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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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    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    Pollution Pimp Pharrell Williams Wants To Fight Climate Change Jerome Hudson ‏@JeromeEHudson Pharrell Williams urges climate change awareness. From a private jet. Where he sits, alone: http://po.st/91IQIe
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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...
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    Minorities need a safe place where there are no white people

    Last week The Ryersonian reported on an incident that involved two first-year journalism students who were turned away from an event organized by Racialized Students' Collective because they are white. Since then there has been a lot of commentary on the piece and a lot of debate -- a lot of...
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    Shiny Pony: "I was put on this planet to do this"

    LOL @ this messiahette.
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    Sister of slain soldier delivers emotional appeal for C-51

    Louise Vincent, sister of Patrice Vincent, says Bill C-51 could have prevented her brother’s death in an emotional appeal to parliamentarians. OTTAWA—The sister of Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent says the Conservatives’ controversial new terrorism law may have prevented her brother’s death...
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    I think that's called extortion

    via sda: A building, you say? Could you put a dollar figure on how badly you want that permit?(New York Mayor Bill) de Blasio's administration has demanded that, in order to get a permit to build a new school building, Collegiate School-a private school that traces its roots back nearly 500...
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    Former New Democrat MP Manon Perreault found guilty of public mischief

    Former New Democrat MP Manon Perreault, who has been sitting as an Independent, has been found guilty of public mischief for reporting a theft that never happened. Judge Bruno Leclerc in Quebec court in Joliette found that Perreault told police some items had been stolen from her office...
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    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    As expected, NSIDC claims a record low maximum. Archived images show that there is more ice now than 2006, a lot more on the Atlantic side. In 2012 I caught them pulling this trick more https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/i-call-bs-on-nsidc/