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    Air Canada near miss could have been ‘greatest aviation disaster in history’

    In what one aviation expert called a near-miss of what could have been the largest aviation disaster ever, an Air Canada pilot on Friday narrowly avoided a tragic mistake: landing on the San Francisco International Airport taxiway instead of the appropriate runway. Sitting on Taxiway C shortly...
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    Oil Companies Don't Advertise Like They Used To

    A Call For Collapsing Iceberg to be Renamed “#ExxonKnew” Anticipated Antarctic Larsen C iceberg collapse should bear the name of Exxon’s climate deception...
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    Florida men charged in $1 billion illegal gold scheme

    A man who considered himself the Pablo Escobar of gold smuggling and two other former workers at a Miami-area refinery imported more than $1 billion in illegally mined gold from South America in a vast money-laundering scheme from 2013 to 2016, U.S. prosecutors say. In a criminal complaint, the...
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    Paris Deal Collapse

    Almost 90% of Americans don’t know there’s scientific consensus on global warming May 18 to June 6 of this year, and the results have an average margin of error of 3 percentage points. Why is perception of scientific consensus so important? Turns out that it’s actually a “gateway belief” to...
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    Alberta to spend $1.53 billion in carbon tax cash

    Alberta plans to spend $1.53 billion in provincial carbon tax money to help bankroll a major Calgary transit project known as the Green Line. Premier Rachel Notley said the light rail transit expansion would create thousands of jobs, reduce pollution and improve the quality of life of Calgary...
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    Bruges fishermen can continue fishing in British waters after Brexit

    thanks to 1666 Charter" A privilege issued by King Charles II in 1666 grants 50 Bruges fishermen the right to go fishing in British waters "for eternity", i.e. also after the Brexit will have been completed and regulations concerning British waters have been changed. This was suggested by the...
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    Hannah Leflar's teenage killer sentenced as an adult

    Skylar Prockner, 19, was sentenced to life imprisonment with no eligibility for parole for 10 years. Justice Jennifer Pritchard announced the outcome of his trial on Wednesday afternoon in Regina's Court of Queen's Bench. It's the first time Prockner, who was a youth at the time of the...
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    BC drivers are a special kind of special

    In Burnaby on June 28, a flagger was directing traffic on 10th Avenue near Kingsway. A bystander filmed the flagger stopping an SUV trying to merge into traffic from an unpaved section of road that appears to be closed to traffic. The man shooting the video warned the flagger that the driver is...
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    2017 g20

    The upcoming G20 summit in Berlin promises to be a lot livelier than the gatherings of the past. And, yes, that's because of the terrible-tempered man baby/president, Donald Trump. Everybody, friend and foe, by now has taken the measure of this emotionally dysfunctional head of state and...
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    Serves him right for trying to bomb the queen of England

    A 19-year-old man has been jailed for life for planning a bomb attack that may have targeted an Elton John concert or Oxford Street in central London. Haroon Syed, of west London, admitted preparing acts of terrorism after trying to source weapons including a suicide bomb and machine gun. He...
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    Death threats every day for woman behind new liberal mosque

    The opening of a new mosque this month in Berlin further strained already-tense relations between Germany and Turkey, and has caused outrage in various corners of the Muslim world -- even prompting religious authorities in Egypt to issue a decree condemning the mosque as un-Islamic. But despite...
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    "Proud Boys" Disrupt Mi'kmaw Memorial in Halifax

    On Canada day, while members of the Mi'kmaw Nation held a memorial remembering MMIWG in Halifax, a local contingent of "Proud Boys" arrived to disrupt the event:
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    BLM takes over stage at the Montreal jazz festival

    large crowd dressed in black gathered Sunday afternoon on the apartment building steps of Pierre Coriolan, a 58-year-old black man who was fatally shot by Montreal police this week. Following the vigil, the crowd of hundreds marched along Ste-Catherine Street and members of the groups ended up...
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    B.C. baby first to get health card without gender

    In what could be the first case in the world, a B.C. baby has been issued a health card with the letter “U” for a sex marker. It comes as the baby’s parent fights to allow their child to develop their own gender identity. Searyl’s parent Kori Doty is going to court against the Vital Statistics...
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    Wrestling's Greatest Villain: 'The Progressive Liberal'

    When Daniel Harnsberger leaves his home on the East Coast and drives into Appalachia, he usually packs a T-shirt covered in Hillary Clinton facesand spandex wrestling briefs that say "Progressive Liberal." That's his wrestling persona — and his costume. And most weekends, Harnsberger dons it to...
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    Clean Coal’s Flagship Project Has Failed

    The Mississippi power plant widely regarded to be the biggest proof of concept yet for clean coal has failed to deliver on its promise. Its carbon capture technique has been declared too costly and problematic, and the facility will instead burn natural gas to create electricity. The coal-fired...
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    Nicest person in Canada

    Angel Magnussen is officially the nicest person in Canada. The Port Alberni woman who has made it her life's work to sew blankets for sick children has been named Canada's Nicest Person. Magnussen created Hugginz By Angel, a registered charity that provides blankets and other items for kids...
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    Oil Companies Don't Advertise Like They Used To

    Exxon Tries to Talk Good Game, While Still Funding Climate Deniers ExxonMobil executives repeatedly claim their company supports a federal carbon tax and the Paris climate agreement. The company's checkbook ledger, however, tells a far different story. Thursday, the company released...
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    Rob Lowe says he feared death during bigfoot encounter

    I too feared death when I met bigfoot.........
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    NRA warns that the USA is a dysfunctional society

    so be prepared..... Freedom's Safest Place | S2 E2: "The Violence Of Lies" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGOQFf9VCE