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Zoo Says Fruit Cultivated For People Is Too Sugary For Animals
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [September 30th-October 6th, 2018] An eight-year-old pulls a sword from a lake, a downtown tenement gets wrapped in foil, drunk birds cause chaos...
Oct 05, 2018
Edmonton company fined after worker injured at site near Lloydminster
An Edmonton company has pleaded guilty and been fined $100,000 after a worker suffered serious facial injuries at a worksite near Lloydminster in 2016. Numbered company 324007 Alberta Ltd., operating ...
Oct 05, 2018
Kindersley area leads province in October public offerings of Crown petroleum, natural gas rights
Petroleum opportunities near Kindersley once again dominated Saskatchewan's October public offering of Crown petroleum and natural gas rights. The Oct. 2 offering generated $2.1 million in revenue for...
Oct 05, 2018
TIPPs program making it easier for people to pay taxes
Battleford residents who find it difficult paying their taxes all at once will now be able to pay a little at a time to make it easier to manage their finances. The Town of Battleford announced at its...
Oct 05, 2018
More people looking for work in region year-over-year as country's unemployment rate lowers
Employment across Canada made greater than expected gains in September, adding 63,000 positions, and edging the unemployment rate down marginally to 5.9 per cent. The uptick also offset job losses in ...
Oct 05, 2018
Aquasonic: The Haunting Sounds Of Underwater Music
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Aquasonic Using specially designed instruments, Danish group Aquasonic is the first ensemble to perform music underwater and does so without using breathin...
Oct 05, 2018
Can Contact With A Toad Really Cause Warts?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Or Not In today's world many misconceptions have been perpetuated-becoming modern day "facts"-when, in reality, myths and hearsay have taken over. Sorry to...
Oct 05, 2018
Smokejumpers: The People Who Skydive Into Wildfires
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Smokejumpers Many people think skydiving is already crazy enough, but for another brand of thrillseeker, they have to up the ante and skydive into the remo...
Oct 05, 2018
Mysterious Origins Of The Ekoi Skin Mask
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Skin Masks The inhabitants of southeast Nigeria and western Cameroon-largely known as the Ekoi for their shared spoken language-carved intricate wooden mas...
Oct 05, 2018
Thursday's Scoreboard
Thursday’s Games NHL Pittsburgh 7, Washington 6, OT Boston 4, Buffalo 0 N.Y. Islanders 2, Carolina 1, OT Columbus 3, Detroit 2, OT Nashville 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 Chicago 4, Ottawa 3, OT Winn...
Oct 05, 2018