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    Florida Agrees That Satanists Must Have Equal Representation In Capitol

    Florida Agrees That Satanists Must Have Equal Representation In Capitol The Satanic Temple — not to be confused with the Church of Satan, with which TST is not affiliated — describes its mission as "facilitating the communication and mobilization of politically aware Satanists...
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    Stephen Harper pays back Michaelle Jean

    When Canada needed her the most, she betrayed us miserably................. For many Canadians who worry about Stephen Harper's approach to parliamentary democracy, one of the low points came in December 2008. That's when he asked then governor-general Michaëlle Jean to shut down the...
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    What should the value of Permanent resident visas be?

    The Canadian government is poised to relaunch a program that grants permanent residency to foreign millionaires but a veteran immigration lawyer says he fears Ottawa is still underpricing what amounts to a path to citizenship. Ottawa announced in February it would end the decades-old Immigrant...
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    US scientist selling his Noble Prize

    One of the world’s best-known scientists is selling his Nobel Prize medal in a bid to allow him to “re-enter public life” after being shunned for the past seven years for his comments linking race and intelligence. American James Watson, who worked alongside British scientist Francis Crick...
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    US Authorities Used 225-Year-Old Law To Bypass Phone's Password

    When it comes to encryption, some of the Department of Justice’s views are… interesting. Now, it transpires that it’s been using laws that date back 225 years to get phones unlocked too. The Wall Street Journal reports that, back last month, its prosecutors managed to convince a federal...
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    60,000 litres of crude oil have spilled in Alberta

    The Alberta Energy Regulator says close to 60,000 litres of crude oil have spilled into muskeg in the province's north. An incident report by the regulator states that a mechanical failure was reported Thursday at a Canadian Natural Resources Limited pipeline approximately 27 kilometres north...
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    Why Does The Media Belittle Cannabis And Glorify Alcohol

    The story...... Jon Stewart Calls Out Media For Belittling Cannabis And Glorifying Alcohol |Higher Perspective
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    Chinese Hemp Company to Build Factory in Alberta

    Alberta appears poised to be a leader for hemp firms which are diversifying processing and product opportunities. Marking itself as one of the top hemp-producing provinces, Alberta Agriculture has sought to support new biomaterials through agencies like Alberta Innovates-Technology Futures...
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    Canada's first concentrated solar thermal plant

    “We knew at the time we had to give back in some way. We had to reinvest, we had to diversify because all of our eggs were in that one basket, which was natural gas,” says Clugston. They started an energy conservation and renewable energy program called “Hat Smart.” And from 2008 to June 2014...
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    Alex Van Bibber may have been the toughest man in Canada

    He was born under a spruce tree and he went to school at age 13 by piloting a log raft down the Yukon River. At the age of 82, he dislocated his arm after rolling his ATV, and hiked three miles to catch a ride to the hospital. At 93, he walked five miles through thick snow after his snowmobile...
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    Thief who ‘robbed pensioner with knife’ is stripped and clingfilmed to post

    A mob dished out some very sweaty justice to an alleged thief who was spotted attempting to rob a pensioner with a knife – he was stripped naked, then wrapped head to foot in clingfilm and tied to a lamppost. People took photographs as 32-year-old Valentino Abeyta Barrera sweltered in Chilean...
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    Preston Manning Smeared; Con Civil War Brewing ?

    Sun TV fired first in what could be the beginning of a nasty civil war within Canada's conservative movement. Preston Manning, founding father of the modern conservative movement and head of the right-wing Manning Centre, made a pair of surprising appearances recently in the Globe and Mail...
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    Church falsely claims it can legally ordain ministers online

    After a call from ServiceOntario, the couple discovered that the wedding ceremony wasn't just badly done — it also wasn't official. The man who performed their ceremony was not a legally ordained minister in Canada and was not legally allowed to marry them. "The woman on the other end of the...
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    Twitter snoops on your phone and violates your privacy

    Twitter, hungry for new data to fuel its targeted advertising, will start looking at what other apps its users have downloaded. Starting Wednesday, the company will begin collecting data on which other apps its users have on their iOS and Android smartphones. The data, Twitter says, will help...
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    Irvings have a monopoly on New Brunswick's news media

    The Irvings are secretive billionaires who have a monopoly on New Brunswick's news media. Journalist Jacques Poitras, author of Irving vs Irving, describes how the family subtly suppresses criticism and destroys competitors. [00:00:21] "A journalist disaster zone, that is what a Senate...
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    The man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice

    In 1925, France had recovered from World War I, and Paris was booming, an excellent environment for a con artist. Lustig's master con came to him one spring day when he was reading a newspaper. An article discussed the problems the city was having maintaining the Eiffel Tower. Even keeping it...
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    Report warns many Black Friday deals actually ‘white lies’

    Savvy Black Friday shoppers should pay attention to products’ final price, not just how much they’re supposedly saving. That’s the takeaway from a new report released by Vancity Credit Union, which warns some major U.S. retailers inflate prices before Black Friday and Cyber Monday to make...
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    Con trap to ensnare Liberal candidate backfires on Cons and Sun Media

    The political sting operation — just the latest in a series of covert Tory efforts aimed at capturing verbal gaffes by Liberals — was launched at a Nov. 13 public meeting in Canmore, Alta., by a young Conservative who's been involved in at least one other similar plot. She secretly recorded a...
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    Workplace safety board still rewards dangerous employers

    A flawed workplace insurance program exposed in 2008 for giving rebates to dangerous employers is still handing out the cash rewards, a new report by the Ontario Federation of Labour has found. The problem was earlier exposed by a 2008 Star investigation that found Ontario’s Workplace Safety...