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    Seems Brian Pallister (Conservative) is still upset he only got a watch

    and his brother got the farm......... www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFC84HPzEyU
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    Jim Love, Canadian Mint chairman, helped run offshore 'tax-avoidance scheme' for clie

    Jim Love, chair of the Royal Canadian Mint (and close personal friend of Jim Flaherty), ran a lucrative side business advising Canadians how to avoid paying taxes. Besides the issues of conflict of interest and treason, how the hell does the chair of the mint have enough spare time to run...
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    Halifax Shipyard workers walk off job over bullying

    Between 200 and 300 workers at the Irving-owned Halifax Shipyard walked off the job this morning, complaining of bullying by management. The workers said they're upset by the death of a co-worker. Protesters said the worker, who had about 30 years of experience at the company, was recently...
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    WTF Sweden............ ?

    So if this had not made it to the newspapers he would have been allowed to adopt.........Scary ......... A Swedish man convicted for molesting a five-year-old girl in his neighbourhood has been given the green light to adopt a child of his own, as Swedish authorities said they did not fear...
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    Who gave the US Border Agents a Canadians Medical Records?

    Disabled woman denied entry to U.S. after agent cites supposedly private medical details A Toronto woman is shocked after she was denied entry into the U.S. because she had been hospitalized for clinical depression. Ellen Richardson went to Pearson airport on Monday full of joy about flying...
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    Lots of unanswered questions but the kids have been rescued from their captivity

    Report doesn't seem to jive as to how long they were held captive although 2 days would have been too long, never mind 2 years but the neighbours say they didn't even know kids lived there. Of course possibly the neighbours had moved in within the last 2 years......... Tucson police said...
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    Higher-end KFC Select to debut in Toronto

    Rotten Ronnies is doing the same.............. The smell of buttery croissants baking in the oven wafts through the air amid the cushioned grey seats and red couches positioned in front of flat-screen TVs at the newest eatery and café to open near Dundas Square. This is the new land of...
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    You Can Help Force Obama To Expose the TPP

    Although it is called a "free trade" agreement, the TPP is not mainly about trade. Of the TPP's 29 draft chapters, only 5 deal with traditional trade issues. Most would set rules on non-trade matters that affect our daily lives: food safety, internet freedom, medicine costs, job off-shoring...
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    Britain and Russia; 2 Different Approaches on Islam

    Parents were ordered to send their children to a workshop on Islam or have them labelled as racist for the rest of their school career. They were sent a letter warning that the primary school pupils would have a ‘racial discrimination note’ put on their records if they did not go...
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    Swiss to vote on executive pay limit

    Swiss voters are going to the polls to decide on strict new laws to limit executive pay to no more than 12 times the wage of the lowest-paid worker in the same company. The 1:12 initiative is backed by Switzerland Young Socialists, who gathered the necessary 100,000 signatures to call a...
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    U.S. pastor found guilty in church trial for son's gay marriage

    A Pennsylvania pastor on trial by Methodist church officials for officiating at his son's 2007 same-sex marriage ceremony was found guilty on Monday of violating church law and being disobedient. Reverend Frank Schaefer, pastor of the Zion United Methodist church in Lebanon, Pennsylvania...
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    French show Tea Party Truckers how it's done

    Remember back in October when a group of Tea Party truckers said they were going to shut down DC traffic because of Obama and....well something? Yeah they failed at the whole thing So Remember Those Truckers Who Were Going To Block DC Traffic And Arrest Politicians? LOL J/K - The Superficial...
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    HUGE CTV News fail........

    I have to steal the response from one of the commenters to the article........
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    Germany wants the Robin Hood tax – and Europe's voters do too

    No argument against a financial transaction tax has stood up to scrutiny, so politicians must resist lobbying and see sense The path to implementing a tax on financial transactions (known as the FTT) was never going to be smooth. This week's announcement that the expected coalition between...
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    Former US Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Arizona) gets sent to prison

    That's Odd; Politician nailed for personal gain while in Office. He must have really screwed up to get caught....... Former Congressman Renzi disregarded his oath to uphold the law, ignoring the interests of the people he was elected to serve in favor of his own interests," First Assistant...
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    Labour would give tax rebates to firms that pay living wage

    Ed Miliband vows to tackle the issue of low pay as his 'central mission' Firms that pay their staff the living wage will be given a tax rebate of up to £1,000 for each worker by the next Labour government, potentially increasing incomes for millions of employees, Ed Miliband pledges today...
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    Outsourcing Britians Prison System to Cost Taxpayers

    First they launched a consultation for the outsourcing of probation services. That happened in January and finished in February. This is commonly agreed to be not really long enough to solicit the views of the experts in the field – but if you have already determined not to listen to them then...
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    Low immunization rate leads to measles outbreak in Alberta Add to ...

    Vivien Suttorp, Alberta’s South Zone medical officer of health, said Thursday that the Lethbridge area has some of the lowest immunization rates in the province, less than 60 per cent, well off the stated goal of 98 per cent for Albertans. That has health workers targeting communities near...
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    Is Bell's Plan to Monitor and Profile Millions of Canadians Legal?

    Last week, Bell announced plans to implement new consumer monitoring and profiling practices that would greatly expand how it uses the information it collects on millions of subscribers. The planned scope of Bell's profiling is unprecedented in Canada, reflecting the power of a...
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    Planting drugs on a fifth grader to show how police dogs work is pretty dumb, even by

    American standards............... Police Dog Bites Fifth Grader During Fake Drug Raid (Video) Police Dog Bites Fifth Grader During Fake Drug Raid (Video)