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    The Myth of Tidewater Access Lifting Alberta

    The argument goes like this: we need a pipeline to tidewater because it will unlock new markets overseas (usually Asia) where we can get a better price for Canadian oil than we would without those pipelines. A number of years ago this argument may have been true, especially when you ignore the...
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    Yvon Charbonneau dies at 75

    Ex-Quebec union leader and Liberal MP Yvon Charbonneau has died at the age of 75. His former union says Charbonneau passed away peacefully on Friday surrounded by family in a Florida hospital where he'd been since suffering a stroke on April 7. Charbonneau was born in 1940 in the Laurentians...
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    CIA Agent To Court Over Bush Era Extredition Case

    A former undercover C.I.A. agent will be handed over to Italy, where she was convicted of taking part in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in one of the renditions ordered by the George W. Bush administration, after appellate courts in Portugal, where she lives, turned down her appeal...
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    Alberta Federation of Labour Says TPP Will Crush Wages

    "As faulty as it is, the current TFW [Temporary Foreign Worker] program at least requires some evidence that the employer couldn't hire a Canadian to do the job. The TPP lets big companies bypass even those meager safeguards. The labour mobility sections of the Trans-Pacific Partnership are like...
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    OPEC meeting aiming to cap output fails

    After hours of talks in Qatar, the country's energy minister Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada said that the oil producers needed "more time" Most members of the Opec producers' group, plus other oil exporters including Russia, attended the talks. They wanted a deal that would freeze output and help...
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    Maple bacon breakfast pie

    Recipe http://i.imgur.com/D4DJ0BC.gifv
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    What would Jesus do?

    He would do the right thing...... http://i.imgur.com/cfskRpF.gifv
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    NS Liberals Doing The Funny Math

    No, this is not from the Onion and yes, Mr Furey does seem to be keeping a straight face...... Nova Scotia's Liberals plan to privatize Registry of Motor Vehicles that earn $120 million yearly for the province and cost a fraction of that $30-35 million per year to operate Nova Scotia...
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    Saudi's Threaten USA Over 9/11 Info Being Released

    I'm going to guess that this info doesn't say that Saddam had anything to do with 9/11........ Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill...
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    Gas Station Worker Owed $355,000.00

    When Muhammad Umar Naseem came to Canada from Pakistan in 2008, he believed his adopted country was founded on principles of fairness and equity. His plan was simple: work hard here, get a university engineering degree and live out a dream unattainable back home. “My dream was like, one day, I...
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    Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems

    There has been a lot written in recent years about neoliberalism. Ralston Saul, Mirowski, Galbraith and many others have weighed in and the more you read the clearer the picture of how we were herded onto this path on a journey that's now decades old. Man, we've been had - big time. If you're...
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    Windows PC users should uninstall QuickTime video player

    U.S. agency advises Windows PC users remove Apple's QuickTime over bugs | Reuters
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    Ottawa MPP Living A Fantasy

    West-end MPP Jack MacLaren has decorated his website with testimonials from people he appears to have made up. Suren from Kanata thanks MacLaren for “the commitment and dedication on your part with the communities,” whatever that means. According to the person who photographed her, the picture...
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    New Balance Shoes blasts Obama over broken promise

    The shoe manufacturer, with three factories in Maine, is pushing the government to keep its promise to use U.S.-made athletic shoes in the military and speaking out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, with support from Maine's congressional delegation. The Boston-based company has been...
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    Justin Trudeau is a Tar Sander

    and all that business about his government following science is self-serving crap. Unlike his failed predecessor, the Liberal prime minister might be the guy who'll drive through the bitumen pipelines (link is external), getting that hazmat sludge to "tidewater." Prime Minister Justin...
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    NDP Figures Out What They Did To Lose 2015 Election

    If party activists were frustrated by the NDP's shift to the centre in the last election campaign, they will now have a chance to endorse a wide range of resolutions at the party's convention in Edmonton that would take the party in a much different direction. Delegates from across the country...
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    Renewed calls for Yahoo! to ban ivory sales ads

    32 international environmental organisations have appealed to the world’s largest internet ivory seller – Yahoo! Japan, and its major Shareholder SoftBank, to halt all elephant ivory sales on Yahoo! Japan’s internet sites. A recent investigation revealed that 93% of 6,000 advertisements on...
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    Canadian Taxpayers Suffer From Harper's Panama Deal

    “The agreement is bad news not just for labour, but for every Canadian because Panama is an offshore tax haven for companies that want to evade their Canadian tax obligations,” Chris Charlton, the then-NDP MP for Hamilton Mountain, ON, told the House of Commons. “A free trade agreement between...
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    Convicted murderer suing police says he can't get a job

    You were prepared to have Steven Clarke murdered?" "Yes, sir." "You asked someone if they were willing to have Steven Clarke murdered?"...
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    Man Drove Six Miles With Wife Atop Car

    --In what may be a new record for driving with a spouse clinging to the roof of a car, a Florida man was arrested last week after traveling six miles with his wife atop his vehicle, cops say According to investigators, Richard Addy, 69, and his wife Elizabeth argued early Tuesday morning after...