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    Theresa May Threatens British Internet Freedom To End

    Theresa May says that last night's London terror attacks mean that the internet cannot be allowed to provide a "safe space" for terrorists and therefore working cryptography must be banned in the UK. This is a golden oldie, a classic piece of foolish political grandstanding. May's predecessor...
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    Bell, Rogers, Telus raise some internet prices

    while small providers drop theirs. "Here we go again — they've got their hand in my pocket," says Toronto Bell customer Larry McLean about his latest price increase. "We're paying too much." The hikes come on the heels of a CRTC ruling declaring broadband internet a basic and vital service...
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    So what will Jason Kenney do? (WWJKD?)

    Edmonton’s Pride Parade will be held next Saturday, and it has been become an article of faith among Albertan politicians of most ideological stripes for several years now that failure to appear at Pride goeth before a fall. So what will Jason Kenney do? Alberta’s just not the place it was...
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    Mr. Social Security Has Vanished

    A Kentucky disability lawyer scheduled to be sentenced next month for defrauding the government of nearly $600 million has disappeared, the FBI said. Eric Conn pleaded guilty in March to stealing from the federal government and bribing a judge. He was scheduled to be sentenced next month and...
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    A climate denier, an anti-vaxxer, and a pro-lifer all

    walk into church together... They congratulate each other for being the chosen ones to survive the rapture, while people starve and islands go under water around the world. They comfort each other over the children they lost to disease, telling one another "it was gods will" and "they are...
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    TV producers pitch 24 Sussex reality show

    The renovation of the prime minister's residence at 24 Sussex Drive is drawing significant interest from across the country, including at least two proposals by producers wanting to turn it into a reality TV show. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sparked a flurry of messages offering ideas for...
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    Caterpillar Whistleblower Could Collect $600 Million

    In the the spring of 2008, finance executives from Caterpillar Inc. gathered for a few days of meetings in the Peoria Civic Center, a few blocks from company headquarters. Early in the proceedings, Eugene Fife, chairman of the audit committee, reminded the attendees that they cradled...
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    18th-century thinkers behind laissez-faire economics saw slavery

    as a great example of global free trade For nearly four centuries, the Atlantic slave trade brought millions of people into bondage. Scholars estimate that around 1.5 million people perished in the brutal middle passage across the Atlantic. The slave trade linked Africa, Europe and the...
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    Walmart Is Accused of Punishing Workers for Sick Days

    A report released Thursday by a workers’ advocacy group says Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, routinely refuses to accept doctors’ notes, penalizes workers who need to take care of a sick family member and otherwise punishes employees for lawful absences. The report, based on a...
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    Aussie slams Daily Mail for their cheap, lazy reporting

    Stefanovic was speaking specifically about an article published yesterday on the website which pictured him checking into a caravan park in Yamba, NSW, with a younger female colleague. The headline, which has since been changed, made reference to the fact Stefanovic's girlfriend was not...
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    Sault Ste. Marie provincial byelection

    Who will be the Wynner? Sault Ste. Marie votes today in provincial byelection seen as test for Liberals | CP24.com
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    The Destruction of Black Wall Street

    or, a look back at black Americans being massacred by rampaging whites for being successful.. The term “race riot” is used a lot — to mask the history of black Americans being massacred by rampaging whites. The “Tulsa race riot” as it is most often referred to is no exception. Ebony magazine...
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    Wonder what his opinion of German cars in the USA are?

    A Denver sportswriter is out of a job after he tweeted that he was “uncomfortable” with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500. Terry Frei’s now-former employer, the Denver Post, dropped the news in an apology Monday. “We apologize for the disrespectful and unacceptable tweet that was...
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    Killer of 8 including deputy speaks on camera while arrested

    Authorities from multiple agencies took Cory Godbolt into custody on East Lincoln Road Sunday morning after they say he killed eight people, including a Lincoln County deputy. The deputy's name and the names of the other victims, have not yet been released. Godbolt, 36, fled from police and...
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    Invading Red Deer Rebelers get Outed

    Travelling hate circus staged anti-Syrian protest in Red Deer based on lie Who were these come-from-away bullies, who travelled to Red Deer to harass schoolchildren? They included members of the Worldwide Coalition Against Islam, Canada. Their Facebook page features a banner showing an...
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    New WildCon Party Threatens Labour Code Changes

    While legally very significant, from a technical point of view the comprehensive labour law reform introduced yesterday by Alberta NDP is not particularly innovative or unusual. Upon passage, Bill 17 will bring Alberta labour relations law as it pertains to unions into the late 20th Century and...
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    Ottawa woman awarded $100,000 for wrongful dismissal

    The fired McDonald’s manager who successfully sued after she was told she’d have to take a humiliating demotion or lose her job had reason to smile. On Tuesday, Ontario’s highest court upheld a ruling by an Ottawa judge finding that the 67-year-old grandmother had been “set up to fail” and was...
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    Online threat against Sophie leads to arrest

    A Lethbridge, Alta., woman is facing charges after allegedly posting threats online against Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, wife of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The RCMP's Integrated National Security Enforcement Team based in Alberta — K-INSET — was alerted to the threats made against the Canadian...
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    Microsoft says Chinese hacking Xbox accounts

    Since 2015, a Chinese gaming website has been hacking Xbox accounts and selling the proceeds on the open market, according to a complaint filed by Microsoft in federal court on Friday. iGSKY presents itself as a gaming service company, offering players a way to pay for in-game credits and rare...
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    Legion calls on Trump to take Pot off of Schedule I

    America’s largest veterans service organization has a message for President Donald Trump: Reschedule marijuana to permit research into its medical efficacy for treating vets suffering from traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. The appeal by the American Legion was included...