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    Trudeau retail mania reaches fever pitch with calendar, full body onesie featuring PM

    L.O.V.E that Trudeau! Trudeau retail mania reaches fever pitch with calendar, full body onesie featuring PM Justin Trudeau currently finds himself at the top of Amazon’s Canadian History bestsellers list but it’s not for his memoir, Common Ground, which was released in 2014. Instead, the...
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    'Our collective shame': Trudeau delivers historic apology to LGBT Canadians

    Jordan Peterson and his 10 fanboys are triggered. 'Our collective shame': Trudeau delivers historic apology to LGBT Canadians Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a historic apology to LGBT Canadians in the House of Commons today, saying sorry for decades of "state-sponsored, systematic...
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    Canada is cracking down on elite tax evaders

    Bill Morneau has been exonerated. Live at a tony address? Taxman targeting Canada's richest neighbourhoods to nab tax cheats CRA is reviewing 1,150 wealthy households to nab cheaters who're richer than their income tax filings suggest Dean Beeby · Senior reporter, Parliamentary Bureau ·...
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    Ontario Conservatives have gone LIBERAL

    There's a little bit of Wynne in all of us. :lol: Brown is remaking Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party in his own emerging image. It’s a mirror image of the Bill Davis era that tried harder to be all things (or more things) to all people. Who is Patrick Brown and what has he done with...
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    Colin Kaepernick joins Native Americans for UnThanksgiving Day protest on Alcatraz

    Colin Kaepernick joins Native Americans for UnThanksgiving Day protest on Alcatraz Colin Kaepernick, the American football star whose “kneeling protest” sparked a national debate, has travelled to Alcatraz Island to join Native Americans protesting the “genocide” they say is represented by...
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    National Post: Notley has become an unlikely champion for pipelines

    And this is coming from an uber conservative guy.. Kelly McParland: Notley makes an unlikely champion for pipelines. But she's sure trying Rachel Notley may no longer be Alberta’s favourite politician or the toast of Canada’s left-wingers, but she delivered a message in Ottawa Tuesday that...
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    The Trump administration actually did something good

    U.S. declares Burma is committing ‘ethnic cleansing’ against Rohingya Muslims WASHINGTON—The United States declared the ongoing violence against Rohingya Muslims in Burma to be “ethnic cleansing” on Wednesday, threatening penalties for military officials engaged in a brutal crackdown that has...
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    Ontario passes $15 minimum wage

    Ontario passes $15 minimum wage Ontario will move ahead with implementing $15 minimum wage by 2019, and enact other new worker-focused rules even sooner, as lawmakers passed a series of revised employment laws at Queen's Park Wednesday after years of research and debate. The labour reforms...
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    Trump supports Roy Moore's child molestation

    Trump Defends Roy Moore, Citing Candidate’s Denial of Allegations WASHINGTON — President Trump defended Roy S. Moore, the Alabama Republican Senate candidate accused of sexual misconduct with minors, saying on Tuesday that Mr. Moore “totally denies” the allegations against him. Mr. Trump said...
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    The Elites Are Starting to get ANGWY

    And we can all agree that the elites are bad as the Trump voters have spoken! The average Joe is our guy now and it's time to fight back against these wealthy worwwwwra--something with a Ws! John Ivison: Canada's wealthy may have started a tax revolt, and Ontario is the first to notice...
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    The Zombie Diseases of Climate Change

    The Zombie Diseases of Climate Change From the air, the coast of Greenland appears vast and tranquil. Hundreds of fjords, their surfaces a mirror of blue sky and cloud bottoms, divide the territory. In the gaps between them, the terrain folds over itself, hill over hill, descending into...
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    People don't want monuments anymore

    Happy holidayyyyyyys Killing Christopher Columbus: New York joins nationwide reckoning with monuments Serphin Maltese, a former state senator in New York, leaned into the microphone. All this talk of removing monuments was like book burning by totalitarian regimes, he said, his voice rising...
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    Ontario cuts small business tax rate to 3.5% ahead of minimum wage hike

    Another stroke of genius. Ontario cuts small business tax rate to 3.5% ahead of minimum wage hike TORONTO -- With an eye to next spring's election, Ontario's Liberal government will slash small business taxes as part of $500 million in new investments aimed at easing the transition to the...
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    Pope Francis rebukes 'perverse' climate change deniers

    Pope Francis rebukes 'perverse' climate change deniers over rejection of science behind global warming Pope Francis has rebuked those who deny the science behind global warming and urged negotiators at climate talks in Germany to avoid falling prey to such “perverse attitudes” and instead...
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    Macleans: Is Jordan Peterson the stupid man’s smart person?

    Or just a stupid person (like most liberscaredians).. Is Jordan Peterson the stupid man’s smart person? “Postmodern neo-Marxism” is Peterson’s nemesis, and the best way to explain what postmodern neo-Marxism is, is to explain what it is not—that is, it is entirely distinct from the concept of...
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    Ontario PCs hoisted on their own retard

    Patrick Brown’s PC Party hoisted on its own petard During the ill-conceived investigation and subsequent trial about alleged illegal activity by the Liberals in a Sudbury byelection, Patrick Brown and the Ontario Progressive Conservatives took full advantage of the situation to lambaste the...
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    As Dirty Oil Passes Away, Nuclear Energy Begins to Take Over

    Those poor fossils. The Future Of The Nuclear Sector In Canada: Industry And Government In Unison Once Again - Energy and Natural Resources - Canada In the past decade, cutbacks, the disposition of the Government of Canada's (the "Government") nuclear assets, and privatization of government...
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    Millennials are smarter than others?

    Good Video Game Players Are More Intelligent, Study Says CBS Local – Really good at playing video games? A new study says that your skills may actually show how intelligent you are. Researchers in Great Britain say they discovered two multiplayer games that are so similar to an IQ test that...
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    Former Harper Lieutenant Now Supports Trudeau

    Conbots are easily bribed. Julian Fantino, who once compared weed to murder, defends opening medical marijuana business The former Toronto police chief and politician who once compared legalizing weed to legalizing murder is defending his decision to open a company connecting patients with...
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    Is it okay to be muslim?

    Tell MAMA: Most Islamophobic attackers are white men London, England - Anti-Muslim attacks in the UK rose 47 percent in 2016 compared with the previous year, according to a new report released by Tell MAMA, a hate crime monitor. The attacks were largely levelled at Muslim women - 56 percent of...