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A toothless, jumpy, yappy streetcar rider — whose personal grooming could not be described as fastidious — offered the operator of the northbound Bathurst Street car a tranquilizer, shaking his pill bottle like a maraca. She turned him down, saying maybe later. “Did you mean sex by that?” leered the public transit Casanova. She goodnaturedly shook her head [...]
Thu, June 8 2006 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
Globeandmail.com held an online discussion this afternoon about the process of embedding journalists. Participating were Geoffrey York, who just finished a month-long stint there; Graeme Smith, who is in Kandahar right now, and Christie Blatchford, who has been there. You can see it here. I sent in a question that went something like this: Hi from [...]
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Five-nothing. I was working last night and didn't see the entire disaster unfold. But when I checked the score early in the third (3-0) and then saw it was 5-0 a bit later, that made me a very productive CTV.ca writer. :) Read the Globe story for details, but it sounds like the Oilers fell down in [...]
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The things that happen when you're asleep! U.S. warplanes finally got some co-ordinates on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi that they could use, and now the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq is roadkill — literally. Dubya has learned from earlier pronouncements about the killing of Saddam Hussein's lovely sons or the capture of the man himself. [...]
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I heard CBC Radio host Andy Barrie describe CBC.ca's website as the most popular news source in the country as he put Sue Gardner, head of CBC.ca, through his patented ringer as they spoke about CBC.ca's 10th anniversary. She claimed 10 million people a month from around the world click on CBC.ca, and that a [...]
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