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    Past winners of Iowa and what it meant

    Caucus history: Past years' results | Iowa Caucuses
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    The Catholic Church, The Zika Virus and Abortion

    It is suspected that there is a link between expectant mothers getting Zika, and their babies being born with microcephaly (an abnormally small head). This can be deadly, and some children who survive face intellectual disability, vision problems and development delays. A group of Brazilian...
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    Pension losers want to know what kind of deal CONs signed

    But the Libs don't want to reveal it....... The contents of the confidential deal between and Ottawa and U.S. Steel, and outdated bankruptcy laws were key talking points in Saturday's Stand Up for Steel rally in downtown Hamilton. But for brothers Vincent and Dan...
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    I prayed to God and took my chances

    I've heard God works in mysterious ways. He's just not working to help these unfortunate kids. But maybe they're not praying hard enough........ A Brooklyn man who faced 10 years for downloading child pornography was sentenced to five days by a federal judge who sharply criticized punishment...
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    CHRT makes landmark decision for fair treatment of First Nations children

    Canadian Human Rights Tribunal reached a landmark decision on child services. And there’s reason for optimism that the tribunal’s order will lead Canada toward ending some of the historical discrimination that remains firmly entrenched in federal policy. The principle underlying the tribunal’s...
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    Japan's TPP negotiator resigns over corruption charges

    As the deadline for world leaders to sign the Trans Pacific Partnership, or TPP, approaches, protesters are heating up the fight against the controversial 12-country trade pact, including with a new petition signed by over 10,000 people overnight...
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    Alberta CONS Bravely Embrace 1985

    Alberta Conservatives have joined the call to have a ban on same-sex marriage dropped from official party policy, adopting a resolution to that effect at their recent policy convention. The move gives more weight to efforts by grassroots lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Tories to have...
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    Ontario getting new rules for used cars

    Not looking good for those who like to buy and drive any of the older cars on the road. Basically this new MVIC Standards is going to have such stringent outlines the cars will have to be in near new condition to meet these new requirements! And how much is a garage going to charge for such an...
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    More than 300 cases of road maintenance failures

    Time to de-privatize this work..... The investigations, or unplanned audits, are conducted by the ministry as a result of complaints, collisions, previous audits or observations from officials, MTO told CTV Toronto. The audits are focused on specific areas of the ministry's contracts, like...
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    Crashing oil prices decimate Texas boomtowns

    Notley effect reaches far...... Back when the oil money flowed, the Location 581 Saloon would be crammed with pipefitters, welders, derrickhands, truck drivers and all sorts of oilfield workers – as many as 35 of them a night together shelling out more than $2,000 for drinks and good times...
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    Mitt Romney: GOP is ‘nuts’ for not supporting minimum wage increase

    Mitt Romney reiterated his call to raise the federal minimum wage and said Republicans are “nuts” for not doing so already. “I think we’re nuts not to raise the minimum wage,” he said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I think as a party, to say we’re trying to help the middle class of...
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    Cop demoted to 92k/year job after causing an accident while drunk

    A Niagara Regional Police sergeant who educated youths on the dangers of drinking and driving has been stripped of her rank in wake of her criminal conviction for impaired driving last summer. Sgt. Cathy Edgecombe, 44, pleaded guilty Tuesday before a disciplinary tribunal to a Police Services...
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    Sask mom wants mandatory prayers banned in public schools

    I had no idea they still did this...... Four days ago a Saskatchewan mother started a petition in an effort to remove mandatory religious prayers from public schools in the province. Dusti Hennenfent's children go to Lindale Public Elementary School in Moose Jaw. The school plays the Lord's...
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    British Guy Claims To Be KIng of the Wankers

    This man says he is Britain’s most prolific donor – with 800 children Sperm donor Simon Watson says he is UK's biggest after fathering 800 children | Metro News
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    Why Paris climate summit was a useful fraud

    London breaches air pollution limit for the whole of 2016 in just over seven days Under EU rules the capital is allowed to exceed the maximum safe levels of nitrous oxide for 18 hours a year – an allocation it had burned through by the peak of the morning rush hour on Friday 8 January. Putney...
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    Fracking lawsuit rejected by Alberta court

    Lawyers for an Alberta woman, who says hydraulic fracturing has so badly contaminated her well that the water can be set on fire, argued in front of the Supreme Court Tuesday for her right to sue the Alberta Energy Regulator. Jessica Ernst, a resident of Rosebud, Alta., first began legal action...
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    First Nations win court challenge against B.C. over Enbridge pipeline

    The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled the B.C. government breached its duty to consult the Gitga'at and neighbouring First Nations on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. The decision, announced Wednesday, is seen as a major victory for First Nations that could have an impact on future oil...
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    Toronto & Ottawa Mayors Fight to end Bids for affordable Internet

    Bell Canada, the company that owes its fortune to nearly a century of public investment, is fighting that rule, saying that it and it alone should have the right to sell access to its new fiber networks. The CRTC, Canada's telcoms regulator, told them to pound sand, but they've appealed to the...
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    Saudi Arabia Arrests Samar Badawi

    Saudi Arabia arrests human rights activist Samar Badawi who was the first woman to sue her guardian for preventing her from marrying the man of her choice, and also sued the Saudi government for the right to vote in municipal elections Saudi Arabia arrested a prominent human rights activist...
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    Exalted Cyclops Finally Finds God

    The case of a former Ku Klux Klan leader convicted of killing a 16-year-old black girl with a crossbow is being reviewed by the North Carolina Parole Commission, according to the Charlotte Observer Russell Hinson, the “Exalted Cyclops” leader of the KKK in the late 1980s, was convicted of...