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Canada’s Don Valley East (Ward 33) city council candidates speak

1 January, 2021

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This exclusive interview features first-hand journalism by a Wikinews reporter. See the collaboration page for more details. Saturday, November 4, 2006 On November 13, Torontonians will be heading to the polls to vote for their ward’s councillor and for mayor. Among Toronto’s ridings is Don Valley East (Ward 33). One candidates responded to Wikinews’ requests […]

FCC extends 911 deadline for VoIP

1 January, 2021

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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 The US Federal Communications Commission has extended the deadline for Enhanced 911 compliance by VoIP| (Voice over Internet Protocol) providers until Oct 31, 2005. Last May, the FCC issued an order requiring VoIP providers to implement E911 within 120 days. This order also required providers to notify customers of the 911 […]

Thirtieth anniversary of Australia’s constitutional crisis

1 January, 2021

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Friday, November 11, 2005 On 11 November 1975, Australia faced a constitutional crisis. By failing to obtain Supply, that is, with its financial Appropriation Bills repeatedly rejected by the upper house, the Australian national government had effectively run out of money. In response, the Australian Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, dismissed the Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. […]

Official death toll from Nigerian refugee camp airstrike passes 100

1 January, 2021

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Thursday, January 26, 2017 On Monday Nigerian authorities raised the official death toll from January 17’s airstrike upon a refugee camp to 236, though the BBC on Tuesday reported an official told them this was an error and the actual figure was 115. The military said at the time a jet mistook refugees for rebels. […]

Canadian woman faces 234 counts of double-doctoring

1 January, 2021

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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 Brampton, Ontario woman Wendy Grant, 41, is facing 234 charges of double-doctoring after obtaining prescriptions for 6000 pills. The Ontario Provincial Police also charged her with fraud charge after allegedly obtaining false prescriptions for a narcotic, that werefraudulently billed to the Ontario Drug Benefits Plan. From February to May, Grant obtained […]

Czech PM calls Obama’s rescue plan a ‘road to hell’

1 January, 2021

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Mirek Topolanek, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and the head of the European Union, called United States President Barack Obama’s plan to spend almost US$2 trillion to revive the country’s faltering economy a “road to hell”. “The US treasury secretary talks about permanent action and we at our [EU […]

Russian choreographer Igor Moiseyev dies at age 101

1 January, 2021

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Friday, November 2, 2007 Igor Moiseyev, who has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of folk dance, has died today after a long illness. He was 101 years old. Born Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev on January 21, 1906 in Kiev, Moiseyev graduated from the Bolshoi Theatre ballet school in 1924 and danced in the […]

Spiders’ egg case silk gene found

1 January, 2021

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Wednesday, August 3, 2005 Two researchers at the University of California, Riverside have found a gene coding for a silk protein used by female spiders to construct their egg cases. The research confirms that the silk protein used for the egg case is different than that used in spider webs. Spider silks are renowned for […]

Apple announces new iPod range

1 January, 2021

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Wednesday, September 5, 2007 Apple have released several re-designs of their popular iPod range. In addition to the iPod Classic, Nano and Shuffle, they have announced the brand new iPod touch, a media player which mimics the iPhone’s touch-screen capabilities. The new iPod Classic design features a larger memory space of up to 160GB or […]

International participants showcase different industry cultures at 2008 Taipei Game Show

1 January, 2021

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Friday, January 25, 2008 B2B Trade Area of Taipei Game Show, criticized by trade buyers last year, but accompanied with 2008 Taiwan Digital Content Forum, moved to the second floor at Taipei World Trade Center for world-wide participants with a better exchange atmosphere this year. Not only local OBMs (Softstar Entertainment, Soft-World International Corp., International […]