A man wanted on Canada-wide warrants has been arrested in the case of Dustin LaFortune, who was dumped at a Regina hospital in April with injuries his family describes as resulting from torture.
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Google has launched a service that lets Gmail users make free calls from their computers to phones, with the service available to Americans and Canadians.
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Romanian authorities have launched a criminal inquiry into a Bucharest maternity hospital where five newborns died and six others were injured in a fire last week, the chief prosecutor in charge of the investigation said Wednesday.
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Fishermen at the mouth of B.C.’s Fraser River are preparing for one of the biggest runs of sockeye salmon in nearly 100 years, but it’s unclear what will happen to all the unexpected fish.
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The Vancouver Police Board has handed out a total of $100,000 in rewards to six people who came forward with tips that helped lead to the conviction of serial killer Robert Pickton.
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“Lightning might strike and they might live up to their 2007 commitment to create an independent Java foundation,” Gosling said in a blog post Tuesday
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German prosecutors call for a suspended jail sentence for pop singer Nadja Benaissa, accused of hiding her HIV-status and infecting a partner.
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NEW YORK, N.Y., Aug. 25 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — U.S. Senate Candidate Gail Goode (D-NY) yesterday supported a six-month ban on hydraulic drilling for natural gas near upstate watersheds that supply drinking water to the New York metropolitan region.
“We must have a much clearer sense of the potential impact of this process, known as hydraulic fracturing, on our watershed,” Goode said, following a community town hall meeting Tuesday at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.
“I support creating jobs, but in this case, we must consider the greater good of protecting the region’s drinking water,” said Goode, who will face off against Kirsten Gillibrand in the Sept. 14 Democratic Primary. “As we’ve seen with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, it is just not enough for industry to assure the public that a process is safe.”
Hydraulic fracturing is used to release natural gas deposits by shooting [...]
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The First International Caribbean Triennial opens at the Museum of Modern Man on 1 September and continues through 24 October. It is conceived as a unique platform for the empowerment of contemporary art and artists in the Caribbean and Central America. The exhibition curators are: Dominique Brebion (Francophone Caribbean), Committee of Curators (Anglophone Caribbean), Jorge Gutierrez (Greater Caribbean and Miami Curator), Jose Manuel Noceda (Curator for Central America), Jennifer Smit (Dutch Caribbean Curator) and Danilo de los Santos (Hispanic Caribbean Curator)
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For more on this and upcoming events, see www.dr1.com/calendar
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Rains are forecast for the eastern and southeastern coasts as a tropical wave moves over from Haiti. According to a bulletin from the National Meteorological Office (Onamet) the tropical wave is moving to the east at 32 kilometers per hour. In the meantime a trough of low pressure is still over the western parts of the island, bringing humidity and heat.
The office is also tracking an area of low pressure associated with a low-pressure wave to the west of Cape Verde. The latest forecasts say that there is a 70% chance that this will develop into a tropical cyclone in the next few days.
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