700 year old cannabis which was clearly used for âpsychoactive purposes. ..... . [Show More]
Researchers high on ancient pot find : Researchers say they have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.
The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly “cultivated for psychoactive purposes,” rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
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Metro Canada is apparently "reor ganizing,& quot; laying off employees and facing "real challenges," the publisher of the Metro’s Halifax edition is quoted as saying. Greg Lutes made the comments to his competitor, the Halifax Chronicle Herald, in a story about four layoffs at Metro Halifax on Wednesday. Lutes said two [...]...... [Show More]
The politics of BCS confuse even the players - News 8 Austin
Editors note: The Sooners convincingly beat the Cowboys on Saturday (61-41). The Red Raiders struggled a bit at Baylor (28-35). That leaves Oklahoma, Tech and Texas still in a three-way tie in the Big 12 South with Oklahoma and Texas neck and neck in
Muslim convert turns to politics in Italy - Las Vegas Sun
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TheStar.com | GTA | The final heartbeats of a dying factory - Toronto Star Abdul Samad is a heavy-set man with a beard run through with grey. He walks slowly through this cavernous factory and stares at the dangling cables that loop down like jungle
A well-shaped package would be worth the wait - Globe and Mail Endless tax cuts? That worked out just swell for the U.S.A. didn’t it? Oh...... [Show More]
OTTAWA Researchers say they have located the worlds oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.
The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly "cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongsid...... [Show More]
While the U.S. deals with a full-fledged economic crisis, insecurity about employment, stock-market investments, housing prices and the economy also are rattling confidence here More
Following the announcement that Cayman Brac and Little Cayman residents could qualify for financial assistance to purchase generator fuel, about 200 gas vouchers have been More
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harper blinks Post Source: www.damianpenny.com Posted: Nov 30 2008 06:42:29
As the Chronicle-Herald ’s Stephen Maher put it, Harper is usually playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers - but this time , he was playing chess while everyone else was playing hockey:
After 24 hours of peering into a yawning political abyss, the Harper government stepped back from the brink Saturday, dropping a plan to kill public subsidies for political parties.
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The Western press is heralding the discovery of the "world’s oldest marijuana stash" (789 grams) in the tomb of a 2,700-year-old blond-haired, blue-eyed mummy in the Xinjiang region of China (photo) . The mummy is believed to be a Nordic-featured Gushi shaman from the Tarim Basin. Scientists conjecture that the cannabis was being saved for use in the afterl...... [Show More]
Alice Housing provides housing options for women and children leaving abusive family situations in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Three years ago they also started what is now a successful play therapy program called Healing the Bruises .
“We can sit and talk, play a game of cards, and you’d be surprised at what comes out (of the children&# 41;,” ; said Ms. Morgan, the counsellor.
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The Toronto stock market soared more than 500 points Friday, led by a big jump in bank stocks ahead of a wave of earnings reports next week.
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Related Posts Toronto Stock Market… Toronto Stock Market Takes Biggest One-day Plunge Since… Toronto Stock Market Takes Biggest One-day Plunge Since Tech Sector Tumbled Toronto Stock Market Plummets More Than 1,2...... [Show More]
I am really loving this whole scenario . I can’t believe Harper decided to play political chicken with the opposition in the midst of our economic turmoil....... [Show More]
Brits and Americans being hunted for sport! Death toll mounts. More people are looking to Obama with hopeful responses. Obama’s hands are tied until January 20 next year. He is sending representatives already, but cannot say or do anything until he is sworn in. At least he is doing what he can behind the scenes. “Pre sident-ele ct” Barack Obama spoke Thursday by telepho...... [Show More]
See my Herald column over here.
One car, four people.
One has volleyball ending at 5:30. Another has yoga, also starting at 5:30. Ending at 6:30.
Three have karate at 6. Ending at 7.
Four have grandmother’s 104th birthday at 7. A half hour away.
There’s a snowstorm brewing outside. And the appointment to have the winter tires put on is the next morning.
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THE DANGER for Canadian politicians is that the new Barack Obama administration, when it moves into the White House on Jan. 20, could make them all look like figures mired in the past, yesterday’s men and women. This applies to leading figures in …
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Less than a year after shutting down one of only two newspapers in Halifax and replacing it with a Metro wire story printer, Transcontinental has determined that seven people in its newsroom is too much and has axed two of them , along with two people in advertising and marketing. ( via J-Source )
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November 28, 2008 — CTV cuts 105 jobs in Toronto
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Defence Minister Peter MacKay says Canadian choppers will escort new Chinook transport helicopters next year.
The Bell CH-146 Griffon is the Canadian military variant of the Bell 412EP, a multi-use utility helicopter. The CH-146 is used in a wide variety of roles, including aerial firepower, reconnaissance and aero-mobility tasks.
The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a versatile, twin-...... [Show More]
raised raccoon seized Post Source: forums.canadiancontent.net Posted: Nov 27 2008 16:43:43
Amanda Tanner holds a picture of her pet raccoon Rascal. He was seized by a conservation officer and is now living at Shubenacadie Wildlife Park.
Raised raccoon seized - Nova Scotia News - TheChronic leHerald.c a
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LAPLAND Rascal loves Kraft Dinner. He picks the pasta up one piece at a time and eats it.
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...ners were Le Petit Cercle (2006), an outdoor children’s theatre in Cheticamp, and Breathing under Water (2007), a video installation by Glynis Humphrey.
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Post:November 26th, 2008: ERS-2008-11-26 #139 ShowNotes
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Back in the studio forthe show today and I’m excited to have a nice long weekend with my family.There is quite an array of articles/blog posts on the show today including a horrific escalator accident that involved a child in India.I thinkElevator andEscalator Safety needs ...... [Show More]
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