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    Former Ontario Premier Joins Pot Group

    Ernie Eves, former Ontario premier, joins board of Jamaican medical marijuana business While other politicians tend to join law firms, become consultants or work on various other staid pursuits, the former Progressive Conservative premier of Ontario has chosen to branch out. He has...
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    Said The Man With The 145 Foot Yacht

    He made his billions in real estate but Jeff Greene could have had a great career in stand-up. Greene's private jet was one of 1,700 that conveyed the rich and powerful to the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos now underway. In an interview with Bloomberg, the real estate entrepreneur...
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    Looking Out The Rear Window When Stopped In Traffic

    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/black-ice-truck-tractor-trailer-nj-near-miss-video-134138846.html?vp=1
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    CONS Hand $26 Bil in no compete ship contract

    “The price of the poker game has gone up without a competition,” said one lobbyist. “It’s great to have a Canadian company running a 30-year effort but what will it cost the taxpayer? If they’d held a competition, we could have seen five or six contenders.” Others pointed out that the sole...
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    What does Alberta have to show for 24 Bil barrels ? $12 Bil in debt

    The province is currently over $12 billion (link is external) in debt and is projected to run a budget deficit of $500 million this year, the seventh consecutive year in the red for a province that prides itself on having a sharp fiscal pencil. Resource prices often go through boom and bust...
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    Al Murray: 'I'd make smoking in pubs compulsory'

    The Pub Landlord answers questions from the Telegraph and from Twitter about his plan to stand against Nigel Farage in the 2015 general election Farage says the smoking ban is silly and immoral. Where do you, as a pub landlord, stand on the issue (given that pubs are less fun now...
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    France’s President Francois Hollande Gets a George Bush Reprieve

    Enter Lucky Pierre #2: France’s President Francois Hollande. Two weeks ago, his polls fell below 10%, making Hollande the most unpopular, derided leader of France in memory. Unemployment kept rising, the ruling Socialists can’t seem to cut the bloated budget, and just about everyone in France...
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    Incest is Legal in New Jersey ! YIKES!

    A New York Magazine interview revealed an 18-year-old woman's plans to marry her long lost father. Next on their to-do list is to move to New Jersey, wher incest between adults happens to be legal. In the New York Magazine report, the father-daughter couple remains unnamed, but revealed they...
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    Why does God allow children to suffer?

    Pope Francis at a loss for words as street child asks: 'Why does God allow children to suffer?' Pope Francis on Sunday morning warmly embraced a former street child, comforting the little one after emotions overcame her as she asked: 'Why does God allow so many children to suffer?' The...
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    Louie Gohmert (R) calls on American leaders to emulate Egypt

    America's Dumbest Congressman has returned to the House in fine form. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) called on American leaders to emulate Egypt’s military dictator, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi–a man who orchestrated a coup d’etat and has presided over the killing of more than a thousand dissidents...
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    Fisheries Minister Gail Shea

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    Chief Redblood Blasts Popes Decision to Canonize Junipero Serra

    A Native American chief has blasted the pope's decision to canonize a controversial 18th century California missionary. Pope Francis announced his decision to make Junipero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded nine missions in the state, a saint on Thursday. Anthony Morales, Chief...
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    Tanzania bans witchdoctors over albino attacks

    Tanzania has banned witchdoctors in a move intended to stop attacks on people with albinism. Home Affairs Minister Mathias Chikawe said there would be a nationwide operation to "arrest them and take them to court" if they continued to work. Albino people, who lack pigment in their...
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    13 Year Old To Marry Man Who Raped Her

    A father in Tudun Rubudi of Ungogo local government, Kano State has given his 13-year-old daughter to one of the four men who allegedly gang-raped her. Usaini Ja’afar alongside Sani Isa, Jamilu Sani and Isa Musa were all arrested in December 2014 by Kano State Hisbah Board’s Dala Command...
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    Zombie Cookie: The Tracking Cookie That You Can’t Kill

    An online advertising clearinghouse relied on by Google, Yahoo and Facebook is using controversial cookies that come back from the dead to track the web surfing of Verizon customers. The company, called Turn, is taking advantage of a hidden undeletable number that Verizon uses to monitor...
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    Erin O'Toole, Julian Fantino's equally ghastly replacement

    Yesterday I told you how Erin O'Toole, Julian Fantino's equally ghastly replacement, had gone after Mike Blais and his Veterans group. http://forums.canadiancontent.net/canadian-politics/131198-harper-governments-contempt-veterans-year.html Now it turns out that wasn't an isolated...
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    Gordie Howe's Stem Cell Treatment Done in Mexico

    Caulfield, meanwhile, said there is a real anger among patients who wrongly believe the technology exists to cure them but isn’t being made available. The rise of stem-cell tourism by celebrities such as Howe, as well as by the not-so-famous who are desperate for a cure, can put people in...
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    67% of Canucks; it's not necessary to believe in God to be moral

    Of course One third of Canadians say it is which is a very depressing thought........... Worldwide, Many See Belief in God as Essential to Morality | Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project
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    Saudi cleric condemns snowmen as anti-Islamic

    A prominent Saudi Arabian cleric has whipped up controversy by issuing a religious ruling forbidding the building of snowmen, described them as anti-Islamic. Asked on a religious website if it was permissible for fathers to build snowmen for their children after a snowstorm in the country's...
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    If terrorist are to be defeated, Saudi Arabia must stop funding

    We associate our by now familiar enemies - al Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS, and similar groups - with radical Islam often known as Wahabbism. That's fair enough. Yet the monied branch of Wahabbism that funds the operational, murderous branch, is our ally. On Thursday, The Middle East Monitor...