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A New York City ferry boat has crashed during rush hour, injuring around
50 people and two of those critically, according to authorities there.
Tweets and photos from the crash are flooding social media.Send us your questions about the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show
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Peter Nowak is at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas for the next week, searching out the new and fascinating for CBC News. Now it's your chance to ask him what you want to know about this year's CES. 
When something happens that will end up on the news, often the first place people write about it is on Twitter. These are some of the most compelling tweets from some of the year's biggest stories.
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Community members are a snap-happy bunch! Here's a selection of some of our
favourite photos from 2012. 
Eyewitnesses and local reporters documented the aftermath of a school shooting that left 27 dead, including 20 children this morning. Another person was also killed at a different location. Social media channels are filled with photos, tweets and status updates from the area around the scene in Newtown, Connecticut.
The product makers say it's dishwasher safe and faster than using a knife, but this banana slicer is getting more attention for the funny reviews it has inspired on Amazon.
N.W.T. residents and visitors no longer need to take a ferry across the Mackenzie River, thanks to the Deh Cho Bridge, which officially opened today. Many took to Twitter and Instagram to share their thoughts on the new bridge. 
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is a classic holiday tradition for Americans, watched and loved by many, known for its helium-filled balloons. But with a potential helium shortage looming, should helium be banned from parade balloons?
A six-year-old Irish girl, with the help of her journalist mother, wrote a letter to Hasbro to ask why the company's Guess Who? game had more male than female characters. Here's what happened.
Toronto antiquarian bookstore The Monkey's Paw is getting lots of buzz this week for the shop's "Biblio-Mat" used book vending machine. (Screenshot courtesy Craig Small)
Although it's still days away, American shoppers are already lining up outside stores and pitching tents as they wait for Black Friday sales. 
From clips of Olympic divers, to dancing cats, to a sunglasses-clad Barack Obama, the animated GIF is having a banner year. Now the file format is being featured in an exhibit at the Art Basel Miami Beach international art fair.(Ripped Cheek by Philippe Roy, courtesy the artist)
Theatre app offers rewards if you don't text during a movie
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A U.S.-based movie theatre chain is turning to a smartphone app to get people to stop texting during movies. 
Twinkies and Ding Dongs were mourned online after Hostess Brands, Inc., filed a motion in bankruptcy court to liquidate all it assets today. 
China's elites gathered in Beijing this week to pick the country's new leaders and chart a course for the superpower's future. Replay our CBC Live Online chat about the key players and all you need to know.
A Chinese mathematician is touting a new way to get people onto commercial airline flights faster by measuring several variables and then assigning people to seats. 
An Ontario woman is getting famous on the internet as "Photobomb Girl" for the funny faces she makes in pictures at nightclubs.
Two wrongfully convicted and jailed men answer questions on Reddit
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Between them, Clarence Harrison and Robert Clark have spent 42 years in jail for crimes they did not commit. The were exonerated with help from the Georgia Innocence Project, and answered questions about their lives on Reddit.Meet the Community Team
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January (105)
- Opposites attract: Tell us your unlikely love story
- Youth for hire: employing 'Generation Jobless'
- Fired HMV employees take over Twitter account
- Toronto company puts your head on a Pez dispenser
- Perfume for babies released by Dolce & Gabbana
- U.S. man shot in driveway mix-up mourned online
- World reacts to new Blackberry phones, Alicia Keys hire
- Will BlackBerry 10 turn things around for the company?
- Is Volkswagen's new Super Bowl Commercial racist?
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