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zchamu — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:31:45 +0000

Chris Brown and the Grammys: Forgive and Forget? The Grammy Awards did themselves a disservice last night. On a night where a young woman triumphed, taking home the award for every category where she was nominated; on a night where the music industry mourned one of their own, a woman whose own demons — and [...]

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zchamu — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:34:34 +0000

Ontario Child Porn Bust Arrests 60 Offenders Ontario Police announced today that they have arrested 60 people in a comprehensive sweep of child pornography offenders. Officers from 24 forces acted on 76 warrants yesterday in what is being called the biggest child pornography bust in Canadian history. Those arrested include adults as well as three [...]

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zchamu — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:49:07 +0000

High School Students Send Lego Man Into Space (VIDEO) “To prove that we could do it.” That’s why two Toronto-area students, Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, decided to build a weather balloon with a video camera and send it into space. The students launched their weather balloon two weeks ago from a Newmarket soccer field, [...]

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zchamu — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:35:22 +0000

Pups Freeze After Dog Locked In Truck Gives Birth SPCA workers in Gatineau, Quebec found a sad and shocking surprise on arriving to work last Sunday morning. A worker heard a dog in distress in the parking lot on the frigid morning and followed the sound to one of their own service vehicles, where [...]

I Hereby Resolve To Get My Shit Together

zchamu — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:15:55 +0000

Look, I know. I know that I am ignoring this blog. I have this space. It is mine. This is my own stage. This is the spot that I have carved out for myself. Yet I’m not using it.The epic irony of paying for hosting yet hosting nothing is rather like making a car payment [...]

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zchamu — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:37:55 +0000

American Teen Deported To Colombia By US Government A troubled American teenager runs away from home and gets in trouble with the law. She gives the police a phoney name. Then she gets deported. What? 15-year-old Jakadrien Turner went missing from her Dallas, Texas home in November of 2010. Her grandfather had recently died and [...]

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zchamu — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:32:19 +0000

Canadian Mounties Sex Case: Fire Her, Reprimand Him An RCMP officer is now at risk of losing her job entirely for sleeping with her boss — while her boss faces merely a reprimand. In 2009, Susan Gastaldo was an officer in the “Special O” unit of Canada’s national police force, the RCMP, in British Columbia. [...]

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zchamu — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:32:11 +0000

How To Open Annoying Plastic Clamshell Packaging The Holidays are a time for gift giving and receiving. Lots and lots of new gadgets will make their way in to the hands of children both old and young over the next week. Unfortunately, many of those gadgets will come packaged in horrible, eco-hostile and impossible to [...]

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zchamu — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:07:29 +0000

14 Women Massacred In Montreal 22 Years Ago Today 22 years ago, I was a 19-year-old University student in Halifax. As I went into the residence cafeteria for supper, the room was buzzing. People had been shot at École Polytechnique in Montreal. Students. Details were sketchy, but some were dead. Some were injured. So far, [...]

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zchamu — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:35:39 +0000

A Fantastic New Little Drummer Boy For 2011 (VIDEO) Are youth these days forgetting the traditional meaning of Christmas? Are they all about the gifts and the days off and the parties? Not 16-year-old Winnipeg high school student Sean Quigley. Take a look at his version of Little Drummer Boy (that’s gotten nearly 200,000 views [...]