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  • July 2008

    • Canadian Foot Linked to Depressed Man

      Associated Press  |  Jul 20, 08 6:46 AM CDT

      Canadian Foot Linked to Depressed Man

      (AP) - One of five dismembered feet that have mysteriously washed ashore near Vancouver over the past year has been linked by DNA to a depressed man who disappeared a year ago, police announced. Investigators released no other information at the family's request. The foot is the first to be identified in the bizarre case. All of the dismembered feet were in sneakers, and all but one came from men. More »

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      Canada  • Vancouver  • feet  • severed feet

  • June 2008

    • Sixth Foot Washes Ashore in Canada

      Associated Press  |  Jun 19, 08 10:48 AM CDT

      Sixth Foot Washes Ashore in Canada

      (Newser) - Yet another severed foot—the sixth in a year and second this week—washed ashore yesterday in Canada on an island near Vancouver. Like all but one of the others, it was a sneaker-clad right foot. "It's very unusual," said a police spokeswoman. "To my knowledge, we have not encountered anything like this." So far, investigators are stumped. More »

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      Canada  • Vancouver  • feet  • severed feet

  • May 2008

    • Death, Illness on Canada Train Not Related

      CTV  |  May 9, 08 4:39 PM CDT

      Death, Illness on Canada Train Not Related

      (Newser) - Canadian authorities are set to lift the quarantine on a train en route from Vancouver to Toronto after determining that the 60-year-old passenger who died aboard earlier today "most likely did not have an infectious disease," CTV reports. Ten other passengers came down with flu-like symptoms; "we do not believe they're related,” an Ontario police officer told the Globe and Mail. More »

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      Canada  • public health  • train  • flu  • Vancouver  • Toronto  • quarantine

  • February 2008

    • Obama Wins Delegates Abroad

      Associated Press  |  Feb 21, 08 1:28 PM CST

      Obama Wins Delegates Abroad

      (Newser) - Barack Obama has won the primary organized by Democrats Abroad, a global organization controlling seven official delegates in the national convention, the AP reports today. Obama won more than 65% of the 20,000 US expatriates who voted from more than 164 countries. It is Obama’s 11th consecutive primary victory over Hillary Clinton, who has not won one since Feb. 5. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Election 2008  • Democrats  • presidential primaries  • delegates  • Vancouver  • expatriates

    • 3 Stars Take Over Ledger's Last Role

      BBC  |  Feb 18, 08 4:22 PM CST

      3 Stars Take Over Ledger's Last Role

      (Newser) - Hollywood hotties Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law will take over Heath Ledger's final film role, the BBC reports. Each will morph into the part in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Ledger's character, an actor, passes through a magic mirror into other dimensions. Ledger's footage will likely remain in Terry Gilliam's fantastical $30 million film. More »

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      film  • London  • Heath Ledger  • Johnny Depp  • Vancouver  • Jude Law  • Colin Farrell  • Terry Gilliam

    • Plasma May Zap City's Garbage Crisis

      Canada.com  |  Feb 17, 08 6:48 PM CST

      Plasma May Zap City's Garbage Crisis

      (Newser) - Vancouver may have a fix for its garbage overflow crisis: Burn the trash into a gas that makes electricity. A Canadian company called Plasco Energy Group has proposed a plant that zaps waste into ionized gas, or plasma; about a fifth of it would run the plant and the rest could be sold off. A few plasma plants by other companies have reportedly tanked, but the Vancouver Sun 's Harvey Enchin urges the city to try this one. More »

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      energy  • garbage  • trash  • Vancouver  • waste  • landfill

    • Canada Man Says He's JFK's Son

      Globe and Mail  |  Feb 14, 08 3:42 AM CST

      Canada Man Says He's JFK's Son

      (Newser) - A Vancouver man is claiming he's John F. Kennedy's son and he wants the Kennedy clan to supply some DNA so he can prove it. Jack Worthington was born on November 22, 1961—exactly two years before JFK was assassinated in Dallas. The alleged presidential love child says his Texan mother was introduced to JFK by Lyndon Johnson during the first year of the Kennedy presidency. More »

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      Canada  • John F. Kennedy  • Vancouver  • Kennedy family

  • December 2007

    • Pig Farmer Guilty of Butchering Women

      Reuters  |  Dec 10, 07 2:14 AM CST

      Pig Farmer Guilty of Butchering Women

      (Newser) - A Canadian pig farmer has been convicted of murdering six women, chopping up the corpses in his slaughterhouse and feeding parts to his pigs. Robert "Willie" Pickton, 58, may face trial for up to 20 other murders—and police believe he's responsible for even more. Pickton told an undercover cop that he killed 49 women, reports Reuters. More »

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      murder  • prostitute  • Vancouver  • British Columbia

    • Spice Girls Heat Up Canada

      Reuters  |  Dec 3, 07 2:16 PM CST

      Spice Girls Heat Up Canada

      (Newser) - If what you want, what you really really want, is a Spice Girls reunion, you've got it. The five-woman pop group resurfaced yesterday in Vancouver, dressed a little more conservatively than in the past. It was the quintet's first concert in a world tour expected to run through Canada, the US, Europe, and possibly South America and South Africa, Reuters reports. More »

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      Canada  • concert  • pop music  • reunion  • Vancouver  • reunion concert  • Spice Girls

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