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    Dutch venture plans cheap, powerful electric cars

    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080902/electric_cars_080902/20080902?s_name=Autos Man, i'd love to have an electric Lotus that goes from 0 - 100kph in 5 seconds..... Wooo weee.... *slaps cowboy hat on knee* But seriously, I'd buy one. I guess it might not be a Lotus in...
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    Manitoba trucker speaks about role in aftermath of grisly Greyhound killing

    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/09/02/alguire-greyhound.html So just because you're emotionally charged in the matter, you think the police should have shot the man dead? Just because you do something heroic, doesn't mean everything you do or think is right. He did a good job...
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    Afghan civilian deaths overstated in coalition attack: U.S. probe

    http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/09/02/afghan-civilians.html How come no other NATO or Coli. forces are claiming the civilians are being forced by the Taliban to lie?
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    Some Grits seek green shift shift

    Liberal leader Stephane Dion addresses a town hall meeting to discuss his Green Shift plan, in Gatineau Quebec Monday. http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1075816.html The hell they are.... Here's their plan and proposal..... no wait, it's just a statement of principles of intent now...
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    RCMP broke rules by using Texas troopers in B.C.: report

    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/08/28/bc-rcmp-texas-troopers.html Damn Straight... WTF?
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    Last European put to death for witchcraft cleared after 216 years

    Spell finally broken http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/World/1075607.html Well geez... bout damn time, although it doesn't do much good now.
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    Report says Alberta, B.C., Sask, have best labour markets; Atlantic worst

    http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/9008250.html Well it's not really news to me, but at least there's an update on things not changing. :-P
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    Microsoft's newest web browser may block ads

    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080828/Microsoft_browser_080828/20080828?hub=World BLUE = Information on New Program RED = Possible Drawbacks Sounds interesting.... I guess I'll have to wait and see how it unfolds.
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    Earthquake, magnitude 6.1, strikes off B.C. coast

    This map, provided by Natural Resources Canada, uses a red star to mark the location of a 6.1 magnitude earthquake that struck 157 kilometres west of Port Hardy, off the north coast of Vancouver Island, on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008...
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    North Korea halts nuclear reactor disablement

    In this image from television, North Korea's 60-foot-tall cooling tower at it's main reactor complex in Yongbyon, North Korea is destroyed, Friday, June 27, 2008. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080826/North_Korea_080826/20080826?hub=World So much for that. Of...
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    U.S. investigators probe possible plot to kill Obama

    Nathan Johnson was arrested at a hotel in Denver. Tharin Gartrell was arrested during a traffic stop early Sunday by police in the eastern Denver suburb of Aurora. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/26/obama-plot.html Second one so far, and he's not even president yet.... it's pretty...
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    U.S. telecom rollouts raise ire over ugly utility boxes

    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080825/utility_boxes_080825/20080825?hub=World Well by all means, if you have a better idea to get the crap you take for granted, let us know.... until then, if you want those services, stfu and deal with it. I don't see what the...
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    Iraqis show video of teenage girl in suicide vest

    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080825/iraq_vest_080825/20080825?hub=World Drugging them up, loading them with explosives and sending them off to die..... sounds pretty desperate.
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    Iraq seeking 2011 troop pullout

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7580968.stm Sounds like things are finally getting more independant there in Iraq. One thing that urked me was: "US State Department spokesman Robert Wood told Reuters the negotiators had only agreed on a draft agreement. "It still has to go...
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    Russia threatens to 'strike' Poland in wake of U.S. missile plan

    http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/15/missle.html Well Gee.... the US planting missiles all around Russia.... if I was Russia, I'd be paranoid too. The US and Israel don't like Iran and Syria doing certain things that they feel threaten them.... why can't Russia do the same. Iran builds...
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    Killer taped boy's torture, prosecutor says

    Joseph Edward Duncan III stalked the Groene family and killed four of its five members. http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/14/duncan.slayings.ap/index.html Yeah, I say execute the bastard.
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    Victim's actions helped save lives, bus passenger says

    http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/9007966.html A bit more information for those following.
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    Baird says Green Shift bad for N.S.

    Federal Environment Minister John Baird was in Halifax on Thursday where he told The Chronicle Herald's editorial board that the federal Liberals' Green Shift would be disastrous for Nova Scotia. http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1073065.html Must have been listening to me... lol...
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    White Americans no longer the majority by 2042

    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080814/white_americans_080814/20080814?hub=World Well there you go.... I wonder if that would also end up changing certain laws, religions, etc.
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    Critic calls on feds to halt deserter's deportation

    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080813/war_resister_080813/20080813?hub=Canada I know this has been going on in other threads in the past, but based on the information provided above, what do you think about the government representing public democratic opinion...