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• Bottled water may boost kids' tooth decay, dentists say

  Wed Mar 21, 2012
  • Seamus? This poor kid will be ridiculed his entire life. Everyone will be calling him semen. The kids will be saying things like, "Here comes semen." You do realize the name is pronounced 'Shay-mus', right...? Bet you have the same difficulty with Aisling, Roisin and Siobhan.

• Bottled water may boost kids' tooth decay, dentists say

  Wed Mar 21, 2012
  • Seamus? This poor kid will be ridiculed his entire life. Everyone will be calling him semen. The kids will be saying things like, "Here comes semen." You do realize the name is pronounced 'Shay-mus', right...? Bet you have the same difficulty with Aisling, Roisin and Siobhan.

• Oscars show disconnect between art, box office

  Mon Feb 27, 2012
  • Q: "Where's the present day versions of Errol Flynn, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Henry Fonda etc." A: The world they were stars in doesn't exist anymore. And neither does its audience.

• Iconic skier's death points out U.S. health gap

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • I'm a Canadian. I'm intimately familiar with the health care systems in Canada, in the US and in the UK. I'm aware of the shortcomings of all. However...

• Apple 'thrilled' by sales surge, profits blow past estimates

  Tue Jan 24, 2012
  • It's actual title is 'Grand Central Terminal'.

• Americans as fat as ever. Obesity rate stuck, CDC finds

  Tue Jan 17, 2012
  • 'Cook fresh food. Be active. Have fun.'

• Quake shakes East Coast, causes evacuations

  Tue Aug 23, 2011
  • Felt it at 1:54 here in Hamilton, ON.

• Apple is most valuable US company, for a bit

  Tue Aug 9, 2011
  • MmmMmmBeer, your history is so skewed...and your take on things so hilarious...that I think I'll just bask in the wonder that is your post rather than correct it all.

• Healthy eating adds $380 to yearly grocery bill, study shows

  Thu Aug 4, 2011
  • North Americans have choices to make. And I can see they're only going to make them begrudgingly. We've long paid less for our food than the rest of the world. "Cook fresh food. Be active. Have fun.'

• Postal Service targets 3,600 offices for closure

  Mon Jul 25, 2011
  • While I am loath to offer up suggestions from outside one country, because I've lived in the US, I'll grant myself an exception to my rule.