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    North Carolina tries to outlaw climate models

    Nah. Some potash ore needs to be extracted in solution anyway.
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    North Carolina tries to outlaw climate models

    I'm looking forward to Hudson Bay flooding MB so we have have seal bashing in Yorkton sponsored by Pilsner.
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    North Carolina tries to outlaw climate models

    Global warming and high sea levels were a blessing to SKin the past. Just look at all the potash we have now.
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    Second bridge linking Windsor, Detroit finally in works

    Can I say it again? I will any way. Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure. This should help goods flow easier and cheaper. Just what ON manufacturers need. After years of wrangling and debate, Canada and Michigan finally announced a deal Friday to build a second bridge...
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    B.C. judge makes assisted-suicide legal

    A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has declared Canada's law against physician-assisted suicide unconstitutional. Justice Lynn Smith called the law discriminatory, stating that since suicide itself is not illegal, the law against assisted suicide contravenes Section 15 of the Charter...
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    First Nations, resources talks 'vital'

    A national conference on natural resources and aboriginal people being held this week in Saskatoon is "important and vital" to creating more understanding on key issues, one of the participants says. More than 100 business law professionals and leaders from across the country gather today at...
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    Shell pays enviro fine

    Shell Canada has pleaded guilty to releasing a toxic substance into the Peace River in northern Alberta and has agreed to pay a $225,000 fine. The company says John Rhind, vice-president of heavy oil, appeared in court in Peace River, Alta., on Tuesday. "He was there on behalf of the...
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    Edmonton rabbit hoarder fined $8,500, banned from owning pets

    EDMONTON - A woman who had more than 1,100 rabbits seized from her south Edmonton home has been fined $8,500 and given a lifetime ban from owning pets, except for the dog she currently owns. The provincial court decision Monday morning came more than two years after the Humane Society seized...
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    Ontario offers electricity deal

    Well, well, well. Looky here: Large industries looking to expand or set up in Ontario will be able to qualify for lower electricity prices next year. Eligible companies could qualify for a reduced rate if they create jobs and bring new investment to Ontario. Companies that make a minimum...
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    OPEC boss suggests move to reduce oil glut

    OPEC’s president signalled on Monday it could act to reduce a glut of oil that has knocked the price down towards double digits, but said it was unlikely to set individual country production quotas at a meeting this week. Abdul Kareem Luaibi, who also serves as oil minister of Iraq, said...
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    Sad news for peak oil disciples

    Whenever oil prices surpass US$100 per barrel, a certain group of well-known economists and investment banks re-emerge to tout their dire warnings that oil will soon top US$200 or more because of peaking oil supplies. Several bestselling books have been written warning that the world’s supply of...
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    What are you eating right now?

    It's good stuff.
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    What are you eating right now?

    I made a wicked solyanka and had three bowls.
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    What are you eating right now?

    What are you eating under there?
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    Tommy the Commie Mulcair blasts fracking plans in New Brunswick

    What a ****ing moron.... Federal New Democratic Party Leader Tom Mulcair warned Rothesay residents about the potential problems with shale gas exploration during a byelection campaign stop in the southern New Brunswick town on Sunday. Mulcair held a public rally with New Brunswick NDP Leader...
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    Another BC forest valley flooded for Hydro....but goats will be fine.

    The B.C. government has approved the $217-million McLymont Creek run-of-the-river power project in north-west B.C. An environmental assessment gives the project the green light but imposes a number of restrictions, including that Alt-aGas Renewable Energy Inc. must maintain minimum water...
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    Over half of opposition supporters want NDP/Liberal party merger to take on Harper

    More than half of federal Liberal and NDP supporters back the idea of their parties merging into one with the aim of of defeating Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, a new poll suggests. The online survey of more than 1,000 Canadians, conducted exclusively for Postmedia News and Global Television...
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    Is the United States Actually Getting Warmer?

    What the **** is a climate scientist?
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    Regina moped operator acquitted of impaired driving charges

    A Regina Provincial Court judge has found a Regina man not guilty of impaired driving-related charges, stating it’s unclear whether Gary W. Rookes’ moped was legally functioning as a motor vehicle on the night in question. According to the May decision posted online recently, Rookes, 57, was...
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    Manning calls Mulcair hypocrite on environment

    Thomas Mulcair is a hypocrite for not applying his polluter-pay principles to Quebec's hydro sector when he had the chance and now attacking Alberta's oilsands on the same subject, Reform party founder Preston Manning said Saturday in an interview on CBC's The House. Manning said he...