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Press Digest-canada-may 20
Mon May 20, 2013 6:10am EDT May 20 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. THE GLOBE AND MAIL * Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff has resigned over his role in the C$90,000 ($87,600) bailout of former Conservative Senator Mike Duffy's expense account. Nigel ...
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Sorry hockey fans. Canada’s NHL woes can’t be blamed on the loonie
As we gaze upon another Stanley Cup playoffs with the sad, forlorn eyes of a nation whose teams are mostly already eliminated, we have to wonder how the elusive hand of economics has deceived us once again.Of the seven National Hockey League teams based in Canada, only four made the playoffs at all. After a couple of first-round defeats, the Ottawa Senators are now the lone Canadian team still ...
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Column Dustups have governments role in common
There's a common thread running through a series of controversies dogging President Barack Obama: the federal government, and conflicting interpretations of what it is. The debate often is boiled down to this: Obama's notion of an activist, capable government that helps people vs. Republicans' impression of an intrusive, incompetent central body that hurts ...
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When will Obama say “I am not a crook”
Remember the old phrase "plausible deniability?" The people around the president commit crimes and make sure the president doesn't know about them. Or if he does know, or if he ordered the crimes to be committed, his people erase the links that would lead to his exposure. It's a game. Can the president be protected? Can he deny knowledge and make it stick? Can anyone prove ...
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Small Fla. city anxious to learn jackpot winner
ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. -- It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million.The lucky ticket was bought sometime Saturday or earlier at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a city of about 13,000 people best known around the state for its brand of spring water with the same ...
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Legislative showdown brewing over $2 million for Teach for America
A $2 million pot of money to hire more teachers for the Clark County School District could be in danger -- with a contingent of Assembly Democrats apparently digging in their heels against the money. Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval wants to spend $2 million during the next two years to help the ...
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Video Thief hit by bus after robbing woman in Colombia
The CCTV footage shows the criminal slowly walking up to his victim and trying to snatch her bag.After a brief struggle, the man gets up with her phone and attempts to escape.Almost instantly, a bus pulls into the station and hits the man as he dashes out the door, knocking him over and dragging him underneath the bus.Incredibly, the woman who had just been mugged helps rescue him.After being ...
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Teslas fight with Americas car dealers
Tesla Motors doesn't want to sell its cars the way every other car company does, and that's making a lot of traditional automobile dealers mad. And those dealers are fighting ...
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Can the Senate fire a senator
An expert on parliamentary rules says the Senate has the power to turf a senator from the chamber, as long as a majority approves the expulsion. Ned Franks, an emeritus political science professor at Queen's university, said, "The Senate is master of its own house." Franks cautioned that the removal of a senator cannot be done without cause, but, "If the Senate considers ...
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Canadian on EI shut out amid foreign worker influx
A jobless Canadian IT professional who is collecting employment insurance is upset because he now suspects several recent jobs he applied for went to temporary foreign workers. "Out of the 50 some odd jobs that I've applied for, I've heard back from two," said Glen Hamel, of Mississauga, Ont. "The rest -- I never hear ...
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OUT OF CONTROL AP Chief Calls On Obama to Reign In DOJ Investigation
May 19, 2013: Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press, discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department on CBS's "Face the Nation" in ...
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AP president calls on Obama to reign in DOJ probe into wire services records
May 19, 2013: Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press, discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department on CBS's "Face the Nation" in ...
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Obama urges Morehouse College graduates to help others
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama urged graduates of a celebrated historically black college Sunday to use their education to help others and to work for "something larger than yourself," citing the example of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. In the commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Obama urged graduates headed to law school to make sure they ...
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Senate committee moves toward vote on immigration
By ERICA WERNERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Judiciary Committee is aiming this week to pass a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions, setting up a high-stakes debate on the Senate floor. First, the committee must resolve a few remaining disputes. One involves amendments over high-skilled immigrant visas sought by the high-tech ...
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Gunmen shoot into Calif. home 10-year-old killed
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Authorities were searching for at least two gunmen who walked up to the door of a Northern California home and opened fire, killing a 10-year-old girl and injuring her parents. "Whoever these gunmen were, they were directly outside the front ...
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Obama to address Guantanamo prison drone program
Obama will address the U.S. secret drone program's legality and his pledge to shut the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a White House official said. Obama will address them in a speech Thursday at the Defense Department's National Defense University in Washington -- a speech that will focus on how he intends to bring his counter-terrorism policies in line with the legal structure and ...
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Kids Count report Americas children are advancing despite the economy
The widely-watched Kids Count annual survey on the state of America's children shows gains in health and education despite the poor economy. But advocates say raised poverty rates merit more attention from ...
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Progressive Democrats of America DNC Delegate Support Surges for Guaranteed Health Care Plank
Donna Smith (773) 617-4493 Tim Carpenter, National Director, PDA (413) 320-2015 Norman Solomon, Obama delegate and co-drafter ...
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ACLU Reminds Americas Toughest Sheriff That Hes Not Above The Law
ACLU Reminds "America's Toughest Sheriff" That He's Not Above The Law PHOENIX - August 7 - The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion yesterday to hold Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio in contempt for disobeying a court order that would allow women prisoners in Maricopa County to obtain timely, safe, and legal abortions. In addition, today's motion asks ...
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Media Matters for America New Anti-Obama Books... Swift Boat Redux
New Anti-Obama BooksSwift Boat Redux? WASHINGTON - August 5 - The release this month of two books attacking Sen. Barack Obama -- both of which have links to the 2004 smear ...
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Consumer Federation of America Leaders Confront Flawed Auto Rule Analysis Poll
Dramatic Shift To Fuel Efficient Vehicles Began In 2005 New Auto Sales Analysis Reveals Market Reality Missed by Automakers & NHTSA Resulting Rule and Enviro Impact Analysis Flawed New Consumer Poll Shows Greater Demand for Fuel Economy than Available WASHINGTON - August 4 - The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) released an analysis of the impact of fuel economy on auto sales ...
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Huffington Post The 4 Dumbest Things Obama And Romney Say About China
You might hear a lot about China at tonight's foreign-policy-themed presidential debate. We'd better hope that most of it is bogus posturing, because most of what the candidates usually say about China is dumb. Aside from al Qaeda there are few more reliable bogeymen in politics than China. They took our jerbs! Plus, they're foreigners. Also, Chinese-Americans are not yet a big ...
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Kid upstages President Obama by planting big kiss
(Photo/Agencies) It was the kiss that stole the US president's limelight. Barack Obama surprised the kids of the Daughter of Zion Jr Academy in Delray Beach, Florida with a drop-in photo op after a campaign event at Delray Beach Tennis Centre on Tuesday, Yahoo News reported. The kids appeared excited, as one might imagine. All except for a boy in the back row, who seemed a little ...
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Obama Romney plunge in intense campaign as election enters last stretch
U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney embarked on a swirl-wind campaign tour Tuesday following the conclusion of three presidential debates, as election enters its last stretch. The most intense campaigning will be done by Obama. He is scheduled to visit seven battleground states in two days, and two of them, Florida and Ohio, will be visited by the incumbent twice. ...
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Final Obama Romney presidential debate begins
The third and final debate of the US presidential campaign began on Monday, with Democratic incumbent Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney due to discuss foreign policy. The candidates shook hands on stage at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida before their last head-to-head, which pundits said may prove decisive, with opinion polls predicting an extremely close vote on November ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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