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    How did the Greenie Weenies miss this one???

    BC Govt: "hey look, an OIL PIPELINE"! Greenie Wennies, "Where? Where?" BC Govt "Hehehehe suckers... now we can sneak in our LNG pipelines, port and terminals." A struggling natural gas export project on the British Columbia coast is on the cusp of being built after Chevron Corp. agreed...
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    Nebraska Agency Completes Environment Review of Keystone XL

    NO ROUTE ISSUES! TransCanada says it expects to receive a permit from the U.S. government by the end of the first quarter. WASHINGTON--Nebraska's environment agency has completed a much-anticipated review of the Keystone XL oil pipeline in the state, finding that a new route proposed by...
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    Regina's record-breaking run

    City permit values more than triple since 2005 Building permits topped $773 million in 2012, smashing the previous record of $548 million set in 2011, according to the City of Regina's monthly building permit report released Wednesday. Last year marks the 10th year in the past 11 in which...
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    Gymkhana Coming To Calgary

    DC SHOES: KEN BLOCK'S GYMKHANA FIVE: ULTIMATE URBAN PLAYGROUND; SAN FRANCISCO - YouTube A friend of mine who is a Snr Traffic Eng Tech for the City of Calgary was assigned the task of route planning for a Gymkhana motorsports event. It should be quite the spectacle.
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    Homebrewed.....

    Sarsaparilla aka Rootbeer. I made myself a batch of sarsaparilla 3 days back and this AM I cracked a bottle for sampling... HOLY F***! THIS SH!T IS GOOOOOOD!!! Best goddamn rootbeer float I've ever had for breakfast. Tomorrow the Creme Soda will be ripe. I can't wait. Recipe...
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    Pickton inquiry recommends regional police force for Greater Vancouver

    Just turn that cesspool over to the Horsemen and be done with it. The missing women inquiry into the police investigation of serial killer Robert Pickton is recommending a single regional police force be created for Greater Vancouver, CBC News has confirmed. Inquiry commissioner Wally Oppal...
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    Medicinal marijuana prices in Canada to rise

    Those who use marijuana for medicinal purposes in Canada may want to reach for the aspirin when they learn about a pending price increase. Proposed regulations posted by Health Canada say the price of medical marijuana should rise to $8.80 cents a gram —currently it ranges from $1.80 to $5 a...
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    Apprenticeship growing with the Saskatchewan economy

    Jeff Ritter has news for Saskatchewan's young and not-so-young people: This might be the golden age of the skilled trades. Registration with the organization he heads, the Saskatchewan Apprenticeship and Trade Certification Commission, has gone from 6,779 in June 2007 to 9,724 last June 30 -...
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    Combat Santa Christmas Card from Abbotsford PD, POLL

    The Abbotsford Police Department is being naughty, not nice, say taxpayers — by sending greeting cards of a gun-toting Santa to bad guys this Christmas. None other than Abbotsford police Chief Bob Rich poses as a heavily armed, Christmas-card Santa, with the title, “Which list will you be on...
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    If you thought 6 6 6 was scary...

    Today is twice as scary. It's 12 12 12
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    For every big drug dealer there is a bank laundering the cash... HSBC Fined $1.9B

    LONDON—HSBC avoided a legal battle that could further savage its reputation and undermine confidence in the global banking system by agreeing Tuesday to pay $1.9 billion to settle a U.S. money-laundering probe. Europe’s largest bank by market value will pay the biggest penalty ever imposed on...
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    From the WTF Files: Study suggests we could refreeze Arctic

    A record loss of Arctic sea ice and faster-than-expected melting of Greenland's ice cap made worldwide headlines in 2012, but research published in major science journals in the fall suggest warming in the North doesn't have to continue. We could refreeze the Arctic, proposed a paper in Nature...