Cops Collar 73 Suspects In $1 Million-Plus Coke And Pot Ring. Durham Regional Police and the Canadian Border Agency
silently gathered the evidence they needed to take down a huge drug trafficking ring, which they allege was responsible for
importing over a million dollars worth of coke, marijuana and cash into the GTA. They also recovered a loaded .357 magnum
handgun. In all, 73 people are facing a wide variety of charges, ranging from trafficking to gun possession. And some are
also charged with assaulting police, testimony to what happened when the law came to get them. At least 21 of those collared
are from Toronto, while others hail from Oshawa and Ajax.
TOO Sexy for my....
Victoria's Secret .... you're nervous because it's lingerie and
it's on TV," says Kroes, whose outfits include a frothy pink ballerina ensemble and a Greek goddess get-up. "There are so
many people seeing you live. It's not like a picture when there is Photoshop after." To prepare, Dutch beauty Kroes, who says
she normally eats what she wants because she exercises often, goes on a strict sugar-and carb-free meal plan and spends many
extra minutes a day jumping rope. "For other fashion shows you can be skinny, but for Victoria's Secret, you need definition,"
says Kroes, 23 Chris Bosh poured in 39 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the Raptors to a 93-86 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats
The 24-year-old has been enjoying a career season and it was more of the same Wednesday, as Bosh looked fierce and focused
and played all but three minutes of the game, shooting 15-for-20 on the night and making nine of 10 free throw attempts. "It's
something Chris and I used to talk about all the time, I used to tell him, `the great ones walk on the floor every night and
they think they're the best player on the court,"' Mitchell said. "It's just an air of confidence, it's mental. We know he's
got the talent, it's just coming focused and ready to go every night, and learning how to pull your teammates along with you."
Bosh, whose 27.6 points per game rank him third in the league in scoring, said his confidence is at an all-time high right
now. "I think I'm just figuring a couple of things out, I'm trying to have a little bit of confidence in myself, and every
night I'm trying to bring it to the table," said Bosh, who matched his career high of 42 points in last Friday's loss to New
Jersey. "When I'm settling, I have to keep that in mind, be aggressive, get to the free throw line and take my jumpers when
I'm open and just move quick and fast." He said he took the frustration from the losses to Boston and New Jersey and channelled
it into working harder in practice and setting an example for his teammates.
The Moon Venus and Jupiter on Monday night, Dec. 1st, the three worlds will gather in a patch of sky
less than 3o across. The celestial triangle will be visible around the world, even from light polluted cities.
Don't miss it!"The mammoth skewering the Moon is one of dozens of massive sculptures at Galleta Meadows depicting animals that once dominated the desert
Amanda, also known as Miss Hooters Canada 2008, plans to become an entrepreneur. But for now, this
20-year-old Virgo is spending her spare time shopping. Who would someone as sultry as Prestin pick as her hero? Norma Jeane Baker (Marilyn Munro), of course.
But Carmen Electra is the object of her secret celebrity crush
The L.A. Auto Show runs through Thanksgiving weekend, which seems appropriate, because there is a lot of turkey on the show’s
menu. From Honda’s hydrogen-powered hypercar -- a guess that’s tofurkey, of a sort -- to a huge,
steroid infused, poultry-yellow Rolls-Royce that is lacking only a wattle, the show’s collection of
large, flightless birds is certainly worth a, um, gander. "November has been a good month for auroras," says Serre. "We've had five clear nights and I saw the Northern Lights every
time." Serre's home in far-northern Quebec lies under Earth's auroral oval, a glowing ring around the North Pole where auroras are almost constantly active.
MEDIA MARSHMELLOWS A
recent story by CBC exposed the depth to which the world media sank following George W Bush's assertion that A pro-Palestinian gunman fires in the air at a refugee camp , Lebanon Remember reporters from the NY Times and the Washington Post back in the 60's and 70's. They dug for and exposed the
truth. That is how Nixon was impeached. Reporters digging for the truth. The world media today is sickeningly shallow,
parroting the prose of the powerful. There were no weapons of mass destruction. Politicians and left wing peaceniks
were ignored by the press and we all sailed blindly into believing we should flatten The media has basically bailed on
the important issue beyond the fact of missing WMD: Who was responsible for the lies? Are they too busy dealing with weightier
matters, such as the Michael Jackson or Kobe Bryant sex cases and all the other fluff stories they love to fill your head
with? Are they overwhelmed by a bouillabaisse of homeland security stories dished out by the Department of Homeland Security?
Or is it possible that "Bush Lied about
Priest Stunned To Find Church Missing. They say a thief will take just about anything that's not nailed down. But an entire
church? That's what happened in the small Russian village of Komarovo, after a parish priest called authorities to tell him his church was missing. The building that once housed a congregation
had originally been built in 1809 but had long been abandoned in favour of new digs. There were plans to revamp
the large two-storey edifice, which unfortunately for local officials, sits in an isolated area where few people venture.
Even the village priests rarely went out to see it, and that allowed the thieves their opportunity. Over what must have been
quite a long period, a thief - or more likely a group of them - began slowly removing the building brick by brick, taking
everything they could find both inside and out. When one of the pastors finally ventured out to the site last month, he was
stunned to see nothing left but the foundation and few wall remnants.
William Hung.: Nobody - and we mean NOBODY- put as much enthusiasm into singing Ricky Martin’s 'She Bangs' as this 'American Idol' hopeful. Did YOU buy his Christmas album? Amber Lee Ettinger became an overnight YouTube sensation
with her Barack Obama tribute 'I Got a Crush...on Obama.' Now that he's been elected, our guess is he doesn't need her help
anymore. Joe Wurzelbacher, or Joe The Unlicensed Plumber, became a household name after he was repeatedly mentioned in the
last presidential debate. He stretched out his 15 minutes by campaigning for John McCain. Better get that licensed renewed,
Joe. And fourth…Christmas
Brampton's 14th Annual Nighttime Santa Claus Parade lights up downtown Brampton on Sat. Nov. 15, 2008.
Beginning at 5:00 pm. the parade runs along Main Street from Sproule and heads south to Elgin Drive.
It's an unlikely partnership, but Toronto Police and photography chain, Henry's Cameras, are hoping
it will mean fewer guns on the streets. The amnesty program, Pixels for Pistols, calls for people with working - including
illegal - firearms to trade them for digital cameras. What a stupid idea.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced further changes to stabilize the lending industry during a press conference
in Toronto, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008. The federal government is purchasing another $50 billion in residential mortgages
to further stabilize the lending industry and encourage lower interest rates, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced
Wednesday. The announcement follows a similar move last month in which Ottawa bought $25 billion in mortgages. The Tories
have been quick to indicate that the deal to buy mortgages is an asset swap, not a bailout. The idea is that banks can take
good assets, in this case the mortgages, and turn them into cash -- which can then be made available to people seeking mortgages
or to small business. Why? Yes, we're facing tough times, but the markets had to correct. They were way overinflated. Greed
ran amuck. How much profit did the banks make the last number of years? Why don't they bail themselves out? They got themselves
into this mess. How is it that they will be bailed out of their recklessness? If I get myself into a mess, I'm the only one
who's responsible to get myself out, and by the way where did all that money go?
The rock 'n' roll legend, who dominated the charts in the '50s and '60s with such
hits as "A Teenager in Love," "Runaround Sue," "The Wanderer" and "Abraham, Martin and John," Dion, 69, on his latest
album..."Rock 'n' roll started in the '50s, not the '60s. And I started thinking, a lot of people, even the kids buying the
[old] records don't understand the significance of Cliff Gallup, James Burton and Scotty Moore," Dion continued, naming guitarists
known for their work with Gene Vincent, Ricky Nelson and Elvis Presley, respectively. "These guys infused freedom into the
music," he said. "And I thought it would be a fun thing to record the songs." Which led to Dion's new album, "Heroes: Giants
of Early Guitar Rock" (Saguaro Road). The CD features Dion's take on songs including Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues," the
Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love," Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" and Big Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle and Roll," songs known as
much for their big beats and driving guitars as their vocal performances.
CRTC TV Rulings Will Affect Viewers For Years To Come
Here's something you rarely hear - a promise that you'll be getting a lot more TV to watch and it won't be costing you any more money on your cable or satellite bill. That's just one of the pronouncements from the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission in a series sweeping changes that will alter the landscape of broadcasting in Canada over the next three years. The biggest announcement may be a change to the way you buy your programming. If you're one of those who want say, Rogers Sportsnet, but you don't want to be forced to take another non-sports related channel you never watch to get it, the Commission has decided to consider the elimination of bundling and allow you to choose only the stations you really want to pay for. It's pie in the sky - and the sky isn't the limit. That's the not unsurprising reaction from Leaf CEO Richard Peddie on the prospect floated Tuesday that the NHL was pondering allowing another hockey team to intrude on their turf. Any deal to allow the competitors in would hinge on a Leaf OK, and there would have to be an incredibly sweet pot to get them to give up a monopoly they've enjoyed virtually alone since they were introduced as the Toronto Arenas the year the NHL was formed in 1917. Fed-up fans could throw their allegiance to a newcomer with a chance to win it all.
This image is a composite of visible (or optical), radio, and X-ray data of the giant elliptical galaxy,
M87. M87 lies at a distance of 60 million light years and is the largest galaxy in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. Bright
jets moving at close to the speed of light are seen at all wavelengths coming from the massive black hole at the center of
the galaxy. It has also been identified with the strong radio source, Virgo A, and is a powerful source of X-rays as it resides
near the center of a hot, X-ray emitting cloud that extends over much of the Virgo cluster. The extended radio emission consists
of plumes of fast-moving gas from the jets rising into the X-ray emitting cluster medium.In X-rays, M87 also reveals evidence for a series of outbursts from the central supermassive black hole. The
loops and bubbles in the hot, X-ray emitting gas are relics of small outbursts from close to the black hole. Other interesting
features in M87 are narrow filaments of X-ray emission, which may be due to hot gas trapped by magnetic fields. One of these
filaments is over 100,000 light years long, and extends below and to the right of the center of M87 in almost a straight line.
OBAMA REIGNS
President-elect
Barack Obama waves after giving his acceptance speech at Grant Park in Chicago Tuesday night, Nov. 4, 2008.
At the upper reaches of the Democratic Party, "FOB" used to mean "Friend of Bill," as in Clinton. With
Obama's victory on Tuesday, "FOB" is the new acronym for the close-knit corps of Chicago neighbors, graduate school classmates,
pickup basketball teammates and family friends of the incoming president. A few Friends of Barack are likely to follow him
to the White House, Jarrett being the most probable candidate. Others expect to stay close to Obama through the thicket of
personal and business ties that have evolved over decades. The Obama inner circle is largely a high-achieving group of professionals
clustered around Chicago. They vacation with the president-elect's family; play Scrabble with Obama and his wife, Michelle;
and stay in touch by e-mail and at dinner parties when time permits. CALGARY -- The break and enter suspect left in critical condition during an arrest earlier this week was not jolted by
a Taser and his injuries are mainly self-inflicted, the head of the Calgary police union said yesterday.
Mainly self-inflicted means to human rights activists that he damaged his own skull when police repeatedly "placed it on the
floor". Calgary Police John Dooks said cops shot the man with a Taser during the arrest, but only one
of the barbs hit the suspect, meaning he was not shocked by any electricity. Police responded to a home in the 500 block of
42 St. S.E. about 8:15 p.m. Saturday on reports of a suspicious man in a backyard. Dooks said four officers climbed in through
a window and tackled the suspect. During the arrest, Dooks said the suspect went into medical distress. "At this point, it's
speculation until we have medical evidence, but it could be related to his state of intoxication or his substance abuse,"
he said, adding the suspect's actions were consistent with drug induced, excited delirium. The suspect was rushed to hospital
and was listed in critical condition last night. The suspect, believed to be in his early 30s, is known to police, said Dooks,
but does not have a known history of violence. Filming of House of Cards centred around a character who lures people into a garage, ties them to a chair and chops them into
pieces, cops say before Altinger's Oct. 10 disappearance. Edmonton
filmmaker Mark Twitchell, seen on his MySpace page, will appear in court today charged with first-degree murder Greenpeace Australia-Pacific has launched their Forests for Climate tour. To the sounds of beating drums and singing, their ship the Esperanza docked in the tropical heat of Port Morseby, Papua.With a colourful welcome in Papua New Guinea, Esperanza, will tour the region protecting forests and highlighting the effect of deforestation on global warming. The ship’s crew was welcomed by traditional Huli, Kairuku, and Oro dancers along with Asaro mud men from coastal and highland regions. A University of B.C. epidemiologist says there is now evidence to support a heroin-assisted addictions therapy clinic
in Vancouver. The three-year study treated 251 of the most chronically addicted in both Vancouver and Montreal who have not responded well
to other treatment options. "These people are out in the alleys, injecting heroin of unknown quality and quantity," said Dr.
Martin Schechter, the study's principal investigator. "They're committing crimes, they're involved in sex work to pay for
that, and they're certainly, in that situation, not going to get better." The study was funded by an $8.1-million research
grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and was approved by Health Canada. The study's participants received
methadone, injected heroin or an opiate known as hydromorphone. The study found illicit heroin use among participants fell
by almost 70 per cent, the proportion of participants involved in illegal activity fell to 36 per cent from 70 per cent, and
participants who were once spending on average $1,500 per month on drugs reported spending between $300 and $500 per month
by the end of the treatment phase. Schechter said that is enough evidence to show heroin-assisted therapy is a safe and effective
treatment for the chronically addicted, and he wants to reopen the heroin-assisted therapy clinic in Vancouver that was used
in the study.
POTHEADS WORSE THAN POTHOLES POLICE PROCLAIM! Toronto police broke new ground Wednesday by arresting a 27-year-old woman under Canada's new drugged-driving law. The driver was taken into custody after she hit a parked car at 625 Richmond Street West. The woman was suspected of driving while under the influence of drugs. The new laws allow police to demand a drug test if they suspect a driver of being high while behind the wheel.
Sen. Obama's $3 million 30-minute infomercial on seven
networks simultaneously. Eager to cement his case for the presidency in voters' minds before the campaign's frenetic
final weekend, Sen. Barack Obama blitzed the television airwaves and deployed one of the Democratic Party's biggest names
to deliver his message of change.
We see aspersions of racism on Sen. John McCain and running
mate, Gov. Sarah Palin. He said "You know who voted for it? You
might never know. That one," he said, pointing to Obama, who was sitting on a stool several feet away. "You know who voted
against it? Me."Regardless of intent, it showed Senator
McCain to be culturally ignorant, and completely unaware of the implications of what his off-the-cuff statement meant to people
of colour. Whether McCain meant it that way or not, if you are a person of colour, and someone trots out the 'that one' remark,
you instantly take it as racist. A man allegedly shouted out "kill him" at a Palin rally in which she criticized Obama's association
with a onetime domestic terrorist. The Secret Service was investigating. Ange-Marie Hancock, a race relations professor at
the University of Southern California, says it's not surprising McCain is now running a negative campaign of the type that
could incite some of the baser elements of society.As another example of media fluff BBC showed crazed Peruvian's
holding human skulls shouting Obama will win. What has this to do with geuine news? Barack Obama apparently can count on the support of a majority of Peruvian faith healers.Each of the 11 shamans in a Peruvian faith-healing organization said they have foreseen victory in the
The Canadian dollar dove another cent in opening trading Thursday, hitting a four-year low of 78.48 cents U.S. Toronto's S&P/TSX composite index was showing significant gains on Thursday after two days of big losses, but analysts said they don't expect the gains to last. Citi Bank total losses over the past 12 months to $20.2 billion. On Wednesday, the S&P/TSX composite index tumbled more than 631 points, or six per cent, while the Dow Jones industrial average retreated by 733 points, or 7.87 per cent, which was its biggest percentage drop since 1987. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe admitted Wednesday that police fired on Indian demonstrators despite a
government pledge that security forces would not do so.
Indians in Piendamo are shown marching Tuesday toward the city of Cali. Uribe had
earlier denied accusations that security forces fired at demonstrators during protests by thousands of Indians. "The police
did fire," Uribe said at a news conference Wednesday. He made his remarks after CNN obtained and aired a videotape that shows
police at La Maria Indian reservation.
Whales, Dolphins, Sonar and the CourtsWe were cheered to learn that the Navy and conservation groups have reached a court-approved settlement
that allows the Navy ample opportunity to test its low-frequency sonar systems while protecting the habitats of marine
life that can’t tolerate loud underwater sound. Sometimes compromise and good sense do prevail. So it is especially
disturbing that the Bush administration is still trying to block the courts’ ability to mediate future agreements between
the military and environmentalists. The vigilantly anti-regulatory Bush administration told the Navy that it could test its
sonar in more than 70 percent of the world’s ocean area. It claimed that training on the loud, low-frequency devices,
which can detect submarines at great distances, was important to national security and that any environmental damage would
be minimal. However, the same sound waves that can detect distant submarines can also bombard marine habitats, near and far,
disrupting the activities of whales, dolphins and other acoustically sensitive creatures. Fortunately, the Natural Resources
Defense Council and other organizations sued to rein in the exercises, and a federal court in California issued injunctions
and supplied the judicial muscle to force a mediated settlement. The agreement, approved this month, still allows the Navy
to test its sonar in large areas in the Northwestern Pacific and around Hawaii while carving out segments that are critically
important for marine life.
Stay of Order Freeing Detainees A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday issued a temporary stay of a federal judge’s order that had directed the Bush administration to free 17 Guantánamo detainees by releasing them in the United States on Friday. The order, from a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, made clear that it was intended to give the appeals court time to review the government’s request for a longer stay of the order from a federal district court judge in Washington, Ricardo M. Urbina. On Tuesday, Judge Urbina had directed that 17 men, members of the Uighur Muslim minority in western China, be brought from the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to his courtroom where they were to be freed.
Liberal Andrew Kania of Brampton West was in a close battle all night with Conservative Kyle Seeback with Kania
ultimately being declared the winner. Only 127 votes separated the pair unofficially as of press time
What if they gave an election and no one came? We now know the answer to that question. Tuesday's federal ballot casting will down in history, it had the lowest voter turnout in history. Just 58 per cent bothered to make an "X", easily besting the 61 per cent or so who showed up in 2004. People were saying they simply didn't like what they were being offered and said they'd rather make no choice than one they didn't want.
ELECTION DAY
A new poll suggests
the New Democrats are facing tough competition from the Green party as a second choice for voters in TODAYS
federal election campaign. Speaking in the heart of
S.I.U. Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin called the province's Special Investigations Unit a "toothless tiger and muzzled watchdog" while
presenting the findings of his report on Tuesday. He also called for a massive overhaul of the civilian police agency.
Marin, who was once head of the SIU, is calling for new legislation and sweeping
internal changes aimed at re-gaining the public's shattered confidence. "The SIU has become
so timid and fearful in its watchdog job role, that police oversight has hit rock bottom in Ontario," he said. "It has preferred to focus
its energy on an introspective, esoteric, pie-in-the-sky journey that has little to do with holding police accountable." Immanuel Christian Reformed Church held a grand re-opening Saturday at its new location, on Mayfield Rd. The highlight was a torch walk that started at the church's old site at 63 Church St. E. Brad George, one of the newer members of the church, is the last carrier of the torch and lit the flame at the new church. Ironically albeit sadly, the original church was destroyed by fire.
Brampton man zapped by a Taser in a Peel police station has not revealed any "anatomical" cause of death, the province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has revealed. He went into "medical distress" after being Tasered in the cell area of Mississauga's 12 Division Sept. 16. Four Peel officers have now been designated as subject officers in the SIU investigation. A fifth officer has been deemed a witness officer in the incident. Reilly was jolted with the Taser around 5 p.m. Sept. 16, following his arrest for assault with a weapon at a Mississauga home. He was taken to hospital where he died almost 12 hours later. He Pingping from Inner Mongolia, China's autonomous region, the world's smallest man sits underneath Svetlana Pankratova
from Russia, the Queen of Longest Legs, as they pose at Trafalgar Square in London, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008.
Letters to the editor
MEDAL MYSTERY:
LOST GOLD FOUND IN BRAMPTON BAR!. The mystery begins when a
The Juvenile Girls brought home the Gold
Medal from the OBA Provincial Championships alright but not everyone . Who is missing this medal and can we get it back
to its rightful owner Please Mike Milne
Long and Mc Lousy Again. A friend drove me all the way to L&M Mississauga to pick up my Precision
where it had resided for some weeks to be set up. I went through hell to get it there, wait two weeks without it and then
I was informed they declined to do the set-up due to a previous history in Astronomers are familiar with seeing amazing things through their telescopes. But nothing prepared them for an incredible
explosion detected early Wednesday morning by NASA’s Swift satellite. At 2:12 a.m. EDT, Swift detected an explosion
from deep space that was so powerful that its afterglow was briefly visible to the naked eye. Even more astonishing, the explosion
itself took place halfway across the visible universe!
ABUSING THE DOWNTRODDEN...The
abuses continue even now at the Knights Table in Brampton. I am getting a stream of complaints of forced donations by
staff to clients, abusive behaviour by staff to clients and the selling of Maple Lodge donations for personal profit by Michelle.
A worker named Maxine is even cheating clients by collecting money and then laughing at the clients saying there are no meals
available. I am getting no response from the Knights of Columbus or any other party involved (except for an unsolicited email
from a Knights Table employee provided at bottom). Due
to the problems at the Knights Table from many upset clients I conducted a survey and I asked 5 simple questions. The
results were scary. Of those willing to fill in the questionnaire (many were afraid of reprisals) I received 36 different failing
reports. One must realize too that these answers are from current clients, the majority of non-respondents I questioned
who simply no longer attend; like myself did not answer the questions. The most disturbing part of the survey was that many people chose to fill in the personal comments section.
The answers are a bold reflection of what I was hearing on the street prior to my survey. I got notes stating: Michelle was
cold, rude and swearing at clients, not fond of Maxine, staff were degrading, swearing and stealing produce. I got comments
like 'fire the staff, fire the boss, get new management and get caring people', which I believe accurately reflects the
state of affairs at this facility. I am getting
disturbing results from my both my hardcopy and online questionnaire on The Knights Table on
SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND... The family of Richard Wright, founder member of Pink Floyd, announce with great sadness, that Richard has died after a short struggle with cancer. Richard Wright, a founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd, died Monday. He was 65. Pink Floyd's spokesman Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist, said Wright died after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. He says the band member's family did not want to give more details about his death. Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason in college and joined their early band, Sigma 6. Along with the late Syd Barrett, the four formed Pink Floyd in 1965. The group's jazz-infused rock and drug-laced multimedia "happenings" made them darlings of the London psychedelic scene, and their 1967 album, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn," was a hit. In the early days of Pink Floyd, Wright, along with Barrett, was seen as the group's dominant musical force. The London-born musician and son of a biochemist wrote songs and sang. The band released a series of commercially and critically successful albums including 1973's "Dark Side of the Moon," which has sold more than 40 million copies. Wright wrote "The Great Gig In The Sky" and "Us And Them" for that album, and later worked on the group's epic compositions such as "Atom Heart Mother," "Echoes" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond." Tensions grew between Waters, Wright and fellow band member David Gilmour. The tensions came to a head during the making of "The Wall" when Waters insisted Wright be fired. As a result, Wright was relegated to the status of session musician on the tour of "The Wall," and did not perform on Pink Floyd's 1983 album "The Final Cut." Wright formed a new band Zee with Dave Harris, from the band Fashion, and released one album, "Identity," with Atlantic Records. Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and Wright began recording with Mason and Gilmour again, releasing the albums "The Division Bell" and "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" as Pink Floyd. Wright also released the solo albums "Wet Dream" (1978) and "Broken China" (1996). U.S. Coast Guard Finds Homemade Sub Carrying 6.6 Tons Of Coke. The self-propelled semi-suvmersible was
stealthily heading from Costa Rica towards the U.S. when it was intercepted by the U.S. Navy. The craft was about 60-feet
long and had a crew of four on board, who were all taken into custody. The sheer size of the haul and the way it was being
transported has amazed officials and has given a whole new meaning to the term 'the high seas.'
COP SHOCK DEATH....A
It is sad to note that the popularity for abusive government has continued in this country; where south of
the border, new government seems to be wanted. Stephen Harper and Jack Layton announced rival campaign pledges aimed at seniors
on Thursday, with the Conservative leader offering tax cuts and the NDP leader promising to boost the number of home-care
spaces. Speaking from a seniors' residence in Trois-Rivieres, Que., Harper said the Conservatives — if re-elected in
Oct. 14 election — would increase the amount of income that seniors can claim tax free under the senior age credit by
$1,000. Less than an hour later in Winnipeg, Layton advocated a $1-billion home-care program for seniors, saying "Stephen
Harper has let down many Canadian families." He said an NDP government would provide funding to allow 100,000 more seniors
to be cared for in their homes instead of institutions. Harper said his party's proposal would save low-income seniors about
$150 a year each, while costing the federal government $400 million annually. "We should do more to allow seniors to keep
a larger part of the money that they have worked hard to earn," Harper said. "This new measure is part of our long-term economic
plan. It's modest, but it's affordable and responsible and credible." The senior age credit is available to Canadians aged
65 and older. About 4.4 million people are currently eligible. Toronto Mayor David Miller waded into the federal election campaign on Tuesday. He spoke about the need for a ban on handguns
on a day that saw three homicides in the GTA, as well as the shooting of a 16-year-old in a city high school. Miller
also pointed out that so far, only the Green party has directly addressed the growing needs of Canadian cities. Its platform
has a national transit strategy and plans to give cities a permanent revenue source to help fix a growing infrastructure backlog.Nick Rizzuto, seen here centre during his November 2006 arrest, plead guilty to two gangsterism-related charges Thursday in
a Montreal court. His son, Vito Rizzuto, once considered the godfather of Montreal's Mafia, is serving a 10-year prison sentence
in the United States for his role in the 1981 murders of three captains of the notorious Bonanno crime family.
A Florida judge has ruled that a local ordinance banning sagging pants is unconstitutional. The ruling came
after a teenager spent a night in jail in Riviera Beach, Fla., for exposing too much underwear. Seventeen-year-old Julius
Hart was charged last week after an officer said he spotted the teenager riding his bicycle with over 10 centimetres of blue-and-black
boxer shorts revealed. Voters in Riviera Beach approved an anti-saggy pants law in March that calls for a $150 fine or community
service for those who wear their trousers too low. Habitual offenders face the possibility of jail time. Circuit Court
Judge Paul Moyle ruled that the law was unconstitutional based on "the limited facts" of the case. Technically, however, the
charge hasn't been dropped: a new arraignment awaits Hart on Oct. 5.
SPORTS POLL
With the Leafs training camp opening soon how far do you think the blue and white will go this?
This is the year: (17%) They'll sink like a steel puck by Christmas: (64%) Who cares? : (19%)
STAN STREET - BLUE ART
Street's earliest art celebrated the blues pioneers in wide slashes of brilliant color on slabs of discarded wood, rescued from anonymity with portraits of the likes of Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Robert Johnson. After some time in New Orleans, the juke joints and blues festivals of the deep South started to breathe on his canvas. As he experimented with different styles, drawing on the Impressionists and Expressionists, Street "took what he needed to know and went from there". Bold strokes and colors played out the sounds he heard and played as a musical artist. "Being self-taught is an advantage, in that doors are always open for new development. My art will always have a primitive feel to it and I try to give it movement and life."The biggest influence on Street's art is the perspective of being a blues musician. Growing up in New York he was influenced by his father and uncle - classical percussionists - who encouraged his creativity. He took up: sax, harmonica, percussion and singing, accumulating credits in award winning blues groups. He tours the Canadian blues festival circuit as well as blues festivals and honkytonks of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. Although Street called Florida his "home" for more than 25 years, he has moved to Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he finds common ground with the primordial blues of the Delta, and also will be closer to New Orleans, Chicago, and Kansas City. Sony Corp. is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers The recall involves 19 models in the Vaio TZ series manufactured between May 2007 and July 2008. The Tokyo-based consumer electronics company said improperly placed wires near the hinge connecting the body of the laptop and its display could wear quickly, causing a short circuit and overheating. A flaw in a circuit board inside the display could also overheat its rim. Sony has received 209 reports of overheating worldwide, including seven cases in which people received minor burns. The laptop problem comes two years after Sony had to engage in massive recalls of laptop batteries, which also caused overheating or even burst into flames. The Vaio notebook LOOKS BAD!
Geneva, 10 September 2008. The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. An historic moment in the CERN Control Centre: the beam was successfully steered around the accelerator. Experiments using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the biggest and most complex machine ever made, could unlock secrets about the universe and its origins. The project has had to work hard to deny suggestions by some critics that the experiment could create tiny black holes of intense gravity that could suck in the whole planet. Such fears spurred huge public interest in advanced physics ahead of the start up of the 10 billion Swiss franc ($9 billion) machine, which proceeded smoothly on Wednesday (10/9/08).Time will tell of the mistakes of man. Hell, fire her up and lets see what happens.... CERN Director General Robert Aymar was quoted as saying that there's no risk.
Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf has given in to impeachment pressure and says he will step down. In Toronto, residents are now being allowed back home near the site of the massive Sunrise Propane blast last weekend.
Homes in the Keele Street and Wilson Avenue area had been cordoned off for the past eight days while asbestos was cleaned
up around the site on Murray Road in Downsview.
Worse
than the top two stories is the chance that you might die from a stroll in your own backyard! When are our MPP's going
to make this a priority problem. I do not wish to die tending my garden like my friend did. We need to pressure all levels
of government for a soution. More cases of the West Nile Virus are being reported all across
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The Snowbirds perform at the 59th Annual Canadian International Airshow at the CNE on August 30, 2008.
Adam displays the gold medal he won at the 2004 Olympic
Games in Athens Olympics to kick off 8/8/8 @8:08 pm
U.S. warns of 'punitive' action on Iran
LOST GOLD STILL NOT CLAIMED!!
Though the medal was found in May and the team was emailed the good samaritan of Brampton still has the medal and has heard no word from its owner or the team Pictured here is the winning team of a recent provincial basketball playoffs. They are all wearing their beautiful gold medals proudly. The mystery begins when a Brampton man found one of these medals in a Brampton bar! How did it get there just weeks after this photo was taken in Kitchener Ontario. We have emailed the club and await a reply. The Juvenile Girls brought home the Gold Medal from the OBA Provincial Championships. This marks the second Gold Medal for Newman Youth this season -- an outstanding achievement. Congrats Girls! Does Newman Youth Basketball not run an organized email system or do they regularly ignore peoples email or do they not care about the "lost gold"? pleasereplyspreadtheword75@hotmail.comTo: nyb@newmanyouthbasketball.comSubject: lost 2008 champ medalDate: Thu, 29 May 2008 12:29:32 -0400My friend found a medal for 2008 please help find owner mikeMEDAL MYSTERY....LOST GOLD FOUND IN BRAMPTON BAR!
Prime Minister Stephen Harper received the 400th anniversary of Québec City commemorative medallion from Jean Leclerc
of the Société du 400e anniversaire de Québec.
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by Mike Milne I first heard of the four hundredth anniversary celebrations
of the founding of For
more on my exciting expedition email us your request to
No one is sure what causes gamma-ray bursts. Favored possibilities include the collision of two neutron stars or a sort of super-supernova that occurs when extremely massive stars explode. One thing is certain: gamma-ray bursts happen in galaxies far, far away -- so far away that the distances are called "cosmological," beyond ordinary comprehension. Artist's concept: A gamma-ray burst destroys a star. Think about this: When you look up at the night sky, you are looking at the ultimate history book – one that goes back to the very beginning of what we call time. And each star is a chapter in the book. You are not really seeing the stars as they are now. You are looking at stars as they used to be when their light left them long ago. And the deeper we peer into space, the farther back in time we are looking. In fact, light from the galaxies farthest away is billions of years old.
I’ll
look for your application to come in the mail and I’ll hang on to your picture. Sounds like you have a ton of experience
on the water which is great! I’ll be in touch when your application arrives. Hey, thanks for the
prompt reply! Where I attend for internet access restricts adobe upgrade; thus no access to filling out a virtual form. I
will snail mail a hard copy. Could you at least keep my photo (below) on file as I see you request one; all of my photos are
virtual. I have sailed US to NZ in the Pacific several times; NZ Cook Strait a lot on the ferries to Picton, Stewart Island and
Christchurch, crossed the English Channel a few times and piloted a 14 foot sailboat through an anti-cyclone in
the Cook Strait with at least a 40 ft swell! I do not get seasick even when everyone else does. I feel drawn toward a position
like "Radio operator". I am willing to take any courses needed. MikePS all the qualities you asked for coincidently I have ie):
RE: crew in Dec @ Australia
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BRAMPTON -- A Good Samaritan was knifed to death along with the woman he tried to save from an apparent domestic attack yesterday by a suicidal man. A Peel Regional Police sergeant, who arrived at the Red Maple Plaza at about 2:35 p.m. used his Taser to subdue a 28-year-old man as he was stabbing himself in the throat. One woman at the scene, Sharla Weller, said she was told the man had confronted the woman, claiming she was involved in an affair. Police would not comment on the motive for the attack. As the man knifed the woman, another man rushed to her aid trying to stop the attack. A chair was found in the strip mall's parking lot, apparently used to stop the knife-wielding man.
One victim collapsed and died in the parking lot, while the other stumbled into a nearby business and died.
The suspect was taken to Sunnybrook hospital. His condition was not disclosed, but the injuries were described as severe.
Because the suspect was jolted by a police Taser, the civilian watchdog, Special Investigations Unit, sent nine agents
to investigate. "When the officer arrived, the man was harming himself," said SIU spokesman Frank Phillips. "The officer deployed
a Taser to stop the man from doing so. The Taser was effective." Phillips said the suspect was armed with a knife. Peel Const.
J.P. Valade said identities of the victims are being withheld until their families are notified. "We're still trying to identify
the relationship of the male victim to the other two involved," he said. The acts of violence left a normally quiet and peaceful
neighbourhood reeling in shock. That someone from their community could be dead, sacrificing himself to help someone being
attacked, has shaken residents. "You try to help someone and look what happens," said Weller, who was walking her dog and
arrived at the plaza on the corner of Red Maple Dr. and McLaughlin Rd., near Bovaird Dr., shortly after the violence ended.
"It's scary.
Lhasa: At least 100 killed in uprising
Beijing set a "surrender deadline" signaling a crackdown after the worst unrest in Tibet for two decades. Freeing Tibet
is getting expensive for global authorities Security will now need to be beefed up for
the now sullied olympic flame relay.The torch was being carried by a wheelchair athlete when it was halted and extinguished
due to demonstrations. Backup flames, also lit from the birthplace of the ancient games in Olympia, Greece, are with
the relay at all times to relight the torch.
Police say the fact Moore's wrists and ankles were bound didn't necessarily mean somebody else was
involved in his death. A violent sexual offender being investigated in the disappearance of three young men was
found hanging from a braided rope in his cell at the Maplehurst Detention Centre in Milton, an inquest heard yesterday. Donald
Douglas Moore, 36, also had his hands and ankles bound with pieces of bed sheets when a correctional officer discovered his
body at 3:34 a.m. on April 2, 2004. He was pronounced dead at the Milton hospital 12 minutes later. A coroner's jury in Hamilton
started probing the circumstances surrounding his death yesterday and will have to determine if it was a suicide, homicide
or accidental death. At the time police would not release any information to the press which was noticed as being suspicious
by both by the Star and the Dunstan Times. Police alledge Moore had first threatened to hang himself during a series
of cellphone conversations with Peel Detective Ken Drover, who had sworn out a sexual assault warrant against him on March
13, 2004, for allegedly molesting handicapped children in the Mississauga area. At the time, Peel police were also investigating
Moore for the disappearance of Robert Grewal, 22, and Joey Manchisi, 20, who were last seen on Nov. 12, 2003, and Rene Charlebois,
15, who disappeared a month later. During the phone conversations, Moore had refused to reveal his whereabouts and said he
would kill himself before spending another day in jail. "I'll be dead because of my past. Turning myself in is not an option,"
he told Drover on March 13, 2004. "It's OK to commit suicide. Jump off a swing and hang," he said. Two days later, Halton
police tracked him down at the Royal Motel on Plains Road in Burlington. A heavily armed tactical team burst into his room
in the middle of the night and zapped Moore with a stun gun while he was still in bed. He continued to talk about killing
himself when Drover interviewed him after his arrest. He was placed in a single cell on suicide watch at the Maplehurst Detention
Centre later in the day. But a week later, a prison doctor concluded he was no longer a suicide risk. Moore was taken off
suicide watch and moved to the general prison population, where he shared a cell with another inmate. Forensic pathologist
Dr. John Fernandes testified Moore had died of "ligature strangulation with a braided rope," which had been looped over a
hinge on the cell door. Apart from the ligature marks, there were no other signs of violence on the body. Fernandes told the
jurors he was aware of other cases where people had bound their legs and hands before committing suicide. Shortly after Moore's
death, Peel police learned he had been involved in the murder of the three missing men and had recruited his wife and a teenage
boy to help dispose of the bodies. Regarding Charlebois, police have never determined why he was murdered and the only
connection he had with Moore was that they knew some of the same people. During the teen accomplice's trial, it was learned
that Moore went after Manchisi and Grewal because he erroneously believed they had stolen some of his dope, money and jewellery.
Joseph Manchisi Sr., a Milton realtor, is attending the inquest hoping to find some answers about his son's missing remains.
He told reporters he alerted Halton police two days after his son's disappearance that Moore might be involved. He said police
told him Moore was a pedophile but wouldn't kill anybody. The inquest continues. by plegall@thespec.com
Her name is Valerie Valen and she will never forget what being a Good Samaritan did to her life. She's the woman who tried
to come to the aid of a homeless man as he was being beaten to death at Moss Park Armoury on a rainy night in August 2005.
Three reservists, Jeffrey Hall, Mountaz Ibrahim and Brian Deganis, are charged with second-degree murder in the terrible crime,
which the court heard began when the trio returned from a night of heavy drinking. She was passing by the park that night,
and couldn't believe what she was hearing. In some stunning testimony on Wednesday, the only living witness to the crime
recalls being startled by the voice of a man later identified as Hall emerging through the downpour, screaming ""f***ing bums"
and that the homeless were "all a waste of skin." Valen became a victim herself when she screamed back at
the trio, warning them she was calling 911. She told a hushed courtroom that was the moment they stopped going after
Croutch and turned on her. She claims she was beaten by both Hall and Ibrahim and kicked in the head and ribs, leaving
her black and blue from her ear to the back of her skull. When the men discovered they were beating a woman, she alleges they
didn't stop for a moment. Instead she testified Hall sneered at her, "you're a dike, and you don't matter anyway." All three
are also facing charges of assault causing bodily harm for that incident. After the beating, she says Deganis marched
back up to her and shoved his dog tags in her face. "These gave them the right to kill all us homeless crack heads and bums,"
she concluded. Valen, who knew the victim, called him a sad homeless man who was a "little more prideful" than other homeless
people. She termed him a "gentleman" who always tried to help the addicts and the working girls who hung around the area.
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For some time many of us have wondered just who is this guy Jack Schitt?
We find ourselves at a loss when someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt!'Well, thanks to my genealogical studies, you can
now respond in an intellectual way. It turns out that Jack Schitt was the only
son of Awe Schitt. Awe Schitt, the famous fertilizer magnate, married O. Schitt, the owner of Needeep N. Schitt, Inc.. In
turn, Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt.The deeply religious couple produced six children: Holie Schitt, Giva Schitt, Fulla Schitt,
Bull Schitt, and the twins Deep Schitt and Dip Schitt. Against her parents' objections, Deep Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a
high school dropout. After being married 15 years, Jack and Noe Schitt divorced.Noe Schitt later married Ted Sherlock, and
because her kids were living with them, she wanted to keep her previous name. She was then known as Noe Schitt Sherlock. Meanwhile,
Dip Schitt married Loda Schitt, and they produced a son with a rather nervous disposition named Chicken Schitt. Two of the
other six children, Fulla Schitt and Giva Schitt, were inseparable throughout childhood and subsequently married the Happens
brothers in a dual ceremony. The wedding announcement in the newspaper announced the Schitt-Happens nuptials. The Schitt-Happens children were Dawg,
Byrd, and Horse. Bull Schitt, the prodigal son, left home to tour the world. He recently returned from The Green Party are asking me for money, but I have been asking them for answers. Anyone can have money,
not too many people have answers. I wrote to green party regarding provincial and federal issues...never a reply except to
add me to a general mailing list...wazzappanee? Mike
Sincerely, Crock O. Schitt
LEAFS LAFFING STOCK..... With the regular season now
over, the Leafs do not even appear on any sports show charts! Why? Simply they are an embarrassment; technically it is because they
didn’t make it to the playoffs. This makes me happy. What? Here’s why...to me there is little worse than
hoping losers will win. I used to get an ulcer watching the Maple Laffs fall apart in the playoffs. Would someone in say Renault and McLaren have both dismissed any suggestion that Fernando Alonso caused the crash that ruined Lewis Hamilton's
Bahrain Grand Prix. Hamilton smashed his front wing when he ran into the back of Alonso's Renault under acceleration out of
the first corner on lap two - prompting some suggestions in the paddock that the former world champion had deliberately lifted
off or 'brake tested' his 2007 title rival. Renault data seen by ITV Sport proved that Alonso was accelerating normally
when the accident happened, and that the speed difference was purely a consequence of the McLaren getting a much better exit
from the corner. Massa Wins, Hamilton drags his damaged McLaren back to the pits. Massa finally got his world title challenge up
and running with a flawless victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix, beating team-mate Kimi Raikkonen in a Ferrari 1-2. The
pint-sized Brazilian had spent the last few days fending off speculation that his Ferrari drive was in jeopardy for 2009 after
error-strewn performances in the first two races.Sir Jackie Stewart believes that the current crisis surrounding Max Mosley
as FIA president could be the catalyst for an overhaul of the way the FIA operates. Mosley is under increasing pressure to
stand down following sexual allegations in the News of the World in recent weeks 1. MASSA Ferrari +1h31m06.970s
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To: spreadtheword75@hotmail.com
Subject: uninformed
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:20:26
-0500
It is obvious that you are truly uninformed about what really goes on at the knights table and if you are truly trying to
help the ppl who are serviced there maybe you should try to volunteer and make things better from the inside instead of lurking
in the shadows like a thief in the night. I really liked the last line how it was not about the patrons but about you and
how michelle was on your back and not everyones back hmmm funny how some other ppl might not notice that one eh. you are a
small individual with obviously little true information and less brains but they will still service and serve even ppl like
yourselves. if you spread the word of lies which your cabbage bullshit is because cabbage was the main vegetable with
peas and corn also. but the main entree has been sandwiches, chicken, pork and beans. lasagna, veal cutlets and so on. I would
rather you ate at the shelter where you are obviously from or definitely heading so you can see the difference in the food.
enjoy your bigotry and thank you for comiong to kt.
With NASA's high-energy Swift Observatory in orbit, cosmic gamma-ray bursts just keep setting new records. The
most powerful one yet — in fact, the most violent event ever seen in the universe — flashed into view on the morning
of March 19th. While Swift caught it from orbit, ground-based cameras on the hunt for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) saw a flare
of visible light from the burst that peaked around magnitude 5.6 The
afterglow of GRB 080319B was imaged by Swift's X-ray Telescope (left) and Optical/Ultraviolet Telescope (right). It was, by
far, the intrinsically brightest gamma-ray-burst afterglow ever seen. This sets a record of a different kind: what is the
farthest thing visible to the unaided eye? The usual answer is the Great Andromeda Galaxy at 2.5 million light-years, or,
for a skilled observer under a very dark sky, the dimmer Triangulum Galaxy, M33, at 2.9 million light-years. But the visible-light
afterglow from the March 19th burst had a redshift of 0.94, corresponding to a look-back time of 7.5 billion years The Bank of Canada
offices in
Swift's Burst Alert Telescope picked up the burst at 2:12 a.m.
EDT on March 19, 2008, and pinpointed the coordinates in the constellation Bootes. Telescopes in space and on the ground quickly
moved to observe the afterglow. The burst was named GRB 080319B and registered between 5 and 6 on the visual magnitude scale
used by astronomers. (A magnitude 6 star is the dimmest visible to the human eye; magnitude 5 is almost three times brighter.) Above: GRB 080319B makes
a brief appearance among the stars of Bootes in a movie made by Pi of the Sky, a Polish group that monitors the sky for afterglows
and other short-lived phenomena. [More] Later that evening, the Very Large Telescope in Chile and the
Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas measured the burst's redshift at 0.94. A redshift is a measure of the distance to an object.
A redshift of 0.94 translates into a distance of 7.5 billion light years, meaning the explosion took place 7.5 billion years
ago, a time when the universe was less than half its current age and Earth had yet to form. This is more than halfway across
the visible universe."No other known object or type of explosion could be seen by the naked eye at such an immense distance,"
says Swift science team member Stephen Holland of Goddard. "If someone just happened to be looking at the right place at the
right time, they saw the most distant object ever seen by human eyes without optical aid." Most gamma ray bursts occur when massive stars run out of nuclear fuel. Their cores collapse to form black
holes or neutron stars, releasing an intense burst of high-energy gamma rays and ejecting particle jets that rip through space
at nearly the speed of light. When the jets plow into surrounding interstellar clouds, they heat the gas to incandescent visibility.
It is this gaseous "afterglow" which was visible to the human eye on March 19th. GRB 080319B's afterglow was 2.5 million times more luminous than the most luminous supernova ever recorded,
making it the most intrinsically bright object ever observed by humans in the universe. The most distant previous object that
could have been seen by the naked eye is the nearby galaxy M33, a relatively short 2.9 million light-years from Earth. Right: The afterglow of GRB 080319B as recorded by Swift's X-ray Telescope. Analysis of GRB 080319B is just getting underway, so astronomers
don't know why this burst and its afterglow were so bright. One possibility is the burst was more energetic than others, perhaps
because of the mass, spin, or magnetic field of the progenitor star or its jet. Or perhaps it concentrated its energy in a
narrow jet that was aimed directly at Earth. GRB 080319B
was one of four bursts that Swift detected on March 19th, a Swift record for one day. Swift science team member Judith Racusin
of Penn State University comments, "coincidentally, the passing of Arthur C. Clarke seems to have set the universe ablaze
with gamma ray bursts." A fitting farewell, indeed. SUNSET ALERT: When the sun goes down tonight, step outside
and look west. Weather permitting you'll see a slender equinox crescent Moon hanging above the rosy glow of sunset. Framed
by the cobalt blue of early evening, the Moon reveals its "da Vinci glow" or Earthshine, a pale impression of the full Moon
inside the vivid crescent--a beautiful sight. Consider it an appetizer for Tuesday. On April 8th, the still-slender crescent
passes almost directly in front of the Pleiades star cluster. Also known as the Seven Sisters, the dipper-shaped Pleiades
are visible to the naked eye even from urban areas and they look wonderful through binoculars. Tuesday evening's delicate
conjunction of Luna and the Seven Sisters should not be missed.
A bus rollover on the QEW east late Monday afternoon looked worse than was, but the twisted
metal and broken glass certainly put a scare into a busload of Mexican tourists.Drivers on the QEW east of Appleby Line also
had to contend with the bus that flipped over on the roadway and landed in the ditch after crashing through a fence (pictured).The
coach had 48 tourists from Mexico on board, including several children. Thirteen people were transported to hospital with
non-life threatening and mostly minor injuries, including cuts and scrapes."I'm just glad that nobody got seriously injured,"
said driver Drago Halusan. "We all came out of it alive and safe."The accident led to a major backup during the afternoon
rush, as traffic slowly squeezed by in the far left lane. There's no word on the specific cause in this one but authorities
are aware it could have been a lot worse than it was. Meanwhile, on a different highway there were more problems when a major accident created commuter
chaos on Highway 400 between King and Aurora Rds. just in time for the afternoon rush hour Monday.Traffic was backed up for
kilometres after a tractor trailer collided with a Ministry of Transportation truck fixing potholes on the busy roadway around
2pm. OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley called it a 'mess', and for a time the back-up stretched as far as Major Mackenzie Drive. "They
had one of those big cross trucks parked behind them in the right-hand lane when a tractor trailer hauling steel came southbound
and didn't even slow down, just slammed right into the back of the cross truck and it sent the cross truck spinning into the
left guide rail, the concrete wall in the middle," he explains. "The force of the impact was so great it actually ripped
the front axle out of the steel-hauler and it also went with no steering axle across the lane, tearing out the fuel tanks
into the guidelines rails, where it caught on fire." Incredibly, no one was seriously hurt in the accident. "The young mother
driving the crash truck was taken to hospital with minor injuries, given the impact involved, and that's great news," Woolley
notes. "The truck driver's okay as well, and the entire crash missed the workers so the crash truck was properly placed and
it did its job; impact on traffic was severe, with just the right shoulder in the southbound lane open for cars to squeeze
through. Drivers going the other way slowed down to gawk, creating problems for motorists heading northbound. The roadblocks
were finally cleared away around 6pm, but the delays caused by the original crash lingered well after the rush was over
More trash from the Hill started when an outraged New Democrat MP complained to the Speaker that she saw Tory
rep James Moore (pictured) surfing the net while Parliament was in session. That wasn't a problem until Irene Mathyssen took a closer look at his laptop. She was stunned to see what she calls a "scantily clad" woman displayed on
the screen. And she insists the offending picture was in full view of others in the chamber - including those in the public
gallery. "Well, I'm not an expert," she said when probed about the exact content of the pics.
"(But it was) not full nudity. It was lingerie. It was scanty lingerie. And I was startled by it." She called the conduct
outrageous and said it sets a bad example. Moore, a B.C. parliamentary secretary, adamantly denied the charge. "I take great offence to what's being alleged here," he said. "I would never do what's been talked
about. I respect this House too much to even consider doing what's been described to me." It was later learned that Moore was viewing a pic of his current girlfriend, and in the end the NDP issued an apology
about how their member handled the incident. Its still not right; he is there to uphold democracy and just now it needs all
the attention it can garner!
The dog's owner, Bert Clark, handed out a $15,000 reward for the return of his precious hound.
Gunfire broke out at a Brampton club overnight, leaving a man dead and police looking for suspects.Peel Regional Police
were called to the Trilogy Nightclub on Kennedy Rd. N. near Queen St. E. at about 2:30am Monday. They arrived on the scene to find the victim, identified as Andre Harrisingh, lying in the
parking lot. He'd suffered critical injuries and was pronounced dead in hospital. There's no word on a motive for the violence
but Peel investigators are looking for a small white vehicle that was spotted leaving the scene along with a green SUV. So
far no suspect descriptions are available and it's unclear how many people cops are looking for. It's Peel Region's fourth
homicide of the year. Gas prices are jumping again after the cost of a barrel of oil on the international market closed above US$100...Just when
you thought it was safe to go back into your local gas station, comes this news - the prices at the pump are about to spike
dramatically again.
The two-page
transcript resembles one published by the Warren Commission, which investigated Kennedy's assassination and determined Oswald
was the lone gunman. In the report, the FBI concluded that transcript of an alleged conversation
between Oswald and Ruby was fake, and that it had been "re-created" for authorities by a now-deceased Dallas attorney who
claimed he recognized Oswald in a newspaper photo as the man he saw talking to Ruby. The
transcript unveiled Monday is dated Oct. 4, 1963, and allegedly happened at the Carousel Club, a Dallas nightclub. It begins
with a discussion of how the "boys in Chicago" want to "get rid of" U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, JFK's brother. "There is a way to get rid of him without killing him," Oswald says. "How's that?" Ruby responds. "I can shoot his brother," Oswald says. After a discussion of the logistics of shooting the president, Ruby says the money for the operation's coming from the Mafia.
"Are you with the Mafia?" Oswald asked. "You're asking
too many questions," Ruby responds
"Dr. Horrors" reign came to a dramatic end in a jungle resort in Nepal Thursday, even as his wife in Brampton
denied he's the mastermind behind a massive kidney-trafficking ring.
Amit Kumar, accused of harvesting hundreds of kidneys
from poor, unsuspecting Indians, was arrested by Nepalese police shortly after he checked into a resort hotel in the remote
Chitwan National Park at the foot of the Himalayan mountains. On the run since Jan. 24 when Indian police dismantled an underground kidney transplant network in Gurgaon, outside of New
Delhi, Kumar was reportedly carrying a suitcase full of euros and American dollars at the time of his arrest. Nepalese officials
found a bank draft for 936,000 euros and $125,000 in cash. Tell me what kind of human being would do these things to
anyone. According to the Himalayan Times, Kumar and a Nepalese associate identified as Manish Singh checked into The Hotel
Wildlife Camp under Singh's name, and were assigned room 6 at the resort, renowned for nature safaris. Wearing a hat and sunglasses,
Kumar apparently asked for a copy of the English daily, which carried a front-page story of the global manhunt for him, then
minutes later, returned it to the front desk with the article cut out. Suspicious of such behaviour, the clerk (who is this
guy Dick Tracey) alerted Nepalese police who stormed the room and arrested Kumar without incident. Singh, however, managed
to escape. Kumar was transported Thursday night from the resort, 60 kilometres from the Indian border, to a jail in Kathmandu
where he will await extradition to India, police said.
TOP 3 WIERDIEST SHOW ENDINGS EVER... #3 M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Farewell And Amen (1972-1983) It seems only appropriate that this show should follow the one before it, because it smashed the former finale's viewing
record. After 11 years - far longer than the actual Korean War lasted - the TV series M*A*S*H* signed off with a 2½ hour finale
that culminated in B.J. Hunnicutt refusing to say goodbye to his bunkmate Hawkeye. But as the latter surgeon's chopper lifted
off from the 4077th for the last time, he spotted a final message written in the stones below: "Goodbye," it read.
The episode wasn't the best one in the series' storied history, but it was hyped so highly that it became the most watched
regular non-sporting event in the history of the medium, attracting an astounding 106 million eyeballs - or 77 per cent of
the TV audience, a feat likely never to be repeated. #2 Newhart (1982-1990) Regardless of how you rate the others on this list, few will dispute this as the greatest single TV farewell in the history
of the medium - which brings us full circle back to the late Suzanne Pleshette, who was such an integral part of it. The show
concerned an author-turned-Vermont inn owner named Bob Loudon, who was surrounded by an oddball assortment of characters.
In the history-making last episode, a Japanese mogul buys out the entire town, with plans to turn it into a golf course. Bob
refuses to sell and eventually gets hit on the head by a golf ball, causing him to lose consciousness. When he wakes up in
a darkened bedroom, he nudges his spouse and starts to tell her about this 'strange dream' he had about living in an inn,
and the odd characters that populated it. And when his wife turns on the light, the audience goes bananas - it's Emily Hartley,
Newhart's wife from his previous series in which he played a psychologist. Everything, right down to the bedroom furniture,
is the same. And it's Bob Hartley who speaks. "Well, I was an innkeeper in this crazy little town in Vermont," he tells her
as she stares at him dryly from the other side of the bed. "Nothing made sense in this place. I mean, the maid was an heiress.
Her husband talked in alliteration. The handyman kept missing the point of things. And then there were these three woodsmen..."
Pleshette turns to Bob and in that famous gravelly voice tells him that's the last time she'll let him eat Japanese food
before bedtime. The strangest and most cerebral single season TV shows in history. Patrick McGoohan played a former spy (assumed by many
to be his character John Drake on the previous Danger Man/Secret Agent Man series) who resigned suddenly without explanation.
He was kidnapped and exiled to a mysterious 'village' until he'd spill the secret behind his actions. But "Number Six" steadfastly
refused to reveal the reasons, and the show became an allegory about the individual against society. In the final convoluted
but still fascinating 17th episode, Six's quest to find out who Number One is, is finally realized - the person he's been
battling all this time appears to have been himself. The finale ends with him going back to his London apartment, followed
by the mysterious butler from the Village and the telltale automatic door opening - a prisoner still? An exceedingly strange
ending to an exceedingly strange show, but one they would eventually give college courses to study.
Clemens could face criminal charges
If Roger Clemens thought Wednesday's hearing marked the end of the questions and allegations about his now scandal-stained
career, he couldn't be more wrong: the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing may just be the beginning
of a long and difficult legal battle for Clemens that could culminate in the 354-game winner facing criminal charges. Rep.
Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the committee's chairman, and Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, the panel's leading Republican, could refer
the issue to the Justice Department, which would begin an inquiry into whether Brian McNamee or Clemens lied to Congress.
Harper said the scope of the inquiry has yet to be decided focusing on the former prime minister's business
dealings with the German-Canadian arms dealer."In this case, I conclude that the integrity concerns described above do not
warrant a lengthy inquiry into matters that have been investigated by the RCMP since 1995. Nor should there be an inquiry
with respect to facts already known."Johnston suggests the inquiry focus on whether Mulroney acted improperly in 1993 when
he accepted cash payments from Schreiber to lobby on his behalf to promote a German-built military vehicle.He rejects a full-scale
inquiry that would re-examine allegations of possible kickbacks in the 1988 sale of Airbus jets to Air Canada and recent allegations
that the prime minister's office ignored information from Schreiber.Johnston, president of the University of Waterloo, was
appointed by Harper two months ago to sketch out the basis of an inquiry into Mulroney's relationship with Schreiber.Stick him in jail.Why not just charge Brian Mulroney; biggest Canadian sleaze of the 20th century with corruption charges. Karlheinz
Schreiber has finally put the finger on his old pal. So what does the government do? Call for an inquiry? Millions more down
the drain. It is apparant now that he did receive money for influence and that is corruption! Liberals are salivating at the
prospect of the Mulroney-Schreiber Inqury. One is a former Primer Minister of Canada. Another is a German businessman making
all kinds of allegations about kickbacks while fighting his own battle against extradition to his native country. Add in potential
witnesses that could include other ex-P.M.s like Kim Campbell, Jean Chretien and former Justice Minister Allan Rock and you
have the recipe for an explosive and lengthy look at the darker side of politics. Mulroney was in Toronto Tuesday night and
came out firing on all cylinders. "I will be there before the commission with bells on because I've done nothing wrong and
have absolutely nothing to hide," he promised. "Twelve years ago I was falsely accused. I fought and won. Now it seems I have
to fight again ... so be it. I'm going to fight and win again." Mulroney looks to defend his good name, many longtime Tories
are worried what the whiff of scandal will do to their party. "This has the potential to rip the party apart," suggests Conservative-turned-Liberal
Garth Turner. The inquiry will investigate whether Mulroney took cash payouts while still in office - and try to determine
if the current prime minister knew about it. Nothing has been proven, but many observers believe it could be the most explosive
scandal to hit Ottawa since the sponsorship affair. Liberals, who have been looking for a wedge issue to dull the Tory tide
after voters gave a tepid response to Stephane Dion as leader, are salivating at the prospect of what may emerge from the
hearings. "This inquiry's going to open up a massive can of worms," predicts former Grit party president Stephen LeDrew. "It
won't be just a small family size. It will be a huge can of worms. It really is going to turn into the shootout at the OK
Corral between the old enemies."This isn't a first for Mulroney. Twelve years ago he faced similar accusations from Ottawa
about the so-called Airbus Affair. He sued the government and won more than $2 million. This time, it's not money that's at
stake, but a reputation. And that may be worth a lot more than any monetary reward can provide. Opposition parties claim the
revelations are grounds for Ottawa to consider recovering the $2.1 million settlement it paid to Mulroney in 1997 to compensate
him for the harm to his reputation. Mulroney has consistently argued he has done nothing wrong. Mulroney has failed to clear
the air completely about his dealings with Schreiber. For instance, why did he say under oath in 1996 that he had only met
Schreiber "once or twice" for coffee after leaving office in 1993 and "had never had any dealings with him"? It was later
revealed he had met Schreiber in hotels in 1993 and 1994 and took cash payments from him totalling $300,000? Why did he not
report the money on his tax returns in the years in which he received the cash, but only at some later date? What was the
money payment for?
The Mona Lisa - sometimes also known as "La Gioconda", another possible tip-off about its famous subject -
remains on display under heavy glass and heavy guard at the Louvre in Paris. It may be smaller in person than most art lovers
expect, but it's always been larger than life in its reputation.For centuries speculation has raged about the identity of
the woman with the half smile. And now German researchers claim to have found the definitive answer to the question. Family Day is not only a day off from work, it's also going to be a day off from some traffic tickets, too. The city has confirmed
the suddenly-called February 18th holiday, promised
by Premier Dalton McGuinty during the last provincial election campaign, has forced it to figuratively tear up more than 1,000 tickets given out by traffic enforcement officers. The reason: those
due to challenge the fines on the date when the hastily called holiday is held won't be able to get their due process because
the courts will be closed. The result is a withdrawal of the yellow tags and a free ride for some motorists who received
them. Most of the infractions affected are for minor offences, like parking or speeding. But the city is adamant it will still
prosecute major cases. That means anyone caught going more than 30 kilometres an hour over the limit or charged with careless
driving can still expect to face a judge. Affected drivers will receive a letter from the city confirming their ticket has
been quashed. HILARY: His life was marked by grand achievements,
high adventure, discovery, excitement -- but he was especially proud of his decades-long campaign to set up schools and health
clinics in Nepal, the homeland of Tenzing Norgay, the mountain guide with whom he stood arm in arm on the summit of Everest
on May 29, 1953. Yet he was humble to the point that he only admitted being the first man atop Everest
long after the death of Tenzing. He wrote of the pair's final steps to the top of the world: "Another
few weary steps and there was nothing above us but the sky. There was no false cornice, no final pinnacle." "We
were standing together on the summit. There was enough space for about six people." "We had conquered
Everest. "Awe, wonder, humility, pride, exaltation -- these surely ought to be the confused emotions of
the first men to stand on the highest peak on Earth, after so many others had failed," Hillary noted. "But
my dominant reactions were relief and surprise. Relief because the long grind was over and the unattainable had been attained."
"And surprise, because it had happened to me, old Ed Hillary, the beekeeper, once the star pupil of the
Tuakau District School but no great shakes at Auckland Grammar (high school) and a no-hoper at university, first to the top
of Everest." "I just didn't believe it." He said: "I removed my oxygen mask to take
some pictures. It wasn't enough just to get to the top." "We had to get back with the evidence. Fifteen
minutes later we began the descent." Then, upon arriving back at base camp, he took an irreverent view:
"We knocked the bastard off." His philosophy of life was simple: "Adventuring can be for the ordinary
person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself," he said in a 1975 interview after writing his autobiography, "Nothing
Venture, Nothing Win." But Prime Minister Clark, announcing his death, Friday January 11, 2008 Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the
20th century's greatest adventurers, died Friday. Hillary was anything but ordinary. "Sir Ed described
himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities. In reality, he was a colossus." "He was an
heroic figure who not only 'knocked off' Everest but lived a life of determination, humility and generosity...The legendary
mountaineer, adventurer and philanthropist is the best-known New Zealander ever to have lived." Close
friends described him as having unbounded enthusiasm for both life and adventure. "We all have dreams
-- but Ed has dreams, then he's got this incredible drive and goes ahead and does it," long-time friend Jim Wilson said in
1993. Hillary summarized it for schoolchildren in 1998, when he said one didn't have to be a genius to
do well in life. "I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will
work hard for it," he said before planting some endangered Himalayan oaks in the school grounds. Hillary's
pace slowed in his final years. He made his last visit to the Himalayas in April 2007 when he and Elizabeth
Hawley -- unofficial chronicler of expeditions in the Himalayas for 40 years -- met the 2007 SuperSherpas Expedition in Kathmandu.
A year earlier, he joined a flight of New Zealand dignitaries who flew to the Antarctic for the 50th anniversary
of the Scott Base, which the adventurer helped build in 1957. Unlike many climbers, Hillary said when
he died he had no desire to have his remains left on a mountain. He wanted his ashes scattered on Waitemata Harbour in the
northern city Auckland where he lived his life. "To be washed gently ashore, maybe on the many pleasant
beaches near the place I was born. Then the full circle of my life will be complete," he said.Spokesman
Mark Sainsbury said Hillary's family had accepted the offer of a state funeral, on a date not yet set. Tributes
quickly began flowing. "Sir Edmund's name is synonymous with adventure, with achievement, with dreaming
and then making those dreams come true," said Australia's acting prime minister Julia Gillard. "He was
a hero and a leader for us. He had done a lot for the people of Everest region and will always remain in our hearts," said
Bhoomi Lama of the Nepal Mountaineering Association in Kathmandu. Hillary remains the only non-political
person outside Britain honoured as a member of the Britain's Order of the Garter, bestowed by the Queen on just 24 knights
and ladies living worldwide at any time. In his 1999 book "View from the Summit," Hillary finally broke
his long public silence about whether it was he or Tenzing who was the first man to step atop Everest. "We
drew closer together as Tenzing brought in the slack on the rope. I continued cutting a line of steps upwards." "Next moment, I had moved onto a flattish exposed area of snow with nothing by space in every direction," Hillary wrote.
"Tenzing quickly joined me and we looked round in wonder. To our immense satisfaction we realized with
had reached the top of the world." Before Tenzing's death in 1986, Hillary consistently refused to confirm
he was first, saying he and the sherpa had climbed as a team to the top. It was a measure of his personal modesty and of his
commitment to his colleagues. He later recalled his surprise at the huge international interest in their
feat. "I was a bit taken aback to tell you the truth. I was absolutely astonished that everyone should
be so interested in us just climbing a mountain." Hillary never forgot the small mountainous country that
propelled him to worldwide fame. He revisited Nepal constantly over the next 54 years. Without fanfare
and without compensation, Hillary spend decades pouring energy and resources from his own fund-raising efforts into Nepal
through the Himalayan Trust he founded in 1962. Known as "burra sahib" -- "big man," for his 6 feet 2
inches -- by the Nepalese, Hillary funded and helped build hospitals, health clinics, airfields and schools. He raised funds for higher education for Sherpa families and helped set up reforestation programs in the impoverished
country. About $250,000 a year was raised by the charity for projects in Nepal. A strong conservationist,
he demanded international mountaineers clean up thousands of tonnes of discarded oxygen bottles, food containers and other
climbing debris that litter an area known as South Col valley, the jump-off point for Everest attempts. His
commitment to Nepal took him back more than 120 times. His adventurer son Peter has described his father's humanitarian work
as "his duty" to those who had helped him. It was on a visit to Nepal that his first wife, Louise, 43,
and 16-year-old daughter Belinda died in a light plane crash March 31, 1975. Hillary remarried in 1990,
to June Mulgrew, former wife of adventurer colleague and close friend Peter Mulgrew, who died in a passenger plane crash in
the Antarctic. He is survived by his wife and children Peter and Sarah. His passport described Hillary
as an "author-lecturer" and by age 40 his schedule of lecturing and writing meant he had to give up beekeeping "because I
was too busy." By that time he was touring, lecturing and fund-raising for the Himalayan Trust in the
United States and Europe for three months at a time, speaking at more than 100 venues during a tour. He
was known as ready to take risks to achieve his goals but always had control so nobody ever died on a Hillary-led expedition.
He was at times controversial. He decried what he considered a lack of "honest-to-God morality" in New
Zealand politics in the 1960s, and he refused to backtrack when the prime minister demanded he withdraw the comments. Ordinary
New Zealanders applauded his integrity. He got into hot water over what became known as his "dash to the
Pole" in the 1957-58 Antarctic summer season aboard modified farm tractors while part of a joint British-New Zealand expedition.
Hillary disregarded instructions from the Briton leading the expedition and guided his tractor team up
the then-untraversed Shelton Glacier, pioneering a new route to the polar plateau and the South Pole. In
2006 he entered a dispute over the death of Everest climber David Sharp, stating it was "horrifying" climbers could leave
a dying man after an expedition left the Briton to die high on the upper slopes. Hillary said he would
have abandoned his own pioneering 1953 climb to save another life. "It was wrong if there was a man suffering
altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say `good morning' and pass on by," he said. "Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain." Named New Zealand's
ambassador to India in the mid-1980s, Hillary was the celebrity of the New Delhi cocktail circuit. He later said he found
the job confining. He introduced jetboats to many Ganges River dwellers a decade earlier, in 1977, when
his "Ocean to the Sky" expedition travelled the Ganges by jetboat to within 210 kilometres of its source.The
last segment was by foot and two mountain peaks near Badranath, where the Ganges rises, were also climbed. He sought adventure
in places as distant from each other as the Arctic and Antarctic. Hillary didn't place himself among top
mountaineers. "I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back." "I have a lot of enthusiasm and I'm good on ice," he said. The first living New Zealander to be
featured on a banknote, he helped raise nearly $530,000 for the Himalayan Trust by signing 1,000 of the sparkling new five-dollar
bills sold at a charity auction in 1982.They were snapped up by collectors round the world. Honoured by the United Nations as one of its Global 500 conservationists in 1987, he was also awarded numerous honorary
doctorates from universities in several parts of the world. One of his accolades was the Smithsonian Institution's
James Smithson Bicentennial Medal for his "monumental explorations and humanitarian achievements," awarded in 1998.Throughout his life Hillary remembered his first mountain he climbed, the 2,940-metre Mount Tapuaenuku -- "Tappy" as
he called it -- in Marlborough on New Zealand's South Island. He scaled it solo over three days in 1944, while in training
camp with the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the Second World War. "Tapuaenuku" in Maori means "footsteps of the Rainbow
God". "I'd climbed a decent mountain at last," he said later. Like all good mountaineers
before him, Hillary had no special insight into that quintessential question: Why climb? "I can't give
you any fresh answers to why a man climbs mountains. The majority still go just to climb them."
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