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    The Crackdown Begins: Chinese Bank Sues To Seize Vancouver Real Estate Assets

    From the very beginning of Vancouver's housing boom episode courtesy of an invasion of shady Chinese hot-money laundering home buyers, which has now officially driven the average list price of Vancouver single homes above $4 million... Vancouver Market...
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    Violent crime surges in Canada for the first time in 12 years

    Police-reported crime in Canada went up last year for the first time in over a decade, Statistics Canada revealed on Wednesday, with particularly startling upswings in violent crime across the country. The number of attempted murders alone was up 22 per cent year-over-year, the agency said...
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    Mother financed addiction by letting drug dealer rape her child

    Woman in child sex-trafficking-for-heroin case gets 51 years to life Corcoran, 32, of Warren County, pleaded guilty in June to multiple counts of complicity to rape, of human trafficking and child endangering involving the child. Corcoran also admitted giving the girl heroin sometimes as a...
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    Global Warming Expedition Stopped In Its Tracks By Arctic Sea Ice

    well this is certainly awkward. A group of adventurers, sailors, pilots and climate scientists that recently started a journey around the North Pole in an effort to show the lack of ice, has been blocked from further travels by ice. The Polar Ocean Challenge is taking a two month journey...
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    Feel My Pain, Now Do As I Say

    This is not a grand battle against institutionalised injustice. This is an addiction to indignation. Below is a short film by Rob Montz on the vanities, hysteria and clown-shoe politics of campus protest culture: because Documentary blames Brown for hostility to speech on campus While...
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    Good ol' *ahem*, 'refugee' goes nuts with an axe on a german train

    A teenage Afghan refugee armed with an axe and knife injured four people on a train in southern Germany before being shot dead by police, officials say. Three people were seriously hurt and one suffered minor injuries in the attack in Wuerzburg, police said. Initial reports said up to 20...
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    Black Lives Matter note found near firebombed police cruiser

    The Daytona Beach Police Department is investigating a fire that severely damaged a police cruiser parked outside a mosque early Sunday morning. Police told the Daytona Beach News-Journal that investigators found an anti-police note at the scene implicating “Black Lives Matter,” but they...
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    It appalls me just how powerful the force of laziness is

    Where you see millions of people, entire generations waste their lives, endure hardship, seeth in hatred for white males, even suffer rape and murder because they'd rather do that than own up to their own decisions, take responsibility, and get a job. But there is a silver lining. If you...
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    Mike Duffy rehires 2 staffers caught up in expenses scandal

    that he was acquitted of. annnyway...:lol: go for it cbc. Senator Mike Duffy has re-hired two staff members who were embroiled in his criminal trial for fraud, breach of trust and bribery. Melanie Mercer, who worked in Duffy's office from his 2009 Senate appointment until the time of...
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    Concealed carrier takes down AK-47-wielding robber

    DeSoto police have identified the suspect in an aggravated robbery at a Waffle House last week. About 2:30 a.m. Thursday, police were called to the Waffle House in the 1500 block of North Beckley Avenue, where they found a man shot in the parking lot. Customers told police that the man had...
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    "I was determined either to kill myself or kill her"

    coward killed the wrong person. seems she was some sort of tryhard pak celebritante or something. anyway, not no more she ain't. Pakistani model's brother says he killed her for 'honour' The brother of slain Pakistani model Qandeel Baloch on Sunday confessed to strangling her to death...
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    Wynne zaps taxpayers with electric car costs

    good ol' mr wynne The Ontario government’s efforts to get motorists to switch to electric vehicles through public subsidies have been a failure. So naturally, Premier Kathleen Wynne is doubling down on the idea. In the latest initiative announced by her Liberal government last week...
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    8 years after hope and change, voters are angry, anxious

    ARVADA, Colorado (AP) -- Eight years ago, Barbara Conley was one of the millions of Americans swept up in Barack Obama's promises of hope and change when he accepted the Democratic nomination at a packed stadium a few miles from her home in the Denver suburbs. But those optimistic...
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    Justin’s dilemma: soft power, hard world

    The Trudeau camp doesn't like this, but it rings true. Justin Trudeau’s true brilliance – and I say this with admiration and respect – is his gift for branding. The Prime Minister is determined to rebrand Canada as an attractive, youthful, progressive, postnational country, with himself as...
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    French mayor orders destruction of Muslim migrant camps in Calais

    Milo Yiannopoulos ひ✘ ‏@Nero It has begun. Thousands of refugees living in the so-called Calais 'Jungle' will soon lose their makeshift homes as the northern half of the camp is set to be demolished. Calais...
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    How many Canadians are jailed in Iran? The government won't say

    First, there was the news that a Canadian professor had been jailed in Iran for what her family believes are allegations of "dabbling in feminism and security matters." Then came reports a prominent artist, a dual Canadian citizen, had also been detained and questioned, possibly because of...
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    Rex Murphy:"... how many lone wolves make a pack?

    The world is becoming immunized to the horrors of terrorism If what occurred in Nice, France, on Thursday was a one-of-kind event, I’m certain the world’s response would be dramatically more powerful and intense. Who rents a truck with the intended purpose of driving it into a crowd of...
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    U.S. suspicion of Saudi ties to 9/11 outlined in declassified intelligence report

    WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) -- More than two dozen top secret investigative pages that contributed to the government's official 9/11 report were finally released Friday, following years of pressure from lawmakers, leery conspiracy theorists and relatives of some of the victims. The 29-pages...
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    Gay YouTuber Faked Hate Crime

    Calum McSwiggan, 26, a YouTuber, posted a photo of himself on social media claiming that he was attacked outside a gay bar in West Hollywood Monday, but the police are telling a different story. In a statement to The Advocate, Holly M. Perez, captain of the West Hollywood Station of the...
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    Reports military has blocked the Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul for an unknown reason

    ilhan tanir ‏@WashingtonPoint I heard this gunfire happening in front of Turkish Intel Building: Gunfire heard in capital Ankara: @reuters witness Istanbul's Bosphorus Bridge and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge were...