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    Everyone Loves Roadside Attractions!

    He spent 17 years building a website for roadside attractions, but died before he could make his dream road trip Unlike the roadside attractions he catalogued, Ed Solonyka was not attention-seeking. He worked for the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, was slightly taller than the...
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    Thieves in Saskatoon steal 34 children's sport wheelchairs

    I was going to post this in the 'woodchipper' thread but most likely the thieves did not know what was in the trailer. Hopefully they ditch and let someone know where it is...... Nearly three dozen children's basketball wheelchairs vanished from a parking lot in Saskatoon over the weekend. A...
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    More Canadians living alone and without children

    Canadians are living increasingly alone and without children, according to the latest census figures released by Statistics Canada. The number of Canadians living alone increased to its greatest share since Confederation and was the most common type of household in the country in 2016...
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    Survey finds growing fear of U.S. in Canada

    Canadians see climate change as the top threat to our country, but many are also listing U.S. power and influence among the leading national security risks, according to a new global survey. A report published Tuesday by the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center found that 60 per cent of...
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    Black Kid Not Going To Jail For Pot

    A misdemeanor charge of marijuana possession against Nebraska receiver Stanley Morgan Jr. has been dropped. Teammate Antonio Reed is scheduled to go to trial next month on misdemeanor drug charges stemming from the same traffic stop in Florida last spring. Morgan, from New Orleans, was arrested...
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    Libs tells AFN to prepare to move beyond the Indian Act

    Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould on Tuesday said First Nations need to prepare for a future that has been set into motion by the Justin Trudeau government that will permanently alter their relationship with Canada. Speaking to Assembly of First Nations-member chiefs in Regina...
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    Supreme Court rules Indigenous

    interests don’t automatically trump all others. This is the upshot of two separate rulings released Wednesday. That is good news for proponents of oil and gas pipelines such as the controversial Kinder Morgan project in British Columbia. It is bad news for those who had hoped that...
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    "Burning down homes will not give justice,"

    The families of two men who have died following police chases told protesters "burning down homes will not give justice" as they urged for calm following a night of rioting. Wheelie bins, mattresses and debris blocked part of Kingsland Road in east London, on Friday where crowds gathered in...
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    800 wind turbines coming to Oklahoma

    And they will have a MAGA component Made in Murica........ The Wind Catcher project will have 800 2.5-MW turbines supplied by GE, which noted it would manufacture all of the turbine machine heads and hubs domestically. Other system components also will be manufactured in the U.S...
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    Ontario Ups Stem Cell Transplant Program

    Ontarians who need life-saving stem cell transplants for leukemia and other blood cancers will get them faster when new clinics in Toronto and London come into service, says Health Minister Eric Hoskins. The facilities at Princess Margaret Hospital and London Health Sciences centre will boost...
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    Natasha Fatale Has Died

    the voice of “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show’s” Rocky the Flying Squirrel and his nemesis Natasha Fatale of Boris and Natasha fame in the early 1960s and a key figure in the animation industry, died Thursday. She was 99. Foray was also the voice behind Looney Tunes’ Witch Hazel, Nell from...
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    Man who took $400,000 from cancer charity

    tells judge he wants to 'make good' Steven Sokolowski has paid back $400,000 he took from a charity that raises funds for children with cancer, but the entrepreneur was visibly shaken Wednesday when a judge sentenced him to 14 months in jail, rather than the house arrest he hoped for. “It is...
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    Woman who poisoned 4 children released from prison

    A woman convicted of deliberately poisoning four young children in her care has been released from prison and will be living in Brampton, Peel police are warning. Police said Christine Allen, 36, was to be released on parole Monday, July 24 and is at an “elevated risk” to reoffend, says...
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    A look at Mankinds Historical drug use

    If you can't see the video copy and paste the below title into youtube......... The Stoned Ages - History Channel [HQ] [Full Version] www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBlqz0elTl4
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    Ontario man has loses court case against Hydro One

    Last fall, Kip Van Kempen sued the utility company in small claims court after he said he was charged hundreds of dollars in delivery fees for his all-season cottage on Mazinaw Lake, north of Kingston, Ont. between October 2015 and June 2016. He argued the charges were unfair because his...
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    I'm not sure one's life flashes before their eye's

    when you are about to die. July 14/17 around noon I died, according to all involved. I was in the right lane on the QEW and was headed up the Burlington Skyway to Hamilton going around 100 or so. As I was starting to ascend my head started turning to the left in say 5 second increments. It...
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    Tim Hortons' Operators Fret It's Losing Its Canadian Culture

    Tim Hortons coffee and doughnuts are about as closely linked with the Canadian identity as hockey and universal health care, but the institution is under attack. That’s the view of many of the chain’s franchisees, who are chafing under the corporate ownership of Restaurant Brands International...
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    'We are a community of peace, and love for humanity'

    More than 20,000 Muslims attended Canadian convention denouncing terrorism. The Ahmadiyya sect held the conference in the Canadian city of Mississauga. It featured an Islamic exhibition, a question and answer session with scholars and a series of lectures. A press conference was also held...
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    Macron says Africa's problems are "civilizational"

    not Colonization https://twitter.com/Politis_fr/status/884351544681955328/video/1 14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax For the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization 14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax For the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization...
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    The Conservative Party of Canada has a gay problem.

    According to a recent poll by the Angus Reid Institute, 85 per cent of Canadians are willing to vote for a party that is led by a gay man; 84 per cent would accept a gay woman. This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Over the past 30 years, we have become one of the most progressive countries in the...