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		<title>Father and son accused in Saunders Power Inc. investment fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.vancouverite.com/2012/11/24/father-and-son-accused-in-saunders-power-inc-investment-fraud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yehonathan Tommer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DURHAM &#8211; Police last week arrested Dustin Saunders 35, for suspected involvement in a million dollar green energy investment fraud. Saunders, aged 35, was arrested at his home in Port Perry, Oshawa and later released on an OIC promise to appear in court. His father, Gregory Saunders, 56 of Glenstroke Drive, Scarborough was arrested last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postal worker uses pepper spray on pet Chihuahua</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 19:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yehonathan Tommer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WATERLOO – The irate owner of a pet Chihuahua was charged with assault after she threw a syrup bottle at a postal service worker who sprayed her dog with pepper spray. The sparring occurred Monday afternoon at about 1:30 pm when a United States Postal Service worker was delivering mail in the 800 block of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Townhouse marijuana grow op dismantled</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yehonathan Tommer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TORONTO – Police dismantled a soil-based marijuana grow operation in a residential town house complex on Neilson Road on Wednesday. Some 600 marijuana plants and growing equipment valued at $600,000 were seized. The investigation is continuing and no arrests have been made, police say. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-6100, Crime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heli-skier dies in Selkirk Mountain avalanche</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yehonathan Tommer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VANCOUVER, B.C. – A 45-year-old man died, and three others were rescued, in an avalanche last Friday during a guided heli-skiing run with Canadian Mountain Holidays (CMH) in the Selkirk Mountain range southeast of Revelstoke, BC. A preliminary investigation by the Revelstoke RCMP has found that the avalanche was triggered by one of the eleven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big waistline before pregnancy may mean extra-big baby</title>
		<link>http://www.vancouverite.com/2011/11/13/big-waistline-before-pregnancy-may-mean-extra-big-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yehonathan Tommer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM &#8211; Women with large waistlines before pregnancy are more likely to have macrosomic, or a larger-than-normal weight, newborns than women who are trim around the middle, a new British study suggests. Macrosomia affects between one to 10 percent of all pregnancies, according to findings recently published in the International Journal of Obstetrics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breath test could identify trapped disaster victims</title>
		<link>http://www.vancouverite.com/2011/09/12/breath-test-could-identify-trapped-disaster-victims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yehonathan Tommer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LEICESTER, UNITED KINGDOM &#8211; People trapped under large scale urban rubble after a disaster could be rescued by searching for the chemicals in their breath, according to research findings published in The Journal of Breath Research. Scientists found in a mock-up of a collapsed building using volunteers that molecules of acetone and ammonia in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: LED lighting hazardous to public health</title>
		<link>http://www.vancouverite.com/2011/09/11/study-led-lighting-hazardous-to-public-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yehonathan Tommer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAIFA, ISRAEL – A new international study has found that exposure to white LED bulbs is significantly more harmful to public health than exposure to the orange-yellow light emitted by high pressure sodium bulbs. The findings by a team of researchers from Israel, Italy and the United States, in a study titled &#8220;Limiting the impact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook apps leaking private info: Symantec</title>
		<link>http://www.vancouverite.com/2011/05/11/facebook-apps-leaking-private-info-symantec/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 08:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VANCOUVER &#8211; Online security specialist Symantec says Facebook applications have accidentally leaked millions of pieces of personal information of users of the social networking site. &#8220;Third parties, in particular advertisers, have accidentally had access to Facebook users’ accounts including profiles, photographs, chat, and also had the ability to post messages and mine personal information,&#8221; Symantec&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A whale of a meal</title>
		<link>http://www.vancouverite.com/2011/01/22/a-whale-of-a-meal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VANCOUVER, B.C. – Amazing new research into killer whales&#8217; feeding habits demonstrate how they are able to hunt, kill and consume their much larger cousin &#8211; the gray whale. The study—conducted by Vancouver Aquarium research scientist Dr. Lance Barrett-Lennard and a team of colleagues—documented gray whale predation by killer whales near Unimak Island, Alaska. “Whalers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crime Live: Vancouver Police go live on Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.vancouverite.com/2010/12/10/crime-live-vancouver-police-go-live-on-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vancouverite.com/2010/12/10/crime-live-vancouver-police-go-live-on-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VANCOUVER &#8211; Cops went live on Twitter to give Vancouverites a taste of how hectic policing can be. Const. Anne Longley began tweeting incoming police incident calls at 8 a.m. on Thursday. And when she packed up for the day, her last message was: &#8220;I&#8217;m heading out &#8211; been tweeting since 8 a.m. I coudn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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