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  • One-billion-year-old water saltier than seawater

    University of Toronto scientists have found pockets of water that had been sitting 2.4 kilometres underneath the Earth's surface for more than a billion years. Earth sciences professor Barbara Sherwood, who admitted that she had tasted it from time to time, revealed that the water has the consistency of maple syrup and is much saltier than seawater, News.com.au reported. She told the LA ...

  • Media Advisory - Canadas Foreign Service Officers announce additional pickets in Ottawa and escalated service withdrawals

    June 19, 2013 /CNW/ - As part of ongoing job action to bring Treasury Board back to the negotiating table to address wage inequities, Canada's Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO) announced 'information pickets' to be ...

  • Max Gartner longtime Alpine Canada official to leave post

    Max Gartner lists his career highlights as the back-to-back world downhill titles captured by Canadian skiers John Kucera and Erik Guay. But there's also been drawbacks to being president and CEO of Alpine Canada -- with potentially more on the horizon. And on Wednesday, Gartner announced he was leaving Canada's national skiing organization after more than three decades. "An ...

  • Annual International ITEX Convention in Orlando recognizes ITEX Toronto

    ITEX Toronto Recognized for Outstanding Performance ITEX, The Largest Business Barter Exchange in North America, Salutes the Best of the Best Toronto, Ontario – June 19, 2013 ITEX in Toronto, a leading business bartering network in Canada, has picked up 3 awards for performance, leadership and business growth. These awards were announced at the 31st Annual International ITEX Convention ...

  • Ships Ahoy Toronto Port Authority Supports 2013 Redpath Waterfront Festival

    Toronto Port Authority (TPA) today announced its support of the Redpath Waterfront Festival. TPA will be providing a Water Shuttle to transport attendees along the waterfront to the Festival's various sites. "Tall ships are back in the city this summer and we're proud to once again be a part of this celebration of marine history," ...

  • Canadas Environment Minister Announces Decision on the Environmental Assessment of the Randle Reef Sediment Remediation Project

    Peter Kent announced today that the proposed Randle Reef Sediment Remediation Project located in Ontario is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects. The Minister has referred the project back to the responsible authorities, ...


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Movie Review

Birth

Birth

With the combination of its foreboding urban interiors, supernatural overtones, and Nicole Kidmans pixie haircut, Birth is being compared to Rosemarys Baby (1968), but the film it more closely resembles is the much less heralded Angel Eyes (1999), a possibly supernatural thriller/ ... ...

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  • Cross-Canada bike stolen in break-in returned to Burnaby man 85

    Cornelis Dykstra speaks to reporter at his home in Burnaby on Tuesday, a day before his bicycle was returned to him by a woman had read about his loss and found the bike in a back ...

  • Joni Mitchell puts in rare public performance singing three songs in Toronto

    As the captain from the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke might describe it, the decade-old discussion of a Saskatoon centre to honour Joni Mitchell is a good example of a failure to ...

  • Caregiving dads stigmatized at work suggests UofT study

    Traditional fathers -- those who focus on being "breadwinners" and leave the caregiving to someone else -- are still held up as the ideal, suggests a new study. ...

  • Students save stranded couple lost in Ontario bush

    A group shot of teacher Ryan Forsyth, his students and two chaperones on their New Trail final exam in the wilderness near Mississagi River. Back row: Trevor Schuurman, Ryan Forsyth, Courtney Morningstar, Andrew Barager, Robert Lagace and Andrew Labbee. Front: Shayna Gionette, Lindsay Rietze, Jenna Nyman, Angela Benedict, Chance Counsell and Brett Vachon. Photo supplied ELLIOT LAKE, ONT. - A ...

  • Blue Jays charity Home Run Derby a success

    TORONTO -- The only thing missing Wednesday morning at Rogers Centre was Chris Berman saying, "Back, back, back, gone." Blue Jays alumni and Jays Care Foundation came together Wednesday for the Roberto Alomar & Friends Charity Home Run Derby in which 32 fundraisers participated in a tournament that closely resembled the one that will be a part of the annual Midsummer Classic in ...

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