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April 06, 2008 Hot Trends
CBC to close Calgary unit of Newsworld (Toronto Star)
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:44:49 PDT
CALGARY–CBC News will close the Calgary unit of its Newsworld channel as of next month. The public broadcaster announced Thursday that the two hours of Newsworld programming currently being produced from Calgary will shift to Toronto.
B-boy dancer Frosty Freeze dies at 44 (CBC)
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:29:06 PDT
Wayne Frost, a hip-hop pioneer known as Frosty Freeze, who contributed his acrobatic performance in the 1983 movie Flashdance, died Thursday. He was 44.
Zimbabwe's opposition offices raided, foreign reporters detained (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:58:00 PDT
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Intruders ransacked offices of the main opposition party and police detained foreign journalists Thursday in an ominous sign that President Robert Mugabe might turn to intimidation and violence in trying to stave off an electoral threat to his 28-year rule.
Abe Lincoln's 'heartfelt' letter sells for record $3.4M (CBC)
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:14:07 PDT
A "heartfelt" letter from Abraham Lincoln replying to a request for him to "free all the little slave children in the country" has sold for $3.4 million, Sotheby's said Thursday.
CBC cuts Calgary Newsworld but adds Alberta jobs (Calgary Sun)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:38:04 PDT
CBC News is closing the Calgary unit of its Newsworld channel as of next month. The public broadcaster announced yesterday the two hours of Newsworld programming currently being produced from Calgary will shift to Toronto.
Mugabe has 'unleashed a war' (Kitchener/Waterloo Record)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:47:38 PDT
HARARE, ZIMBABWE (Apr 4, 2008) -- Intruders ransacked offices of the main opposition party and police detained foreign journalists yesterday in an ominous sign that President Robert Mugabe might turn to intimidation and violence in trying to stave off an electoral threat to his 28-year rule.
Court denies royalties to former Procol Harum organist (CBC)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:29:00 PDT
A British court has ruled in favour of Procol Harum lead singer Gary Brooker in a royalties dispute over the band's late '60s hit, A Whiter Shade of Pale.
Guerrilla veterans march in Zimbabwe in new sign of possible Mugabe clampdown (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:05:00 PDT
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Hundreds of veterans of Zimbabwe's guerrilla war for black rule marched through the capital today in another ominous sign that President Robert Mugabe might turn to violence to stave off an electoral threat to his 28-year rule.
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:44:49 PDT
CALGARY–CBC News will close the Calgary unit of its Newsworld channel as of next month. The public broadcaster announced Thursday that the two hours of Newsworld programming currently being produced from Calgary will shift to Toronto.
B-boy dancer Frosty Freeze dies at 44 (CBC)
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:29:06 PDT
Wayne Frost, a hip-hop pioneer known as Frosty Freeze, who contributed his acrobatic performance in the 1983 movie Flashdance, died Thursday. He was 44.
Zimbabwe's opposition offices raided, foreign reporters detained (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:58:00 PDT
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Intruders ransacked offices of the main opposition party and police detained foreign journalists Thursday in an ominous sign that President Robert Mugabe might turn to intimidation and violence in trying to stave off an electoral threat to his 28-year rule.
Abe Lincoln's 'heartfelt' letter sells for record $3.4M (CBC)
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:14:07 PDT
A "heartfelt" letter from Abraham Lincoln replying to a request for him to "free all the little slave children in the country" has sold for $3.4 million, Sotheby's said Thursday.
CBC cuts Calgary Newsworld but adds Alberta jobs (Calgary Sun)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:38:04 PDT
CBC News is closing the Calgary unit of its Newsworld channel as of next month. The public broadcaster announced yesterday the two hours of Newsworld programming currently being produced from Calgary will shift to Toronto.
Mugabe has 'unleashed a war' (Kitchener/Waterloo Record)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:47:38 PDT
HARARE, ZIMBABWE (Apr 4, 2008) -- Intruders ransacked offices of the main opposition party and police detained foreign journalists yesterday in an ominous sign that President Robert Mugabe might turn to intimidation and violence in trying to stave off an electoral threat to his 28-year rule.
Court denies royalties to former Procol Harum organist (CBC)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:29:00 PDT
A British court has ruled in favour of Procol Harum lead singer Gary Brooker in a royalties dispute over the band's late '60s hit, A Whiter Shade of Pale.
Guerrilla veterans march in Zimbabwe in new sign of possible Mugabe clampdown (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:05:00 PDT
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Hundreds of veterans of Zimbabwe's guerrilla war for black rule marched through the capital today in another ominous sign that President Robert Mugabe might turn to violence to stave off an electoral threat to his 28-year rule.
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