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Quitting in style… and the videos it created
When we first saw this video by Mirna Shifrin quitting her journalism job with a funky dance video, we thought we were the only ones interested because it was about journalism. Well, nearly 10 million views and a new meme later... here is the video and some of the off-shoots including a great response from...
Woman who quit job with Taiwanese company on dance video offered talk show website position
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A University of Missouri graduate who used a dance video to quit her job with a Taiwanese company has gotten an offer to work on the website of a daytime talk show.
YouTube stars headed to Toronto for inaugural Buffer Festival for web videos
TORONTO – Just weeks after some of Hollywood’s biggest names cleared town at the end of the Toronto International Film Festival, the city will soon be host to another barrage of visiting filmmakers attending a multi-day festival.
Brantford, Ont., cops say video being examined after Gretzky statues defaced
BRANTFORD, Ont. – Police in Brantford, Ont., are examining videotape as they investigate vandalism to new statues of hockey great Wayne Gretzky in his hometown.
Embrace video, outgoing head of the Special Investigations Unit urges police
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – The meteoric rise of video in social media has become a game changer that police should embrace rather than resist, says the outgoing head of the Ontario agency that investigates cops for potential criminal wrongdoing.
VIDEO: Conservatives launching billion-dollar free market in medical marijuana
OTTAWA – The Conservative government is launching a $1.3-billion free market in medical marijuana this Tuesday, eventually providing an expected 450,000 Canadians with quality weed.
VIDEO: Sochi Olympics flame lighting goes off without a hitch ahead of mammoth torch relay
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece – Using the sun's rays, the Olympic flame lighting for the Winter Games in Sochi went off without a hitch in southern Greece Sunday, ahead of its journey across Russia's nine time zones and even a trip to space before the Feb. 7-23 games.
VIDEO: Miss Philippines crowned Miss World in Indonesia following protests by Muslim hardliners
BALI, Indonesia – Miss Philippines, Megan Young, was crowned Miss World on Saturday amid tight security on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, where the contest's final round was moved following protests by Muslim hardliner groups.
Canadian video gamers head to Montreal in hopes of winning trip to China
TORONTO – Twenty-year-old Henry Zheng is spending eight or nine hours on a bus so he can play video games in Montreal this weekend.
Justin Bieber, Zach Galifianakis trade barbs in new Funny or Die video
TORONTO – Justin Bieber showcases his sense of humour in an uproarious new interview on comedian Zach Galifianakis’s intentionally awkward “Between Two Ferns” Internet show.
Video game simulation has the Stanley Cup going to St. Louis as Blues beat Pens
TORONTO – It could be a season to remember for the St. Louis Blues, according to a video game simulation of the 2013-14 NHL campaign.
Amazon unveils faster, slimmer, lighter tablets with ‘Mayday’ 24/7 live video helpers
SEATTLE – Amazon is refreshing its line-up of tablet computers with devices called Kindle Fire HDX. The tablets are significantly faster and weigh less than the previous generation.
SARS doctor Donald Low pleads for legalized assisted suicide in posthumous video
TORONTO – The infectious disease doctor who guided Toronto through the 2003 SARS crisis made an appeal prior to his death for Canada to change the law and legalize assisted suicide.
US town says it intends to fire police chief who posted videos of himself shooting guns
GILBERTON, Pa. – A Pennsylvania town says it intends to fire a police chief previously suspended after he posted online videos of himself shooting automatic weapons and going on profanity-laced tirades about liberals and the constitutional right to bear arms.
Ohio man who made confessional DUI video expected to plead guilty to vehicular homicide
COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio man who confessed in an online video to causing a fatal wrong-way crash after a night of heavy drinking hopes to plead guilty.