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    EPA proposes restrictions for new wood stoves

    There is more polution from forest fires and volcanos than from wood stoves, when will they start blaming us for everything. Doesn't anyone see past all this, c o n t r o l . Just think of all the new regulations gouv. have passed concerning our lives, the worst people accept without question.
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    Novel Windows

    This would be good for those living in noisy cities. Novel windows block out noise but let in fresh air
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    Jewish sect Lev Tahor flees Quebec amid child neglect allegations

    Authorities in Quebec are expected to meet today to decide what to do about an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect that left Quebec last week and moved to southern Ontario. Quebec social services say they're investigating members of the group, known as Lev Tahor, for alleged child neglect. Some of...
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    Afghanistan considers reintroduction of public stoning for adulterers

    Afghan government officials have proposed reintroducing public stoning as a punishment for adultery, Human Rights Watch said, even though the practice has been denounced both inside and outside the country as one of the most repugnant symbols of the Taliban regime. The sentence for married...
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    Global Warming Responsible for Epidemic of Rail Disasters?

    Greed is what caused the accidents. All that above proves is that a any excuse no matter how poor is better than none. Climate change is nothing new, it has been going on since the beginning of earth.
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    Already polluted? Environmental toxins found in newborns' cord blood: report

    CTVNews.ca Staff, June 26, 2013 1:15:00 PM Canadian children may already be carrying environmental toxins in their bodies even before they are born, an environmental group says. In a new report, Environmental Defence says it tested the umbilical cord blood of three babies born in Toronto...
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    How medical science got it exactly wrong on childhood food allergies

    How medical science got it exactly wrong on childhood food allergies | Health | Life | National Post Did post the article because it is long. However it makes sense that delaying introducing babies to food could cause trouble. It used to be that we started feeding babies pablum and carrots at...
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    There’s a ‘little’ slice of Canada nestled deep in Minnesota

    Founded by a French Canadian who wandered just a little too far south, the Minnesota town of Little Canada was born in 1844 – a full two decades before Confederation. It was called “New Canada” then, when Benjamin Gervais decided to settle the area, now a suburb of St. Paul. The town of...
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    Information watchdog to investigate ‘muzzling’ of government scientists

    Legault is responding to a detailed complaint lodged by the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria and the ethics advocacy group Democracy Watch. Their lengthy report – “Muzzling Civil Servants: A Threat to Democracy?” – laid out repeated examples of taxpayer-funded science...
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    Windows Live Messanger

    Am still using WLM but now they want me to change to Skype. I don't really feel like it. I am looking for a messanger service that we can send messages containing attachements (videos) back and forth. Does anyone have a suggestion?
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    What are you eating right now?

    Sorry for hijaking this tread, but I really need to rant. I agree some people eat badly, fast foods, prepared food etc. all containing too much salt and many other things. However I think adults and old enough to be responsible for what the eat especially their children. I was brought up to...
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    Children 'may grow out of autism'

    Some young children accurately diagnosed as autistic lose their symptoms and their diagnosis as they get older, say US researchers. The findings of the National Institutes of Health study of 112 children appears to challenge the widely held belief that autism is a lifelong...
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    Heading south of the border? Enjoy your trip and stay out of trouble by studying thes

    Heading south of the border? Enjoy your trip and stay out of trouble by studying these strange and wacky laws currently on the books in the United States. .BBC News - Bing Some light reading for a Sunday afternoon.
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    UK Government Report: Global Warming Stopped 16 Years Ago…

    East Anglia University has already published a paper acknowledging they made a mistake.
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    Massive diamond planet discovered by astronomers

    A large, rocky planet composed partially of diamonds has been discovered by astronomers at Yale University. The planet, called 55 Cancri e, has a radius twice as big as Earth’s and a mass eight times greater. It is one of five planets that orbit a star 40 light years from Earth. “This is our...
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    Video CD Movie

    I need help getting rid of a video cd movie, it seems to come from Boss Construction and I have no idea how it got on my machine. It dated back to 2007. Name: Living_Early_Craftman.dat is one of them and there seems to be about 400. I tried to delete but they seem to go to the end of the list...
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    Supernarket Tomato's even colour comes at expense of taste

    A genetic mutation introduced into tomatoes to make them ripen more uniformly might have inadvertently reduced some of the sugar content that makes them taste good, a team of researchers from the U.S., Spain and Argentina has found...
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    Islamic school under investigation for teachings about Jews

    TORONTO - Police are investigating an east-Toronto Islamic school following a complaint it had been teaching its young students that Jews are “treacherous” and comparable to Nazis. The East End Madrassah (EEM), a Sunday school for Muslim children that rents space from an east-end public...
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    Founder of Seal Team Six Says U.S. Must Attack Iran

    If ever there was a man who advocates bankrupting his nation and jeopardizing the entire world to facilitate the goals of a Greater Israel, it is Adm. James Lyons, U.S. Navy retired. To understand this man, it should be known that he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an...
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    Harper won't rule out staying in Afghanistan past 2014 .

    Prime Minister Stephen Harper has not ruled out extending Canada's military involvement in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 withdrawal of NATO forces. Under questioning from Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair in the House of Commons Wednesday, Harper said Ottawa will "examine all options" if...