Black Friday Shopping tips

Black Friday is upon us again and a lot of Canadians will be participating in this wonderful day of sales.

On the Friday the 29th, shops across the country will be opening up their doors to customers to get merchandise at supposedly low prices. Still some shoppers will not be participating in the sale.

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Derrick Rose faces a long recovery

Doctors who watched Chicago point guard Derrick Rose fall on Friday say that patients who suffer that kind of injury often face long and difficult recoveries.

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Game programming petition outlines complaints about professors

After receiving a petition from game programming students outlining serious complaints about the quality of some professors, Humber’s School of Media Studies and Information Technology is pledging to take action, possibly going so far as not inviting some of the part-time faculty back, according to the program coordinator.

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SWEA brings Swedish Christmas to Toronto

In a big room with wooden floors at the Toronto Harbourfront Centre, people are waiting in line to get their chance to pick up some real Swedish food. Over someone’s shoulder, I see all the things I love from home. There’s the round crisp bread, the chocolate Plopp and, of course, the Swedish coffee Zoegas. A woman, wearing a red apron and Santa hat, tells me it will be at least another hour before I can get in line. I decide it’s not worth it and instead I head for the meatballs in the next room over.

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Philippine typhoon relief concert in T.O. helps survivors

World Vision and the Kol Hope Foundation held Canada for Philippines, a benefit concert with both Canadian and Filipino performers in order to raise money for survivors of Typhoon Haiyan.

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Chrystia Freeland was elected the new Toronto-Centre MP late Monday evening. The liberals have retained this riding for the past 20 years, and Freeland believes this is a sign of a positive outcome for the party in the 2015 elections. Video By Stephanie DePetrillo and Deanna Grant Read more

Jon Bon Jovi is not looking to buy the Buffalo Bills or move them to Toronto.

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Librarians want your support

As the budget council makes its’ final decisions in the coming week, librarians are rallying for councilors votes. The city’s last budget vote showed 21 councilors voting for Rob Ford’s budget cuts, and 22 councilors voting against the cuts.

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This week on Skedlive, Nick Dasko takes us through some of the stories this week and Joyita Sengupta interviews Richard Feren, the man behind @TOMayorFrod, a popular satirical Rob Ford twitter handle. Read more
Facebook controversy over beheading videos

Facebook is experiencing criticism for allowing users to post decapitation videos but the social media company is standing its ground. The company said earlier this week it will allow users to post the videos as long as it is done so “in the right context.”

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