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    Benefits to injured reservists increased: DND

    Reservists will soon receive more benefits if they're injured in the line of duty, on par with the regular force, the veterans affairs minister said Friday. Starting next month, injured veteran reservists and the families of fallen part-time soldiers will be paid the same amount of benefits...
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    Gold choppy amid worst losing streak since 1973

    all them discovery tv miners. Gold moved higher in choppy trading on Friday after nine straight sessions of losses, the precious metal's worst losing streak in more than 40 years, as the dollar extended its rally...
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    Canada shed 1,000 jobs in February, far fewer than expected

    but an increase in the number of people looking for work sent the unemployment rate up to 6.8%, data from Statistics Canada showed on Friday. Economists had forecast 5,000 jobs would be lost in February after an upswing in hiring the month before, while the unemployment rate had been...
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    Quebec Imam: "Beating [women] in Islam is a type of education"

    Jonathan Halevi shares shocking video clips of Canadian Muslim leaders whose messages about women and equality conflict with Canadian values. For example, video clips show two Calgary, Alberta Muslim leaders -- Imam Abdi Hersi and Mizz Haibibi -- instructing women to embrace patriarchy...
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    Harper: Guns important for 'safety' in rural homes

    far from 'immediate police assistance' When asked about new firearms legislation at an event in Saskatoon, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said there are too many restrictions on gun ownership, which he added is important for the livelihoods of rural people, recreation and personal...
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    Mr wynnes sex ed meeting not going well

    check joe's twitter feed for plenty o' updates. https://twitter.com/joe_warmington
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    National Post appeals defamation ruling in B.C. politician’s lawsuit

    hope they are successful. The National Post is appealing a defamation ruling that ordered it to pay $50,000 to a B.C. politician and environmentalist. Andrew Weaver sued the newspaper, its publisher and several writers over four columns that were published in late 2009 and early 2010. At...
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    The Star goes full Siddiqui on the Prime Minister

    wow, they mad. and that sweet daddy siki guy mad too. How Harperites play their divisive anti-Muslim games: Siddiqui Stephen Harper has been fanning anti-Muslim bigotry for years. Now Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has called him out on it...
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    Pickup truck with 3 adults, 14 kids inside stopped in Saskatchewan

    going 136km in 100km zone RCMP in Prince Albert, Sask., say they've never seen anything like it — a speeding pickup truck was pulled over Tuesday with 17 people aboard. "It's hard to believe what you're seeing, that anyone would take that kind of risk," Staff Sgt. Stephane Caron said...
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    Five killed, 100 trapped in Bangladesh factory collapse

    ya know, because there's other non-pony non-steve news. DHAKA - At least five people were killed and another about 100 feared trapped after a cement factory collapsed in Bangladesh on Thursday, police said. Soldiers and sailors in the port town of Mongla helped emergency services search...
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    Overview of proposed changes re: Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act

    Comparative overview of proposed changes in the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act - Canada News Centre so soon? Todd Banks ‏@Banks_Todd In #hoc, @jinnysims objects to term "barbaric cultural...
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    Powdered ‘Palcohol’ has been approved in the U.S.

    bottoms up kids NEW YORK — A powdered alcohol intended to be mixed up into drinks has gained approval from a federal regulator. The product, called Palcohol, had received the greenlight from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau briefly last year before the bureau backtracked and...
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    Nation-wide anti-Trudeau campaign launched by grassroots anti-abortion activists

    Toronto, March 12, 2015- Campaign Life Coalition Youth (CLCY) and the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) are launching the biggest pro-life campaign in the history of Canada against Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and what they call his “extremist position” on abortion. The...
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    CRTC to relax Canadian content rules on television

    Canada’s broadcast regulator is re-writing the rules that protect Canadian television programs, hoping it can nurture better, more popular shows by relaxing quotas that ensure blocks of the broadcast day are made in Canada. To encourage producers and broadcasters to focus their spending on...
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    Ted Cruz Tells NASA to Stop Worrying About Climate Change and Focus on Space

    hey now, there's a novel idea. March 12, 2015 Ted Cruz and Charles Bolden would probably agree that the core of the Earth is a mass of molten metal as hot as the sun. But as for the core of NASA's mission, the senator from Texas and the former astronaut split ways...
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    Umm...

    Police seek Ohio man who's been pooping on cars For the past three years, residents of a quiet Akron, Ohio, neighborhood say they've been terrorized by a man defecating on cars and even children's front yard toys. But early Wednesday, a diligent neighbor who set up a time-lapse camera...
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    New Housing Price Index, January 2015

    Calgary posts the largest year-over-year price increase The New Housing Price Index (NHPI) fell 0.1% in January, largely as a result of lower negotiated selling prices. This was the first decrease at the national level since July 2010. The combined metropolitan region of Toronto and Oshawa...
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    Thug Accused Of Raping 12-Year-Old Girl

    COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus man is accused of raping a 12-year-old girl on the city's west side. Izell Brown Jr., 33, is in jail and facing rape charges after he was accused of taking a 12-year-old from an alley at Broad Street and Hague Avenue March 4th. Investigators said...
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    “You deserve rape” for not wearing a headscarf

    Quran teacher tells children in Turkish school Parents are demanding that a teacher of religion classes in northern Turkey be fired after he told some of his female students that they “deserve rape” for not wearing an Islamic headscarf. “You don’t cover your...
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    2 police officers reported shot outside Ferguson police department

    BREAKING: Two police officers reportedly were shot early Thursday outside the police department in Ferguson, Mo. amid protests that followed the resignation of the town's police chief. The shooting was first reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Ferguson Police Lt. Col. Al Eickhoff...