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    Ice Fishing.

    Been on the ice yet this winter? What do you use for bait? Which species are in your lakes? Open air or do you have a nice shack to brag about? How about the fishing tents? Are the tents worthy of Canadian winters? Post your fishing tales here. On Christmas day I took my Texan brother inlaw...
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    Are You a Terrorist?

    The following is a list of behaviors, actions or interests that the federal government, via centralized threat fusion centers that collate such information, considers to be potential signs of terrorism under the MIAC Report. - Displaying bumper stickers and other paraphernalia associated with...
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    Off key caterwauling.

    Who else here is ready to put a boot through the TV screen after hearing the horrible screaching from that freak Yoko Ono every 5 mins? Are they trying to torture me into sponsoring the poor?
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    Tuition Fees Protest London Police Brutality wheelchair student Jody McIntyre

    YouTube - Tuition Fees Protest London Police Brutality wheelchairs student Jody McIntyre I'm speechless......
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    Straight Edge: Is It a Gang or a Brotherhood?

    The group Straight Edge is not a gang, members insist, but they concede that some in their midst are becoming violent, especially in Utah. Salt Lake City police classify the entire group as a gang, pointing to Bernardo Repreza as proof. The 15-year-old boy was beaten and stabbed to death...
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    U.S. wants to share border stations with Homeland Security running the show.

    American reaction wasn't favourable when the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) said in August that it was going to close down operations next spring at three land-border crossings with the U. S, including two south of Montreal. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security didn't like the...
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    Replacing the UN with a real body with real teeth.

    Lets face it the UN is an antiquated, useless, undemocractic system that has a large influence on our lives. There is no question about it, we are going to have a global government, a New World Order if you will. The growing importance of globalization as a significant theme and the...
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    NFU opens door to Canada's urban farmers

    Thursday, December 9, 2010 | 9:00 AM CST CBC News The National Farmers Union has opened its ranks to Canada's urban farmers for the first time. At its annual convention last week in Saskatoon, the 41-year-old organization formally opened its membership to any Canadian engaged in farming —...
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    Global poverty doubled since 1970s: UN

    November 26, 2010 GENEVA — The number of very poor countries has doubled in the last 30 to 40 years, while the number of people living in extreme poverty has also grown two-fold, a UN think-tank warned Thursday. In its annual report on the 49 least developed countries (LDCs) in the world...
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    Canadian Debt Ownership.

    Should Canadian's insist that we buy back our debt from private banks and bear our own debt through the bank of Canada?
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    China rare earth exports to Japan being normalised

    TOKYO — China's blocking of rare earth minerals to Japan is easing after Beijing pledged to "speed up" exports amid a thaw between the Asian powers in a territorial spat, traders said Monday. "Shipments of rare earths started the week before last week at a Tianjing port," an official of Daido...
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    Thank you C-CPC Comrades! Oilpatch subsidies said to total $2.8 billion

    By The Canadian Press OTTAWA - An independent analysis says Canadian governments are subsidizing the oil patch to the tune of about $2.8 billion a year, despite a G20 agreement to pare back such support. The Winnipeg-based International Institute for Sustainable Development has been adding...
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    Vatican: ‘Jews Have No Claim to Promised Land’

    Reuters Published: 10.23.10, 14:00 / Israel News Israel cannot use the Biblical concept of a promised land or a chosen people to justify new "settlements" in Jerusalem or territorial claims, a Vatican synod on the Middle East said on Saturday. In its concluding message after two weeks of...
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    Christian Law

    Do we need it in Canada? What would the implications of being the first to base our law on Christian ideals mean for Canada? Would you support it?
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    Time Traveller in Charlie Chaplain Film

    Time Traveller or something simply strolling past the crazy gaze of the the mind's eye? YouTube - IMPORTANT!! TIME TRAVELLER IN CHARLIE CHAPLIN??? FROM 1928 (What do you think?) Far too much spare time.......
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    The Brooklyn Space Project - *Neat*

    YouTube - Weather balloon GPS space flight iPhone camera footage homemade spacecraft 100,000 ft altitude (HD)
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    Creeping Socialism

    Hegelian, Marxist, Maoist, Progressive, Leftist etc etc etc interlaced and bound with democracy seems to be the direction of global politics. Will it work or are we being lead down the road to hell with nowhere safe left to run? Skimming the morning headlines I came a cross the use of one...
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    Bill O’Reilly Bets John Stossel $10,000 That Prop 19 Loses

    Last night on the O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly bet guest John Stossel $10,000 (to a charity of the winner’s choice) that Proposition 19, the California ballot measure that would make marijuana legal for all adults, will fail. Stossel, who supports Prop 19, said that it’s time to end...
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    Chancellor Angela Merkel declares "Multiculturalism has failed"

    POTSDAM, Germany — Germany's attempt to create a multicultural society has "utterly failed," Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, adding fuel to a debate over immigration and Islam polarizing her conservative camp. Speaking to a meeting of young members of her Christian Democrats (CDU)...
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    European Union Cap-and-Trade Hasn't Given Price Signal, Investor Poll Says

    I thought carbon cuts and squestering was to save the planet? Raising emission minimum from 20% to 30% just to stimulate carbon trading? So this isn't about saving the planet? Sep 30, 2010 The European Union’s carbon trading system hasn’t provided the needed long-term price signal for...