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10 Worst Shows of 2008
The title is self-explanatory. And I could go on, but I have to stop somewhere, so let's make it 10. Your own nominations welcome in the comments.
Categories: Tech
Boy, 5, dies in Oakville townhouse fire
A fire claimed the life of a 5-year-old boy in Oakville this morning.
Categories: Toronto
The World's Hottest CEO Wives [PICS]
Being a CEO has all kinds of perks, from a really good parking space to the company jet. Also you get to run the economy into the ground, and no one can stop you. But perhaps the best part of being the big boss (other than making millions in redundancy when everything goes tits up) is that many women look at you in a completely different way.
Categories: Tech
Op-ed: Strip Governors of the Power to Appoint Senators
Let's strip governors of the power to fill empty Senate seats in all but limited circumstances, and let voters fill them. Ill. Gov. Blagojevich stands accused of trying to sell a Senate seat. In NY, Caroline Kennedy may be appointed for celebrity alone. Governors have appointed relatives and themselves. It's time to end this flawed process.
Categories: Tech
The RIAA's Rocky Road Ahead
The RIAA's new plan to enlist ISPs in its war on file sharing, once it announced it was calling a halt to new consumer lawsuits, is running into rough sledding. Wired reports on the continuing legal murkiness of the RIAA's interpretation of copyright law. And one small ISP in Louisiana asks the recording organization, "You want me to police your intellectual property? What's your billing address?"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Plaxico Burress sued for rearending woman in non-insured car
Add this to the growing list of Plaxico Burress' problems: getting in a car crash and not having insurance on his nearly $140,000 Mercedes-Benz. The suspended New York Giants wide receiver was sued last week in Florida's Broward County Circuit Court for rear-ending a woman in May.
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Ninjas Protesting At Pirate Festival
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Holy sh*t that was close
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Snow survival 'miracle'
A 55-year-old woman who went missing Friday during a blizzard that buried southern Ontario is in critical condition in a Hamilton hospital, where she is undergoing treatment for hypothermia.
Categories: Toronto
Harper blasted for Senate picks
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has tapped the ranks of card-carrying Conservatives and others sympathetic to his agenda to fill 18 Senate vacancies, a move critics blasted as an abuse of power at a time when opposition parties are threatening to topple the minority government.
Categories: Toronto
Notes of solace comfort the dying
Christine Ichiyen walks up to the hospital room door and gives it a light tap tap tap. She waits only a moment, then peers into the room and smiles.
Categories: Toronto
Language called health care barrier
A significant number of immigrants, including many newcomers to Toronto, say they are ill because they can't speak English well enough to tell anyone, a doctor who advocates for immigrant health reveals in the current Canadian Journal of Public Health .
Categories: Toronto
Sally Van gives 'bit of hope'
Just like it does every night of the year, the "Sally Van" begins its journey from Salvation Army headquarters in Scarborough with dozens of meals, bags of donated clothes and a little prayer.
Categories: Toronto
Learning to live 'with a different heart'
Parents of two young men killed six months ago struggle with loss.
Categories: Toronto
Weathering a tragic milestone
She is Angelina Mighty-Osborne and few people come by their name more honestly than this teenager.
Categories: Toronto
Questioning of Prophet's existence stirs outcry
A noted Muslim scholar has provoked a huge controversy in Europe by openly questioning the existence of the Prophet Muhammad.
Categories: Toronto
Man Receives Compensation for Cyberbullying
A Beijing man who was the target of a "virtual lynching" by vigilantes after being blamed for his wife's suicide, has received a payout in China for the cyberbullying. Wang Fei was awarded about 9,000 yuan (about $1,300) after losing his job and being harassed online and at his home.
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