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A look at some of Google Street View’s most interesting Canadian images
The Google Street View car has been spotted in Canada, again collecting panoramic images using multiples cameras mounted on its roof. Street View began by mapping out several Canadian cities using automobiles. Today Google uses cars as well as trikes, trolleys, snowmobiles and trekkers, and has made it all the way up to Nunavut. Along the way, Google has captured some shocking and embarrassing ...
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Unions Obama Differ on Health Plan
Labor unions that have solidly backed President Obama are splitting with him over ObamaCare -- with one calling for the "repeal or complete reform" of the president's signature health-care law. Union leaders argue insurance costs for millions of workers will increase under the president's health-care plan so they might have to drop their existing plan, despite Obama ...
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Giffords Husband Address Graduates at Bard
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords says the futures of today's college graduates "shines bright." Giffords spoke only briefly Saturday at the Bard College commencement but urged the graduates to create, lead and innovate. Giffords was among 13 people wounded in a January 2011 shooting outside a Tucson, Ariz., supermarket that left six others dead. The Democrat resigned from ...
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Authorities Search for Iowa Teen Amid Rain Wind
Authorities on Saturday searched amid rainy and windy conditions for an Iowa teenager who was abducted Monday. It was the sixth day searchers scoured various areas in central Iowa for 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard, who was kidnapped along with a 12-year-old friend from a school bus stop. Police have said Michael Klunder, 42, abducted the girls in Dayton, a small town about 60 miles north of ...
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President Obama Honors Fallen Heroes
The president used his weekly radio and internet address to also say the U.S. needs to make sure all veterans receive the care and benefits they have earned for their service. And that above all, the armed forces have to have the support to carry out missions here at home and ...
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7 hurt when trains collide in Mo. buckling road
Emergency personnel respond to the scene where of a train derailment near Rockview, Mo. Saturday. The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the cause of a cargo train collision that partially collapsed a highway overpass in southeast Missouri, injuring seven ...
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NTSB Bridge collapse in Wash. is wake-up call
SEATTLE — The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday the bridge collapse in Washington state is a wake-up call for the nation. "This is a really significant event and we need to learn from it, not just in Washington but around the country," Debbie Hersman said after taking a boat ride on the Skagit River below the dramatic scene where a truck bumped ...
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Toronto mayors brother says he never dealt drugs
The brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has vehemently denied allegations in Saturday's Globe and Mail that he was involved in the illicit drug trade in the 1980s. "Absolutely false," Ford said in an interview on CBC News Network when asked for his reaction. "It's absolutely false. These people want to come after our character," he said. In the article the Globe ...
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Official Woman killed in San Antonio flooding
View Photo Associated Press/Eric Gay - A San Antonio metro bus sits in floodwaters after it was swept off the road during heavy rains, Saturday, May 25, 2013, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric ...
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Canadian mine giant Barrick fined a record $16.4M in Chile
El Corral, a village of 200 inhabitants, mostly from the Diaguita ethnic group, is downstream from the world's highest gold mine, Barrick Gold Corp's Pascua-Lama project in northern Chile. Since the project moved in, residents say river levels have dropped. (Jorge Saenz/Associated ...
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Protesters march against GMO giant Monsanto in 250 cities
Marches and rallies against seed giant Monsanto were held across Canada, the U.S. and in dozens of other countries Saturday. "March Against Monsanto" protesters say they want to call attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the food giants that produce it. Marches had been planned for more than 250 cities around the globe, according to organizers. Genetically ...
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Brampton Ont. familys bitter money dispute
Shanti Devi's son, Admon Devi-Biller, is left to comfort his mother and maintains that his cousin Boodhoo is a crook (STAN BEHAL/Toronto Sun). Shanti Devi’s health is a wreck and her personal life is hardly better. The single Brampton woman may lose her home after being financially ripped off for years by a nephew who also stole her identity. The 69-year-old retiree has lent her ...
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Obama awards top U.S. honor to girls killed in 1963 racial bombing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama awarded the highest U.S. civilian honor on Friday to four black girls killed in a civil rights-era church bombing 50 years ago, saying their tragic deaths ultimately "helped to trigger ...
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SOLDIER STABBEDFrench Authorities Probe Possible Tie to UK Terror
May 25, 2013: Police officers stand near the cordoned off spot where a French soldier was stabbed in the throat in the busy commercial district of La Defense, outside Paris, and France's president said authorities are investigating any possible links with the recent slaying of a British ...
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Obama refocuses terror threat to pre-911 level
Obama is not claiming final victory over extremists who still seek to kill Americans and other Westerners. Instead, he is refocusing the long struggle against terrorism that lies ahead, steering the United States away from what he calls an equally frightening threat - a country in a state of perpetual war. In doing so, Obama recasts the image of the terrorists themselves, from enemy warriors to ...
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NTSB investigating cause of SE Mo. train crash
CHAFFEE, Mo. (AP) -- The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the cause of a cargo train collision that partially collapsed a highway overpass in southeast Missouri, injuring seven ...
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Toronto Councillor Doug Ford denies newspaper report that he sold drugs in high school
Toronto Councillor Doug Ford -- brother of Mayor Rob Ford, who is himself facing allegations he was filmed smoking crack cocaine -- has called a newspaper report that he sold drugs in high school "disgusting" and "a personal shot at our family." ...
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Rebuilding Rules as Rain Soaks Jersey Shore
Saws and sledgehammers joined beer and barbecues -- under covered porches -- as a fixture of the first Memorial Day weekend at the Jersey shore since Superstorm Sandy roared through. Seven months after the devastating storm pummeled large swaths of the shore, the tourists made their way back, though many substituted porch parties for a day at the beach on Saturday due to rain that has ...
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Obamas speechwriter from intern to top wordsmith
WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama decided to attend a memorial service in Arizona for victims of a deadly mass shooting that severely injured then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, he needed a speech. And fast. The service was in two days. Jon Favreau, then chief White House speechwriter, was deep into writing Obama's 2011 State of the Union address, due in less than three weeks. Up ...
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Obama urges military to end sex assault at Navy graduation speech
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland -- U.S. President Barack Obama urged the future leaders of the U.S. military on Friday to stamp out sexual assault from their ranks, warning that a few individuals could undermine the strongest military in the ...
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Mexico sees fewer deaths and disappeared official
MEXICO CITY -- The drug-related murders that plagued Mexico for six years have decreased in the past six months, while fewer people have disappeared than previously thought, the interior minister said ...
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Guatemala extradites ex-president to United States
GUATEMALA CITY -- Guatemala extradited former President Alfonso Portillo to the United States on Friday to face charges of laundering US$70 million of swindled government funds through U.S. ...
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Top chefs say Latin America will reach the zenith of cuisine
MEXICO CITY--The world's top chefs say it's only a matter of time before Latin America, home to Brazil's black bean stew "feijoada," Peru's refreshing raw fish "ceviche" and Mexico's street tacos, cooks its way into gastronomy's ...
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Obama Nation must do more for fallen heroes
In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the country must care for the loved ones the fallen leave behind. He says the country must also make sure that all veterans receive the care and benefits they have ...
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3D Object Made With the Mind
A Chilean tech company has laid claim to creating the first physical object using the power of the mind. George Lakowsky, the Chief Technical Officer for Thinker Thing, a self-described "creative group" successfully created the object using a brain-computer interface headset according to technology ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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