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VIDEO: Guy nearly crashes Ferrari during test drive
They're flashy supercars, but they probably aren't meant to be driven speed demon-style down a country road, as this man finds out.
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Couple locked puppy in apartment bathroom while on two-week vacation
A southwestern Ontario couple has pleaded guilty to four counts of animal cruelty after they locked their Chihuahua mix puppy in a bathroom when they left for a two-week vacation. An apartment building landlord in London, Ont., started to receive complaints of a neglected dog near the beginning of the year and contacted the humane society. The humane society got a search warrant and went into the apartment on Jan. 6 and found the 12-week-old puppy in the bathroom.
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Man Discovers ‘Mutant Daisies’ Growing At Fukushima Nuclear Plant
A discovery of ‘mutant daisies’ has been made near the site of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. Twitter user San Kaido posted the pictures of the flowers, that appear to show stems and flowers connected to each other. San Kaido wrote alongside the picture: “The right one grew up, split into 2 stems to have 2 flowers connected to each other, having 4 stems of flower tied belt-like.
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Marc-André Simoneau's body believed to be found in Rivière des Prairies
Police say a body found yesterday in the Rivière des Prairies, between Montreal and Laval, could be that of Marc-André Simoneau. Simoneau, 31, is from Beloeil, an off-island suburb of Montreal, and has been missing for six days. Police say the car appeared to have been in an accident, and Simoneau's wallet was missing, but there were no signs of violence in the vehicle.
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TransLink CEO job posting
Fri, Jul 24: Just weeks after cutting some of its top managers TransLink is looking for a new CEO. An on-line job posting shows the CEO will earn an annual salary of almost $320,000. Catherine Urquhart reports.
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Amanda Bynes Is Back!
Amanda Bynes is back! The actress was spotted out and about in Los Angeles on Thursday night looking healthy and happy. The former fashion student attended the launch party for designer Michael Costello's pre-fall capsule collection, sporting long, platinum
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8 Things You Can Make with 2x4s (8 photos)
The first thing you need to know about 2x4s: They don’t actually measure two by four! These boards, which you can find in any lumberyard or home improvement store, in lengths from 6 to 12 feet, measure two inches thick and four inches wide in their raw
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Donald Trump wealth details released by federal regulators
Federal election regulators released new details Wednesday about Republican presidential candidate and celebrity businessman Donald Trump's wealth and financial holdings, weeks after he estimated his net worth at roughly $10 billion. Trump, widely believed to be the wealthiest person ever to run for president, holds leadership positions in more than 500 business entities, according to his 92-page personal financial disclosure, a report required of all presidential candidates. While the documents don't prove or disprove Trump's top-line estimates, even a conservative reading of his annual income — well over $250 million — shows he is more than equipped to personally finance a high-dollar presidential bid.
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Devonport workers entombed in submarine ballast tank - BBC News
Two workers were accidentally entombed inside the ballast tank of a nuclear submarine, it has emerged. Colleagues had mistakenly sealed the tank at Devonport base in Plymouth, where Britain's nuclear submarines are refitted. The desperate electricians hammered on the tank with a drill and were saved when they got a faint signal on a mobile phone. The Unite union called it "an extremely unpleasant situation".
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Police say Brazilian Pan Am athlete accused of sexual assault on Toronto woman
A Brazilian water polo player who competed in the Pan Am Games is wanted in an alleged sex assault in Toronto, but police say they believe he has left the country. Police say Thye Bezerra, 27, and a friend were visiting a Toronto woman in her home the morning of July 16 when the woman went to sleep. "Mr. Bezerra then entered the victim's bedroom and sexually assaulted her," Insp.
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Woman killed in Highway 1 multi-vehicle crash
The fatal collision happened at Highway 1 near Garden Road at about 2 p.m., RCMP said. Earlier EMS said an infant injured in the crash had died, but RCMP say the child is still alive in critical condition in hospital. Nania told CBC News the cause of the fatal crash isn't clear.
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Neutered cat's reaction to being 'snipped' takes Internet by storm
(SWNS)Feline fans will probably have heard of cat nip, for its ability to delight our feline pals. Cat SNIP, not so much. Puzzled kitty, Milo, aged six months, awoke from an operation and let out a massive MEOW-CH as he noticed his ‘bits’ had gone. The
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Lara Croft Redesigned To Look Like A Real Woman By Body Confidence Campaigners
Female video games characters, including Lara Croft, have been redesigned to look like real women, thanks to body confidence campaigners. The characters have been reimagined using average American women’s measurements to give them waistlines that would actually allow room to house their internal organs - a rarity for women in video games. “Video games have grown increasingly realistic over time.
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Judd Apatow Calls Bill Cosby "One of the Most Awful People that You've Ever Heard Of"
Judd Apatow's newest film, Trainwreck, is a hit at the box office, but the director appeared on CNN's New Day to talk about another matter entirely: Bill Cosby. Apatow has been a vocal critic of the comedian following extensive accusations that he drugged and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women over the last several decades. On Monday, he performed a scathing impersonation of Cosby on The Tonight Show.
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Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson gets engaged at a Cubs game
Shawn Johnson, the Olympic gold-medalist gymnast and "Dancing With the Stars" competitor," threw out a first pitch at Friday's Chicago Cubs game. Johnson, 23, was joined by follow Team USA gymnast Alicia Sacramone for first-pitch duties, and when she walked back toward the dugout, her boyfriend Andrew East, dropped to one knee. East is a football long-snapper who recently signed with the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Hulk Hogan apologizes for racially charged comments
Hulk Hogan has apologized after parting ways with the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) amid reports of a recording in which the wrestling star makes racially charged comments. "This is not who I am. I believe very strongly that every person in the world is important and should not be treated differently based on race, gender, orientation, religious beliefs or otherwise," Hogan said. Before the WWE issued its statement, Hogan had already vanished from the organization's website.
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Loblaw to close 52 unprofitable stores including pharmacies, grocery stores
Loblaw Companies Ltd. (TSX:L) has put its neighbourhood drug stores and supermarkets under a microscope as it responds to increasing competition and will shutter 52 locations in the coming year after concluding they fell short of expectations. Loblaw president and executive chairman Galen Weston Jr. said that the company is focused on finding efficiencies as growth slows. The closures will be distributed across the country and include previously announced closures of Joe Fresh operations in the U.S., though they would not make a "material change" to the clothing line's Canadian locations, he said.
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U.S. Congress members express concern over timing of Canadian oxycodone rules
Some members of the U.S. Congress are concerned Canada is taking too long to force all oxycodone producers to make tamper-resistant forms of the drug. "The urgency of this request comes because there is evidence that generic versions of oxycodone products continue to be transported or diverted into the United States from Canada, further exacerbating this public health crisis on both sides of the border," the letter states.
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Want to avoid divorce? Here's when to get married
A new study flips conventional wisdom on its head by suggesting that those who marry older face a higher risk of divorce, according to a sociologist at the University of Utah whose data unearthed surprising results about marriage success and age. Nicholas H. Wolfinger found that people who marry after their early thirties are more likely to divorce than those who wed in their late twenties.
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After four years in a shelter, this dog found its forever home
It all started at a Middletown Humane Society in New York State when a volunteer was asked to take out the dog in the corner cage that “barked so much.” Danielle Hopper remembers being really nervous. “I remember sitting there, so scared of the dog who probably weighed more than I did,” she wrote on her Facebook page. Mira went on to play until she was so pooped that she lied across Hopper as if she was a lapdog.
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What's happening in real estate markets outside of Toronto and Vancouver?
Aaron Hall and his wife Beki Hall are seen with their children Zoe, 3, and Paxton, 1, and their dog MJ in the backyard of their home in Squamish, B.C., on Sunday July 19, 2015. While most of the attention paid to house prices focuses on the big markets of Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, there are other cities in Canada. It may come as a surprise to many Canadians that for several years the hottest resource economy in the country wasn’t Calgary, but St. John’s. Propelled by a boom in offshore oil development and billions in mining and infrastructure investments, the economy of Newfoundland and Labrador has grown roughly 50 per cent since 2000.
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