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"When Dawn Sturgess was given a bottle of perfume by her partner Charlie Rowley, she couldn't have known it contained enough military-grade nerve agent to kill thousands of people."

Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the M.G.'s, dies Steve Cropper, who co-wrote classics including "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour" during his years playing guitar at the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, has died. He was 84.

Steve Cropper, who co-wrote classics including "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour" during his years playing guitar at the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, has died. He was 84. n.pr/48zf0gD

Toronto and Vancouver are also required to patrol major routes into the stadiums, looking for non-FIFA-affiliated firms, and guarantee that airspace above their stadiums is ad-free. They must also keep any host-city events “free and clean of any visible third-party advertising.”

World Cup contracts turn Toronto and Vancouver bylaw staff into FIFA’s brand police Host-cities obligated to enforce trademark rights, create brand-exclusive ‘clean zone’ around stadiums for official sponsors

To get to host next year's World Cup games, Toronto and Vancouver had to agree to enforce trademark rights for FIFA and its sponsors in a 2-km-wide radius around each venue.

Bylaw officers will patrol streets watching for signs of trademark infringement.
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40, my bad.

Hey I too am old enough to remember that 1985 appearance.

I was wrong! It was in 1985 so 40 years ago already.

I was wrong! It was in 1985 so 40 years ago already.

In little more than 3 minutes, he managed to do Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Willie Nelson, Al Jarreau, Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, Steve Perry, Daryl Hall, Bob Dylan and Ray Charles.

YouTube video by pokerkid87 andre philippe gagnon

Anyone remembers how Quebec comedian André-Philippe Gagnon appeared on The Tonight Show 30 years ago and smashed it with his impressions of 17 different singers appearing in We Are The World?

Starts at 5:55
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i’m so happy for him

I agree but I'm biased!

The Matticks were arrested after police intercepted a 26.5-ton hashish shipment in 1994.
Under new Stinchcombe rule, Crown had to disclose all the evidence. The defence found bills of lading that had been planted via a police fax machine. The Matticks got off and cops were bogged in a big scandal.

Gang leader Gerald Matticks controlled the drug trade through Montreal’s port A fast-talking folk hero known as Big Gerry, he headed the city’s West-End Gang, a criminal conglomerate with ties to the Mafia and the Hells Angels

I think Lisa Fitterman is the only journalist who's interviewed the legendary mobster Gerry Matticks so it's fitting she wrote his obit.
The youngest of 14 siblings from Goose Village. Cops were so desperate to nab him they planted evidence -- and got caught.
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Good point. The pictures were an after-thought so I forgot to alt-text them.

That's why you'll often see Vietnamese dishes are served with fried shallots, crushed peanuts or sprouts, for crunch, and herbs that can be refreshing, bitter, peppery.

(And that's why your Montreal smoked meat sandwich comes with a dill pickle. They don't want to feel "ngán")

I know western chefs apply the principle that acidity is necessary to balance rich food but I find many western treats lack the tonal variety of Asian dish. Poutine, mac and cheese, cheesecake come to mind. Great food but after a while, you crave something different on your palate.

A dish that some westerners don't get is bánh cuốn, which they find goey and bland. But if you eat it properly with the sauce, the bland rice rolls are contrasted by the sweet-sour nước chấm, the soft is balanced by crunchy fried shallots. This ensures you don't feel "ngán."

Vietnamese food has a concept I don't often see in western cuisine - "ngán."
It's translated as being bored but applies when your palate is dulled by the sameness in texture, taste.
We want our food to hit different notes. A bánh mì is simultaneously soft and crunchy, spicy and cool, fatty and sour.

France: the flan comes encased in a pie crust. It's a pie...

Mexico: chocoflan chocolate cake!

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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

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[talkSPORT] ‘I was trying not to laugh’ – Hannah Hampton tossed Spain goalkeeper’s notes into crowd before Euro final shootout

Madeleine Poulin — Wikipédia

J'ai décidé de créer la page Wikipédia de Madeleine Poulin qui, contrairement à plusieurs de ses ex-collègues, comme Pierre Nadeau et Simon Durivage, n'en avait pas (sans commentaire). Merci de faire vivre cette fiche et d'y contribuer si vous le pouvez.

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A Secret Defined Her Life. She Had No Idea.

A Secret Defined Her Life. She Had No Idea. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...

He says he's not challenging the genealogical research that countered his claim to being Indigenous.

Opinion: A most inconvenient Indian At 82, I feel as though I’ve been ripped in half, a one-legged man in a two-legged story. Not the Indian I had in mind. Not an Indian at all

"I have to survive the firestorm that’s coming. The anger. The disbelief. The feelings of betrayal. The media that will reduce a painful and complex matter to a series of misleading chyrons and simplistic sound bites."
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Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous as he originally assumed

Thomas King, the award-winning Canadian-American author of such books as the 2020 novel Indians on Vacation and 2012’s The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, is not part Cherokee, as he long assumed himself to be.
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Covering courts via video and defendant is also online.
Judge asks him to turn on his camera.
"Uh, I'm in bed," the man says.
That's not how you'll appear before me, judge says. Orders him to get up "and get dressed."
Minutes later, clerk asks him to keep camera off until he's getting dressed.

YouTube video by Warner Classics Beatrice Rana plays Bach, JS: Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo

Musique de nuit.
J.S. Bach: BWV 1056: II. Largo
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