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    Paris Deal Collapse

    Canada is 200 million tonnes away from meeting international emissions promise Canada has just 13 years to cut almost 200 million tonnes of yearly carbon emissions if it hopes to meet its 2015 international climate treaty obligations. Such a reduction would be the equivalent of taking 44...
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    May Day 2017

    This is your day, and I hope you, your fellow workers, and your families all take time to celebrate. But we must also remember today, especially today, our brothers and sisters who are in jail -- workers whose only crime was doing their job as trade unionists. Please take one minute today to...
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    Why poverty is like a disease

    By Christian H. Cooper I spent a lot of my time pondering basic questions. Where will my next meal come from? Will I have electricity tomorrow? I became intimately acquainted with the embarrassment of my mom trying to hide our food stamps at the grocery store checkout. I remember panic setting...
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    AI can now duplicate anyone's voice in one minute

    If you think we're getting fake news now, just wait for this............ Do you remember the Mission Impossible tech that lets Tom Cruise’s character Ethan Hunt mimic the voice of other characters using some nifty speech synthesis technology? Well, a Montreal-based startup called Lyrebird...
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    What will they think of next.......

    This box can see through walls — and it could shake up home security http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/aura-cognitive-systems-home-security-wireless-spectrum-1.4086660
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    Salvation Army executive guilty of massive toy fraud

    The overwhelming generosity of Salvation Army donors was evident in the warehouses. They were overflowing with playpens, deodorant, diapers, fruit cups, margarine, candy, bedding, expensive bikes, and so, so many toys from the Christmas Toy Mountain campaign. Except these donations weren’t...
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    No B.C. Liberals available for Mental Health debate

    Voters at an “all candidates” election debate on mental health and addiction missed out on one key viewpoint Monday night. That’s because, despite going to “great lengths” and extending “numerous” invitations, the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)’s B.C. branch said no southern...
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    Calgary father of dead baby put on leave from church

    The father of the three-month-old baby whose death has been ruled a homicide has been put on administrative leave by the Calgary church where he serves as an associate pastor. Rockyview Alliance Church said in a statement they were deeply saddened by Cyrus Nel’s death almost two years ago. It...
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    Windows to your mom's knees

    Nordstrom sells jeans with fake mud on them for $425
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    Patients with Drug-Resistant Malaria Cured by Plant Therapy

    When the standard malaria medications failed to help 18 critically ill patients, the attending physician in a Congo clinic acted under the “compassionate use” doctrine and prescribed a not-yet-approved malaria therapy made only from the dried leaves of the Artemisia annua plant. In just five...
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    Woman Wasn’t Christian Enough for Employer

    A Texas logistics company fired one of its employees because she was not Christian enough and “needed to examine her walk with Jesus,” the woman claims in court. Dee Anne Thomson sued Houston-based Gulf Winds International for age and religious discrimination and retaliation, claiming it fired...
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    Horwath promises provincial pharmacare if elected in 2018

    Ontario’s NDP is pledging to create a provincial pharmacare plan, appealing to the grassroots about a year out from the start of next year’s election campaign. Leader Andrea Horwath announced the policy Saturday in a speech to about 1,000 delegates at the party’s convention. “Seeing a doctor...
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    Mexico sees 2,020 killings in March

    Mexico has surpassed 2,000 homicides in a month for the first time since the summer of 2011 and had more killings in the first quarter of 2017 than in the start of any year in at least two decades, according to data released Friday. Unlike 2011, when bloody cartel clashes in Ciudad Juarez drove...
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    Mercedes branches out for new customers at NYC Auto Show

    What kind of message are they trying to send here?
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    Sask may no longer legally fund non-Catholic students

    in Catholic schools The ruling Thursday by a Saskatchewan judge that the province’s government may no longer legally fund non-Catholic students in Catholic schools is the legal equivalent of the Mother Of All Bombs! In an era of declining enrolments in many communities in which separate...
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    In Vancouver, there are lots of kids of corrupt Chinese officials

    Andy Guo, an 18-year-old Chinese immigrant, loves driving his red Lamborghini Huracán. He does not love having to share the car with his twin brother, Anky. “There’s a lot of conflict,” Andy Guo said, as a crowd of admirers gazed at the vehicle and its vanity licence plate, “CTGRY 5,” short for...
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    Vomitoxin makes nasty appearance U.S. corn

    A fungus that causes “vomitoxin” has been found in some U.S. corn harvested last year, forcing poultry and pork farmers to test their grain, and giving headaches to grain growers already wrestling with massive supplies and low prices. The plant toxin sickens livestock and can also make humans...
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    Please, God, Stop Chelsea Clinton from

    Whatever She Is Doing The last thing the left needs is the third iteration of a failed political dynasty. Like tribesmen laying out a sacrifice to placate King Kong, news outlets continue to make offerings to the Clinton gods. In The New York Times alone, Chelsea has starred in multiple...
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    Dortmund bomber was looking for stock drop

    Bombing of Borussia Dortmund Bus Targeted Club’s Stock, Prosecutors Say The suspect, identified only as Sergei W. in keeping with German privacy laws, was charged with attempted murder, inflicting serious bodily harm and carrying out an explosion in the attack, whichwounded one player and one...