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Nov 4, 2010

Vancouver Sun News

Gordon Campbell addresses issues one day after stunning resignation

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Premier Gordon Campbell appeared calm and relaxed one day after his stunning decision to resign as the province's top political leader.
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Photos: Top photos from around the globe

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Photos: 10 Disney stars who've grown up the hard way

These Disney child stars have all experienced growing pains that could never earn a G-Rating.
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TSX trading at pre-recession levels at midday

Canada’s benchmark stock index was trading at highs Thursday not seen since before the financial collapse, as commodities prices jumped following the ...
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Alberta senior admits killing husband, incinerating body

An elderly Alberta woman accused of killing her husband and putting his body inside an incinerator on their property has entered surprise guilty pleas...
21 minutes ago

Photos: Penelope and Monica Cruz's new lingerie collection

Images from the runway at Zurich Fashion Days featuring the Spring/Summer 2011 collection from Casa Blanca Lingerie and Biaggini designed by Penelope ...
23 minutes ago

Divorce insurance to cover damages when the vows break

Because the “for poorer” part of marriage vows often comes with a nasty split, couples have a new type of contract to consider: divorce insurance. A ...
7 minutes ago

'Educational' DVDs don't expand baby vocabulary: Study

Toddlers exposed to DVDs and videos marketed as "educational" showed no greater improvement in their vocabularies than children not exposed to such programming...
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Epic sandwich is distinctly Québécois

Four Montrealers have created an epic sandwich, the Angry French Canadian, which combines bacon, poutine, hot dogs, maple syrup and eggs on a French-toast...
27 minutes ago

Christina Aguilera looking for 'new love' after painful split from husband

Heartbreaken pop star Christina Aguilera says she's looking for "new love" following a painful split from husband Jordan Bratman.
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Blood type may affect IVF treatment
2010/11/04 10:25:00
Women with blood type O were at double the risk of having diminished ovarian reserve than women of other blood types. (0)

News | Canada

Canada drops to 8th in quality of life ranking

2010/11/04 13:24:00
Canada falls four spots in UN quality of life ranking, as developing nations make gains in health and education. (1)

HealthZone | News & Features

‘Spiral’ CT scans cut smoker deaths: study

2010/11/04 11:32:00
First trial of more than 53,000 current and former heavy smokers found the scans were better at spotting tumours than an...

News | GTA

Memo to tenants: Snake missing in your building

2010/11/04 11:13:00
Website says metre-long pet snake missing in the St. James Town area building is not poisonous. (0)

Sports | Maple Leafs

Readers share their Maple Leafs pain in our haiku contest

2010/11/03 13:05:00
We're giving a pair of tickets to the the best haiku poem about the Maple Leafs. Entries so far leave us with the feeling we've been waiting a very long time for something. (297)
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News | World

Qantas passenger: “The scariest thing I’ve seen”

Qantas Airways suspended flights of its Airbus A380 fleet on Thursday after engine failure triggered an emergency landing in Singapore. Parts of the plane's engine broke off. Here residents of Batam, Indonesia inspect a piece of the engine casing. (Nov. 4, 2010)
2010/11/04 07:12:00
Passengers on a Qantas jet say they heard a loud bang and saw pieces of one of the engines fall off soon after take-off for Sydney. (3)
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entertainment | Movies

Megamind: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a riff

Will Ferrell and Tina Fey are the voices behind Megamind and Roxanne.
2010/11/04 11:55:00
The superhero parody Megamind is a comic pile-on that riffs on Superman and many other pop-cult attractions.

News | Canada

Lotto winners’ generosity touches hearts at home and abroad

2010/11/04 12:43:00
The phone hasn't stopped ringing at Allen and Violet Large's Nova Scotia home over news the “plain, old country folks” gave away almost $11.2 million. (0)

News | Toronto G20 Summit

Toronto restaurants still waiting for G20 compensation

2010/11/04 12:07:00
Restaurant owners say federal compensation process is so bureaucratic that many have abandoned their requests. (0)

News | World

As Indonesian volcano spews, worst may be yet to come

2010/11/04 09:35:00
Towering clouds of hot ash gushed from the mouth of Indonesia’s deadly volcano Thursday, forcing motorists in cities 30 kilometres away to use their...

News | World

YouTube video points police in Mexico to mass grave

2010/11/04 08:27:00
A new feature in Mexico’s drug violence are videos like the one that has led police to 18 bodies believed to be a tourist group kidnapped in Acapulco a month ago.

News | Canada

Campbell says he lacked support of public, not party

2010/11/04 13:15:00
B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell says he feels he has the support of his party and his caucus but will step down because his plummeting popularity with voters is overshadowing the real issues facing the province.

HealthZone | News & Features

New eye implants for the blind restore some sight

2010/11/04 13:22:00
By embedding a transmitter in the bone behind the ear and a microchip directly behind the retina, scientists have restored sight to some.

ParentCentral | Education

Ottawa school survey to ask students about sexual orientation

2010/11/04 10:32:00
A survey by the Ottawa-Carleton Public School Board will ask Grade 7 to 12 students about their sexual orientation.

News | Toronto Council

Defeated Bussin biggest spender on city council

2010/11/04 11:20:00
Defeated Councillor Sandra Bussin is council’s biggest office spender while mayor-elect Rob Ford is, always, the stingiest. (43)
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Microsoft’s Kinect debuts today, and it's a game changer

xBox store staff Cameron Windross, left, and Ashley Wakaruk have some fun demonstrating the interactivity of the new level of gaming through Microsoft, Kinect. Microsoft is about to launch Kinect, a full body sensor that allows you to interact with a game in a real physical sense.
Microsoft has a new and immersive gadget up its sleeve aimed at Xbox 360 players. The Star's Raju Mudhar reviews the new Kinect. Video by Randy Risling.
By Raju Mudhar Entertainment Reporter
With Thursday’s launch of Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360, the videogame motion controller wars are fully under way now that all three major console players are in the game. Like any arms
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Montreal - Arson guts deli import plant in Montreal

It took firefighters a little more than two hours to put out the fire which was deliberately set.
It took firefighters a little more than two hours to put out the fire which was deliberately set. (CBC)
A fire has heavily damaged a deli import business in Montreal's Saint-Leonard district.
Berchicci Importing Ltd., which bills itself as the 'Italian Specialty Market' on its website, sells a wide selection of cheese, deli meats and sweets.
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The Peoples Voice News

Permalink Obama, Republicans prepare for joint assault on American workers

In back-to-back press conferences Wednesday, the day after sweeping Republican gains in the 2010 midterm election, victorious Republican Party leaders and Democratic President Barack Obama took their first tentative steps towards an open political partnership directed against the American working class. The man who will become speaker of house in January, Ohio Republican Congressman John Boehner, made an appearance on Capitol Hill, flanked by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi, chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

Permalink YEARS OF DECEIT: US OPENLY ACCEPTS BIN LADEN LONG DEAD

Conservative commentator, former Marine Colonel Bob Pappas has been saying for years that bin Laden died at Tora Bora and that Senator Kerry’s claim that bin Laden escaped with Bush help was a lie. Now we know that Pappas was correct. The embarrassment of having Secretary of State Clinton talk about bin Laden in Pakistan was horrific. He has been dead since December 13, 2001 and now, finally, everyone, Obama, McChrystal, Cheney, everyone who isn’t nuts is finally saying what they have known for years.

Permalink Gridlock is Good America the Clueless

The American people have spoken, but it’s impossible to decode their incoherent message. Drunk with their capture of the House of Representatives, the Republicans thunder that the verdict of ballot boxes from Maine to Hawai’i is clarion-clear: the ultimate evil in America is government, specifically government as led by President Barack Obama. But when exit pollsters questioned voters on their way to those same ballot boxes, as to who should take the blame for the country’s economic problems, 35 per cent said Wall Street, 30 per cent said Bush and 23 per cent Obama.

Permalink Colussus: the giant Gazan prison

Gaza "the giant open prison" are not the words of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president. Nor were they scripted by Hamas' Khaled Mishaal or Fatah's Mahmoud Abbas. They belong to David Cameron, the young and charismatic British prime minister. Since the imposition of the Gaza blockade nearly four years ago, no single European leader has voiced moral outrage over the sanctions with such alacrity, simplicity and forcefulness. His words have reverberated widely in Gaza as well as elsewhere in the Arab world.

Permalink A FEAR MONGER AND A WAR MONGER

Despite your claims and twisting of the truth, Mr. Murdoch, the threats faced today are not “part of an ongoing war against the Jews.” The threat is the fear mongering which supports your war mongering.

Permalink One Democratic State Is The Way Forward - Video Gilad Atzmon

"Building on the Madrid, Boston, and Haifa conferences, a select group of activists from a variety of backgrounds convened last weekend in Dallas, Texas in order to implement an international project - to pass a declaration which professes the need for creating a single democratic state in what is now occupied Palestine....
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BBC News - James Cameron: 3D conversion best for classic films

James Cameron
By Tim Masters Entertainment correspondent,
BBC News James Cameron is working on two Avatar sequels
James Cameron has taken a swipe at studios who add 3D to films in post-production, saying that 3D retro-fitting should only be used for classic movies like Jaws or ET.
The Avatar director said it had been a ..
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American Ballet Theatre performs in Cuba

Dancers from The American Ballet Theatre
The US and Cuba are searching for common ground through culture
The American Ballet Theatre has staged its first performance in Cuba for 50 years, in a mark of cultural diplomacy between the two countries.
The dancers staged a tribute to 89-year-old Cuban ballet star Alicia Alonso, the company's lead dancer in the 1940s and 50s.
They stopped visiting Cuba when relations soured between the two countries after the 1959 revolution.
The communist country has welcomed a number of US
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Conductor Rudolf Barshai dies aged 86

Rudolf Barshai
Rudolf Barshai studied at the Moscow Conservatory
Russian-born conductor Rudolf Barshai, who was a contemporary of composers Shostakovich and Prokofiev, has died at his home in Switzerland aged 86.
He had been in ill health for some time but continued to work until the final days of his life, his agent said.
Barshai studied composition with Dmitri Shostakovich and later recorded a complete cycle of his symphonies.
He left his homeland in 1975 after Shostakovich's death and went on to conduct in London, Paris and Berlin.
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BBC apologises over Band Aid money reports

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The BBC has apologised over reports claiming millions of pounds raised by Band Aid was used to buy arms.
In March, World Service's Assignment said cash raised by charities to help Ethiopia had been diverted by rebels.
The BBC has admitted that Assignment gave the impression that Band Aid and Live Aid money had been diverted despite
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