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    I'd never heard of Tory Senator Don Meredith

    Tory Senator Don Meredith Touts Degrees From Unaccredited Schools A Conservative senator earmarked as one of the Senate's top spenders holds a master’s degree from a school whose phone number directs calls to a customer helpline for a website that sells iPads and printers. Senator Don...
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    George H.W. Bush was honored Sunday with a Kennedy "courage" award

    for agreeing to raise taxes to confront a spiraling deficit, jeopardizing his presidency that ended after just one term. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston honored Bush with a 2014 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. The award crossed generations and...
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    Exploding corpses not covered by property insurance

    A Palm Beach County court ruled last week that property insurance does not cover the cleanup if a human corpse explodes and leaks fluids into an apartment unit below. The Palm Beach New Times reported that Judy Rodrigo filed a suit against State Farm that “another unit owner’s body exploded...
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    How Saskatchewan’s (and likely most foreign workers) are being exploited

    This week, more damning evidence regarding the scandal plagued Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) went public. The Saskatchewan Federation of Labour (SFL) posted details on Facebook and Twitter showing how a Filipino foreign worker was required to compensate a recruitment agency for an...
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    First the Islamists took over England, soon Norway

    Saudi Arabia calls for criticism of religion to be outlawed in Norway Saudi Arabia has called for all criticism of religion and of the prophet Mohammed to be made illegal in Norway. The call came during the United Nation's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Norway this week. The UPR is a...
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    Angry beaver delays traffic, roams around Miramichi

    An angry beaver was roaming around Miramichi on Tuesday, creating traffic delays and chasing onlookers. Jim O'Neill was driving his taxi when he noticed a man being chased by a beaver off King George Highway on Tuesday. "You look out the corner of your eye and see a beaver backing somebody...
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    Most Americans don't realize that May Day has its origins in this country

    Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers' Day of May Day. For many others there is an assumption that it is a holiday celebrated in state communist countries like Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americans don't realize that May Day has its origins...
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    What are the Cons looking for?

    Canadian government go to telecoms for users information 1.2 million times a year Michael Geist, one of Canada’s leading Internet privacy experts, said “basic subscriber information” is actually a very broad term that allows police agencies to link Internet activity to a customer’s identity...
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    "I don't know if a cat ate his ears, but his nose went down the drain

    Afghan police have arrested the parents of a 14-year-old girl after they attacked a religious cleric and cut off his nose and ears in retaliation for what they say were a series of sexual attacks on their daughter. Right activists say there has been a sharp rise in violent attacks against women...
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    Canada's reputation as a global citizen has slipped

    A generation ago, Canada was perceived to be an exemplary global citizen by the rest of the world: it took the lead on a host of international issues, including the Convention of Child Rights, freedom of information, acid rain, world peacekeeping, sanctions against South Africa's apartheid...
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    60,000 Chinese Workers Continue Historic Strike

    The strike now has been joined by 60,000 workers. The number of workers going on strike has tripled in less than two weeks. The entire production at the Dongguan complex has been disrupted – in fact this is the major concern of most international outlets about this strike, and not its causes...
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    Minneapolis Changes "Columbus Day" To "Indigenous People's Day"

    It’s been debated for years, but now the city of Minneapolis has decided to change from celebrating Columbus Day to observing Indigenous People’s Day instead. Columbus Day has been a federal holiday since 1937, though not all states observe it, including Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, and South...
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    Québec City is the best city to be a woman and Edmonton is the worst

    A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) reveals the best and worst cities to be a woman in Canada. According to the study, Québec City is the best city to be a woman and Edmonton is the worst. The study, by Kate McInturff, a Senior Researcher at the...
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    Here's a name from the past........Dan Heap Dies

    Former Member of Parliament and social justice advocate Daniel Heap has died, his family has announced. He was 88. Born in Winnipeg, Heap was a Toronto NDP MP for more than 12 years, representing the Spadina riding after first winning a byelection in 1981. Before that, he served as an alderman...
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    No, it's not another Rob Ford story

    Crack-Smoking Neighbors Fight With Machete After Crack Runs Out the couple admitted they had been drinking beer and smoking crack with Motes before the machete incident, authorities said. Motes claimed the couple became upset when he ran out of crack and said the woman spat on him and the...
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    For those on 'Rogers', check your Bill......

    Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Guy Laurence made $12.7m between December 2 and the end of the year. That’s about 20 business days, meaning he got paid $600,000 a day. Where does Rogers get the money for all this? Sending bills to dead people who never had accounts with Rogers Sending bills to...
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    Canadian Muslim professor: 'If you want sharia law, go back to the hellhole country y

    About one dozen families who recently immigrated to Canada are demanding that the Louis Riel School Division in Winnipeg excuse their children from music and coed physical education programs for religious reasons. The families believe that music is un-Islamic – just like the Taliban believe...
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    Will Canada be the only Country to not Honour those of WW1

    A list of all the Countries Honouring the 100th Anniversary First World War centenary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    100 Years Ago Today, April 20, 1914

    The date April 20, 1914 will forever be a day of infamy for American workers. On that day, 19 innocent men, women and children were killed in the Ludlow Massacre. The coal miners in Colorado and other western states had been trying to join the UMWA for many years. They were bitterly opposed by...
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    Rare ‘Perry Mason’ moment in court 5 Cops Caught Lying on the Stand

    A seemingly routine suppression hearing in a suburban Chicago courthouse last month took an unexpected dramatic turn when video from a police car was introduced that disproved the testimony of five police officers. They had said Joseph Sperling was arrested after officers who pulled him over in...