Monthly Archives: October 2011

Rapidly Inflating Volcano Creates Growing Mystery

Should anyone ever decide to make a show called “CSI: Geology,” a group of scientists studying a mysterious and rapidly inflating South American volcano have got the perfect storyline. Researchers from several universities are essentially working as geological detectives, using … Continue reading

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Afternoon Update October 25th, 2011 (10)

CANADA #1 — CNews | Pepper-sprayed patient closes ER  ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — The hospital emergency room in this southern Ontario city was shut down late Sunday when a man arrived covered in pepper spray. [...] #2 — Globe | Details … Continue reading

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Bloody nose for Cameron (20)

David Cameron and his closest aides were today conducting an inquest into the biggest-ever Tory rebellion on Europe after more than half of his backbenchers defied him in a vote on a referendum on EU membership last night. A catastrophic … Continue reading

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York – Rove vs. Cain: The people’s choice? (3)

Herman Cain is tired of pundits telling him his 15 minutes are up. In particular, the Georgia businessman-turned-presidential candidate is becoming impatient with Karl Rove, the former top George W. Bush aide who in a Monday appearance on Fox News … Continue reading

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Full story of SEAL mission in question

By the time the CH-47 transport helicopter descended to 150 feet above an unprotected landing zone in Afghanistan around 2 a.m. on Aug. 6, the element of surprise had been lost. Hours earlier, two other Chinooks had deposited 47 Army … Continue reading

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House votes to reject EU emissions control plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Monday to exclude U.S. airlines from an emissions cap-and-trade program that the European Union plans to impose on all airlines flying to and from the continent beginning next year. With the legislation, which passed … Continue reading

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Bill to scrap long-gun registry expected Tuesday (2)

OTTAWA – The federal government is expected to introduce a bill to scrap the controversial long-gun registry Tuesday morning, and Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has made it clear the feds won’t help the provinces set up provincial registries of … Continue reading

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Feds must take threat of salmon virus seriously

It wasn’t until Alaskan and Washington state politicians raised the alarm about a potentially devastating salmon virus that has been detected in wild West Coast salmon stocks that Ottawa started to investigate the findings of a study by Simon Fraser … Continue reading

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Lewis: Captain America Abandons the Entire Middle East

I doubt that President Obama loves the name “Captain America,” but that’s the job he was elected to do in 2008.  National security is the president’s first job.  But Obama has been by far the most catastrophic captain of the ship … Continue reading

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Corcoran: Papal call for global authority

It’s a little more than two years since Pope Benedict XVI delivered a papal encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, in which the Roman Catholic Church more or less denounced free markets and capitalism and called for the return of Big Government. Looking … Continue reading

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Morning Update October 25th, 2011 (10)

CANADA  #1 — CNews | Desperate stepmom tracked serial killer Pickton  VANCOUVER — Having heard spine-chilling rumours that a man known as “Willie” had fed her missing stepdaughter through a wood chipper on his pig farm, Lynn Frey began to investigate … Continue reading

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