They say that 40% of marriages in Canada end in divorce. Party planners say that they are making arrangements for lots of wedding receptions but not many 25th wedding anniversaries. One of the reasons is that a lot of couples don't make it that long and those that do, feel bad celebrating in front of all of their divorced friends. This has spawned a whole new industry....divorce parties, complete with cakes!

The National Do Not Call List (DNCL) is now in effect. This gives you the consumer a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls. The National DNCL Rules introduce new responsibilities for Canada’s telemarketers. Registered charities are still legally able to contact you but you can choose to reduce the number of telemarketing calls you receive by registering your residential, wireless, fax or VoIP telephone number on the National DNCL.

call 1-866-580-3625 or for the website to get more information click here.

It's getting to be that time of year again. Halloween is on a Friday this year so a lot more grown up ghosts and goblins will join the fun. We thought we would get you into the "spirit" with a ghostly encounter at a Kansas gym. Have a boo at the video below and judge for yourself!

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It's only a matter of time, in about 6 months there will be a cell phone from Japan that will unlock your car, and start it's engine. No need to dig around for keys, just press the "Intelligent Key". The Japanese have created some of the most sophisticated cell phones in the world...one's with digital TVs, music players, GPS, and cell phones that double as wireless credit cards.

TV premiere night tonight, almost all the big shows are back:
Survivor Gabon (8pm): The 17Th edition of Survivor kicks off with a 2 hour premiere
Ugly Betty (8pm): Will Betty choose Henry or Gio?
Grey's Anatomy (9pm): Meredith and Derek learn that "happily ever after" isn't easy, and a military doctor who brings in a trauma patient catches Christina's eye (2 hours as well)
The Office (9pm): 1 hour edition, can't wait for the laughs

The Police top Forbes Magazine's list of top earning musicians, they made $115 million from June 07 to June 08. Van Halen was 2ND at $35 million and Genesis raked in $31 million.

Houston, B.C. is the hot spot for Sasquatch sightings. There are have been 3 over the past month. One was reported by a woman in her home at the end of July. Her dogs began barking like crazy, and she saw the doorknob to her house rattle...when she went to see what it was, she saw a shaggy-haired creature running across the tree line, and into the bushes. It was huge, about 7 or 8ft tall, and it's long, shaggy hair was the colour of a pine beetle. There were 2 other sightings about an hour and a half away, one on a road and another on the highway.

Tips for a happy marriage from a well-known psychologist Joy Brown: Keep a picture of the two of you at your happiest and look at it whenever you're annoyed with one another. Go through an old photo album together, which can help remind you why you're a couple in the first place.

It worked for actress Nicole Kidman and 6 other women, why not for everybody?!!! She claims she swam in Australian outback waterfalls, while filming the movie Australia, and got pregnant afterwards...so did the other women. She called them the "fertility falls", which has annoyed fertility experts who are concerned she's given unrealistic hope to others going through fertility difficulties, who may plan a sudden trip to the Australian outback.

Luther College in Regina was the scene of some tense moments yesterday as an angry young man burst into the gym during mass and threatened staff and students with a gun. View the dramatic video here.

TODAY'S RAP SHEET FOR WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2008

If you happen to get on the Spirit of BC ferry, it may take you a little longer to get to the mainland, depending on the tides in Active Pass. It needs a major engine overhaul, which it'll get in November. Meantime, it'll run on 3 of it's 4 engines, which will keep it on schedule except during certain tides. For safety reasons, it'll take a longer route, which adds an extra 45 minutes of sailing time.

All of that effort and searching yesterday morning off of Oak Bay, it's been discovered the mysterious mayday call was actually a "hoax". Got the call late Monday night, spend hours and hours searching for a 45-foot vessel in distress. Police are now searching for the hoaxer.

Physicists and scientists from around the world, only 2 short weeks ago were cheering about the Large Hadron Collider being operational...worth 5 and a half billion dollars, 20 years in the making...suppose to tell us about the beginnings of the Universe...it went on the fritz! Collider is out of action til spring because of some sort of helium leak that first shut it down last Thursday...scientists restarted it on Friday, only to have it break down later in the day.

Premiere of the new Knight Rider is on tonight at 8. "Kitt" was originally a Trans Am, he's now a Mustang Shelby GT with the voice by Val Kilmer. Kitt and his crime-fighting partner, Michael Traceur, who is the estranged son of Michael Knight, will be going after criminals that are likely to be terrorists, instead of drug dealers of the 80's. Will David Hasselhoff make a guest appearance one day???

Please sir, can I have more??? Oliver Twist was so adorable and vulnerable asking for a little more "gruel", a watery porridge made of oatmeal, treacle (molasses), water and salt. You can get the recipe in the Manual of Workhouse Cookery, which first came out 100 years ago, it's now being republished. With the price of food going up so much these days, the publishers feel people are looking for ways to cut back on their food bills, and like the poorest Victorian Brit, make every single ingredient count.

Teens love their "energy drinks", but may be unaware of the incredible amount of caffeine that goes into them. There's more and more reports of "caffeine intoxication", because some of the drinks have the equivalent of 10 cans of Coca-Cola...it's even more risky when mixed with booze. A 6-ounce cup of coffee has between 75 and 150mg of caffeine, some energy drinks have as much as 500mg.

The "net" isn't just for the young-ones, 51% of Canadians over 60 are on-line, and a lot of them are into social networking like Face book or My Space, just as much as their grand kids. There was a lot of research toward how it was the end of traditional media (the sky was falling), such as film, books, newspapers and tv. It seems Internet users use the same amount of these mediums as before.

Thanks very much to Jarrod for sending us a photo he took of the Snowbirds on Sunday. Amazing!

TODAY'S RAP SHEET FOR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2008: Hello Fall!! As of 8:44 this morning, and because this was a leap year, the change of the season was pushed back by about a day. It's the earliest autumnal equinox in at least 6 years. Weather "experts" say that we had a pretty normal, typical summer, except for about 2 weeks in August...some nice stretches of sunny weather in July and the 1st two weeks of September. If your hoping for an Indian Summer, apparently, the long range forecast is for cooler than normal weather. Definitely cooler and windier as October gets here.

Thought of the day: People don't change when they see the light. They change when they feel the heat! Or Yoda says: There is either do or not do, there is NO try.

They figure there were about 20 to 30 thousand people around Dallas Road and Clover Point to see the spectacular Snow Birds perform. Wasn't that amazing! The show was less than 45 minutes, but the traffic hangover continued for at least 2 hours after.

The Victoria Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Awards were held at the Strathcona Hotel. Everyone from Valdy to Red Robinson to The Brothers' Forbes were back at Element NightClub for the recognition they deserved. There were some of the legends who shaped Victoria music industry, and a great time was had by all.

New season of Dancing with the Stars on tv tonight. Cloris Leachman at 82 with be the official oldest person to ever participate in the show, Susan Lucci at 61 is also taking part. Other stars include Toni Braxton, Ted McGinley and Cody Linley of Hannah Montana fame is the youngest at 18.

One scandal after another with this election.....couldn't help but notice the story of the candidate from Saanich-Gulf Islands who tore off his clothes, taking part in a body painting event, then went for a skinny-dip in the lake back in 1996. Ya have to know that someone has it on video, and it WILL come back to haunt you!!! Always remember that when running for office.

If your a Yankee fan, the legendary Yankee Stadium in the Bronx is now history. They played the last game yesterday, and will move right across the street to the new one. It was quite a send off, legend look-a-likes paraded around the field in old Yankee uniforms like Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio...in fact, Babe Ruth's daughter threw out the first pitch. Yankee Stadium saw it's first game in the 1920's.

You may have heard us talk to Jimmy about the Microsoft ad featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. People thought they were long and very unfunny. Microsoft has decided to pull the campaign. As Jimmy said "This is what happens when you put two people in a room together with too much money and time on their hands. Have a look at one of their longest ads and you be the judge.

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The man who has admitted he shot and killed a boys puppy has turned himself in to police. No other details have been released about the case other than he says it was an accident. Most of the calls and e-mails we've received from people find this hard to believe. If you have any interest in animal welfare and their care, why not stop by the SPCA and report a case of cruelty and lend them your support.

What's in a name? Or better yet, where is your name. Click here, then type in your surname and this nifty little gizmo will give you the origins of your last name and a snap shot of what countries, regions and towns have the most people with it. It's really interesting. As for our names, Forbes is big in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S., the UK and Canada. Oddly enough, the same goes for Marshall.

We spoke of this experiment this morning. If it works, it could be one of the most profound scientific discoveries in history. Really amazing stuff...deep underground near a small French village, scientists from all over the world have launched the Large Hadron Collider, and its purpose is simple but ambitious: to crack the code of the physical world; to figure out what the universe is made of. If all goes right, matter will be transformed by violent collisions into wads of energy, which will in turn condense back into various intriguing types of particles, some of them never seen before. That's the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out. They don't call them the God particles for nothing... Have a look at the video and see what they are up to....