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    Apple’s facial recognition in new iPhone unsettles privacy activists

    Apple will let you unlock the iPhone X with your face – a move likely to bring facial recognition to the masses, along with concerns over how the technology may be used for nefarious purposes. Apple’s newest device, set to go on sale November 3, is designed to be unlocked with a facial scan...
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    And the winner is.....Jason Kenney

    Mr. Kenney, 49, won it last night on the “first ballot” – although there wasn’t really any such thing in this case, more like the first run through the computer – with 61 per cent of the vote. Again, this was no surprise. And so the double-reverse hostile takeover of Alberta’s two main...
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    Sask's Hydro Rates Climbing Fast

    Saskatchewan increase hydro rates 13% in a year, 27% increase in last 5 years with another 25% in next few years coming Following two increases in the past 13 months, SaskPower is requesting another rate hike. This one would be a 5.1-per-cent increase effective March 1 of next year. The...
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    European search engine available here now

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    Man held in TO basement for 25 years

    A horrific story... The alleged captors, Gary Willett Sr. and his wife, Maria, are facing multiple charges. Willett Sr. is charged with forcible confinement and assault of the man to whom he allegedly didn’t provide the necessaries of life for nearly 25 years, as well as theft over $5,000 and...
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    Canadians shot in Vegas harassed online by conspiracy theorists

    So do these harassers think the shooting didn't happen? What a bizarre story......... A Canadian man who was shot in the head at a Las Vegas concert has shut down his Facebook and Instagram accounts after being bombarded with messages from conspiracy theorists accusing him of faking his...
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    2 Big “White Lives Matter” rallies this weekend

    White supremacists are flocking to two Tennessee towns this Saturday for “White Lives Matter” rallies, saying they’re confident things will go more their way than in Charlottesville in July because, unlike Virginia, Tennessee has a Republican governor.[The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Heidi]...
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    Town in Iceland Paints 3D Crosswalk To Slow Down Speeding Cars

    https://www.boredpanda.com/3d-pedestrian-crossing-island/
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    Expanding CPP is best way to protect pensions

    Pensions are, in effect, the fruit of forced savings. Workers forego wages now for the promise of income after retirement. The actual payments are usually split between employer and employee. But conceptually, both represent the same thing — deferred wages. In North America, company pension...
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    Oil giants pay billions less tax in Canada than abroad

    The low rate that oil companies pay in Canada represents billions of dollars in potential revenue lost, which an industry expert who looked at the data says is a worrying sign that the country may be “a kind of tax haven for our own companies.” The countries where oil companies paid higher...
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    CRA Slashes Mental Health Tax Credit

    Sufferers of autism, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other mental health issues are the latest victims of a clampdown on access to the disability tax credit by the Canada Revenue Agency, according to several accountants, mental health associations and other advocacy groups. Sources told the...
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    Tim Hortons No Longer #1 For Coffee

    The results are in: Tim Hortons is no longer Canada's favourite coffee shop - Macleans.ca
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    OPP say they're putting truck drivers on notice

    Provincial police say they're putting transport truck drivers ``on notice'' after laying charges in three horrific collisions involving big rigs that claimed the lives of six people. OPP Commissioner Vince Hawkes says two of the collisions occurred on Highway 401, one near Port Hope, Ont., on...
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    Worlds Billionaires Wealth Swells to 60 Trillion

    Billionaires increased their combined global wealth by almost a fifth last year to a record $6tn (£4.5tn) – more than twice the GDP of the UK. There are now 1,542 dollar billionaires across the world, after 145 multi-millionaires saw their wealth tick over into nine-zero fortunes last year...
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    Oct 26, 1917 The Battle of Passchendaele

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    Iceland Blocks Shipment of Venezuela-bound Tear Gas

    The Icelandic Ministry of Transport and Local Government has denied the European Transport Agency‘s request for permission to transport anti-riot gear to Venezuela, mbl.is reports. The gear in question consists of 16 tons of tear gas from China. The Ministry couldn‘t accept the transfer due to...
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    Feds pay $31.3M settlement to 3 men unjustly jailed in Syria

    The federal government has paid a total of $31.3 million in settlements to three men wrongfully accused of links to terrorism and tortured in a Syrian prison, CTV News has learned. The lump sum was split between Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin. Officials won't confirm...
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    Bernie To Run As Independent! Dems Go Crazy

    Best comment ......."Dems would go crazy if he ran as a Dem, saying "he's trying to usurp us!" Can never ****ing win with these Neo liberal shills" Click the Blue Stripe To Watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDTUfcAaRGY
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    NAACP warns Blacks about American Airlines

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) issued a "national travel advisory". The organisation warned the airline "could subject [travellers to] disrespectful, discriminatory or unsafe conditions". The airline insisted it does "not tolerate discrimination of any...
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    New Zealand to introduce ban on foreign buyers purchasing existing properties

    JACINDA Ardern has announced a dramatic plan to tackle soaring real estate prices in New Zealand, while her deputy claims the country is ‘no longer for sale’. OVERSEAS buyers will no longer be allowed to purchase existing homes in New Zealand, Prime Minister-elect Jacinda Ardern said, as she...