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‘Vilest form of evil’ took husband away Tim Bosma’s wife says at funeral
"The devil led the vilest form of evil down our driveway and he smiled at me before driving Tim away." – Sharlene Bosma at husband's funeral- Adrian Humphreys ...
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Robert Redford on America Certain things have got lost
The writer-director uses Cannes press conference to say that the US has lost its way since the second world war, and that rampant development must be ...
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Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Is a Fabulous Cultural Ambassador for America
TLC Ever wonder how Glitzy the Pig would get on in Britain? Here Comes Honey Boo Boo recently debuted there to unsurprising critical snark. The series, about seven-year-old aspiring beauty queen Alana and her freewheeling middle Georgia family, ...
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Obama Shows Hes Serious About Fixing Our Screwed-Up Election System
filled with election officials who have a record of supporting progressive election reforms--even though some of them are known for working in red states under conservative Republicans. Whether Congress listens to this panel's suggestions is another matter. Half of the 10-member panel are election state and local officials who have participated in numerous retreats sponsored by the Pew ...
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Reinsurance Group of America to Hire Hundreds in St. Louis Area
A St. Louis, Mo.-based insurance company has vowed to add at least 300 employees within five years. The Reinsurance Group of America discussed the hiring spree while breaking ground on a new, $140 million headquarters complex in suburban Chesterfield. RGA sells insurance to other insurance companies. Its president and CEO, Greig Woodring, says the company would hire actuaries, accountants, ...
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Op-Ed Contributors When America Stops Importing Energy
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Obama appoints former Ky. official to commission
Former Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson has been appointed by President Barack Obama to the Commission on Election Administration. Former Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson will help figure out ways to make lines at polling places shorter as a member of President Barack Obamas Commission on Election Administration. Obama announced appointments to the 10-member commission on ...
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God Bless America and the Boy Scouts
What could be more quintessentially American than the song "God Bless America," a tune Irving Berlin wrote to boost the spirits of U.S. troops during World War ...
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Harper’s South America trip complicated by Senate expenses scandal
The Senate expenses scandal is turning Prime Minister Stephen Harper's visit to South America into an awkward communications exercise.Harper's officials have indicated that the prime minister will finally take questions early this afternoon on the Prime Minister's Office involvement in reimbursing Senator Mike Duffy $90,000 for improper housing expense claims. But Harper will be ...
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Unlikely Heir Obama Returns to Kissingers Realpolitik
Henry Kissinger, the hawkish national security advisor to Nixon who popularized realpolitik, turns 90 this week. Few would have expected President Obama to pick up his mantle, but the erstwhile idealist resembles Kissinger more every ...
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Obama seeks to make acting GSA head permanent
WASHINGTON -; The White House says President Barack Obama will nominate Dan Tangherlini to run the General Services Administration, the agency in charge of federal buildings and ...
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Okla. mayor wants to require tornado shelters
A man carries a drawer and a bag filled with clothes from Rachel Hernandez' home as residents of the Heatherwood Addition, on the south side of SE 4 and Bryant in Moore, Okla., returned to their homes Tuesday, May 21, 2013, to salvage any items after Monday's destructive tornado. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim ...
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IRS official Lerner I did nothing wrong
IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. Lerner told the committee she did nothing wrong and then invoked her constitutional right to not answer lawmakers' questions. (AP ...
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The Obama Crony in Charge of your Medical Records
Who is Judy Faulkner? Chances are, you don’t know her — but her politically connected, taxpayer-subsidized electronic medical records company may very well know you. Top Obama donor and billionaire Faulkner is founder and CEO of Epic Systems, which will soon store almost half of all Americans’ health information. If the crony odor and the potential for abuse that this ...
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Canadas Eugenie Bouchard rolls into 3rd round in Strasbourg
Canada's Eugenie Bouchard smiles as she looks over at her coach while facing Bouchard Shahar Peer from Israel during first round of play at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament Wednesday, August 8, 2012 in Montreal. Bouchard beat Peer 3-6, 6-2, 7-5. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian ...
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Minor hockey bodychecking ban to be debated
Hundreds of delegates arrive in Charlottetown Wednesday for the Hockey Canada annual general meeting, where they will vote on whether bodychecking should be banned nationally in minor hockey. Alberta, Quebec, and Nova Scotia have already banned checking for peewee players, who are 11 and 12 years old. Delegates at the Charlottetown meeting, which starts Thursday, will vote on a ban across the ...
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Blood donation ban lifted for some gay bisexual men
Health Canada will allow gay men to donate blood if they haven't had sex with a man in the last five years, a change in policy that will go into effect in the coming weeks. "The new five-year deferral period means that men who have not had sex with men in the past five years are now eligible to donate blood in Canada," the federal department said in a release ...
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Final farewell to Peter Worthington
Peter Worthington. Family, friends, colleagues and readers are gathering Wednesday to bid farewell to Toronto Sun founding editor Peter Worthington. Worthington, 86, who died May 13, was remembered at visitations Tuesday as a man who lived life to the fullest. The funeral begins at 11 a.m. at Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. Maj.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, David Crombie, Mark Bonokoski and ...
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Ontario man lost in Australian mountains
Prabhdeep Srawn, 25, from Brampton, Ont., went missing May 13 while hiking in Australia's Snowy Mountains. (FACEBOOK PHOTO/QMI AGENCY) The third day of searching for a Brampton, Ont., man who went missing while hiking in Australia wrapped up because of poor lighting, local media ...
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Ford skewered on late-night TV
Gawker launches 'crackstarter' to buy alleged Rob Ford video TORONTO – Mayor Rob Ford may not have been saying anything Tuesday about crack cocaine allegations but that didn't stop late-night U.S. comedians from cracking jokes about the ongoing scandal. Jon Stewart's Daily Show, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel Live were all fired up about the story of ...
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Iceland forms center-right govt halts EU talks
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- The leader of the center-right Progressive Party was chosen as Iceland's new prime minister Wednesday and promptly announced a halt to talks with the European Union about joining the 27-nation ...
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Fearless cougar stalks house pets in quiet Metro Vancouver community
BELCARRA, B.C. — A cougar with a taste for house pets is prowling in the Metro Vancouver community of Belcarra, just west of Port Moody. RCMP were called to the wooded, rural neighbourhood overlooking Indian Arm at about 8:20 Tuesday night when a family reported the cougar had snatched their dog. A 16-year-old tried to scare off the big cat, but it took a swipe at him, too, before ...
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Canada lifts lifetime ban on gay men giving blood but they can only donate if celibate for five years
TORONTO -- Canada is lifting the lifetime ban on blood donation by gay men, though serious restrictions will remain in place. Canadian Blood Services says men who have not had sex with other men within the last five years will be allowed to donate blood when the new policy comes into effect this summer. Agency executive Dr. Dana Devine acknowledges some people will feel that the deferral ...
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3000 plus left without electricity in central Ontario after thunderstorms
TORONTO -- More than 3,000 Ontario Hydro customers in central Ontario spent the night without electricity after a powerful storm ripped through the area. The utility expects repairs in the affected areas from cottage country north of Toronto east through the Bobcaygeon area to be completed by this evening. A line of severe thunderstorms brought damaging winds, hail and heavy rain to the area ...
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Police re-open two cases connected to Bosma murder suspect including Dellen Millard’s dead father
Toronto police confirm they are formally investigating two additional cases linked to Dellen Millard, charged in the slaying of Tim Bosma, even as Hamilton police are denying reports that additional remains have been found on a Millard-owned farm. "The investigation continues and at this point there is no confirmation that other remains have been located," said Const. Debbie ...
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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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