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    Feminist Website Bans Use of "Trigger Warnings" Citing "Trigger" as "Triggering"

    Feminist Website Bans Use of "Trigger Warnings" Citing "Trigger" as "Triggering" or some kind of Spanish, or something. I dunno anymore. Don’t trigger her. You wouldn’t like her when she’s triggered. Everyday Feminism, which "has quickly become one of the most popular feminist digital media...
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    Chalkboards frozen in time

    Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school more and story here: Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school - The Washington Post
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    World Human Capital Report 2015 Canada 1st in G7

    Manny Montenegrino ‏@manny_ottawa World Human Capital Report 2015 Canada 1st in #G7 Canada 1st youth (15-24) http://ow.ly/O5ZIc https://twitter.com/Canada/status/608364205515882497/photo/1 stats and stuff...
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    CBC host Evan Solomon took secret cut of art deals

    for those not keeping up with this fine institution... via sda Part II except this one you're actually paying for. The Star found Solomon has been brokering the sale of paintings and masks owned by a flamboyant Toronto-area art collector to rich and famous...
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    Electric cars: déjà vu all over again

    Twenty years ago, in May, 1995, I had my first op-ed published in a major newspaper, the Los Angeles Times. The title was “Pull the Plug on the Electric Car Mandate.” In that column, I pointed out that battery-powered (non-hybrid) electric vehicles (EVs) were not ready for wide-scale adoption...
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    The growing anti-sex ed movement

    MSM hasn't been covering this much. The Rebel did and now these guys. It's probably a passing fad. Thousands demonstrate against the provincial government's new sex education curriculum Anti-sex ed demonstrators returned to Queen’s Park yesterday (June 7) to congregate and then march...
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    Lac-Mégantic victims, families vote on $435M compensation package

    Compensation package bolstered by recent addition from oil company Victims of the Lac-Megantic train derailment vote today on whether or not to accept a settlement package to compensate for their losses. The settlement was bolstered yesterday when World Fuel Services announced it was adding...
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    White House on lockdown, briefing room evacuated for security

    John Groves ‏@jfgroves John Groves retweeted Breaking News Feed White House has gone on lockdown for the second time in the last 4 days. https://twitter.com/PzFeed/status/608339020431675393 … Secret Service...
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    'Simpsons' Sideshow Bob will kill Bart Simpson this year

    good "The Simpsons" producers revealed that they plan on killing off a major character in their upcoming Halloween episode this fall. During an ATX Festival panel in Austin, Texas, this weekend, the producers said that Krusty the Clown's evil former sidekick Sideshow...
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    Silent Stephen goes to Germany

    rather than fixing Canada’s problems, and other reasons to fear for humanity Stephen Harper went to Germany to support Ukraine, get Putin kicked out of the G7, argue for more sanctions and prepare to meet the Pope. Another weekend wasted. Why isn't he in Edmonton promising...
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    Stephen Harper shuts down the TTC

    ...or chinese hackers, or ladders or union doods did. whatever. TTC = Take The Car. It's always "rush hour" in Toronto on weekdays, but Monday at 6:20am is still probably the worst time for the city's entire subway line to shut down in all directions. That's what happened this morning...
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    Hypocrisy, Thy name is MP

    via Charles AdlerVerified account ‏@charlesadler Bruce CheadleVerified account ‏@BCheadle...
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    Electricity Prices Soaring In Top Wind Power States

    Well blow me down. Electricity prices are soaring in states generating the most wind power, U.S. Energy Information Administration data show. Although U.S. electricity prices rose less than 3 percent from 2008-2013, the 10 states with the highest percentage of wind power generation...
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    Following the (primarily U.S.) money funding Canada’s anti-oil movement

    Cody Battershill ‏@codyincalgary Every Canadian should read this. The truth behind the PR smearing of Canada's natural resources. It is no coincidence that U.S. foundations are funding a multimillion-dollar campaign...
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    Harper Can Learn From Bush 41

    I recently finished reading 41: A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush. It was plainly written and full of folksy, anecdotal stories and impressions that reveal the very human side of America’s 41st President. There are many insights offered by the book, but I found one time frame...
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    The Canadians in Normandy

    Juno Beach and the Road to Caen in the Summer of 1944 Mouse over images with red borders to see into the past. For mobile tap once. Tap again outside the image to return to the present. The Canadians in Normandy: Then and Now | On This Spot also Bloody Omaha: Then and Now |...
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    Excusing the Underclass from a Safe Distance

    via SDA Heather Mac Donald on post-Ferguson policing: This incessant drumbeat against the police has resulted in what St Louis police chief Sam Dotson last November called the “Ferguson effect.” Cops are disengaging from discretionary enforcement activity and the “criminal element is...
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    School board vows to apologize to Edmonton school bus driver it tried to have fired

    ya think? EDMONTON — The city’s Catholic school board wants to apologize to a school bus driver it vilified for kicking off a teenager who had threatened him with violence. All it took was for officials to review footage that confirmed the driver’s version of events. “In light of the...
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    Taco Bell to serve alcohol at Chicago location

    chicago :lol: anyway... NEW YORK (AP) -- Taco Bell says it will serve beer, wine and "mixed alcohol freezes" at a new location set to open in Chicago this summer. The chain, owned by Yum Brands Inc., says the restaurant will have a new design it's testing in urban...
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    We Should Transport as Much Oil as We Can by Pipeline

    TransCanada's Energy East pipeline project to move western oil to eastern Canada continues to face opposition from various groups. Most recently, a self-described alliance of environmental, community, and religious groups calling itself the Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition released a report...