Bombing probe focuses on 2011 warnings, 2012 Chechnya trip
With one suspect dead and the other captured and in hospital wounded, the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings turned Saturday to questions about the men’s motives and to the significance of a trip one of the bombers took to Chechnya. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed early Friday after a shootout with police in Watertown, [...]
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Boston in lockdown
1 bombing suspect killed, 1 on run Tensions remained high Friday as thousands of police officers searched for the fugitive suspect wanted in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings, after another suspect died overnight following a violent standoff with police. The City of Boston and several surrounding suburbs are under a “shelter in place” request, [...]
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Bombs dirty and deadly
The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with metal shards, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday. The details on the apparently crude but deadly explosives [...]
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At least two dead in Boston Marathon explosions
Police Confirm Third Blast At least two are dead and dozens injured after twin blasts rocked the Boston Marathon this afternoon. A third explosion nearby at the JFK Library is being treated as related. Chaos erupted as paramedics treated the injured at the scene, some reportedly missing limbs. Competitors, race volunteers and spectators were [...]
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Science & Technology
Mayan apocalypse: End of the world, or a new beginning?
One in 10 of us is said to be anxious that December 21, 2012 marks the end of the world. The Ancient Mayans predicted this doomsday, and the press is eating it up. But where are all the believers? That the world will end in 2012 is the most widely-disseminated doomsday tale in human history, [...]
Arts & Entertainment
Yngwie Who?
By Kate Campbell The doors of the Phoenix Concert Theatre opened a little later than scheduled leaving an enormous crowd lining the sidewalk of Sherbourne St. in Toronto, buzzing with the anticipation of seeing guitar legend Yngwie J. Malmsteen. I had overheard one of the doormen say it had taken longer than anticipated to load [...]
Business & Finance
Halifax and Vancouver Win Shipbuilding Sweepstakes
Nova Scotia’s Halifax Shipyard has landed a $25-billion contract to build new combat ships for the Canadian navy over the next 20 years, the federal government announced in Ottawa on Wednesday. Irving Shipbuilding will be the main company responsible for building the navy’s new warships. An $8-billion contract for seven non-combat vessels went to Vancouver’s [...]
Travel
New City. New bartending gig. New patrons. Same nightly antics.
By Kaitlyn Sawyer Our travel and features writer for Thursday Night Magazine, Kaitlyn Sawyer, has just moved to Portland, Maine. She’s spent the last while residing in Bar Harbor with Acadia National Park as her backyard. Now she is shifting gears and moving into the city scene, and as she writers in her column, she [...]
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Yngwie Who?
By Kate Campbell The doors of the Phoenix Concert Theatre opened a little later than scheduled leaving an enormous crowd lining the sidewalk of Sherbourne St. in Toronto, buzzing with the anticipation of seeing guitar legend Yngwie J. Malmsteen. I had overheard one of the doormen say it had taken longer than anticipated to load [...]
New City. New bartending gig. New patrons. Same nightly antics.
By Kaitlyn Sawyer Our travel and features writer for Thursday Night Magazine, Kaitlyn Sawyer, has just moved to Portland, Maine. She’s spent the last while residing in Bar Harbor with Acadia National Park as her backyard. Now she is shifting gears and moving into the city scene, and as she writers in her column, she [...]
Bombing probe focuses on 2011 warnings, 2012 Chechnya trip
With one suspect dead and the other captured and in hospital wounded, the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings turned Saturday to questions about the men’s motives and to the significance of a trip one of the bombers took to Chechnya. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed early Friday after a shootout with police in Watertown, [...]
Boston in lockdown
1 bombing suspect killed, 1 on run Tensions remained high Friday as thousands of police officers searched for the fugitive suspect wanted in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings, after another suspect died overnight following a violent standoff with police. The City of Boston and several surrounding suburbs are under a “shelter in place” request, [...]
Bombs dirty and deadly
The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with metal shards, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday. The details on the apparently crude but deadly explosives [...]
At least two dead in Boston Marathon explosions
Police Confirm Third Blast At least two are dead and dozens injured after twin blasts rocked the Boston Marathon this afternoon. A third explosion nearby at the JFK Library is being treated as related. Chaos erupted as paramedics treated the injured at the scene, some reportedly missing limbs. Competitors, race volunteers and spectators were [...]
Mayan apocalypse: End of the world, or a new beginning?
One in 10 of us is said to be anxious that December 21, 2012 marks the end of the world. The Ancient Mayans predicted this doomsday, and the press is eating it up. But where are all the believers? That the world will end in 2012 is the most widely-disseminated doomsday tale in human history, [...]
Newtown: What to Tell the Children?
By Rebecca Mead – The New Yorker (Dec. 17, 2012). Every morning, my seven-year-old son and I ride the subway to his school, a public elementary in Brooklyn. There are posters on the station walls, many of them advertising movies and TV shows and video games, and often my son has questions about these posters. [...]
The 27-year-old who triggered Rob Ford’s downfall
By Daniel Dale In the wake of Mayor Rob Ford’s stunning ouster from office on Monday, someone started a “Thank You Paul Magder” group on Facebook. The group would have more aptly been called Thank You Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler. Magder, a businessman, was the Average Joe face of the lawsuit that brought Ford down. Celebrated lawyer [...]
Rob Ford says he’s sorry, but pledges to fight
A contrite Rob Ford finally apologized Tuesday to those who don’t like the way he handled his conflict of interest situation, but said he would fight to stay on as mayor. Ford also said his appeal of a judge’s decision to boot him from office should not be construed as criticism of the courts, although [...]
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Yngwie Who?
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New City. New bartending gig. New patrons. Same nightly antics.
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Bombing probe focuses on 2011 warnings, 2012 Chechnya trip
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Boston in lockdown
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Bombs dirty and deadly
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