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    B.C. Penitentiary (1975)

    Now June 9th, 1975 holds significance with my family because my father, was also a peace officer/classifications officer at the prison in 1975 and was actually Steinhauser's 'partner' if you could say, they worked together on many incidents. About a month before the incident took place, a...
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    Murders in Toronto

    http://start.shaw.ca/start/enCA/News/NationalNewsArticle.htm?src=n123104A.xml Now, I think the Creba's murder is horrible, and a young girl lost her life, over some stupid incident involving two different groups of people who had met 'accidently' at that area, resulting in a gun battle...
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    NATO Mission in Afghanistan not Peacekeeping

    Well, now the NATO mission in Afghanistan is not peacekeeping, or at least not peacekeeping in the 'perceived' sense of the word. Now, before anyone states that, oh I must hate the Canadians doing wonderful work in Afghanistan, I don't, I am apart of the Canadian military but I think people...
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    Canadian Military failing

    Canadian army still relying on local hires in dangerous hotspots -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- at 13:24 on December 30, 2005, EST. By MURRAY BREWSTER OTTAWA (CP) - As Canadian troops prepare to head back en masse to Afghanistan in the weeks...
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    UN Peacekeepers Leave Sierre Leone

    The UN peacekeepers are leaving Sierre Leone after six years in that troubled nation. They lost 150 soldiers who died while protecting civilians and fulfilling their mandate. When they first arrived, the government was none existent, and rebels chopped off the hands of civilians and killed...
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    Canal Hotel Bombing

    Now, in Iraq, and around the world there has been 'this war on terrorism'. Now, terrorism has been going on for decades, you could even say centuries if you look at the tactics used by belligerants over the wars. Since Sept 11, 2001, there have been numerous terrorist attacks, like Beslam...
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    Got Course From UN Today

    Wanting to become a UN peacekeeper or UNICEF worker, I finally got a course from the UN in New York. I didn't know this until a few months ago but, you can get a diploma if you complete 12 UN courses. And they are pretty cheap, about 100 U.S. at the most and can get to Vancouver Island in a...
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    Tupac Shakur

    Now, even though I was barely 10 or 11 when Tupac Shakur was shot and killed and I was living in an isolated place in Alberta, I have grown up in the past five years having Tupac Shakur as my ideal. Not the violence part which was apart of his videos and songs (which) which was fake talk, but...
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    Liberals true faced revealed with comments

    Layton slams Liberals for racist taunts against his wife, an NDP candidate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- at 20:31 on December 29, 2005, EST. By KEITH LESLIE TORONTO (CP) - A Liberal party official's posting of "racist" comments on a...
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    Harper 2003 comments

    I found this on another forum about comments made by Stephen Harpers comments with regards to what I preceive is the NDP and the Liberals or all left-leaning Canadians? Make your own decision on that http://nodice.ca/etalk/viewtopic.php?p=6891#6891 Credit to bold comments goes to mileslunn...
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    Harper Calls in Troops

    Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051227.wharparm1227/BNStory/specialDecision2006/ Courtenay, B.C. — Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says major cities across the country should be given a regular army presence by creating territorial defence units to help...
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    First Peoples National Party of Canada

    The First Peoples National Party of Canada (FPNPC) is a political party that is eligible for registration as a federal political party in Canada. It intends to advance the issues of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada by nominating candidates for election in electoral districts with large...
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    Gun Crime: Legislation and Bans work

    Now money might have been blown on the Gun Registry and other programs that neo-conservative gun lovers love to hate but even with 52 gun-murders this year in Toronto in 2004, because of legislation there was: When contrasted against a decade's worth of statistics on gun murders nationwide...
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    Toronto Blue Jays

    Now I am a big Toronto Blue Jays fan. I was upset when Montreal left the Major League Baseball, but even as a French-Canadian I have enjoyed Toronto sports teams, I guess its because my father's from Toronto and I lived there for four years. However, I think Toronto will get into the playoffs...
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    Election Seats

    Last Poll for Election Seat Prediction: Lib:110 Con: 94 NDP: 43 Bloc: 60 Other: 1 Election 2004: Lib: 135 (- 25) Con: 99 (-5) NDP 19 (+24) Bloc 54 (+6) Other 1 (0) If the NDP keeps rising, if the Conservatives and Liberals in the next few elections, have scandals or are inept to...
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    Merry Christmas

    I hope everyone had a merry Christmas, or a happy Hanukkah or a happy Yule. I had an excellent Yule, enjoying an excellent batch a mead that I had made. And I also participated in my Mom's and Dad's Christmas giving them a present for being wonderful parents. So I hope everyone had a great...
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    Northern Europe run up for World Wide Colonialism

    Now, I am an Asatru or Heathen follower from Northern European descent. However, Asatru is open to everyone. Where I live I am doing history, especially about European colonialism of America, Asia, and Africa after 1493. However, what most people have forgotten or don't know about is that...
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    Quebec and Alberta Seperatism

    Now, I have lived in Western Canada, I live on Vancouver Island right now and I was also born in Quebec. I would like to know about Western Seperatism, it seems to me just based in Alberta and they are to scared to say, Albertan seperatism and say its Western Seperatism. And in Quebec, my home...
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    Should UN be taken down or remain?

    Hello, I am just interested in this question because I am really interested in the United Nations. Now the UN does have good benefits, and it has done mistakes just like other huge organizations. However, because I want to work for the U.N. I would like to find it interesting what other...