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Fewer Canada border officers means more gun smuggling, Customs and Immigration Union says

Richard J. Brennan
The Star.com
July 24, 2012

In the midst of growing concerns over deadly gun play in Toronto, the Conservative government has made it easier to smuggle illegal firearms into Canada, an official with the Customs and Immigration Union says.

“The fact is (Public Safety Minister) Vic Toews just cut 1,300 jobs from the Canada Border Services Agency … and there is no question that cutting those jobs makes it easier to [...]

PHOTO: 100-foot, 40-ton tree topples over on DC-area road, crushes car, kills driver

One tree expert says the tree has been in serious decline for years.

“That tree has been a problem waiting to happen,” Vic Price of Vic’s Tree Service of Great Falls tells WTOP.

“It had no leaves. It had no root system to speak of. Gravity was going to take it down. In a busy area like that, I love trees as much as the next person, but sometimes they need to come down,” [...]

Mold Problem Forces College To Use Cruise Ship As Dorm

ST. MARY’S CITY, Md. (WJZ) — Living in luxury while in college. That will be the answer to a moldy, smelly problem at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Vic Carter reports at the waterfront campus in St. Mary’s City, a rented cruise ship will be turned into a dorm.

You can’t see the mold but students say you can certainly smell it. It’s in the ceiling.

It’s so bad that students were moved out [...]

Before I die, all I want is a refrigerator with an ice machine. My needs are minimal.

I should clarify first that I was never an investor but a homeowner. I have done quite well in this arena as the designer and first mate to the person I hire to do the construction. Maybe I’ve been a bit lucky but I have done this for 18 years and always come out on top. However, the caveat is that I have always been aware of market cycles and [...]