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    White Fragility: People will Insist They Are Not Racist

    Like all the conbots in this forum. 'People Will Insist That They are Not Racist': Robin DiAngelo on 'White Fragility' and the Way Forward DiAngelo, a San Francisco-born social justice educator, is the author of "White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism". Her...
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    69 Thousand COVID Infections in 1 Day

    Republican states are going to be shut down (fukken Trumptards) U.S. sets record for new COVID cases third day in a row at nearly 69,000 A total of eight U.S. states – Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Ohio, Utah and...
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    Canada added 1 MILLION jobs, most from Ontario

    Alberta is a complete disaster. Canada added almost 1 million jobs in June but still almost 2 million down from pre-COVID level The job gains were better than the 700,000 jobs that economists polled by Bloomberg were forecasting. More than half of the new jobs came from Ontario and Quebec...
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    For 3rd day in a row, U.S. coronavirus cases surge by more than 40,000

    It hit 50,000 yesterday. This is actually worse than the apocalyptic projections a few months ago. For 3rd day in a row, U.S. coronavirus cases surge by more than 40,000 More than 2.5 million people have tested positive for the new coronavirus in the United States and more than 125,000...
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    Global Oil Demand To Drop By 6.4 Million Bpd In Second Half 2020

    Oil is Dead Global Oil Demand To Drop By 6.4 Million Bpd In Second Half 2020 According to the cartel, the loss in global oil demand will slow to 6.4 million bpd in the second half of the year, compared to an estimated decline of 11.9 million bpd in the first half of the year. In...
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    GTA Tops Population in all of North America

    A massive accomplishment! GTA population growth topped Canadian and American cities in 2019 Toronto in 2019 won the title of fastest growing city in Canada and the U.S. — a boom fuelled by immigration unlikely to be derailed by the pandemic, experts say. Toronto’s immigration advantage saw...
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    Trump lied about the unemployment rate

    The rate is actually 16.3% which means Canada is outperforming the US (the horror) A ‘misclassification error’ made the May unemployment rate look better than it is The special note said that if this “misclassification error” had not occurred, the “overall unemployment rate would have been...
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    Canadian job market surprises with 289,600 added in May despite COVID-19

    Economists were expecting 500,000 jobs would be lost during the period. Canadian job market surprises with 289,600 added in May despite COVID-19 The majority (219,400) of the jobs created were full-time positions. Quebec accounted for nearly 80 per cent of the jobs created. We are still in...
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    Alberta fighting its last pipeline battle

    Well duhhhh Go get him Joe Alberta could be fighting its last pipeline battle Just when it looked like Premier Jason Kenney was running out of pipeline battles to fight, Joe Biden handed him a gift. Last Monday, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's campaign announced that he...
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    Alberta looking for federal GUBMINT money

    Socialists Alberta’s United Conservative Party to apply for federal emergency wage subsidy program According to the UCP, it is applying for the program to cover employees’ salaries as donations to the party have dwindled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “As we had previously noted, our...
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    Trump will lose in a landslide

    Bets? Trump will lose in a landslide because of the economy, new election model predicts The economy has gone from President Donald Trump's greatest political asset to perhaps his biggest weakness. Unemployment is spiking at an unprecedented rate. Consumer spending is vanishing. And GDP is...
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    Threat of ‘incel’ terrorism continues to grow, attract younger followers

    I don't know if I would say it's growing by much but it's good that we're addressing this now. Threat of ‘incel’ terrorism continues to grow, attract younger followers Two years after the Toronto van attack that killed 10, the misogynist incel subculture allegedly behind the mass killing is...
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    Canadian Tech Sector Becoming a Rising Star

    Now that oil is dead... 6 Canadian tech companies hiring amid coronavirus Industry leaders in Canada’s tech sector are pointing to tech companies to drive Canada’s economic recovery post-coronavirus. All sectors of the Canadian economy depend on technology companies to meet their needs in...
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    Oil is Dead

    May and Blanchet declare the oilpatch 'dead,' warn Ottawa against financial supports Canada's oil and gas sector is on the ropes as COVID-19 crushes demand and a global price war pushes domestic companies to the brink of bankruptcy — but two opposition leaders say Ottawa should simply let part...
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    It's Official: US Unemployment Rate at 15%

    Worst unemployment rate since WW2 and dead last of all affected economies. Keep on winning. US unemployment hits postwar high at 14.7% US unemployment has surged to 14.7 per cent, its highest level since the second world war, after 20.5m Americans lost their jobs last month following...
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    The National Post is very upset with the Conservatives

    They must be holding off on the propaganda cheques these days.. Matt Gurney: The Conservatives need a new leader. Now This time, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer didn’t miss an empty net. He put the puck in. Sadly, the period was already over, and it had been for a week. That hockey analogy...
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    National Post: Canada's early COVID-19 cases came from the U.S. not China

    Time to sue Americans. They can give us all that lawsuit money they'll be getting from Gina. Canada's early COVID-19 cases came from the U.S. not China .. data from Canada’s largest provinces show it was American travellers, not Chinese, who brought the deadly virus to our shores. As of...
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    Lower Healthcare Spending Just Destroyed America's Economy

    Make America Recession Again America's economy just had its worst quarter since 2008 America's first-quarter GDP, the most expansive measure of the US economy, fell at a 4.8% annualized rate, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis reported on Wednesday. Much of America's GDP decline was driven...
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    Real unemployment rate soars past 20%—and the U.S. has now lost 26.5 million jobs

    Just wiped out all the jobs gained since the Great Recession. Who's tired of all that winning? Real unemployment rate soars past 20%—and the U.S. has now lost 26.5 million jobs Another 4.4 million Americans filed initial unemployment claims in the week ending April 18. That’s down from 5.2...
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    Canadian oil sector to be looking toward renewable energy

    Developing a 'nearly worthless product'.. It's a no-brainer, said a helmet-head once.. Western Canada Select (WSC) crude oil has been selling for less than $5.00 a barrel, and on Friday, WCS was listed at $2.87, according to CBC Canada. There are a number of things that can be started right...