Viga Boland
Digital Journalist based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Joined on Nov 12, 2006
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Toronto -
Over the weekend of December 3-5, 2011, the latest upcoming Canadian TV reality talent show, Canada’s Got Talent, came into Toronto to host the callbacks for those Toronto area contestants who auditioned for the show back in September 2011.
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Hamilton -
At the recent 2011 Hamilton Music Awards, the host, Tom Wilson, who is also a well-known musician, was congenial and often funny. He was also prone to using expletives to build up excitement.
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Hamilton -
"Canada - where we eat our own". Those poignant words from singer/songwriter, Ian Thomas, elicited laughter from the audience who attended the last night of the Hamilton Music Awards on November 20, 2011.
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Hamilton -
It's Hamilton Music Awards weekend in Hamilton, Ontario and on November 18, this year's contenders for the "RISING STAR" award showed they were worthy of their nominations.
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Hanover -
For years, health organizations have touted the the benefits of drinking milk. But if the milk is organic and fails to meet the strict quality standards in Germany, you can wear it instead of drinking it.
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Toronto -
Beautiful, recognized faces with perfect smiles catch our eyes as we wait at the grocery checkouts. Headlines scream who cheated with whom, and invite us to look at before and after plastic surgery photos of celebrities.
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Brian McGuinn of Margate, Florida was holding a razor he was about to throw out when his wife handed him her $10,000 ring as she stepped into the shower.
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Oshawa -
Halloween may be over for 2011, but in an Oshawa, Ontario neighbourhood, a 26-year-old man got an angry letter for not dishing out candy on October 31. So now, he's shelling out some sarcastic words of his own on classifieds site Kijiji.
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If you spend hours on Facebook, you may be more narcissistic than the average person, a new study found. But these users might also be lonely.
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Hamilton -
On the night of her 25th wedding anniversary, Helen invited her son, Chris, 20, to join the family for an anniversary dinner in Niagara Falls. Chris bowed out because of previous plans with friends. As he didn't have a car that evening, he rode his bike.
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Buenos Aires -
Imagine your abdomen constantly growing over 18 months, feeling fatter and fatter, and not understanding what is happening inside you.
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What will you do when you retire? This oft-asked question brings all kinds of responses from selling up, downsizing, moving south, lying around a a beach, writing.
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It should be no news to those who have studied dieting that drinking water before a meal supposedly helps with weight loss. But has anyone proved it?
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Here we go again. The NDM-1, originally from India, had only two confirmations of its arrival in Canada. These were in Alberta and BC.
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Two women, now both 59, began corresponding as pen pals when they were 12 and living continents apart. Now, after years of letters, later email, then Facebook, they finally meet in Canada and the similarities in their lives are fascinating.
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Toronto -
Loyalty is something any boss would want in his/her employees. But is it possible to be too loyal? If there's any truth in the story below, well just maybe!
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What a thrill it was when Hamilton, Ontario was selected to host the soccer & cycling events of the 2015 Pan Am Games 2015. But that thrill has now turned into a heated and rather disgusting situation!
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It's been over a month since I last posted anything on Digital Journal. Yes, I feel guilty. Yes, I've missed this site. No I didn't leave, give up, quit writing or anything like that. But I've been up to my eyeballs in so much other stuff that it's .....
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and Mauritania is one of them. The fatter a woman is, the more desirable she is. In fact, being a fat woman in Mauritania is so desirable that parents go out of their way to fatten up their daughters, doing things that border on torture, like making girls
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This news will come as a surprise to some Canadians though I'm not amongst them: according to Chantal Kraviazuk, a top Canadian singer/songwriter, eminent punk-rocker Avril Lavigne isn't the songwriter she's been purported to be.
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