Blog Posts by Alina Seagal

This is both awe-inspiring and hair-raising at the same time. Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo, two students of the Jerusalem-based Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, created a stunning short futuristic film called Sight as a graduation project.

Since the film went up on Vimeo.com a week ago, it's been viewed more than a million times. Now, it's starting to go viral.

The short feature offers a glimpse into the dating life of the future. The radically advanced technical system seems very convenient at first. Who wouldn't gear-up with shiny eye implants that do thinking, decorating and planning for you? Forget Google Glasses.

But we say wait...keep watching to see the twist at the end.

Sight from Sight Systems on Vimeo.

From a thrilling last-minute rescue to a mysterious discovery on the shore, we saw some amazing videos this week. Here are some of our favourites:

1. Actors visit Canada's Hockey Hall of Fame

Actors Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis approached Canada's Hockey Hall of Fame in style, honking and atop a Zamboni cruising through Toronto streets. The two were in town to promote their upcoming comedy, The Campaign. They left with miniature Stanley Cups along with magnets and bumper stickers displaying Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's name.

2. Victim of brutal attack starts new life

Bridget Kelly is a beautiful bride, but her journey

The Supreme Court of Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean KilpatrickThe Supreme Court of Canada made a landmark decision to scrap fees for music download services in Canada.

With the new rulings, online music stores will no longer have to pay for song previews and Internet service providers will no longer be charged for individuals downloading music files, CBC reports.

The court also ruled that video game downloads can be done without providers getting slapped with fees that cover performance royalties. This decision overturned an earlier ruling from the Copyright Board that had allowed the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) to charge providers extra fees for all of these activities.

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Internet service providers such as Rogers Communications, Bell Canada, Telus Communications and Shaw Communications have argued that imposing the extra fees "stifles innovation in Canada." It creates a barrier to the advancement of Canada's digital economy and

Elliot Lake mall roof collapse injures more than 20 in northern Ontario (Radio Canada photo)

The devastation at the Algo Centre Mall in the northern Ontario city of Elliot Lake looked like a scene from a war film on Sunday morning. A day earlier, metal and concrete crashed through two floors of the shopping centre, injuring 22 and leaving several missing. Authorities now report that at least two people are trapped under the rubble, one of them presumed dead.

"Ontario Provincial Police says images of the scene show a hand and a foot in the dusty debris, which is still too unstable for crews to access," the Canadian Press reports.

"Fire officials also say they have heard some taps coming from behind fallen slabs of concrete and metal."

The list of people unaccounted for was two-pages long at first, but has since shrank to about nine missing, Ontario Provincial Police say. It continues to decrease as members of the community locate one another. The city of about 11,000 is in shock.

A Heavy Urban Search and Rescue (HUSAR) team was dispatched from Toronto to help on

Plains Midstream Canada pipeline oil spill from 2011. CBC PhotoUp to 3,000 barrels of crude oil have spilled into Jackson Creek, a tributary of the Red Deer River in Alberta.

The oil is leaking from a Plains Midstream Canada pipeline near Sundre, Alta., into an arm of the major waterway. The spill was detected on Thursday night. As many as 475,000 litres of light sour crude reportedly could have been released into the creek not far from Red Deer.

"I would expect that the vast majority of it will end up in the Red Deer River," Bruce Beattie, reeve of Mountain View County, told the Globe and Mail. "It's a major concern."

Alberta energy regulators and government officials are now monitoring the water and air quality in west central Alberta.

The damage could be significant since the Red Deer River is currently flooding, giving the spill a chance to spread further down the river.

"Immediately upon receiving notification of the release, Plains' pipeline operations in the area were shut down and valves were closed to isolate area pipelines," Plains

Toronto Blue Jays' player Brett Lawrie and other mall goers took to Twitter to describe the shocking shooting at the food court of Toronto's busiest downtown shopping centre on Saturday night. 

Chaos ensued moments after the gunshots were fired. An injured pregnant woman almost gave birth at the scene (police say she is now stable). People took shelter under tiny cafeteria tables. Take a look at these dramatic photos and this video from the scene.

Police are still hunting for a gunman who killed Ahmed Hassan, 24, and injured seven others at Eaton Centre on June 2.

In the meantime, Twitter is flooding with first-hand accounts from shoppers caught up in the shooting.

"Pretty sure someone just let off a round bullets in eaton center mall .. Wow just sprinted out of the mall ... Through traffic," tweeted Lawrie around 6:30 p.m. "People sprinting up the stairs right from where we just were ... Wow wow wow"

"Rattled right now," he wrote later.

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Striking Quebecers are getting creative. Protesters — dubbed 'casseroles' — took to the streets with pots and pans in Montreal and other Quebec cities this week. But loud noise wasn't the only thing they've created. Take a look at this beautiful black-and-white video going viral at the moment.

Doesn't it sound like a hymn to the protesters? Thousands of Facebook and Twitter references have been made to the short film since it went live on Vimeo 24 hours ago. It had more than 100,000 views since then.

The pots and pans movement came from Chile, where it has been used as a loud but peaceful way to express discontent since the '70s. In Canada, Montreal police declared the event illegal on Thursday, but allowed it to proceed as long as it remained peaceful.

In the mean time, a tornado hit Quebec on Friday night but failed to stop the locals from marching again. The protests began more than 100 days ago over university tuition fee hikes in the province. But they have since focused on a

It's Earth Day and Canada's environmental policies are under scrutiny. Just in time, Ontario and Quebec were promised snow — lots of it — in mid-April. Every now and then, the white stuff hits Alberta smack in the middle of summer. But for Central Canada, the forecast came as a shock. The article became one of the most read by the end of the week. With that in mind, here's a list of prominent Canadian climate change deniers. If only we could find proof, like snow in April, that global warming exists, right?

In New Zealand, a woman who drank more than 30 cups of Coca-Cola per day had died. Recently, the experts concluded that this habit contributed to her death. It's one of the most-shared stories this week. Find more here.

If that doesn't make you question fast-food eating, here's the week's most popular video. A Sydney judge has found KFC liable for brain damage of a girl. Watch more below.

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