Intrigues

Wired headsets, cheap printers, costly cartridges

The Gadget Zone By James Careless – Doomsday Device USB Hub The days are getting longer, but not quickly enough for most people’s liking (including mine). So here are three neat pieces of tech to distract you in the meantime. ...

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Porter and Fords try to make waterfront an industrial zone

Braz Menezes — As you may have heard, at the request of Mr. Deluce of Porter Airlines, supported by Mayor Rob Ford, the city has embarked on a number of studies (estimated cost between $650,000 and rising, of taxpayers’ money) ...

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Ever tasted a boysenberry? …..What about cat pee?

David White — Can you easily discern Irish breakfast tea from English breakfast tea? And do you ever drink kirsch, the brandy made from sour cherries? If you’re anything like I, your answer to all these questions is “no.” Yet ...

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A panoramic look at America’s case against Syria

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya — [Global Research] The US federal government and the various agencies, media organizations, individuals, foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, lobbies, forces, and other entities that are tied to it have done everything in their power to obscure the ...

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2,000 march against Monsanto & GMOs at Queen’s Park

When Rachel Parent debated Kevin O’Leary from Dragon’s Den on the Lang & O’Leary Exchange about GMOs in July, she had no idea she’d become a YouTube star, but 2 million views later, she is. She spoke at a March ...

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Millions watch 162-year-old America’s Cup yacht spectacle

Ian Steer — For the first time in its 162-year history, the America’s Cup yacht race was watched live by thousands of fans onshore and millions of television viewers worldwide. Considered sailing’s equivalent to Formula 1 car racing, the event ...

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Tell Home Depot & Lowes to quit killing bees!

Lisa Archer — Last month a new report by Friends of the Earth revealed that pesticides implicated in the global bee die-off may be lurking in our own backyards. More than half of the “bee-friendly” home garden plants tested, sold ...

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Toronto LGBT salute to International Day of Solidarity

Barry Dennison — As President Obama met with gay, lesbians, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people in Russia after the G20 Summit, on Sept. 8, the world was mobilizing in a grassroots movement with marches here in Toronto, cities in the ...

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Has questioning 9/11 become more acceptable?

Nile Bowie— Despite the media’s best efforts to dismiss 9/11 conspiracy theories, one in two Americans doubt the government’s narrative and skepticism is slowly seeping its way into the mainstream. Twelve years on from the events of September 11th 2001 ...

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