Canadian club

Published 4:57 pm Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: Christmas special edition: NBC’s holiday special tonight is “Michael Buble’s Christmas in Hollywood.” The crooner is joined in Tinseltown by fellow Canadians Celine Dion and William Shatner.

Doesn’t that leave Canada seriously depleted of talent for the evening? Shouldn’t we offer some Americans as part of a cultural exchange. I’m thinking Donald Trump, Kayne West and Tom Brady. Stay as long as you like, boys.

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Twitterpated: A look at the year’s 10 most popular messages posted to Twitter, showed that five of the 10 were from each of the five members of the boy band One Direction.

The other five tweets were from President Obama, Saudia Arabia’s King Salman, Leonard Nimoy and Caitlyn Jenner, but all five of those were about how “totes cute” One Direction singer Harry Styles is.

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You can teach an old dog a new trick: Seven puppies born at a university lab in New York are the world’s first dogs conceived through in vitro fertilization. It’s now common for human births, but test tube puppies are a first.

Fortunately for the lab workers, the puppies are Petri dish trained.

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