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    Brian Mulroney blasts Stephen Harper over foreign affairs, Supreme Court spat

    Brian Mulroney blasts Stephen Harper over foreign affairs, Supreme Court spat OTTAWA — Brian Mulroney is pulling no punches on the 30th anniversary of his historic majority election win, chastising Stephen Harper on everything from foreign affairs to the prime minister’s spat with Canada’s top...
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    99.999% certainty humans are driving global warming: new study

    More than half means greater than 50%.
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    99.999% certainty humans are driving global warming: new study

    I don't think you understand how probability works.
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    99.999% certainty humans are driving global warming: new study

    Keep your pants on. New data should be posted on both sides of the issue.
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    99.999% certainty humans are driving global warming: new study

    99.999% certainty humans are driving global warming: new study
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    99.999% certainty humans are driving global warming: new study

    The title is exactly the same as the article.
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    99.999% certainty humans are driving global warming: new study

    Could you rephrase your questions in the context of making some (any) kind of coherent sense?
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    B.C. woman pens heart-wrenching right-to-die manifesto before taking her life

    B.C. woman pens heart-wrenching right-to-die manifesto before taking her life “Today, now, I go cheerfully and so thankfully into that good night. Jonathan, the courageous, the faithful, the true and the gentle, surrounds me with company. I need no more.” So ends a heart-wrenching open letter...
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    99.999% certainty humans are driving global warming: new study

    99.999% certainty humans are driving global warming: new study There is less than 1 chance in 100,000 that global average temperature over the past 60 years would have been as high without human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, our new research shows. Published in the journal Climate Risk...
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    Faux News under fire for hypocrisy: 'ISIS needs to convert or we kill them'

    Hannity Guest Confronts Him on Phil Robertson’s ‘Convert or Die’ ISIS Remark Sean Hannity grilled one of his guests tonight on groups like ISIS terrorizing Americans and people in their own countries. But things took a heated turn when Hannity’s guest put him on the spot about Phil Robertson‘s...
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    Stephen Harper's own reports contradict Stephen Harper's view on aboriginal women

    Reports contradict Stephen Harper's view on aboriginal women victims Dozens of federal, provincial and community studies compiled by the Conservative government appear to contradict the prime minister's contention that the problem of missing and murdered aboriginal women isn't a "sociological...
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    National Post: ISIS/Terrorism is Theatre

    Terrorism as theatre: ISIS beheading videos aimed at capturing attention of ‘obsessed’ Western audience A video depicting any slaying, particularly of a kidnapped civilian, would be “dramatic” but the alarming beheading videos of two U.S. journalists by terror group ISIS seem to reach for a...
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    Ukraine and Russia make progress on ceasefire

    Today we're close to war, tomorrow we're close to a ceasefire. Ukraine crisis: Ceasefire agreement reached, Poroshenko says The office of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Wednesday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have reached agreement on a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine...
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    Polar vortex visits to US linked to climate change

    Polar vortex visits to US linked to climate change WASHINGTON (AP) — Remember the polar vortex, the huge mass of Arctic air that can plunge much of the U.S. into the deep freeze? You might have to get used to it. A new study says that as the world gets warmer, parts of North America, Europe...
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    Canada slips a notch in global competitiveness ranking

    Canada slips a notch in global competitiveness ranking Canada has slipped a bit further down the rankings of the world’s most competitive economies, as the country’s lagging innovation puts it at a disadvantage to its international peers, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said. The international...
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    Ontario's Full-day kindergarten impacts Grades 1, 2

    Full-day kindergarten impacts Grades 1, 2 Ontario kindergarten students are so ahead in their learning that it's prompting school boards to revisit the curriculum for subsequent grades. While full-day kindergarten is the newest learning experience for Ontario’s youngest students, it’s been an...
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    Premiers endorse climate change plan

    Glad somebody is leading this country. Premiers endorse climate change plan Ontario and Quebec have seized the leadership of a long-promised Canadian energy strategy, shifting the focus to climate change and clean energy from the pipeline agenda. At the closing session of their annual...