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    Ninety Days of Notley

    Three months after the NDP’s historic win, Mariam Ibrahim takes a look at the new government’s record. Ninety days in, the government is performing a political balancing act, as it tries to square its desire to push ahead with major campaign promises with the practical reality of...
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    Moncton food truck owner says he faces daily racism

    The operators of a popular food truck in Moncton say they are considering leaving the area because of the racism they say they face on a daily basis. Michael Uberall is the owner and chef of the Checkpoint Germany food truck, which he started with his partner, Shelley Bastarache, last summer...
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    Nova Scotia startup in competition for Netflix....and it's FREE

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    Notley fires back at Prime Minister Harper

    Premier Rachel Notley is firing back after Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Alberta's NDP government is a "disaster." The comment comes just one day after Harper called an 11-week federal election campaign with a vote set for Oct. 19. During a campaign stop in Montreal, QC, on Monday...
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    Guardian Watchmen confront armed trophy hunters to save grizzlies

    “Sometimes it gets nasty,” said Jason Moody, a patroller from Nuxalk Nation in Bella Coola. Patrolling up and down British Columbia's coast with binoculars are a group of dedicated First Nations volunteers that boat right up to armed hunters, often American, in their vessels to dissuade them...
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    Provincial student loans in Newfoundland are officially a thing of the past.

    As of Saturday, these loans have been replaced with non-repayable grants. Newfoundland and Labrador is the first province to completely eliminate its student loan system. Student advocates have pushed for the change for years. "When students graduate with large amounts of student debt...
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    “I can’t stop touring because I will die,” Dick Dale says

    At 78 years old and with this many health issues, Dale should be dead, or at the very least resting at home. But he’s not. When he spoke with CP by phone from his California ranch on July 16, he was making the final preparations for a three-month, 25-city tour stretching from Denver to Boston...
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    Bristol Pogo Jumper Sets 2 records

    In March last year, Mr Sexty – known as "Mr Pogo" – completed the Greater Manchester Marathon on a pogo stick in 16 hours and 24 minutes. At a charity event in Philadelphia in July, in the course of attempting to set a Guinness Book record for pogo-stick workouts, Jack Sexty, 25, bounced...
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    Valeant Pharma raises the cost of two heart-saving drugs by 212 % and 525 %

    Pharmaceutical companies justify huge drug price markups on the ground that the research to develop the drug was, itself, hugely expensive. In February, a Canadian company, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, decided to raise the price of two heart-saving drugs (Nitropress, Isuprel) by 212...
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    Saudi Arabia asks to be dropped from 9/11 lawsuit

    Lawyers for the families of 9/11 victims say they have substantial new evidence linking Saudi Arabia with the deadly attacks from 2001 - Saudi Arabia asked on Thursday to be removed as a defendant in a lawsuit brought by victims of the attacks in the United States on 11 September 2001.Lawyer...
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    Robocall Commercial Soon

    Final commercial edit in process www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjLhLIRq64E&feature=player_embedded
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    Australia Walks Away From TPP deal

    Trade Minister Andrew Robb confirms Australia will not sign Trans-Pacific Partnership deal Trade Minister Andrew Robb confirms Australia will not sign Trans-Pacific Partnership deal
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    The Harper Campaign Trail Has A Message For You

    Conservative spokesman Kory Teneycke (former Sun Media VP) said Friday that only invited guests will be allowed at each and every event over the expected 11-week campaign. “You need to have been invited and if you don’t have a ticket you’re not getting in,” Teneycke said. It means the Harper...
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    The shadow of Enron appears in Alberta

    The Alberta Utilities Commission has concluded that TransAlta Corp. deliberately timed power outages at power plants at peak times in order to drive up electricity prices. The province's market surveillance administrator alleged that the Calgary-based company manipulated the electricity market...
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    Harper to Skip Flora MacDonalds Funeral

    Stephen Harper to skip 'red Tory' Flora MacDonald's funeral If Flora MacDonald had been born 20 years later, she might well have been Canada’s first female prime minister. As it was, the Cape Breton-born politician, who died early Sunday morning in her 90th year, broke down the invisible...
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    Even for baseball this is unique

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    Obama Admin Downplays Malaysia Slavery To Grease Trade Deal

    Cheap labor is the whole point of our corporate-rigged, NAFTA-style trade agreements. But tolerating slavery? Really? Unfortunately, it looks like that's what is happening with the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Companies get to move jobs, factories, even entire industries out of the U.S. to...
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    Porter Airlines seat change sparked by religious accommodation

    Christine Flynn, 31, said she was buckled in and waiting for Porter Airlines Flight 121 from New York to Toronto to take off early on Monday morning when an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man approached. "He came down the aisle, he didn't actually look at me ... or make eye contact. He turned to the...
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    Ugly American Goes Into Hiding After Killing Cecil The Lion

    Lion killer's dental practice getting some new Yelp reviews... http://www.yelp.com/biz/river-bluff-dental-Bloomington There are mounting calls for the prosecution of an American dentist who shot dead one of Africa’s most famous lions, as two other men involved in the hunt were due in...
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    Being topless in public is legal, B.C. woman reminds others

    If you're topless in any part of British Columbia and a police officer tells you to put a shirt on, you don't have to obey. That's the message a Kelowna woman wants to deliver to anyone who doesn't realize being topless in B.C. is legal. Susan Rowbottom says she was at a local beach last week...