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Shocked to death
The world saw a video last week of Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers using a Taser against a Polish man in the Vancouver International Airport in October. The man, Robert Dziekanski, died soon after the attack. In recent days, more details have...Tags: Immigration, Canada, France, Death, Spain
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Singing the Citys Praises
Born on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, I’ve lived my entire adult life in Los Angeles, but I remain a big Canadian flag waver. Victoria may be the greatest city in which to grow up, but L.A. may well be the greatest city to live out your dreams....Tags: Entertainment, George Harrison, Otis Redding, Fishing, Television
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Dems in control? We're still staying in Canada
DAVID DRUCKER is an information architect in Vancouver, Canada.MY WIFE AND I AWOKE, as usual, to NPR. Before political correspondent Mara Liasson got to the end of her first sentence, I knew the news was disastrous. George W. Bush had been reelected. "Honey," I said, "remember when we talked about moving to Canada?"...Tags: Parties and Movements, Global Warming, Politics, Environmental Pollution, Local Elections
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Calendar: Events for early 2008 and beyond
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCALIFORNIA San Diego Mardi Gras It's telling that no still or video cameras are allowed at the San Diego Fat Tuesday frenzy. The crowd gets wild with live music on 10 stages, go-go dancing and street performers, beads and boas, plus two Incredible...Tags: Rollins College, Entertainment, Texas, Dallas, Festive Events
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An appetite for adventure
Special to The Timesbelieved her. I do have photographic evidence. More important, I have the memory of a unique experience that reminded me how colorful, diverse and, yes, educational street market foods are. Eating scorpions, say, exposes the adventurous traveler to a...Tags: Game, Apples, Louisiana, China, Potatoes
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Calendar: events for March 2008
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterARIZONA Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop This central Arizona fest, now in its 14th year, has a roster of 130 films and includes appearances by Helen Hunt, who makes her directorial debut with "Then She Found Me"; actor Diane Ladd; director...Tags: Hans Christian Andersen, Entertainment, Festive Events, Robert Burns, Los Angeles Times
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Canadian officials say 6th foot a hoax
From the Associated PressVANCOUVER, Canada -- British Columbia's coroner's office is calling the discovery of a sixth floating human foot a hoax, saying it was really an animal paw stuffed inside a running shoe. At first, the discovery Wednesday deepened the mystery...Tags: Canada, Stranger Than Fiction, Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors
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Liping Zhang is a thoroughly cosmopolitan 'Madame Butterfly'
![Chinese soprano Liping Zhang has built a career out of playing submissive, self-negating heroines in the operas "Madame Butterfly" and "Turandot," both by Giacomo Puccini.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-09/42670580-30141549.jpg "Chinese soprano Liping Zhang has built a career out of playing submissive, self-negating heroines in the operas "Madame Butterfly\" and \"Turandot,\" both by Giacomo Puccini.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterChinese soprano Liping Zhang has built a career out of playing submissive, self-negating heroines in the operas "Madame Butterfly" and "Turandot," both by Giacomo Puccini. In person, however, Zhang in many ways represents the polar opposite of the...Tags: Robert Wilson, Music Theater, China, EMI Group Ltd., Politics
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Dueling 'Bionic' Women
Zap2It.comBack in the '70s, there were two bionic people on television. There still are, but times have changed. When NBC's Wednesday drama "Bionic Woman," the reimagined version of the 1976-78 series "The Bionic Woman" (a spinoff of "The Six Million Dollar Man")...Tags: The Bionic Woman (tv program) , Battlestar Galactica (tv program), Central Intelligence Agency, Entertainment, Syfy (tv network)
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Sci Fi Hopes 'Gordon' Isn't a Flash in the Pan
![Eric Johnson isn't what you'd call a slacker. As we talk, it's only a little before 7 a.m. his time, and he already sounds upbeat, focused and ready to attack the day -- which is fitting for a guy who's taken on the title role in Sci Fi Channel's new "Flash Gordon" series, premiering Friday, Aug. 10.](http://www.zap2it.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2007-08/31728914.jpg "Eric Johnson isn't what you'd call a slacker. As we talk, it's only a little before 7 a.m. his time, and he already sounds upbeat, focused and ready to attack the day -- which is fitting for a guy who's taken on the title role in Sci Fi Channel's new "Flash Gordon\" series, premiering Friday, Aug. 10.")
Zap2It.comEric Johnson isn't what you'd call a slacker. As we talk, it's only a little before 7 a.m. his time, and he already sounds upbeat, focused and ready to attack the day -- which is fitting for a guy who's taken on the title role in Sci Fi Channel's new...Tags: Canada, Syfy (tv network), Smallville (tv program), Personal Service, Career and Workplace
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'Everything's Gone Green'
![Not the Al Gore-fueled eco-fantasia implied by the title, the Canadian comedy "Everything's Gone Green" is instead a genial tale of a young man's disillusionment when he realizes that everybody's working the system for their own gain. Penned by Gen-X progenitor and author Douglas Coupland, the film not surprisingly explores some of the same themes — the difficulties of moving into adulthood, individual freedom versus corporate culture and the emptiness of material wealth — that brought the writer to prominence in the early '90s.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-04/29185882.jpg "Not the Al Gore-fueled eco-fantasia implied by the title, the Canadian comedy "Everything's Gone Green\" is instead a genial tale of a young man's disillusionment when he realizes that everybody's working the system for their own gain. Penned by Gen-X progenitor and author Douglas Coupland, the film not surprisingly explores some of the same themes — the difficulties of moving into adulthood, individual freedom versus corporate culture and the emptiness of material wealth — that brought the writer to prominence in the early '90s.")
Times Staff WriterNot the Al Gore-fueled eco-fantasia implied by the title, the Canadian comedy "Everything's Gone Green" is instead a genial tale of a young man's disillusionment when he realizes that everybody's working the system for their own gain. Penned by Gen-X...Tags: Canada, Comedy (genre), Entertainment, Movies, Colorado
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For British opera 'idol' Paul Potts, it all started with a coin toss.
VANCOUVER, CANADA -- Paul Potts -- the British cellphone salesman turned singing sensation and YouTube phenom after dazzling skeptical judges with the operatic aria "Nessun Dorma" on "Britain's Got Talent" -- steps onstage at the Vancouver Centre for...Tags: Entertainment, Television, Music Theater, Transportation Accidents, Oprah Winfrey
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