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Ex Revenue Canada officials arrested in bribery scam
The headquarters of the Canada Revenue Agency is photographed in Ottawa, November 4, 2011. (Chris Roussakis/QMI Agency) ...
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Leblanc pleads guilty in chained teen case
David James Leblanc, 47. (Police handout) BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - A man accused of kidnapping and raping a teen boy in a remote Nova Scotia cabin for more than a week has pleaded guilty to five of seven charges. David James Leblanc pleaded guilty Thursday morning to kidnapping, forcible confinement, sexual assault, uttering threats and breaching probation. Two other charges were dropped after a ...
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‘I will not waste any more of my time’ Quebec Tory quits after frustration with Harper Conservatives
In a resignation letter distributed throughout the party Wednesday, Georgette St-Onge argued Conservative Quebec lieutenant Christian Paradis, the federal industry minister, made no effort to help a credible candidate in her riding of Joliette solicit votes in the last election. Since then, she said the riding association has been left out of the loop on important party policy like employment ...
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Give President Obama a chance there is a role for drones | Michael Cohen
killed thousands of alleged "terrorists" , but little transparency from the Obama administration has accompanied this ramping up of military engagement.Instead government officials speak mainly of ...
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Michelle Obamas Tracy Feith Dress Is The Perfect Go-To Garment
Michelle Obama 's mantra for dressing -- especially when it comes to her Tracy Feith dress. Arguably the most prized item in her closet, the piece has ...
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Michelle Obama Vacation Extended Stay in Marthas Vineyard
The First Lady and her family are no strangers to the Massachusetts vacation spot, but this year, the trip could last a little longer.President Obama and his wife have their eye on a house in Farm Neck on Martha's Vineyard, according to The Boston Globe.Furthermore, Mrs. Obama may stay on longer with daughters Sasha and Malia, with the President joining them on occasional weekend and for ...
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The truth about the Nixonian presidency of Obama
More Tagging tips: A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for "Barack Obama," is this a diary they'd be trying to find? Use a person's full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for office. If your diary covers an election or elected official, use election tags, which are generally the ...
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Obama prom pictures surface
More than 30 years after he graduated high school, President Obama's senior prom pictures have emerged in public, featuring the president when he was 17 years old, clad in a white sport coat and a lei, posing for pictures with his friends. The photos, obtained ...
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Watch Obama to Address New Drone Strike Limits
We'll turn to the white house now where president obama is preparing to announce a major shift in the war on terror. He'll lay out new limits on drone strikes against terrorist targets and a new ...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX drops 1 pct on fears of stimulus withdrawal
TORONTO, May 23 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index fell more than 1 percent on Thursday, with every major sector in the red, due to concerns about a possible quicker-than-expected end to the U.S. Federal Reserve's stimulus program as well as weak economic data from China and Europe. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index was down 147.25 points, or 1.15 percent, at ...
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John Boehner Really is inconceivable Obama wouldnt have known about IRS woes
White House has claimed.';It’s pretty inconceivable to me that the president wouldn’t know,'; he said on Greta van Susteren’s Fox News program that aired late Wednesday. ';I just put myself in his shoes: I deal with my senior staff every day, and if ...
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Obamas Assault on the Press
When Democrats nominated Barack Obama and Joseph Biden in 2008, there was relief that-after eight years of Bush/Cheney abuses-a major party was running, for the first time in our history, a pair of constitutional law instructors for president and vice president. With the Obama/Biden victory, many assumed that surely the new administration would respect the First Amendment, including the ...
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To become competitive Canada must replace luck with skills
By the year 2100, Canada could be among the world's five most important countries. Canadians in the year 2013 may find this suggestion incredible, if not absurd. After all, apart from the odd rhetorical flourish, Canada is fast retreating from an ever-more complex world. It is at present neither taking the country's strategic potential and future challenges seriously, nor being taken ...
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Anthony Weiner gets supportive reception in Harlem
FILE - In this June 16, 2011 file photo, Anthony Weiner speaks at a news conference in New York. The Democratic ex-congressman who resigned over raunchy tweets said late Tuesday, May 21, 2013, that he's in the New York City mayoral race. Although the field is crowded for September's primary, Weiner is arriving with some significant advantages, including a $4.8 million campaign war ...
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Va. landmark Natural Bridge up for sale
The property's primary owner is Washington, D.C., businessman Angelo Puglisi. Woltz says Puglisi wants the bridge to remain open to the ...
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Obama Looks to Shift Focus to Drone Strikes As Scandals Swirl
On the defensive over a trio of controversies, President Barack Obama will attempt to refocus the debate Thursday with a speech laying out his administration's rationale for the use of unmanned drone strikes against terrorism targets abroad. The president's address at the National Defense University in Washington comes as the administration has faced mounting pressure at home and ...
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Watch Live Obama Addresses Drones Gitmo
Watch a live stream in the player above of President Barack Obama's speech at the National Defense University, scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. EDT ...
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Political participation in Latin America still low Report
New York, May 23 : Indigenous peoples in Latin America have undergone an unprecedented mobilization in the past 20 years, but political participation, particularly among women, is still low, the United Nations said in a new ...
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Obama Moves to Restrict Drone Strikes Tancredo Announcing for CO GOV Walker Heads West to IA
"plans to open a new phase in the nation's long struggle with terrorism on Thursday by restricting the use of unmanned drone strikes that have been at the heart of his national security strategy and shifting control of them away" from the CIA to the military. The Obama admin. on Wednesday "formally acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four American citizens in ...
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Missing Utah moms father-in-law not getting out
This undated photo released by the West Valley City Police Department shows Susan Powell. Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect. The announcement came after police spent two days searching in rural Oregon last week for any trace of Powell's ...
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Thunderstorms hail slow Oklahoma tornado cleanup
Jesse Edgar takes a break in the shade while helping salvage items at a friend's home Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and ...
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FBI agent kills man connected to Boston bomber
FBI agent has shot and killed a Chechen man with alleged ties to deceased Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in what was described as a "violent confrontation" in Orlando, ...
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Tiger Has 4-Pound Hairball
CLEARWATER, Fla. – It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself. The 17-year-old tiger named Ty underwent the procedure Wednesday at a veterinary center in the Tampa Bay area community of Clearwater. Doctors said in a statement that they safely ...
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Not So Fast Reps Want IRS Official Back After Refusal to Testify
House Republicans are considering trying to haul back into the hearing room the embattled IRS official who refused to testify Wednesday, claiming she may have inadvertently waived her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent by delivering an opening statement. Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division which oversaw the controversial targeting of conservative groups, caused ...
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Basements scarce in Tornado Alley
>Country star Toby Keith tours the damage in his hometown of Moore, Oklahoma on 'AC360' tonight, 8pm ET. (CNN) -- It's one of the most familiar pieces of advice from authorities to people in the path of a tornado: Get into your basement. Yet few homes in the Oklahoma City area have them -- even though that state is hit by far more powerful tornadoes than most others. "Probably less than one ...
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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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