Between the Headlines

If you feel like you're already spending too much time on your hair, beware: the latest fashion trend will grab you by the short and curlies...

When making plans for this Sunday's Super Party, you might want to think about making rules for your bowl.

 

An environmental protection group called Brownpeace is encouraging people to not flush their toilets during the Super Bowl telecast, with the hope of conserving water for future generations...

If you like to take your pet everywhere, we have good news:  now you'll never ever need to leave it behind. Canadian company Best Friend Furs will take your deceased pet's coat and turn it into custom-tailored clothing...

Nearly two weeks after celebrating Hamilton's first baby of the year, local officials have discovered that they were victims of fraud.

 

Local resident Ginger Jordan phone city hall and claimed that she had given birth to a child in the back seat of a taxi at 12:01 on New Year's Day, while traveling home from her job at the Jamrock Strip Club...

Even though Sally Lungston has just been insulted for five straight minutes, she couldn't be happier.

 

Sally has resolved to stop smoking in 2009. And to help her cause, she uses the Resolution Hotline (416 935 8433), a pay-per-call service that uses vicious insults to talk you out of your bad habits...

It is so out of place that you cannot believe your eyes. Perhaps it's a mirage on the dunes, or a side-effect of the blistering heat. But it's real, and it's right in front of you:  a polar bear lying under the sun in the middle of the Arabian Desert.

 

This remarkable sight is becoming more common each day in the emirate of Dubai...

More and more seniors are discovering the joys of video games - which means the more and more video games are being aimed at seniors.

 

Nintendo's Wii system is proving to be an effective tool for rehab exercises at seniors' homes across North America...

It had to happen sooner of later:  cosmetic surgery has entered the nursery. Beauty-consicous moms and dads can now give their children a head-start on good looks through infant cosmetic surgery...

Big news for local hockey fans:  JACK FM has obtained documents that confirm a second NHL team will be coming to Toronto.

 

The Nashville Predators have been purchased by Gaylord Pride, a local multi-millionair, who will move the team here for the 2009-2010 season and rename it 'The Toronto Pride'...

If you've ever wondered what happens to your Remembrance Day poppy after November 11th, wonder no more: it's going into the pockets of street-smart scrap dealers...

If you don't know it's there, you'll never see it. It's a masterpiece of camouflage - a snow covered structure in the middle of the Alaskan tundra, surrounded by thousands of land mines and a dozen well-disguised snipers. This is the home of the Presidential Double training camp...

If poverty activists have their way, the ritual of Halloween pumpkin-carving might soon be a thing of the past...

Bizarre plastic surgery has been a Hollywood staple for decades.  It should be no surprise, then, that the latest craze involves men who want to recover a long-lost part of themselves...

Canada’s fast-food operators are scrambling to comply with new federal legislation which requires complete disclosure in all product names...

While financial markets crumble and banks scramble for solvency, one company continues to experience growth by taking “debt elimination” literally...

In the very near future, airline passengers might be putting themselves on the weight scale as well as their luggage.

The fledgling venture, Fair Air, is based out of Toronto’s Island Airport and will begin offering domestic service early in the new year...

After years of devastation from hurricanes, new Cuban President Raul Castro has ordered his armed forces to move the entire island 3 degrees north, placing it farther away from potentially dangerous weather currents...

Today in the ninth day of the ninth month of the year - an appropriate occasion for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Day, when we talk about the danger of alcohol consumption while pregnant. But not everyone has climbed aboard the anti-booze bangwagon...

While many children are getting adjusted to a brand-new school year, the transition is being made easier in Thornhill, the site of Ontario's first privately owned teacher-free elementary school...

The federal government announced that it has approved funding of an internet site written entirely in Braille.

 

The site, flikipedia.net, hopes to be a wide-ranging information resource for sight-challenged Canadians – much like the encyclopedic nature of the popular Wikipedia site...

At a major press conference, CBS announced that The Mary Tyler Moore Show will be returning to the network’s primetime schedule. 

 

The story will pick up exactly where the last episode left off - at a Minneapolis news room in 1977. The 72-year-old Ms Moore, who will reprise her Emmy-winning role, isn’t nervous about playing a woman in her late thirties...

Skyrocketing gas prices are forcing consumers to consider other alternatives.  Such is the case with Dan Wanneva of Exeter, Ontario, who uses emerging biofuel technology to allow his Ford Taurus to run on human urine...