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Cheugy, omicron and dogecoin among this year’s most mispronounced words

A Neil Diamond New Year’s Eve: Sweet Caroline Tour

Canada’s Drag Race: Adriana is happy to play the villain

Users of drinking-water wells in Fraser Valley warned about contamination from liquid manure

The best Canadian fiction of 2021

Poll shows majority of parents oppose mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for young children to attend school

Luxury brand Chanel roasted online for $1,025 advent calendar full of stickers, other trinkets

Singles looking for sex can improve their chances by being vaccinated against COVID-19

Actor Jussie Smollett testifies he did drugs, engaged in sex acts with man who accused him of staging hoax

Drake withdraws from 2021 Grammy consideration after getting 2 nominations

Drake withdraws 2 Grammy nominations from final ballot

Justin Bieber performs in Saudi Arabia despite calls for boycott over human rights

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Cheugy, omicron and dogecoin among this year’s most mispronounced words

George Shafe 7 hours ago

“Cheugy” is apparently a lot to chew on. Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Billie Eilish and Philadelphia Eagles centre Jason Kelce have something in common — broadcasters butcher their names.

And virtually everyone is having trouble with “omicron.”

All four made it onto this year’s list of most mispronounced words as compiled by the U.S. Captioning Company, which captions and subtitles real-time events on TV and in courtrooms.

The list released Tuesday identifies the words that proved most challenging for newsreaders and people on television to pronounce this year.

The caption company said it surveyed its members to generate the list, which

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A Neil Diamond New Year’s Eve: Sweet Caroline Tour

George Shafe 7 hours ago

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Wadjet PR announces The Sweet Caroline Tour starring Jay White & showcasing legendary Neil Diamond Band Member King Errisson. It truly is the #1 Neil Diamond Concert Working experience in the globe. The two-hour concert presentation is an authentic recreation of a Neil Diamond concert and capabilities all of Neil’s biggest hits … as well as other Diamond gems from the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame singer-songwriter’s legendary 50-12 months vocation.

Occur and join Jay White, King Errisson, and the Sweet Caroline Tour Band for

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Canada’s Drag Race: Adriana is happy to play the villain

George Shafe 7 hours ago

Canada’s Drag Race is winding down, which means the therapeutic hideous-cry times are ramping up.

The 2nd season’s eighth episode was the makeover challenge, normally an affirming and cathartic time for the contestants who’ve been cooped up in the output bubble for months by this level. It is also a requirement for the audience—late in the year we’ve been so concentrated on the queens that obtaining new faces come into the Werk Place and shake up the dynamics feels like a welcome reprieve.

For a couple of brief times, we’re taken out of Drag Race’s careerist target and reminded

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Users of drinking-water wells in Fraser Valley warned about contamination from liquid manure

George Shafe 7 hours ago

There’s nevertheless a further severe situation arising from new significant flooding in Abbotsford and other parts.

The Ministry of Well being has warned those people who possess or are responsible for personal wells that these resources of drinking h2o “may be at increased risk of contamination”.

“This is because of to opportunity overflow or failures of liquid manure storage units mainly because of superior precipitation brought about by recent storms,” a statement on the Fraser Valley Regional District website suggests.

To study additional about this difficulty, nicely house owners are being inspired to make contact with Fraser Health and fitness

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The best Canadian fiction of 2021

George Shafe 7 hours ago

Here are the picks by CBC Books for the top Canadian fiction of 2021.

What Strange Paradise is a novel by Omar El Akkad. (Kateshia Pendergrass, McClelland & Stewart)

What Strange Paradise is a novel that tells the story of a global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. Nine-year-old Amir is the only survivor from a ship full of refugees coming to a small island nation. He ends up with a teenage girl named Vanna, who lives on the island. Even though they don’t share a common language or culture, Vanna becomes determined to keep Amir safe. What

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Poll shows majority of parents oppose mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for young children to attend school

George Shafe 7 hours ago

With the arrival of the Omicron variant of issue in Canada, there is a developing stress about getting contaminated with COVID-19, in accordance to  a new poll by the Angus Reid Institute.

“3-in-5 Canadians now say they are concerned about becoming unwell and 3-quarters (73%) say they are anxious their pals or loved ones will be infected by COVID-19,” the pollster explained in its report.

The sample dimension was 2,005 respondents and the poll has a margin of error of moreover or minus two percent, 19 occasions out of 20.

On the other hand, the poll also showed that a

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Luxury brand Chanel roasted online for $1,025 advent calendar full of stickers, other trinkets

George Shafe 1 day ago

Iconic fashion house Chanel is being dragged online after a social media influencer unboxed the company’s advent calendar and discovered it was full of trinkets that don’t appear worth anything close to the $1,025 price tag.

The brand launched the advent calendar this year in a box of items numbered from five to 31. Unlike traditional advent calendars, which start on December 1st and are followed by new treats to be discovered every day for the next 24 leading up to Christmas day, Chanel’s starts on day five as a nod to the brand’s iconic fragrance, Chanel No. 5.

The

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Singles looking for sex can improve their chances by being vaccinated against COVID-19

George Shafe 1 day ago

It really is formal. The Match Singles in The usa survey has proven that if you want to get laid, you need to choose the jab versus COVID-19.

According to the 11th once-a-year Match survey, 65 percent of singles want their relationship partners to be vaccinated.

That rises to 80 % among those who are vaccinated.

The percentages rose higher as folks grew more mature. Between Gen X singles, 57 p.c were unlikely to have intercourse with an unvaccinated associate. That rose to 85 percent among newborn boomers. Only a 3rd of youthful singles felt this way.

The survey was

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Actor Jussie Smollett testifies he did drugs, engaged in sex acts with man who accused him of staging hoax

George Shafe 1 day ago

Jussie Smollett took the witness stand Monday at his trial on prices of staging a racist, anti-gay assault on himself and lying to Chicago police about it.

The actor who starred on the Television set clearly show Empire is envisioned to share his account of what transpired in January 2019 in an attempt to refute damaging testimony from two brothers who testified final week. They explained Smollett, who is homosexual and Black, orchestrated the hoax to get publicity, supplying them $100 US for provides and instructing them to spot a noose about his neck and yell homophobic slurs. They also

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Drake withdraws from 2021 Grammy consideration after getting 2 nominations

George Shafe 1 day ago

Drake is dropping out of the Grammys race, the group powering the awards confirmed on Monday, marking a further twist in the Toronto-elevated artist’s contentious relationship with the songs prize.

A consultant for the Recording Academy explained it withdrew Drake’s two nominations at the ask for of the rapper and his management.

Drake was up for greatest rap album with Certified Lover Boy, and his track with Future and Younger Thug, Way 2 Captivating, was in the managing for greatest rap functionality.

The academy agent mentioned Drake would be eradicated from the ballot as the ultimate round of

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