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Sept.12, 2015: Crushed candidates, Hipster Barbie and whale dialects

This week, Rebecca Kohler, Craig Courtice and Kris Siddiqi make games out of the news stories we cared about, the ones we probably should have and the stories we wanted scrubbed from our news feed.
We loved Hipster Barbie. We missed the launch of the iPhone 6S, and we're over #peegate. (Instagram/Apple/CBC)

This week, our panel of smart alecks spin the wheel of misfortune and name former political candidates whose campaigns were crushed before making it to election day. 

Who said it - Hipster Barbie or Rumi? We test the panel on "authentic" words of wisdom from Instagram's favourite doll.

And, they decipher the different dialects of sperm whales from around the world.

Why?

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Rebecca Kohler, Craig Courtice and Kris Siddiqi were put to the test with this week's news quiz. (Jesara Sinclair/CBC)