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With that, the Twisted Panties team takes PHOTO CARMINE MARINELLI winter boots for a spin. WEDNESDAY 2 › NEWS NOVEMBER 3 2010 OVERHEARD Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlus- The federal government Ashley Kirilow, the Burlington, coni sparked uproar Tuesday by claim- didn’t announce its decision Ont., woman who faked cancer, › ing it was better to love girls than gays. Tuesday on the bid for Potash has pleaded guilty to one count Gay rights groups are outraged and Corp., the review results are of fraud over $5,000 but still 1 fuelled new calls for him to step down. flash 2 expected Wednesday. 3 faces more charges. GOOD NEWS WEIRD NEWS YOUR MONEY ↓DOLLAR A 15-month-old baby girl survived a fall from a sev- enth-floor apartment in Paris almost unscathed 0.99 $ after bouncing off a cafe awning and into the arms + 0.007 $ of a passerby, police said on Tuesday. The infant had been playing unsupervised with her four-year- NASDAQ old sister on Monday when she somehow fell out of the window, a spokesman for local city police 2,533.52 said. A young man saw the baby starting to fall and + 28.68 alerted his father, who raced to get into position, arms outstretched, to catch her after she hit the S&P/TSX awning, the daily Le Parisien reported. — QMI ↓ AGENCY 12,681.42 + 16.61 DOW Scientists create giant dragonflies ↓ 11,188.72 Scientists in Arizona are trying to recreate the giant, horrifying insects of yore. During + 64.10 Earth’s late Carboniferous Period, dragonflies had wingspans of 70 centimetres, which sci- LIVING LIGER Maybe not ‘bred for its skills in magic’ as suggested by Napoleon Dynamite, but this rare liger seen in the Gantang Zoo in Jiujiang, China is one of 20 of the entists have long attributed to high oxygen real-live creatures in the world: The unusual result of a male lion breeding with a female levels in the atmosphere. Researchers at Ari- tiger. The survival rate of newborn ligers is just one in 15,000. WENN.COM STREET TALK zona State University tested this theory by URBANDICTIONARY.COM rearing a dozen different kinds of bugs in varying levels of oxygen. — QMI AGENCY Electile dysfunction FACEBOOK CAN PREDICT THE FUTURE OF YOUR LOVE LIFE (noun) The inability to A chart that maps the relationship patterns some of his newest works, including the become aroused over any of 10,000 Facebook users shows people's Facebook break-up graph. It shows a major candidate choices put BY THE NUMBERS break-up patterns — and they mostly match peak in break-ups in the days leading up to forth by any party. up with college vacation times. The chart is Spring Break and another big peak at the Who do you like in this the brainchild of David McCandless, a de- start of the summer. People are most likely to race? Nobody. I think signer and author best known for his Infor- announce a break-up on Facebook on a mation Is Beauty project, where he makes Monday. But the best day for avoiding I’m suffering from electile aesthetically pleasing graphs and charts heartache is Christmas, the day with the low- dysfunction. using different kinds of data. In a recent TED est number of break-ups of the year. How- Talk, with renowned speakers giving lectures ever, there is a peak of break-ups two weeks on various subjects, McCandless revealed before Christmas. — REUTERS Vancouver Weather TWITTERTRENDS Today High 13 #election: Americans took to the Low 10 polls Tuesday to cast their deci- Mainly sunny with a few sions for the midterm election. morning clouds. Winds light. They also took to Twitter to talk Tomorrow about it. It didn’t hurt online stats High 14 that candidates, including Low 9 Barack Obama, looked to social Cloudy with light rain (POP networking sites in the 11th hour 60%). 43 storeys for campaign leverage. Friday The expected height of the “Jordan Gate” pro- High 12 ject in Amman. The project will be one of the Canada’s Top 3 Low 8 tallest skyscrapers in Jordan at 43 storeys and √ the high-class commercial and residential #bekind, building should be completed by the end of Phaneuf, next year. — REUTERS #govote ©The Weather Network 2010 Advertising: 604-322-2341 Vancouver 24 hours is published General Manager: Philip Tan › [email protected] Director of Sales: Elena Dunn › Fax: 604-382-3036 Monday to Friday and distributed free [email protected] Distribution: Mike MacKichan › [email protected] Editorial: 604-322-2356 throughout the Lower Mainland. 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Police aren’t sure if the bones are spond to letters in the language in which they are received, the postal human. – QMI AGENCY service said Tuesday in Vancouver. Last year Canadian post volunteers replied to more than 1.1 million letters and 39,000 emails. – QMI AGENCY LOTTO MAX JACKPOT Couple wins $50M (Left to right) Tracy Olajide, Tammy Pipe, Victoria Younker. SUBMITTED PHOTOS MATT KIELTYKA QMI Agency Kurt Blanchette-Ebert quit New info sought in his job at a small bakery Monday. On Tuesday, the 63-year- historic homicides old and his partner Claude, MATT KIELTYKA found at the three sites. 52, became the country’s QMI Agency Tiny yellow flecks were newest millionaires when It’s been 15 years since three found on each victim, possibly they claimed their $50 mil- Vancouver women’s strangled rubber from a raincoat or other lion Lotto Max jackpot prize bodies were found in remote clothing. in Vancouver. logging areas in the Fraser Val- Cater said someone must “I put the ticket in the ma- ley. know something and is calling chine and it said $50 million,” And though police have long for people to come forward Kurt told media at the BC held the belief that the deaths with information. Lottery Corporation’s office of Tracy Olajide, Tammy Pipe Some already have since po- in Richmond. “The first thing and Victoria Younker are lice released information I said was ‘holy s---!’” linked, they are no closer to Monday night. The modest couple was so identifying a suspect. Anyone with information is shocked by their win on Fri- “It’s hard to believe we asked to call the E-Valley in- day, it took them a few days haven’t been able to identify a vestigation tip line at 1-877- to work up the courage to person yet,” admitted RCMP 687-3377. cash in. S/Sgt. John Cater, in charge of “Well yesterday I had to quit the Missing Women Task my job,” laughed Kurt. “I’ve Force investigation. “For all we Forums never seen that side of my Claude (left) and Kurt know the suspect could be in √ Blanchette-Ebert have boss. He was laughing and come forward as the jail, or he could be deceased. Missing women inquiry rolling on the floor. Today winners of $50 million We have to keep our minds commissioner Wally was a good day (to claim).” Lotto Max jackpot, the open to anything.” Oppal will hold commu- The first thing on the biggest in B.C. history. Knowing that a serial killer nity forums in Prince Blanchette-Ebert’s list is a PHOTO CARMINE MARINELLI could still be lurking – though George and Vancouver new house. there is no evidence the sus- to help him shape the Then they’ve got a 30th an- pect has been active since 1995 scope of the upcoming niversary to celebrate in De- – Cater and his team of six full- proceedings.