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    Fossil Fuel Free Is No Country for the Poor

    WSJ Editorial Page ‏@WSJopinion A world forced to rely on renewable energy would be cold, dark and haunted by hunger. Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington and several other business icons recently called on world...
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    Hope you had a nice earth hour

    Bob Mackin ‏@bobmackin #Vancouver #EarthHour tour: one of David Suzuki's houses #vanpoli #Vancouver #EarthHour tour: Chip Wilson's "golden mile" mansion #vanpoli Bob Mackin ‏@bobmackin...
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    Prisoner escapes by faking an email ordering his release

    Neil Moore was locked up in England's notorious Wandsworth Prison when he used a smuggled cellphone to send an email to the prison that appeared to come from a court clerk who was ordering his release on parole. The prison figured out what had happened three days later when his lawyer...
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    Ontario’s 2014 sunshine list shows 111,438 public sector workers paid over $100K

    suckling piggies TORONTO — A total of 111,438 public sector workers in Ontario were paid over $100,000 in 2014. The annual sunshine...
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    How low the discourse has sunk about the ISIL mission

    Refreshing that someone calls out the Opposition madness. As this week’s weird unfoldings in the House of Commons should at last make plain to even the most casual observer of the global struggle against theocratic fascism, Canada’s part in it has come down to this: Even the notoriously...
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    B.C. man wanted for 1974 rape of disabled girl deported back to Canada

    can't we just burn him to death or something? Raymond Douglas Charles Macleod, 72, was repatriated under escort by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers on a commercial flight that departed from Los Angeles International Airport. Macleod is facing trial in Canada for the...
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    These parents were once their parents' future

    or something. Photo of children climbing on Vietnam Women’s Memorial goes viral WASHINGTON, D.C. — A photo that shows children climbing on The Vietnam Women’s Memorial has gone viral. The nation’s capital has many sites that honor the service and sacrifice made by those who served our...
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    Believe Josh Earnest or your lying eyes

    via sda: Obamareality - Small Dead Animals Thus spake POTUS' press secretary:Believe Josh Earnest or your lying eyes Reuters reports, "Houthi militia forces in Yemen backed by allied army units seized an air base...
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    Bergdahl charged with desertion

    finally Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who was recovered in Afghanistan last spring after five years in captivity, faces charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, according to his lawyer. Eugene Fidell, Bergdahl’s attorney, told The Washington Post that his client was...
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    Saudi Arabia Could Buy the Bomb

    May Golan מאי גולן ‏@GolanMay SAUDI TO BUY NUKES: TURKEY & EGYPT NEXT! Israel PM Right: Obama Iran Deal Sparks Nuke Arm Race http://bit.ly/1CaKWlQ Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s most explicit warning of the...
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    Wynne Waters Down own Bill, Benefiting own Libel Suit

    Thinking that not answering @CNDLND questions will make an issue go away is like thinking water is the best way to neutralize a Gremlin A recent change to legislation proposed by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's Liberal government to stop frivolous defamation lawsuits will leave anyone...
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    Lilly Daniels, a powwow powerhouse, dies at 80

    Elder Lilly Daniels of the Kawacatoose First Nation, who shared her love of powwow dancing with many in Regina, has died. She was 80. Daniels is well known in Regina for her work improving the lives of aboriginal women. She helped establish the first daycare centre for the Regina...
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    Two health professionals may be prosecuted for snooping into Rob Ford's records

    The Attorney General is considering prosecuting two health professionals who snooped into former mayor Rob Ford’s medical records. If convicted, they could be fined up to $50,000. Ontario’s privacy commissioner is calling for the two health professionals who allegedly snooped into former...
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    Oh Canada

    CHARLES INTERVIEWS CPL. SHAUN BEGG ABOUT THE ICONIC SHOT THAT HAS GONE VIRAL The Mounties have taken a lot of kicks in recent years. Many are self inflicted. But there is a huge reservoir of respect for Canada’s National Police force. And I was honoured to chat with a BC based RCMP corporal...
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    Ontario government worker wages and benefits up 47 per cent in less than 10 years

    VANCOUVER—Spending on government worker wages and benefits in Ontario has increased substantially since 2005/06, hindering the province’s ability to balance its books, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank...
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    Woman fighting citizenship oath niqab ban favours gender segregation

    — but not in Canada ---- oh dear. didn't see this already posted by anyone, so........... Zunera Ishaq: “I do respect Canadian society as it is.” J.P. Moczulski for National Post/Files The devout Muslim woman fighting to wear a niqab while taking the citizenship oath told a...
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    Jeremy Clarkson to be sacked by the BBC

    Jeremy Clarkson is to be sacked as Top Gear presenter after a BBC investigation found he did assault a producer in a row over steak and chips Jeremy Clarkson is to be sacked as Top Gear presenter after a BBC investigation concluded he did attack a producer on the programme. Lord Hall...
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    Epic mocking in progress of feminist group’s call to replace clapping with

    ‘jazz hands’ to prevent ‘anxiety’ Sometimes Twtichy posts just write themselves. For example, check out what is surely one of the sillier things we’ve ever read on Twitter, via Britain’s National Union of Students and their live-tweeting of today’s conference on women’s issues: read on if...
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    The war on duct cleaning limps along

    Four air duct cleaning companies pay $55,000 to CRTC The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced Tuesday that four air duct cleaning companies paid $55,000 as part of a settlement after a telemarketing...
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    Animal 'activists' know best

    This past Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a story profiling controversial conservationist and animal activist Damian Aspinall and his quest to close all zoos and release all animals back to the wild. Correspondent Lesley Stahl's piece posed the question of whether or not endangered animals born...