Dad gives his newborn son a very unusual name
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VIDEO: New Zealand glacier collapse caught on camera
Ryan Taylor was on a ski trip when he captured footage of 'ice the size of several buildings' falling off Hochstetter Ice Fall near Mount Cook.
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Nobody Believes This Man's Name Is Real
A frustrated man has posted his passport photograph on Facebook to prove his rather unfortunate name is genuine.
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Stuart McLean cancels Vinyl Cafe Christmas tour due to melanoma diagnosis
Vinyl Cafe host Stuart McLean announced his entire Christmas tour this year is cancelled because he has been diagnosed with melanoma. In a post on Facebook and the Vinyl Cafe website, McLean said all remaining shows after Nov. 22 in Thunder Bay, Ont., will be cancelled. "I have just learned that I have melanoma.
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Group of motorcyclists attack man, 57, while driving in Winnipeg
In the wake of an attack on a 57-year-old man in a Toyota Camry by a group of around 10 people on motorcycles, Winnipeg police are looking for the culprits. It happened on Oct. 18 around 5 p.m., when the man made a U-turn at Mulvey Avenue in Winnipeg. Then, around ten males riding what police call sport bike motorcycles surrounded his car.
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Canada’s ‘damaged relationship’ with U.S. overplayed: expert
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama held their first one-on-one meeting this week during the APEC summit in Manila, which media outlets have described as a budding bromance after years of icy Canada-U.S. relations. “It’s been overplayed,” explains Loewen about the dislike Obama may have had for Harper on a personal level. Loewen points to Obama’s recent decision to kill the Keystone XL project which would have connected Alberta’s oilsands to the U.S. Gulf Coast using a 1,900-kilometre pipeline and transporting about 800,000 barrels of bitumen a day.
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'Best Accidental Photobomb Ever’ Will Make You Laugh Then Wince
Feast your eyes on what is being called ‘the best accidental photobomb of all time’.
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Watch: Robber Sneaks Up Behind Man At Cash Machine, Gets Beaten Up
CCTV footage shows the man walk in to the bank in Sichuan Province, China, as the other man draws out money. The would-be thief then tried to take the other’s man’s money - but his victim is having none of it. Unbelievably, the man he had tried to rob finishes his transaction and draws out his money before going outside to call the police.
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Restaurant owner 'fires' customer for berating autistic employee
It all started on the evening of Nov. 7, when a customer of Little Italy Restaurante in Anchorage, Alaska, called to complain about one of the delivery drivers. According to owner P.J. Gialopsos, the customer was enraged, swearing and accusing the driver of being a drug user simply for bringing him the wrong container of food, reports the Alaska Dispatch News.
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David Beckham is the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ (16 photos)
He’s got that swag – be it his swerving free kick or those iconic coiffures, ergo, it’s of no wonder that People magazine singled out David Beckham as this year’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’. “It’s a huge honour,” the 40-year-old former Manchester United midfielder, also the former captain of England national football team, told the magazine. The archetypal ‘metrosexual’ man, known for his idiosyncratic style sense, has been inspiring fashion for almost two decades, staying attuned to the changing trends. Preened to perfection, the footballer’s style credentials make him equally famous in the world of fashion. Journalist Mark Simpson, while explaining the concept of metrosexual back in 2002, had to say this about Beckham, whom he considers an epitome of the term. “Beckham is the biggest metrosexual in Britain because he loves being looked at and because so many men and women love to look at him: He’s the future, but also a way of adapting other, less advanced specimens to that future.” (Courtesy: Mark Simpson, Salon) Beckham’s style is fluid; his physique is lean and toned, rather than brawny – something that can be regarded ageless. He can be effortlessly portrayed in a vintage ad or grace an Armani billboard the same time. Who could forget that Chevron moustache he sported during his LA Galaxy stint that kept everyone talking! Not even Cristiano Ronaldo can be versatile like that. While Victoria Beckham is extremely pleased that her husband has been named the Sexiest Man Alive, Beckham’s eldest son, Brooklyn, didn’t actually buy in when he heard about the news from his dad. “He didn’t really believe it, but, I’ve kind of been, you know, pushing it to him a little bit more, just to let him know that his dad’s still up and running.” Beckham said. He is still up and running, indeed. Pics: Beckham’s iconic looks through the years (AP, Getty)
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Laura Furlan's family speaks at Christopher Dunlop sentencing hearing
Six years after Laura Furlan was strangled by Christopher Dunlop in his truck, her family expressed their grief and sense of loss to a Calgary judge. At Dunlop's sentencing hearing today, Furlan was remembered as a loving mother whose death has caused her family years of anguish. In his victim impact statement, Furlan's son — 21-year-old Louis Lowry — spoke about learning of her death when he was in Grade 10.
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Anonymous Takes Down 20,000 Alleged IS Twitter Accounts
International hacking group anonymous claims to have taken down 20,000 Twitter accounts with alleged links to Islamic State. The hacker collective had previously vowed to wage ‘total war’ against the terrorist group in response to the recent attacks in Paris in which more than 130 were killed. The hacktivist group urged hackers around the world to join its #OpParis scheme in which it planned to launch ‘major cyber attacks’ on the terrorists.
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Loblaw blames old labels for confusing Superstore prices
On Wednesday, a regular customer of Atlantic Superstore filed a complaint with Canada's Competition Bureau over price discrepancies she's noticed where the advertised "GREAT BUY" costs more than the old price underneath it. "I got concerned because it's not just a matter of one store and they're off on their management one day," says Lorraine Martin, who lives in Shunacadie, N.S.
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Canmore in a housing 'crisis' with average home price hovering near $998,000
Finding affordable housing can be difficult in many parts of Alberta. But nowhere is it more challenging than in the Bow Valley, where the vacancy rate sits at zero per cent. In the third part of a week-long series, CBC Calgary's Evelyne Asselin takes a look at the situation in Canmore. Once seen as an affordable "suburb" of Banff, Canmore is now facing a housing shortage to rival its famous neighbour.
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Jaguar entering SUV market with long and sleek F-PACE
What is it Jaguar’s much-anticipated first foray into the performance SUV market. Signature feature Its size. Jaguar is a master of creating fast cars that are low, long and sleek. They’ve managed to infuse the F-PACE with that essence without creating a lumbering, boxy beast of an SUV. Instead, the five-passenger vehicle will compete in the medium SUV segment as a luxury compact and has the chops to take on like-sized competitors (think Porsche Macan and Audi’s Q5) as well as upper-class rigs such as the BMW X5 (Jag says its F-PACE boasts more rear storage space). What else is new Jaguar’s Activity Key, a waterproof, shockproof wristband that looks a lot like a Fitbit. Integrated with a transponder
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Home of the Week: Owners preserve Victorian details of Toronto house
The house at 87 Gloucester St. is a brick semi-detached built in 1879. A plaque by the front door shows that it is listed by the City of Toronto as a heritage property, but the exterior is not protected by heritage conservation regulations. Still, the home’s owners through the decades have preserved many of the Victorian-era details, such as the intricate brickwork and the entranceway’s double doors. On the inside, successive owners have updated it and added modern architectural features, then sold within their social circle. The current owners are real estate agent Brian Elder and his partner Charles Duchesne, who purchased it from acquaintances, who in turn had bought it from friends. The first
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Nova Scotia woman ordered deported to country she hasn't seen since childhood
Debra Jane Spencer was born on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Spencer's two children, both of whom were born in Canada, were adopted by her own two sisters. In 2014 Spencer was convicted of being an accessory after the fact in the murder of David William Rose.
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RAW: Downtown Montreal attack
Thu, Nov 19: A man in his 50s was found covered in blood in downtown Montreal. Police said he may have been attacked in an attempted robbery.
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Amish man finishes marathon in just over 3 hours while wearing traditional slacks, suspenders
An Amish man turned heads as he whizzed by fellow runners at a recent marathon — not because of his speed but because of his unusual racing attire. Twenty-two-year-old Leroy Stolzfus finished the 26.2-mile Harrisburg Marathon on Nov. 8 in just over three hours and five minutes, all while wearing his community's traditional clothing, Pennlive.com reported (http://bit.ly/1NHihb1).
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Sun Life CEO to Trudeau government: Go easy on CPP reforms
TORONTO — The chief executive of Sun Life Financial says Canada’s new federal government should go easy in proceeding with promised changes to the country’s public retirement system, the Canada Pension Plan. “CPP was designed to provide basic income replacement, not to be a panacea,” Dean Connor, CEO of Sun Life Financial, said in a speech to the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto on Thursday. “Any CPP reforms should be modest in scope,” he said. The newly elected federal Liberal government of Justin Trudeau has pledged to begin consultations on “enhancing” CPP within its first three months in government. Connor said Ottawa shouldn’t increase contributions and benefits for Canadians earning up
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Man uses reverse psychology to get dog to take medicine
When it comes to keeping dogs happy and healthy, you may have to resort to some pretty creative methods to get them to eat their medicine. YouTube user Fellipe Vilaca Chibante recently uploaded a video of a trick he uses to get his Dachshund Mel to take her medicine, which has more than 320,000 views.
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Alberta job losses being felt across Canada
In the latest sign of the province’s growing economic troubles, Alberta has twice as many EI recipients as it did just a year ago, and the downturn there is being felt in other parts of the country. Oil prices have dropped by about 50 per cent over the past several months to hover just over US$40 a barrel, and that has led to belt tightening at energy and resource companies and significant layoffs in Alberta and other oil-dependent provinces. “Going forward, the outlook for the energy sector remains still very uncertain,” Marie-Christine Bernard, associate director of Provincial Forecast for the Conference Board of Canada, tells Yahoo Canada News.
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