| Sunday, March 18th, 2007 |
| 8:16 am |
Quebec Politician Refuses to Apologize for Racist Remarks arti Qu ébécois Leader André Boisclair refused to apologize yesterday for referring to Asians as having "slanted eyes," even as he faced criticism from Asian-Canadian and other groups that the comments were offensive. read more | digg story |
| Monday, February 19th, 2007 |
| 5:37 am |
RCMP inadvertently sponsored U.S. gang websites The CBC alerted the Mounties on Friday to police recruitment ads that popped up on websites run by the Los Angeles-based 18th Street Gang, an international outfit considered by criminal analysts to be one of the most violent gangs in the world. read more | digg story |
| Thursday, January 4th, 2007 |
| 5:36 am |
2007 'likely to be warmest year on record' Climate change experts said the global temperature is expected to be 0.54C above the long-term average of 14C. read more | digg story |
| Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 |
| 5:17 pm |
Canada 2 - USA 1 in a shootout at the world junior hockey championships Jon Toews and Carey Price make sure Canada continues the quest for three golds in a row. read more | digg story |
| Saturday, December 30th, 2006 |
| 4:38 pm |
Perhaps the strangest and lamest Bollywood musical number ever... The worst part is that this is not a joke, it is serious... read more | digg story |
| Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 |
| 4:32 pm |
Can Borat be Sued by the "I Kiss You!" Guy? So the question is: Which came first.... Borat or Mahir Cagri's website? read more | digg story |
| Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 |
| 3:31 pm |
MP kicked out of Conservative Party for differing with Government on blog Conservative MP Garth Turner has been kicked out of the Federal Conservative party for differing with the Prime Minister and party brass and posting his differences on his blog. read more | digg story |
| Monday, October 16th, 2006 |
| 8:45 am |
T6 Interviews Splinter Cell Lead designer Clint Hocking From FuturePlay 2006 an interview with Clint Hocking. We talked about the future of game design and the fact that games need not just be fun, they could also be what Clint calls 'engaging'. There is a whole other market out there beyond the 18-34 year old males. Clint is working on a project currently for Ubisoft, but Dave could not g read more | digg story |
| Monday, October 9th, 2006 |
| 1:36 am |
North Korea claims nuclear test North Korea claimed it conducted a successful underground nuclear test Monday, according to the country's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). read more | digg story |
| Thursday, October 5th, 2006 |
| 5:26 am |
'Metallic Water' Alters Characteristics Of Neptune, Impacts Other Physics Supercomputer simulations by two Sandia researchers have significantly altered the theoretical diagram universally used by scientists to understand the characteristics of water at extreme temperatures and pressures. read more | digg story |
| 3:54 am |
Villeneuve signs with Roush Racing According to the Italian sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport, the former F1 champion has inked a deal to race with Roush Racing. The report also indicated that Villeneuve would move back to Canada from his current home base of Europe. read more | digg story |
| Monday, October 2nd, 2006 |
| 4:19 pm |
Is Theft in the Eye of the Beholder? If I have a television sitting in my living room, and I come home to find my front door busted in and the television gone, it �s obviously been stolen. If I work on a site design, and discover 90% of my design on another site, I�d also cry �thief!� But for many non-designers the border between inspiration and theft is rather blurry. read more | digg story |
| Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 |
| 3:32 pm |
Canadian-led offensive may have killed 1,500 Taliban fighters The U.S. general who heads all NATO military forces says a two-week campaign that cost five Canadian lives in southern Afghanistan may have wiped out half of the "hard-core" Taliban fighters in the country read more | digg story |
| 4:22 am |
Smoking over the last 50 years Cool set of radio and TV reports from CBC about smoking. From "Canadian Tobacco Make a Fine Cigarette" to "Every Time You Look at a Smoke God Cries" (Ok, I made that last one up). Good stuff. read more | digg story |
| Thursday, September 14th, 2006 |
| 3:47 am |
Gunman in Montreal college shooting called himself 'angel of death' The gunman who went on a shooting spree at a Montreal college on Wednesday left an online journal with chilling comments and photos of himself brandishing a semi-automatic rifle. read more | digg story |
| Wednesday, September 13th, 2006 |
| 1:55 pm |
CBC: Davwson College photos from Montreal Compelling images of today's tragedy. read more | digg story |
| Thursday, August 31st, 2006 |
| 4:28 am |
Manatee Bones Lead To New Insight On Evolution Mutations in the same gene may be responsible for the evolution of leglessness in animals as distantly related as 1,000-pound manatees in Florida and fish smaller than an index finger living in lakes and streams around the world. read more | digg story |
| 4:24 am |
Chimpanzees Can Transmit Cultural Behavior To Multiple 'Generations' Transferring knowledge through a chain of generations is a behavior not exclusive to humans, according to new findings by researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. read more | digg story |
| Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 |
| 12:41 pm |
Wash your damned hands.... - A survey by the Wayne, N.J., based Lysol Hygiene Council has suggested that 61 percent of U.S. residents lack proper hand washing habits. read more | digg story |
| 12:38 pm |
First Quantum Cryptographic Data Network Demonstrated By integrating quantum noise protected data encryption (quantum data encryption or QDE for short) with Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), the researchers have developed a complete data communication system with extraordinary resilience to eavesdropping. read more | digg story |
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