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Another season of bitter medicine
Consider the evidence. At New York City's (fictional) All Saints' Hospital, where, viewers are told, "Every day is a high-wire act of juggling patients, doctors and nurses," nurse Jackie Peyton, as played by Edie Falco in the critically acclaimed TV drama Nurse Jackie, is an admitted adulterer, addict and all-around sinner given to pill-popping and, on one occasion, flushing a severed ear down a hospital drain.
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Despite injunction, raw milk still flowing in Fraser Valley
Raw milk drinkers are refusing to be put out to pasture after a Chilliwack, B.C., dairy was banned from sharing unpasteurized milk.
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Think like an Olympic gold medallist
I'm loving, er, embracing this deadline. Instead of worrying about failing, I'm focusing on the privilege of writing for you. On bringing my best.
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Canadians win four medals in 500-metre short-track showdown
Canadians dominated the podium on Saturday at the world short-track speedskating championships, winning two silver and two bronze medals in the 500-metre event.
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Suncor, Petro-Canada work well together
Biggest merger in Canadian history a result of global financial crisis
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Plenty of Olympic spirit at women’s world curling championship
The world women’s curling championship is serving as a reunion of sorts.
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Lady Gaga sued for $30M by jilted producer
A former producer to pop sensation Lady Gaga has sued his one-time protégée for more than $30 million claiming he was instrumental to her success but unable to profit from it when their romance ended.
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CSIS puts cold war spy gadgetry and secret agent history on public display
Our spy service is lifting the lid on some of Canada's secret Cold War history with a first-ever public exhibit of the era's exotic gadgetry and shadowy tradecraft, from a James Bond attache case to Igor Gouzenko's revolver.
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Trial for Canadian soldier accused of murdering Taliban fighter starts Monday
A trial that starts next week will be the first time a Canadian soldier has faced a murder charge for a battlefield death, and it's expected to offer rare insight into the moral and legal ground tread by soldiers in combat.
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‘I was ready to blow up myself among Westerns’
Ghulam Rasol cannot read or write and had never met a foreigner, yet the 20-year-old man obeyed the mullahs in his native Pakistan when they told him to travel to Afghanistan and kill ‘infidels.’ David Pugliese reports.
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Once called Paris of the East, Shanghai gets an Expo facelift
The wraps are finally coming off the gargantuan facelift China's financial capital has suffered through for the past year — and more.
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Furor in Taiwan after woman abruptly turned back from YVR
Taiwanese authorities are scrambling to contain a public furore that has erupted after one of its citizens was turned from Canada by border agents at Vancouver International Airport.
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Government owes apology, compensation for killing sled dogs: judge
The federal and Quebec governments owe an apology and compensation to the Inuit of northern Quebec for killing — sometimes in gas chambers — more than 1,000 sled dogs during the 1950s and '60s, according to a judge who investigated long-standing allegations
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Manitoba braces for early flood season
Warm weather and an early melt have forced Manitoba to launch its flood-fighting preparations two weeks early, officials said Thursday.
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Women following the ink
The first time a needle embedded ink into her skin, Julie Larocque felt like a more beautiful woman. The electric buzzing became harmonious, a lullaby that put her to sleep. Fifteen years later, 33-year-old Larocque has more than 500 hours inked onto her body. Each of her 60 tattoos -- which cover her arms, back, chest, neck, half of her feet and half of her leg -- tells a different story of struggle, strength, and courage.
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Falling natural gas prices hurt recovery
Contracts fall to five-month low in New York as new sources keep inventory levels high
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Sandra Bullock’s husband pleads 'forgive me'
The celebrity husband of actress Sandra Bullock Thursday broke his silence on reports that he cheated on his Oscar-winning wife, telling People magazine he used 'poor judgment' and asking his family to 'forgive me.'
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U.K. will copy Own the Podium so savaged by Fleet Street
Britain is officially eating crow just a month after its sportswriters’ unrestrained trashing of the Vancouver Games and Canada’s controversial Own the Podium program for Olympic athletes.
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Washington officials hunt for plane-stealing 'barefoot bandit' Colton Harris-Moore on Orcas Island
Washington state investigators are on the hunt for a teen bandit who is suspected of stealing planes, boats and vehicles on both sides of the border.
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Canadian trying to solve mystery of 'natural' AIDS immunity
It was in 1988 — just a few years after HIV was discovered — that Keith Fowke travelled to Nairobi as a graduate student to study a group of Kenyan sex-trade workers who, despite their repeated exposure, somehow managed to elude infection.
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Netanyahu disavows relative's remarks labelling Obama 'anti-Semitic'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was compelled Wednesday to publicly express his "deep appreciation" for President Barack Obama after a prominent member of his family alleged the American leader was an "anti-Semite."
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Ottawa to consider backup supplier for flu vaccines
The federal government is considering having a backup supplier to make pandemic flu vaccines instead of the one source Canada currently has and it’s asking the industry for input on the idea
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Alberta underground oilsands projects get poor environmental marks
Alberta's deep-earth oilsand projects could be doing more to enhance their environmental performance, a report released by the Pembina Institute said Wednesday.
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Henry Rollins on reading, rocking and rolling with the punches
Henry Rollins talks a lot. This isn’t a statement on the self-described aging alternative icon’s interview style -- although he’s a generous conversationalist -- but on his tireless performances. Once known primarily as the raging mouth of 1980s hardcore heroes Black Flag and, later, the Rollins Band, he’s now equally recognized as a raging mouth who performs with no support other than a microphone and a bottle of water
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