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The clip, which has gone viral, shows a man who appears to punch another driver and is then arrested on site.

  • Kim Cattrall Doesn't Think Jamie Dornan Is Hot: "I Like Men to Look Like Men"

    Everyone is entitled to their own opinion! Kim Cattrall revealed to The Independent that she doesn’t find Jamie Dornan hot. In fact, she has no desire to see the actor’s steamy S&M flick Fifty Shades of Grey.

    Us Weekly
  • Spurs handle Raptors for sixth straight win, look back in form

    The San Antonio Spurs have accomplished enough in the last 15 years to have earned the benefit of the doubt during cold streaks, but fans could be forgiven for questioning their ability to contend after recent struggles in the midst of the team's annual (and usually very solid) Rodeo Road Trip. After starting off the nine-game jaunt at 2-1, San Antonio fell into a four-game slide after the All-Star Break that included convincing losses to ostensible peers like the Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers, and Portland Trail Blazers. Worse yet, future Hall of Fame point guard Tony Parker endured several of the worst games of his career and looked to be a shell of the player he was just a few months prior.

    Ball Don't Lie
  • OJHL players said to beat party where multiple women allegedly sexually assaulted

    The Cobourg Cougars had last weekend off after sweeping the first round of the playoffs. According to a QMI Agency report, "approximately 10 members" of the Ontario Junior Hockey League club attended a party where several women were allegedly sexually assaulted, which has prompted a major Ontario Provincial Police investigation. A number of postings are on social media including one of a trophy that appears similar to the Stanley Cup with the plaque reading "Cobourg Cougars Classic" and the statement below it reading "Whoever hooked up with the most broads last night gets the cup" and the hashtag #consentisoverrated.

    Buzzing The Net
  • Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams Lose Multi-Million Dollar "Blurred Lines" Lawsuit to Marvin Gaye's Family

    Update: Following the verdict, Us Weekly received the following statement on behalf of Pharrell, Robin Thicke and T.I.: "While we respect the judicial process, we are extremely disappointed in the ruling made today, which sets a horrible precedent for music and creativity going forward. Robin Thicke and Pharrell have to give it up — millions of dollars, that is. The two artists, who collaborated on the 2013 hit “Blurred Lines,” have been ordered to pay Marvin Gaye’s family $7.3 million after a jury ruled that their track ripped off Gaye’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up.” The verdict comes after a year-long trial, during which Thicke even went so far as to claim he was drunk and high on Vicodin while producing the jam.

    Us Weekly
  • Reporter who took famous Fenway Park selfie gets hired by MLB Network

    You remember Kelly Nash, right? No? Well, certainly you remember the precarious picture that made her go viral two years ago. She's the reporter who took a selfie atop Fenway Park's Green Monster during Boston Red Sox batting practice, as a ball whizzed

    Big League Stew
  • Harper calls Muslim face-covering veil 'anti-women,' unacceptable

    The prime minister ratcheted up the rhetoric against the niqab even as Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau accused him and his ministers of stoking prejudice against Muslims. Harper ignored those examples and returned instead to his assertion last month that it's "offensive" for someone to wear a face-covering niqab while taking the oath of Canadian citizenship. "The leader of the Liberal party continues to bring up his position on the niqab," Harper told the House of Commons, although Trudeau had not actually mentioned it.

    The Canadian Press
  • Robin Wright Talks Sex Life With Ben Foster After Sean Penn Divorce: "I've Never Been Happier"

    Better with Ben! Robin Wright opened up to Vanity Fair in its April 2015 cover story about how her now-kaput marriage to Sean Penn has made her relationship (and sex life!) better with her current fiancé Ben Foster. "I was pregnant and ostensibly married at 24," Wright, 48, told the mag. "I [changed my name] really for my children because we'd had kids before we married," Wright shared, "and I thought that we should all have the same name.

    Us Weekly
  • 100-kg ice chunk hits man in head in downtown Ottawa

    A 100-kilogram slab of ice hit a 56-year-old man in the head in downtown Ottawa late Tuesday afternoon, sending him to hospital with a concussion, a deep cut to back of head and a fractured collar bone, paramedics said. The man was walking along Cooper Street just west of Kent Street when the chunk of ice fell from a building above just before 5:15 p.m. ET, paramedic spokesman J.P. Trottier told CBC News. "It was a huge chunk of ice," Trottier said.

    CBC
  • Mohamed El Shaer, an RCMP high-risk traveller, flees Canada

    Mohamed El Shaer, a Windsor, Ont. man on an RCMP high-risk travellers list with ties to a known foreign fighter, has fled the country, according to police. El Shaer pleaded guilty to passport fraud last December. El Shaer falsified information on a Canadian Citizenship and Immigration questionnaire he filed in Turkey in 2013 when trying to replace a passport.

    CBC
  • Baby abandoned at end of London, Ont., driveway

    A baby was found abandoned at the end of a driveway in London, Ont., early this morning. London police said a citizen found the baby in a car seat at the end of a driveway on Emery Street East around 5:40 a.m.

    CBC
  • B.C. agency hails experimental treatment that sent cancer to remission in weeks

    Trish Keating's cancer was a particularly vicious breed of monster. Keating, who worked as costume designer in the film industry, was told in late 2013 that the cancer had returned once again and this time it was terminal. "When you've lived with cancer for five years and you're trying to beat the dragon that's breathing behind you, when finally someone says to you 'We can't see any (cancer)', first of all you're incredulous, kind of in a state of shock," Keating said in an interview.

    The Canadian Press
  • Florida mother who fled with son to prevent his circumcision faces arrest on contempt charge

    A judge issued an arrest order Tuesday for a woman who fled with her son to prevent his circumcision and ignored a demand to appear in court. Circuit Judge Jeffrey Gillen signed the order in a seven-minute hearing, three days after finding Heather Hironimus in contempt and warning that she would face imprisonment unless she reported to court with the child. Hironimus and the boy's father, Dennis Nebus, were never married but share custody of their child.

    The Canadian Press
  • Would you be afraid if your lottery dream becomes reality?

    You conjure fantasies about quitting your job, lying on a beach, paying cash for your dream house and studding the driveway with toys or playing lady bountiful to your family. It’s the longest anyone has ever waited to bring in a winning ticket, said Chris Fairclough, senior communications adviser for the B.C. Lottery Corp. “He knew he had won, put it in a safety deposit box and enjoyed life knowing he was financially set,” said Fairclough.

    Daily Brew
  • Flight attendant in nut rage case sues Korean Air and chairman's daughter

    A flight attendant who was harassed by a former Korean Air Lines Co. vice-president in what became known as the nut rage case filed a civil lawsuit against the airline and the executive. Kim Do Hee, the flight attendant, is seeking compensation for damages that were caused to her career, reputation and emotional well-being after Kim was verbally and physically attacked by Cho Hyun-ah, who is also the daughter of the airline chairman, according to a statement on Wednesday by two American law firms, the Weinstein Law Firm and Kobre & Kim. Cho, then a vice-president overseeing cabin service, became enraged at the way Kim served macadamia nuts to her — in a bag not in a bowl — as the plane was set to leave New York on a flight to Incheon, South Korea on Dec. 5.

    The Canadian Press
  • Miller High Life Delivery Man Windell Middlebrooks Dead at 36

    Windell D. Middlebrooks, the actor best recognized as the Miller High Life delivery guy, has died, his agent confirmed to the Associated Press on Tuesday. The TV actor's agent Steve Ivey told the AP Middlebrooks passed away on Monday, Mar. 9. While the cause of Middlebrooks' death remains unknown, TMZ reported that it appeared that no foul play was involved.

    Us Weekly
  • Temporary foreign worker in Pictou worries he may have to leave

    David Gutierrez moved from the Philippines to Pictou, N.S., five years ago and landed a job at a Subway restaurant. The federal government is refusing to renew his temporary foreign worker permit, following a crackdown last year on the program to cut the number of such workers in Canada. The federal government introduced new rules last June barring employers from hiring low-wage temporary foreign workers in regions where the unemployment rate is above six per cent, and requiring employers to cap the number of foreign workers they hire at 10 per cent by 2016.

    CBC
  • Avoiding sugar every day: 5 things you need to know

    The aisles are where all the processed foods, condiments, snacks, pop and other sugary food are. Products that claim to have "no added sugar" — they're usually sweetened with concentrated fruit juice and a sign that the company is trying to manipulate you.

    CBC
  • Pamela Wallin drags prominent Canadians into RCMP probe

    Court records released yesterday show the RCMP interviewed a number of high-profile people after suspended Senator Pamela Wallin said she had official meetings with them. The Mounties are investigating Wallin's Senate travel expenses and allege she claimed 24 trips that weren't related to her work as a senator, for a total of $27,493.72. Wallin told auditors at Deloitte, who examined her expenses at the request of the Senate, that she had official business with a number of prominent people.

    CBC
  • Ancient Chilean Mummies Now Turning into Black Ooze: Here's Why

    The famous Chinchorro mummies, which have remained preserved in Chile for more than 7,000 years, are now under threat from increased levels of moisture. Humid air is allowing bacteria to grow, causing the mummies' skin "to go black and become gelatinous," said Ralph Mitchell, a professor emeritus of applied biology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who examined the rotting mummies.

    LiveScience.com
  • It's against the law: No spitting, swearing or yelling allowed in Alberta town

    Do not disturb. The southern Alberta town of Taber, population 8,104, which calls itself Canada's corn capital, has brought in a bylaw to clamp down on bad behaviour. Reading like a page from the Old West, the bylaw includes a $75 fine for spitting in public and a $150 penalty for yelling, screaming or swearing in a public place.

    The Canadian Press