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It was a bigger-than-average tree rescue for firefighters in Colorado Springs. They had to use a ladder truck to reach a black bear after it fell asleep in a tall pine tree after being tranquilized Sunday. The bear weighed between 330 and 440 kilograms. State wildlife division spokesman Michael Seraphin says a wildlife officer...
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Saskatoon singer Alexis Normand had help from the crowd at the Memorial Cup game Saturday night after she forgot the words to the American national anthem. Normand said she felt confident before going out on the ice, even though she had only learned she was performing that morning. She said she was embarrassed when...
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A Milwaukee bar is celebrating after the city backed down on its order that the bar had to take down dozens of brassieres that had been hanging from its ceiling. As It Happens speaks with Holler House owner Marcy Skowronski, 87, about the bra hanging tradition that dates back more than four decades. La...
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Confused Connecticut conservation officers are wondering how a female anteater, who has given birth at the centre, conceived without a male in the pen. Officials at the LEO Zoological Conservation Center tell the Greenwich Time they had removed the only male anteater from the enclosure in August, long before the six-month gestation period for...
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German officials say Justin Bieber will have to pay the bill for his monkey’s two-month stay at a Munich animal shelter. A spokesman for Munich’s customs office says the cost of care, food and vet visits for capuchin monkey Mally is several thousand dollars. Customs spokesman Thomas Meister says Bieber has until midnight Friday...
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The European Union wants to ban the refillable olive oil bottles that sit on so many restaurant tables across the continent. The European Commission, the EU’s executive, said Friday that restaurants will only by allowed to serve oil in non-refillable bottles with proper content labeling as of next year. EU spokesman Olivier Bailly said...
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CBC’s Carol Off talks to the town supervisor in Thurman, N.Y., where some people working to officially name a local mountain are taking issue with a federal board’s stance against allowing apostrophes in place names. The controversy centres on a mountain that many locals call Jimmy’s Peak. “Jimmy is James Cameron, who was one...
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