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    Australia Wants to Kill Johnny Depps Dogs

    Johnny Depp has been given until Saturday to get his two pet dogs out of the country or have them put down after he brought them into Australia without declaring them to quarantine. Johnny Depp's dogs Boo and Pistol could be put down if they stay in Australia, Barnaby Joyce warns - ABC News...
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    Canadian Bone Marrow - Stem Cell Registry From Home

    Canadians can sign up online for a Bone Marrow Registry. After filling out forms, they will mail you a cheek swab kit. You can save the life of a person with leukemia or lymphoma. https://www.blood.ca/en/stem-cells?utm_source=onematch&utm_medium=redirect&utm_campaign=onematch
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    Cameron would have made Thatcher all tingly with this

    picking up on Canada's bill c-51......... For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'.” That warning from Britain's newly minted Conservative majority prime minister, David Cameron, in announcing his...
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    Said No To Obamacare - Now He's Going Blind & Whining

    Lang is a self-employed handyman who works with banks and the federal government on maintaining foreclosed properties. He has done well enough that his wife, Mary, hasn’t had to work. They live in a 3,300-square-foot home in the Legacy Park subdivision valued at more than $300,000. But...
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    Senate will quietly allow popular Reform Act to die

    Andrew Coyne has rightly pointed out (link is external) the gall the Senate is showing in nixing (link is external) Michael Chong's watered-down Reform Act (even if there's something to a few of the criticisms). But let's not miss the most absurd suggestion of all as to who should be given...
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    Alberta’s big city mayors bring capacity crowd to their feet

    This is the most Canadian thing we can do Two of Canada’s most dynamic and change-focused mayors brought two capacity crowds to their feet at the National Poverty Reduction Summit in Ottawa. Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson and Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, were both harbingers of massive...
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    Payless Furniture says goodbye to Obamaville

    “Restore Freedom. Even Retards Want to be Free.” Well, the folks at Payless Furniture at 2800 Iowa St. long have been famous for their crazy signs and the dancing fellows who hold them. As the company closes its doors, it has one final set of signs for the community that it did business in...
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    Support for veterans to be put to a full House vote by NDP

    The government's "moral, social, legal and fiduciary obligation" to support both military veterans and the families of those killed or injured in service will take the parliamentary spotlight today as the New Democrats attempt to convince their Commons colleagues to formally acknowledge the...
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    Worker fired for disabling GPS that tracked her 24 hours a day

    "This intrusion would be highly offensive to a reasonable person," lawsuit says. A Southern California woman claims she was fired after uninstalling an app that her employer required her to run constantly on her mobile phone—an app that tracked her every move 24 hours a day, seven days a...
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    Stephen Harper's Great War on Dissent

    “When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is frankly when it’s rapidly losing its moral authority to govern.” Stephen Harper 2005 Forthright government watchdogs have a way of disappearing in Ottawa. They are quietly replaced. Their mandates are terminated...
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    Kevin O'Leary: He's not a billionaire, he just plays one on TV

    In 2000, Mattel handed over its multibillion-dollar acquisition to another firm for $27.3 million and a share of its future profits. Mattel’s purchase of TLC was eventually labelled by Businessweek as one of “the Worst Deals of All Time.” Shareholders launched a class-action lawsuit, naming...
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    Volvo chooses South Carolina for first U.S. plant

    The Swedish automaker will invest $500 million in building a factory in Ridgeville, South Carolina. The plant, which will produce the latest generation of Volvo models, will have a capacity to initially build up to 100,000 cars per year, according to a press release from Volvo. Construction...
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    That's not a good impression to leave behind for Canada

    That horrible baseball-stealing woman with the Suze Orman lipstick lesbian haircut — that square-assed old hag in white pants and a big bully belt who snatched away a baseball from a child, has finally been identified. Her name is Grennele Brashkowitz, and if you think she is the most hated...
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    Internet.org is not the Internet. Not even close.

    For many first-time Internet users Facebook could become the gatekeeper of the Internet. Here’s how it works: to offer the Internet.org service in a given country, a deal is made between Facebook and a telecom provider. The provider then offers the service to customers, and blocks access to...
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    Afterlife fantasies are not harmless

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_5yUXjXizQ
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    Mel Hurtig’s wake-up call for Canada’s democracy

    Mel Hurtig, one of Canada’s most-celebrated economic nationalists, has fought the good fight for this country for more than 60 years. Over the years, Hurtig has raged about foreign control of our economy, the threats of free trade and the grumbling foundations of our democracy. He also was a...
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    Norway ends blasphemy law after Hebdo attack

    Norway has scrapped its longstanding blasphemy law, meaning it is now legal to mock the beliefs of others, in a direct response to January’s brutal attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The proposal to rush through the change was made in February by Conservative MP Anders B...
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    Norway’s ‘We’re Sorry’ Monument to 91 Dead Witches

    The site of one of Europe’s most brutal witch hunts has been transformed into a modernist memorial monument, perched above the Arctic Circle on the rugged coast of Norway’s most northeastern tip. As Europe killed more than 40,000 people accused of sorcery in the 17th and 18th centuries, there...
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    “People’s Republic of Albertastan” T- shirts are for sale online

    EDMONTON — T-shirts emblazoned with oil drops and “the People’s Republic of Albertastan” are for sale online. Their creator, graphic designer Laura Lynn Johnston from Edmonton, made a mock-up of the design Wednesday night after the comment by Justice Minister Peter MacKay made the social media...
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    MP's will send you a free Canadian flag, if you ask

    and they are even made in Canada