This is a book about three girls and their three ponies. The girls’ names are Lulu, Pam and Anna. Their ponies’ names are Lightning, Acorn and Snow White. The book is set in a small town. It could be in Canada or America because there are coyotes — but that’s …
PRINCE Harry says he will take part in a race to the South Pole, leading a team of wounded British military personnel. The prince’s team will compete against counterparts from Australia, Canada and the US. In a tongue-in-cheek challenge issued at a news conference, the 28-year-old royal warned his competitors …
An Australian woman convicted of killing her two children has arrived in Sydney after serving her sentence in Canada. Thirty-four-year old Allyson McConnell arrived at Sydney Airport on an Air Canada flight at 8:30am. She left the terminal half an hour later with four women, one believed to be her …
Dolphins deserve to be treated as non-human “persons” whose rights to life and liberty should be respected, scientists meeting in Canada have been told. A small group of experts in philosophy, conservation and dolphin behaviour were canvassing support for a “Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans”. They believe dolphins – and …
The deadline for comments on Industry Canada’s draft anti-spam regulations passed earlier this week with a group of 13 industry associations – including the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Marketing Association, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association and the Entertainment Software Association of Canada – submitting a lengthy document that, …
You remember that time you told your friends you felt up a girl at summer camp, but that they totally didn’t know her? Or that time you Frenched that super cute boy, but since he’s from Canada, they’d never met? People still lie about this stuff. Why else would NamoroFake.com, …
I like this band. A lot! There was a time, in recent history, when you needed to have at least twelve members to even be considered a band in Canada. It was nearly impossible to tour if you didn’t have access to some kind of personnel carrier, and making a …
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sIRGapgV9kU[/video] Halloween reveller dressed in a Ghostbusters jumpsuit climbs onto the roof of a police car before executing a perfect backflip off it. The stunt took place during a raucous Saturday night in Moncton, Canada – right infront of two bemused Mounties, who were too slow to stop him showing …
[video]www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvLFQj2xVM0&[/video] aKido is the pseudonym of Canadian electronic rock musician and composer Kim Gaboury.Gaboury assembles a live band to tour with; this live component is generally considered a separate entity from aKido in the recording studio. As of 23 September 2007, according to The R3-30, the aKido song Dancing …
The maker of Banana Boat sunscreen is recalling some half-million bottles of spray-on lotion after reports that a handful of people have caught on fire after applying the product and coming in contact with an open flame. Energizer Holdings said Friday that it is pulling 23 varieties of UltraMist sunscreen …
Hacker group Anonymous has named a man it claims posted topless pictures of a 15-year-old girl online and harassed her so mercilessly she committed suicide. Amanda Todd, from Vancouver, Canada, was found hanged in her home on October 10, weeks after she uploaded a video to YouTube that describes – …
America’s middle class battles for its survival on the Wisconsin barricades – against various Koch Oil surrogates and the corporate toadies at Fox News – fans of enlightenment, democracy and justice can take comfort from a significant victory north of the Wisconsin border. Fox News will not be moving into …
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cZeJWemM8Y[/video] The video is 2hrs long, but spending $12-14m on a party dam… The hacktivist group Anonymous posted a documentary Wednesday aimed at revealing the the close political ties between Canada’s political elite and Quebec’s wealthy Desmarais family. The video shows the influential attendees of a birthday party for Jacqueline Desmarais, wife …
Excavating a basement using professional machinery is nothing new but doing it with radio controlled (RC) scaled models is something unheard of. Welcome to the little big world of Joe, from Saskatchewan, Canada. For the past 7 years (!), Joe has been digging out his basement at an average annual …
The Canberra Wikileaks cables revealed the US Embassy sanctioned a conspiracy by Hollywood studios to target Australian communications company iiNet through the local court-system, with the aim of establishing a binding common-law precedent which would make ISPs responsible for the unauthorised file-sharing of their customers. Both the location, Australia, and …
I love your site and was thrilled to hear of your “win” against PayPal. I recently had a heartbreaking experience of my own with them. I sold an old French violin to a buyer in Canada, and the buyer disputed the label. This is not uncommon. In the violin market, …
It remains a mystery as to whether a scanned copy of a passport would be accepted as an appropriate method of identification in Australia following a Canadian using such a copy on his iPad to gain access to the US from Canada. Australian Customs and Border Protection Service said in …
A new type of cancer treatment that uses a virus to infect and destroy tumor cells without harming normal cells is showing promise in early clinical trials. The small, Phase 1 trial involved 23 patients with advanced cancers that had spread to multiple organs and who had exhausted other treatment …
A company called UrtheCast is helping Earth-bound commoners view their planet in a way that they have likely never witnessed it before – streamed in high definition, in nearly real time from space. High-definition streaming video cameras will be installed on the International Space Station for the first time ever …
If you’re travelling to Canada, a country whose customs officials are notorious for playing the role of morality police, you’d better leave your Japanese comics at home – whether they’re in print or digital. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund announced today in a press release that it’s forming a …