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    Parents desperate for help to deradicalize

    son involved with white supremacist groups. "He is continuing to fall further away into a direction and into a place where he will become more radicalized and violent," the man's father told Radio-Canada. The family say they reached out to a Quebec government-funded deradicalization centre in...
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    Singer says ''I never wanted to be gay"

    Pearson never told anyone — his fans, his conservative Christian family, his wife — that he was gay. Until now. I was scared of what God would think and what all of these people I loved would think about me,” the 35-year-old singer wrote in a letter to his fans that was first published by...
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    Consumers turn to black market for cellphone deals

    Pricey cellphone plans in many Canadian provinces appear to be driving consumers toward a booming black market business. At last search, online ad site Kijiji in Toronto was crawling with advertisements for a bargain Koodo or Fido phone plan — just $48 a month for unlimited Canada-wide calling...
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    Saskatchewan facing $1B revenue shortfall

    Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said the province is facing a $1 billion shortfall in resource revenue. Wall made the comment in the legislature Monday while defending cuts to heritage language schools as part of a review of all spending. Saskatchewan facing $1B resource revenue shortfall, says...
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    Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

    Half of the Iwo Jima flag raisers were killed a few weeks after the picture was taken, one by friendly fire. The other half stuggled with PTSD for the rest of their lives. One was fired from a job on Memorial Day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima
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    There is nothing magical or utopian about Sanders’s

    recommendations. Jeffrey Sachs points out (link is external) that Bernie Sanders' economic policy prescriptions are exactly what the U.S. in particular needs in order to offer a more secure life for the population as a whole: The United States unleashed the power of CEOs to enrich...
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    The List of Songs Banned By CCC After 9/11

    Clear Channel Communications, now known as iHeart Media sent out a list of songs to their stations to be removed from playlists in the aftermath of the attacks. A few of the 165 songs on that list were John Lennon’s Imagine, a song about peace and love; Black Sabbath’s War Pigs, an...
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    'old stock' Wildroser Suspended for Mr Wynne

    comment. A brouhaha over comments made about Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne in the Alberta legislature continued to escalate Friday with the Opposition Wildrose party suspending the MLA who made them. But by late Friday, Wildrose Leader Brian Jean issued a terse, short news release saying...
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    Hillary Won't Debate Bernie so Trump Will

    @BernieSanders: Game on. I look forward to debating Donald Trump in California before the June 7 primary. https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/735689625407131648 Here is the Kimmel interview with Trump https://youtu.be/b9PNE4BMluk?t=11m40s www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXuBJvzeC1Q
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    An Open Letter from the World's MPs to David Cameron

    LONDON - The following article is taken from Akaash Maharaj's letter to Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom. Dear Prime Minister Cameron, We are writing on behalf of parliamentarians from around the world and from across Britain's political parties, to make a common appeal to...
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    Truckers make ideal serial killers: FBI

    If you want to be a serial killer, then being a long-haul trucker is an excellent career choice, according to the FBI. In a recent blog post and accompanying video about the Highway Serial Killings (HSK) initiative, the nation's top law enforcement agency noted: "If there is such a thing as an...
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    Grassroot Libs Sour On Proposed Party Changes

    The Liberal Party’s leadership should withdraw the proposed new party constitution because it was put together without adequate “member consultation and engagement,” and a significant number of delegates will oppose it on the convention floor which could make this week’s biennial policy...
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    Could Libs have saved hydro customers $1.5 billion

    Newly unearthed documents suggest Ontario’s Liberal government could have saved hydro customers $1.5 billion by terminating an agreement with Samsung, but decided against it. The papers, uncovered by Progressive Conservative Finance Critic Vic Fedeli, relate to the 2009 Samsung green energy...
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    Saudis Spread Wahhabism And US Turns A Blind Eye

    Every Friday, just yards from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm aloft in a cheery wave, hundreds of young bearded men make a show of kneeling to pray on the sidewalk outside an improvised mosque in a former furniture store. The mosque is one of scores built here with Saudi government money and...
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    Salty Grassrooters Are Ready To Do Something

    Grassroots Conservatives in Canada are angry at their party. They're angry at the way their party lost last fall's election. They're angry that former leader Stephen Harper abused the power of the leader's office. They're even angry that millions of dollars they donated were wasted on a...
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    Will Trudeau's Libs Correct Harper's Failed Obligations?

    The Harper government failed, over years, to live up to its constitutional obligations to fill vacancies on the bench, with perverse negligence for a party that claimed to be all about law and order. Yet the new Trudeau government hasn’t fixed the problem the Conservatives created. Since taking...
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    Albertan convicted under refugee protection laws

    An Edmonton woman who once told an employee "if you can stand, you can work" has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for exploiting more than 70 foreign workers. Jennilyn Morris is the first person in Alberta to be charged and convicted under the Immigration and Refugee Protection...
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    Here comes smokey

    Worlds largest cruise ship launches According to its owners, Royal Caribbean, each of the Harmony’s three four-storey high 16-cylinder Wärtsilä engines will, at full power, burn 1,377 US gallons of fuel an hour, or about 96,000 gallons a day of some of the most polluting diesel fuel in the...
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    Michael Sona on robocalls, his suicide attempt — and the road back

    With the loaded pistol in his hand, he felt the events of the previous year sweeping over him, flooding him with grief. Named and shamed — in his estimation — by his own party as the culprit in the notorious 2011 election robocalls scandal, named in court documents, his religious beliefs shaken...
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    Ontario's Insanity Continues To Worsen

    it wasn't all so long ago there were no cell phones. Just how important is everyone's issues that we have to do this......? Ontario is considering the idea of putting signs on highways to alert drivers about upcoming areas where they can safely pull over to text or check their emails. All...