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    Brief History of BC Political Parties

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1hRbA1S9jI
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    Merkel's conservatives thump rivals in German vote

    Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives won a decisive victory over their Social Democrat (SPD) rivals in a vote in Germany's northern state of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday, boosting her prospects of winning a national election in September. Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) fetched 33...
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    2/3rds of Canada's Hydro now comes from renewables

    Oil, gas, coal and Uranium are not renewable......
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    Chicken bones, Chicken bones, toss them Chicken bones

    Man shoots 90-year-old woman after being scolded for throwing chicken bones on sidewalk Officers say 26-year-old Gerald Gaffney was in the 1800 block of Harlem Avenue when he discarded chicken bones as he walked down the street. Police say a 90-year-old woman told Gaffney to pick up the bones...
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    Message to the media and cons; no early election call

    “Two years after Alberta NDP win, critics see signs of early election call,” a headline on the CBC website said Friday. Seriously? Not really. The CBC’s headline notwithstanding, the leaders of Alberta’s NDP Government were startlingly clear that there won’t be an election before 2019, as...
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    Parallel worlds

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    Raytheon reveals a laser-guided, rocket-powered grenade

    Well this is good news. Can't wait for the muzzies get their hands on these....... It can be fired from a rifle and hit targets a mile and a half away. The laser-guided munition is nearly as narrow as some large-caliber ammunition and can fit in the palm of a hand. A lightweight precision...
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    China's First Passenger Plane Takes Flight

    This what the search for cheap labour has reaped this. A friend of mine who was a design engineer at McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) at the time told me one day that the Company was sending the blueprints the engineers were doing to China. He couldn't believe it, sending sensitive info to...
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    Calgary couple welcomes baby Justin Trudeau

    There are now at least two people named Justin Trudeau in Canada, after a refugee couple living in Calgary gave the name to their newborn baby. Afraa and Moe Bilal welcomed a baby boy, Justin-Trudeau Adam Bilal, on Thursday around 6:10 p.m. weighing seven pounds, seven ounces. The...
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    Parallel worlds

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    People with Disabilities Assistance Petition

    A strange story indeed. Why wouldn't anyone help him........? Hi! My name is Andrew Gurza. I am a Disability Awareness Consultant, and a wheelchair user. I was recently denied assistance from Passport Canada when I went to get my passport renewed. I expressed that due to my spastic Cerebral...
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    Western Canada's population 111 years ago

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    Ukraine bans Steven Seagal as threat to natl security

    I've heard of him but can't say I recall ever seeing him in a movie or on TV........ The Ukrainian security service said it had forbidden Seagal entry to the country for five years, in a letter published by the news site Apostrophe. The service’s press secretary later confirmed the ban to...
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    Judge Orders Georgia To Allow Blacks To Vote

    A federal court on Thursday ordered Georgia officials to extend the voter registration deadline through at least May 21 to be eligible to vote in the special election runoff in Georgia's sixth congressional district between Republican Karen Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff. Under Georgia law...
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    On the road in a wind-powered car

    The dark blue Toyota Mirai (Japanese for "future") parked outside the offices of ITM Power in Sheffield, northern England, is a rare beast. At the time of writing it was one of just 28 fuel-cell cars on the road in the UK, pioneering the use of hydrogen to power private and public transport...
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    Young Europeans Skeptical About Democracy

    When Europeans lose their taste for democracy, bad things have been known to happen. Whether it's Hungary or Poland, both of which have authoritarian, illiberal governments, or the rise of authoritarian movements in the Netherlands, France and Britain, good old liberal democracy is taking...
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    Paris Deal Collapse

    NATO urges global fight against climate change as Trump mulls Paris accord Climate change poses a global security threat that all countries must fight together, a NATO general said on Wednesday, as U.S. President Donald Trump nears a decision on whether to pull out of the Paris climate deal...
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    2/3rds of Canada's Hydro now comes from renewables

    Two-thirds of Canada's electricity supply now comes from renewable sources such as hydro and wind power, the National Energy Board said in a report released Tuesday. Renewable energy production jumped 17 per cent between 2005 and 2015. The portion of all electricity in Canada generated by...
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    Denmark gives 2-year ban to 6 foreign 'hate preachers'

    On the list are: five Islamic preachers who are nationals of Canada, Saudi Arabia, Syria and the United States and US Evangelical Pastor Terry Jones, who burned copies of the Koran in 2011. "I am also very pleased that it is now clear to everyone that these people are not welcome in Denmark,"...
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    Did feminist policy Sweden Vote for SA at the UN?

    The Swedish government, with its proclaimed "feminist foreign policy", has been under pressure to reveal how Sweden voted when the UN elected Saudi Arabia to the UN Commission on the Status of Women in April. In a comment, Foreign Minister Margot Wallström has said that they will not reveal...