Perfume for babies released by Dolce & Gabbana

CBC News Community team, from left to right: Andrew Yates, Lauren O'Neil, Andrea Bellamare, John Bowman (Not shown: Andrea Lee-Greenberg, on leave) If you're part of the CBC News community, you're likely to meet one of us: we're the folks working to...

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Justin Bieber poised for record books with new acoustic album

With Tuesday's release of Justin Bieber's latest album Believe Acoustic, the Canadian pop star is poised to enter the record books. The latest from the Stratford, Ont.-raised Bieber, 18, marks his third studio album (he has also released multiple remix...

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Mild winter delays ice wine harvest, but results could be 'fantastic'

By Julia Chapman, CBC News Posted: Jan 30, 2013 7:07 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 30, 2013 6:59 AM ET   It's typically a December tradition for local wineries: getting out in the cold, often deep in snow, to pick the grapes to satisfy true...

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'War on leggings' nothing new, says American Apparel CEO

A Vermont high school's recent ban on skin-tight leggings seems to be part of a larger trend spreading across North America. Over the last year, school boards in Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Halifax have all prohibited their students from wearing form-fitting...

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New York scraps oft-ignored 'Don't Honk' signs

New York City's "Don't Honk" signs are coming down, but it's still against the law to blow a car horn unnecessarily. The city Department of Transportation says all the signs will be removed by the end of the year. According to The New York Times, city...

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Man accused of gas-and-go 11 times at same Esso station

A 68-year-old man is facing multiple gas theft charge after police arrested him at the Esso service station on Dutch Village Road in Halifax on Friday morning. Police said the suspect was captured on video gassing up his vehicle and leaving without...

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Baby-snatching eagle viral video generates scholarship fund

The baby-snatching fake eagle is helping a deserving student take flight. The viral video of the eagle, which was created by students at Montreal's Centre NAD, has received international media attention and had more than 41 million views on YouTube...

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Subway sorry 'Footlong' comes up short

Subway is apologizing that its "Footlong" sandwiches fell short of expectations. The world's largest fast-food chain faced widespread criticism last week after a man posted a photo online showing a "Footlong" next to a tape measure that showed it to...

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Man accused of gas-and-go 11 times at same Esso station

A 68-year-old man is facing multiple gas theft charge after police arrested him at the Esso service station on Dutch Village Road in Halifax on Friday morning. Police said the suspect was captured on video gassing up his vehicle and leaving without...

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Subway sorry 'Footlong' comes up short

Subway is apologizing that its "Footlong" sandwiches fell short of expectations. The world's largest fast-food chain faced widespread criticism last week after a man posted a photo online showing a "Footlong" next to a tape measure that showed it to...

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Man accused of gas-and-go 11 times at same Esso station

A 68-year-old man is facing multiple gas theft charge after police arrested him at the Esso service station on Dutch Village Road in Halifax on Friday morning. Police said the suspect was captured on video gassing up his vehicle and leaving without...

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Shakespeare sonnets encoded in DNA

The ones and zeroes of digital data were converted into sequences using the four-letter alphabet of DNA. The sequences were then encoded into synthetic strands of DNA. (iStock)It can store the information from a million CDs in a space no bigger than...

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Canadian Tire money-financed album debuts

Toronto folksinger Corin Raymond is unveiling a uniquely homegrown project this week: his two-disc album of Canadian-penned songs, funded by Canadian Tire money. Almost exactly a year after recording their live performance at Toronto's Tranzac Club,...

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Fans freak out as Justin Bieber overtakes Lady Gaga on Twitter

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Flaming cheese shuts down road tunnel in northern Norway

A road tunnel in northern Norway will be shut for several weeks after a 24.5-tonne truckload of sweet goat's milk cheese caught fire. Regional traffic department chief Geir Joergensen says flames engulfed the tunnel last week and gases from the melting,...

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Internet swoons for Spanish runner who helped rival win

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Claws out for New Zealander's call to get rid of cats

Gareth Morgan has a simple dream: a New Zealand free of pet cats that threaten native birds. But the environmental advocate has triggered a claws-out backlash with his new anti-feline campaign. Morgan called on his countrymen Tuesday to make their current...

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Original Batmobile sells for $4.2M US

The original Batmobile from the 1960s television series has sold at auction for $4.2 million US. A spokeswoman for the Barrett-Jackson Auction Co. in Scottsdale, Ariz., says the winning bidder has not been disclosed following Saturday's auction. The...

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Shackleton's whisky returned to Antarctic hut

Talk about whisky on ice: Three bottles of rare, 19th century Scotch found beneath the floor boards of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's abandoned expedition base were returned to the polar continent Saturday after a distiller flew them to Scotland...

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Original Batmobile sells for 4.2M US

The original Batmobile from the 1960s television series has sold at auction for $4.2 million US. A spokeswoman for the Barrett-Jackson Auction Co. in Scottsdale, Ariz., says the winning bidder has not been disclosed following Saturday's auction. The...

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B.C. woman allowed to keep deer as pet

A Vancouver Island woman will be able to keep living with the deer she has raised from a fawn as a pet, B.C.'s environment minister has decided. Minister Terry Lake says the province will permit Janet Schwartz and the animal named Bimbo to continue...

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Google assures internet its Street View car didn't kill a donkey

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Paradise pole-arized over business

A woman in Paradise wants to offer private pole dancing classes at her home, but the town of Paradise is refusing to issue her a permit — citing traffic and parking concerns. Pole Dancing for Fitness owner Lisa Woolgar has more than 100 people signed...

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Chimpanzee enjoys TV porn, Spanish researcher finds

A female chimpanzee given access to a TV and remote control has astonished Spanish scientists, who discovered she has a particular fondness for tuning in to soft-core pornography. Primatologist Pablo Herreros told CBC's As it Happens that he and his...

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'Rage Room' lets people smash their anger away

Savo Duvnjak looks around the room, lifts a metal baseball bat and wrecks everything in sight — bed, table, shelves, chair — until there's nothing left to wreck. This isn't a criminal onslaught. It's the Rage Room. And it's smashing its way to success...

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Google Doodle ice resurfacing game celebrates Frank Zamboni

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Deer living in B.C. home has to go, officials demand

Bimbo the black-tailed deer shares some food with her human house mate in Ucluelet, B.C. (Submitted by Janet Schwartz) The B.C. owner of a domesticated deer that likes to eat cookies, watch TV and dance to rock and roll says provincial officials are...

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'Ottawapiskat' Twitter tag satirizes Idle No More criticisms

[View the story "'Ottawapiskat' Twitter tag spoofs Idle No More criticisms" on Storify] Storified by CBC News Community· Mon, Jan 14 2013 11:30:50 #ottawapiskat... Political Cartoon http://pic.twitter.com/q1xA0qvZYoda TurtleIsland If Prime Minister...

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Swedish cleaner steals train, crashes it into building

A cleaner stole an empty commuter train from a depot Tuesday and drove it to a suburb of Stockholm where it derailed and slammed into an apartment building, officials said. The woman was seriously injured in the early-morning crash and was flown to...

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Death Star construction calls silenced by White House

The U.S. will not be building a replica of the Death Star from Star Wars, despite a more than 34,000-signature-strong petition for the government to begin construction by 2016. "The Administration does not support blowing up planets," wrote Paul Shawcross,...

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Florida public helps cull python population in challenge

An armed mob set out into the Florida Everglades on Saturday to flush out a scaly invader. It sounds like the second act of a science-fiction horror film, but, really, it's pretty much Florida's plan for dealing with an infestation of Burmese pythons...

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Death Star construction calls silenced by White House

The U.S. will not be building a replica of the Death Star from Star Wars, despite a more than 34,000-signature-strong petition for the government to begin construction by 2016. "The Administration does not support blowing up planets," wrote Paul Shawcross,...

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Florida public helps cull python population in challenge

An armed mob set out into the Florida Everglades on Saturday to flush out a scaly invader. It sounds like the second act of a science-fiction horror film, but, really, it's pretty much Florida's plan for dealing with an infestation of Burmese pythons...

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Canadian dog stars in real life 'Where's Waldo'

[View the story "Canadian dog stars in real life 'Where's Waldo'" on Storify] Storified by CBC News Community· Fri, Jan 11 2013 14:32:01 #foggymorning #northernontarioandrewknapp A 4-year-old border collie from Northern Ontario is making his mark...

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Fredericton's Tiny the cat meets weight-loss goal

Tiny the cat has reached his vet's goal weight of just over 17 pounds in just over a year, after tipping the scales at 30.2 pounds. He was dropped off at the Fredericton SPCA in a big box and weighed three times the size of an average domestic cat....

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Canadian dog stars in real life 'Where's Waldo'

[View the story "Canadian dog stars in real life 'Where's Waldo'" on Storify] Storified by CBC News Community· Fri, Jan 11 2013 14:32:01 #foggymorning #northernontarioandrewknapp A 4-year-old border collie from Northern Ontario is making his mark...

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Fredericton's Tiny the cat meets weight-loss goal

Tiny the cat has reached his vet's goal weight of just over 17 pounds in just over a year, after tipping the scales at 30.2 pounds. He was dropped off at the Fredericton SPCA in a big box and weighed three times the size of an average domestic cat....

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Train enthusiast builds scale Via coach car in basement

Riding on the rails of nostalgia, a Toronto-area train enthusiast has reconstructed a precise model of a 1970s-era Via passenger coach in his home basement. Jason Shron, a train devotee in Vaughan, Ont., has taken his passion to a whole new scale, spending...

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Loopy Lew's signature may not fit the bill

If the U.S. president gets his way, the signature that guarantees all the country's currency could soon look a lot less like someone's earnest John Hancock, and a lot more like a doodle. Barack Obama nominated his chief of staff, Jack Lew, to become...

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Money may not buy love but $1 will buy you a poem

Roses are red, violets are blue. If you've got a dollar, then request a custom poem, just for you. Halifax University student Jon Bolduc, 19, is offering to write poetry for money. For $1, he'll write a poem. The topic is the buyer's choice. "One...

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Train enthusiast builds scale Via coach car in basement

Riding on the rails of nostalgia, a Toronto-area train enthusiast has reconstructed a precise model of a 1970s-era Via passenger coach in his home basement. Jason Shron, a train devotee in Vaughan, Ont., has taken his passion to a whole new scale, spending...

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London's Tube subway system marks 150 years

Busy, congested, stressful. This is how the world's first subway system was depicted by London newspapers in 1863, a situation that would be familiar to nail-biting passengers of today as the Tube turned 150 years old today. "The constant cry, as the...

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Twilight finale leads Razzies contenders with 11 nominations

The Twilight finale had better reviews than the franchise's previous four movies, but you'd never know it from the Razzie nominations singling out Hollywood's worst of the year. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 led the Razzies lineup late Tuesday...

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Rainbow igloo lights up Edmonton backyard

[View the story "Rainbow igloo lights up Edmonton backyard" on Storify] Storified by CBC News Community· Mon, Jan 07 2013 14:58:12 Imgur As a New Zealander visiting Canada for the firsttime, Daniel Gray may have hoped to see a few igloos on his...

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Mock Mars mission sends astronauts into 'hibernation'

Astronauts have a down-to-Earth problem that could be even worse on a long trip to Mars: They can't get enough sleep. And over time, the lack of slumber can turn intrepid space travelers into drowsy couch potatoes, a new study shows. In a novel experiment,...

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NYC man sets dating app honey trap to recover iPhone

A New York City musician used a combination of technology, seduction, a hammer and a bribe to reclaim his missing iPhone from a confused crook. Jazz trombonist Nadav Nirenberg says he left the phone in a livery cab on New Year's Eve. The next morning,...

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Alberta man offers $500 reward for stolen outhouse

An Alberta man is perplexed after thieves made off with a large outhouse from his farm near Edmonton — but he doesn't plan to take the crime sitting down. "I think at least four to six guys had to come here to do this … two guys? No way they could do...

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