Forest fires regularly sweep through Northern Ontario during the summer months, and if a town is in the way it has no chance. In 1979 the town of Cobalt, Ontario near Lake Tamiskaming lost a good chunk, with only the church, a few homes and a decaying strip plaza spared.

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Lots of people got Kindles and Nooks and e-readers over Christmas this year. These lucky people also apparently decided it was too snowy to go out shopping between Christmas and New Year’s, because instead they stayed home and purchased record numbers of e-books.

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