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    Notley wins national award for advancing women in politics

    I remember that award Ralph Klein won for doing somefin gud. Notley wins national award for advancing women in politics Premier Rachel Notley is being honoured for her work advancing women in politics. Equal Voice will present Notley with its 2017 National EVE Award at a ceremony Friday...
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    Liberals score upset victory over Conservatives in by-election

    Liberals score upset victory in Quebec by-election The Liberals beat the Bloc Québécois in a hard-fought by-election in the riding of Lac-Saint-Jean, scoring an upset victory that owes much to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's personal popularity in Quebec. The final results proved disappointing...
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    Donald Trump, job killer

    Donald Trump, job killer For starters, there is a fundamental mercantilist fallacy in his concern about trade deficits. He seems to think that these deficits are bad because they mean America is buying more from its partners than selling to them. However, the fact of the matter is that surplus...
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    BREAKING -- Canada is about to blow up on the world stage

    This is BIG Trudeau appoints Bob Rae as special envoy to Myanmar Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is appointing Bob Rae a special envoy to Myanmar, two months into a growing crisis that has left 600,000 Rohingya Muslim people displaced. The move comes in response to growing public pressure to...
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    All former living presidents appear together at hurricane relief concert

    Typical establishment elites supporting a good cause....... ... All former living presidents appear together at hurricane relief concert All five living former presidents have appeared together for the first time since 2013 at a benefit concert for communities affected by Hurricanes Maria...
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    Japan votes: Incumbent PM Abe appears headed to victory

    Japan votes: Incumbent PM Abe appears headed to victory TOKYO -- Japan's leader may have made the right call after all, if not for his country then for himself. Media polls indicate Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition will handily win a general election Sunday, possibly even retaining...
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    George Dubya Bush BLASTS Trump

    Former U.S. president George W. Bush slams Trump’s ‘America first’ policy in scathing speech WASHINGTON—Former U.S. president George W. Bush on Thursday delivered a scathing warning about Donald Trump, saying his “America first” philosophy portends a dangerous inward turn that is eroding...
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    Morneau commits to selling off 1 million shares in his former company

    Well this was unexpected. Good on him. Morneau commits to selling off 1 million shares in his former company OTTAWA—Finance Minister Bill Morneau has committed to sell off all his shares in his former company and says he will place the assets in a blind trust to go “above and beyond”...
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    'This is a really big deal': Canada natural gas emissions far worse than feared

    'This is a really big deal': Canada natural gas emissions far worse than feared Alberta’s oil and gas industry – Canada’s largest producer of fossil fuel resources – could be emitting 25 to 50% more methane than previously believed, new research has suggested. The pioneering peer reviewed...
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    Team Trump Pushed Russian Propaganda Days Before Election

    Team Trump Pushed Russian Propaganda Days Before Election Some of the Trump campaign’s most prominent names and supporters, including Trump’s campaign manager, digital director and son, pushed tweets from troll accounts paid for by the Russian government in the heat of the 2016 election...
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    Justin Trudeau delivers emotional, tearful tribute to Gord Downie

    Justin Trudeau delivers emotional, tearful tribute to Gord Downie Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a few words of condolences Wednesday morning for the lead singer of the Tragically Hip, Gord Downie, who passed away from brain cancer on Tuesday night at age 53. Visibly shaken, Trudeau...
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    America's Loss is Canada and EU's Gain

    Bombardier shares jump as much as 26% on CSeries deal with Airbus Bombardier stock jumped as much as 26 per cent in Toronto on Tuesday, the first trading window since news Monday evening that the company had signed a partnership with rival Airbus to make and market its CSeries jets. The...
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    Morneau chose not to establish blind trust, ethics watchdog says

    Morneau 1 Conbots 0 Morneau chose not to establish blind trust, ethics watchdog says Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson, speaking publicly for the first time on Finance Minister Bill Morneau's financial arrangements, made it clear she didn't advise the Toronto politician against establishing a...
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    Calgary re-elects Nenshi

    Nenshi re-elected as Calgary's mayor as all 10 incumbent councillors keep their seats Naheed Nenshi has been re-elected for a third term as Calgary's mayor and all of the incumbent councillors have secured their seats following an election day marred by long voter lineups, ballot shortages and...
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    Ontario economy outpacing G7 nations

    And it's all the Liberals fault. If only we had a Conservative government to destroy our economy instead of the socialist, bleeding heart lefties that are just sucking us dry of all of our tax dollars..... .. ... Ontario economy outpacing G7 nations, finance minister says Ontario’s...
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    Man held hostage by Taliban for five years thought Trump presidency was a joke

    Man held hostage by Taliban for five years assumed captors were joking when they said Trump was President A Canadian man who was recently rescued from Taliban-tied kidnappers thought his captors were joking when they told him Donald Trump is president. “It didn’t enter my mind that he was...
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    Trump jokes about 'hanging gay people'

    We all joke about dismembering Trump, so I guess this should have been expected. Donald Trump 'joked Mike Pence wanted to hang all gay people' Donald Trump once joked that his Vice President wanted to hang all gay people, a report has claimed. Mr Trump repeatedly chided Vice President Mike...
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    Ottawa to cut small business tax rate to 9% by 2019

    Lefty, tax and spend, socialist Liberals have struck again! Ottawa to cut small business tax rate to 9% by 2019 Ottawa announced its plans today to cut the small business tax rate from 10.5 per cent to nine per cent by 2019, as it attempts to quell a backlash to proposed tax reforms that have...
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    Alternatives continue to bury Texas coal-powered plants

    Texas is silicon valley, right? Alternatives continue to bury Texas coal-powered plants AUSTIN, Texas — Although EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said this week that with the planned roll back of the 2015 Clean Power Plan, “the war on coal is over,” casualties continue. And word that yet...
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    Donald Trump may launch unilateral nuclear attack, Hillary Clinton warns

    Now, let's see all of you 'Libertarian' Trumptards fall in line and support nuclear warfare. Donald Trump may launch unilateral nuclear attack, Hillary Clinton warns Hillary Clinton has said she fears Donald Trump may try to launch a nuclear strike and that no one would be able to stop him...