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    R-words

    because cbc can't bring itself to print Redskin. in the entire article. anyway, have another sunny ways cbc dance story kids. :lol: Wab Kinew, a Winnipeg indigenous leader, says the name of a Morden, Man., hockey team is "defined in the dictionary as a racial slur," and he doesn't think it...
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    Canadians fall prey to the politics of resentment

    Nothing good ever came from the politics of resentment. Last week, several colleagues at the University of Calgary undertook a post-mortem of the federal election. Two of our recent PhD graduates, David Coletto, now CEO of Abacus Data, and Paul Fairie, a principal with Centrality Data...
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    Shell to cancel a project as a result of pipeline constraints

    THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, October 27, 2015 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, October 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Dutch Shell plc ("Shell") today announces that the company will not continue construction of the 80,000 barrel per day Carmon Creek thermal in situ...
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    Wynne Liberals can’t keep their excuses straight as bill for union payments grows

    Wynneing! By Kate on October 28, 2015 12:19 AM | 4 Comments...
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    It’s time for Elizabeth May to go

    Scott Gilmore ‏@Scott_Gilmore Elizabeth May is a remarkable person. She's done great things. Everyone likes her But it's time for her to resign. Elizabeth May has to go, and I feel horrible saying it. By most...
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    Canada's 1st MP of Somali descent

    Jesse Brown Verified account ‏@JesseBrown Great conversation on today's COMMONS with @YSWAhmed , soon-to-be Canada's 1st MP of Somali descent. One thing REALLY surprised me......@YSWAhmed did not know that...
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    For the first time, 3 Atlantic provinces had more deaths than births in 2014

    maybe the 25K can go there...it's pony-friendly I hear. official stats, charts and graphs: Recent changes in demographic trends in Canada
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    Ontario Liberals bringing in new $1.7 billion land transfer tax

    & details about new 54% income tax rate ...because our mdma friend missed this one. Rather than raising taxes on the affluent, Trudeau should cut taxes on the middle and lower class If there is one plank in the Liberal economic platform that may make for good pre-election populist policy...
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    CBC has lost its identity

    Regionally, CBC has clearly shown it is struggling with a 90-minute television newscast. It obviously does not have the resources, hence the endless repetitiveness of the same story throughout the newscast and multiple weather forecasts. Communications and broadcasting have changed a great...
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    Will be interesting to see what Mr. Trudeau does with this law

    via: https://twitter.com/nspector4/status/658990894595485696 won't it now...anyway, shine on you crazy pony. Judge rules reserves don't have to disclose finances pending legal challenge SASKATOON - A federal court judge has ruled five First Nations don't have to open their books to the...
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    Who Killed the Liberal Arts?

    sure as fukk wasn't me. anyway... What in the world happened to the liberal arts? A degree in the humanities used to transmit the knowledge and wisdom imbued in the works of great Western artists, writers, musicians and thinkers like Shakespeare and Mozart. But today, that same degree...
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    Hey, I'm syrian, gimme a break!

    Sex attacker who assaulted a woman within two weeks of arriving in Britain claims he is Syrian in bid stay in the UK Abdulrahman Abunasir submitted claim for asylum while serving jail-term He was given 18-month prison sentence for sexually assaulting a woman Attack occurred in London in 2013...
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    The free world has lost its leader

    don't get all mad now you guys. :lol: The free world has lost its leader. In the absence of a vigorous American foreign policy, Canada's Stephen Harper supplied his own. For the better part of a decade, he energetically championed Western interests. He was serious about fighting terrorism...
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    Thomas Sowell on tax and false promises

    A recent article in the New York Times says that raising the tax rate on the top one percent of income earners to 40 percent would generate “about $157 billion” a year in additional tax revenue for the government. This ignores mountains of evidence, going back for generations, showing that...
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    Parliament postponed

    Sheila Gunn Reid Verified account ‏@SheilaGunnReid Sheila Gunn Reid Retweeted Anna Mehler Paperny Can we all get a Prorooooooooooooogue freak out? No? Anybody? Anna Mehler...
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    This problem could be solved with a one-way bus ticket to B.C. eh

    Tension rises over homeless camp in Saskatoon With nowhere else to go, a Saskatoon teen has called a makeshift camp on the bank of the South Saskatchewan River home for months. He goes by the name T-Bone and says he knows he's breaking a city bylaw, but he is homeless. "I have nowhere to...
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    U.S. firm used IP addresses to target Liberal party advertising during exl42

    Consultants Forgo Canadian Victory Lap | Campaigns & Elections sunny and shiny.
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    The media is the message (and the party)

    Guatemalan comedian wins presidency in landslide Former TV comedian Jimmy Morales, who has no experience in government, won Guatemala’s presidential election in a landslide on Sunday after a corruption scandal toppled the last president and stoked outrage with the political establishment...
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    Sharia Toronto: Cabbies turning away passengers with seeing-eye dogs

    via: Sharia Toronto: Cabbies turning away passengers with seeing-eye dogs This article doesn’t mention the most likely reason why this is happening, and that is probably because the Toronto Metro News knows that printing the truth would be “Islamophobic”: most cab drivers are Muslim, and...
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    There was a good reason to hold publication of the Ontario teachers’ payment

    Har! On Wednesday morning, The Globe flared (top of the front page) an exclusive story by Adrian Morrow with the headline “Ontario paid $1-million to teachers’ union.” That was followed the next day by a second story: “Multiple payouts given to teacher unions” which added another...