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Why Canada should back Antarctica North
Canada just assumed the chair of the Arctic Council. Predictably, the Harper government grabbed the gavel and announced that its priority will be to open up the vast territory for more business.More business is coming to the Arctic, like it or not, courtesy of global warming, an issue that leaves the Harper government largely indifferent. Global warming is altering the geography of the Arctic, ...
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Obama talks jobs says politics misplace focus
President Barack Obama attends a roundtable at the Center for Urban Families (CFUF) in Baltimore, Friday, May 17, 2013, during his second "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour". CFUF is a Baltimore non-profit whose mission is to strengthen urban communities by helping fathers and families achieve stability and economic success. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn ...
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Powerball at estimated $600M as jackpot grows
Powerball numbers are chosen in the drawing at the Florida Lottery on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, in Tallahassee, Fla. The numbers drawn in the $579.9-million game were: 5, 16, 22, 23, 29 and Powerball of 6. (AP Photo/Phil ...
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12 young leaders changing Canada in this weeks Generation Why
If the number of young entrepreneurs and innovators in Canada is any indication, the generation that came of age alongside the modern web is ready to rethink everything.Earlier this month, ...
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Hits keep coming for Obama team
letter to the editor . /inline-content --> The Obama administration is unraveling and disintegrating before America's eyes. The unfolding situation is both a national embarrassment and a disgrace. Suddenly, in the wake of the grossly negligent and intentionally misleading fiasco in Benghazi, a series of new scandals have now rocked the Obama administration. In rapid succession, the IRS ...
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Gunshot Scare At Cannes
May 15, 2013: Jury member Christoph Waltz poses for photographers during a photo call for the jury at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern ...
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Powerball jackpot closing in on another record
(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki). Cathy Raymond, of Oklahoma City, displays the Powerball Lottery tickets she purchased in Oklahoma City, Friday, May 17, ...
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Should genetic testing for cancer be available to all Canadians
The revelation that Hollywood celebrity Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy as a preventative measure against cancer stoked heated discussion this week, but one prominent cancer researcher says it demonstrates the need to make genetic testing available to all ...
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Gawker launches crackstarter to buy Rob Ford video
Mayor Ford to Horwath: Force an election TORONTO - They’re not raising money for impoverished children or a cure for cancer - it’s to own the rights to the infamous video of Toronto’s mayor said to be smoking crack. And all that money would be going to Rexdale drug dealers. Gawker, the New York-based news and gossip website that broke the story that there is a video they ...
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Internal wrangling marks Dems Senate campaigns
ATLANTA - Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections.Two top-tier Democratic prospects recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota, highlighting both divisions within the party and its challenge of finding candidates whose ideologies line up with voters in Republican-leaning ...
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Myanmar leader to meet Obama but stalls on reforms
FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama, left, stands next to Myanmar President Thein Sein during a group photo session at the East Asia Summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Thein Seins historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime. Thats been based on a principle of taking action for action by ...
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America Ferrera returning to TV
Ugly Betty star America Ferrera gets hitched America Ferrera is reportedly planning a return to TV. The End Of Watch actress - who shot to fame on TV show Ugly Betty - is said to be preparing to star in telenovela project 'Pedro & Maria, a contemporary adaptation of hakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The series synopsis states: "Pedro and Maria are two opposites cut from the ...
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2 fires north of LA persist after long fire week
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) -- A pair of tamed but persistent wildfires still burned in the hills and mountains around Interstate 5 after a wild week of burning brush in the area north ...
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Mexico violence claims hundreds of US lives
MEXICO CITY--When Malcolm X’s grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years. Excluding terror attacks and US soldiers killed in action, Mexico has seen more homicides of Americans than any other part of the world in the past decade, according to an AFP analysis of US ...
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Veterans from World War II carrier hold final reunion
Veterans of the World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Franklin held their final planned reunion Friday in South Carolina. The gathering, held at the USS Yorktown at the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant brought together about two dozen of the remaining crew members. The Franklin was badly damaged in a Japanese attack on March 19, 1945. During the bomb attack, more than ...
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Trains collide in America
Two trains have collided in Connecticut injuring over sixty people, five critically, and closing the line between Boston and New York. It appears a New Haven-bound train derailed and was then hit by another train. About 250 people were on board at the time of the rush-hour crash. At the moment no cause of the crash is being ...
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Four Examples from the Last Week Prove Obama Is Full of Hot Air on Climate Protection
Police cordon off the area in front of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 17, 2013. A 45-year-old man suspected of sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and a US senator has been charged with threatening the life of the ...
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Obama Agenda Seems to Be Weathering Controversies
Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office. "Absolutely not," Steven Miller, the recently resigned acting head of the Internal Revenue ...
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PHONE TAP PROBEAP Refutes DOJ Claim That Leak Put Americans At Risk
WASHINGTON – Americans were in danger. That was the chief argument Attorney General Eric Holder tried to make this week for why Justice Department officials seized two months' worth of phone records of reporters and editors at The Associated Press. But the AP has strongly refuted from the start claims that it put the country in danger. The accusation that the news organization ...
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Marine reunited with dog he served with in Afghanistan
May 17, 2013: Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach, of Madison, Wisc., gets a kiss from Casey, a four-year-old yellow labrador that he worked with while deployed in Afghanistan, as the two are reunited during a surprise ceremony at the Statehouse in Des Moines, ...
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Canada abuzz over crack video
A video purportedly of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine has caused an uproar in Canada, with Mr Ford calling the allegations ...
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Canadian Giro d’Italia champ Ryder Hesjedal withdraws from this years race
This May 11, 2013 file photo shows Britain’s Bradley Wiggins adjusting his helmet prior to starting the eighth stage of the Giro d’Italia, Tour of Italy cycling race, an individual time trial from Gabicce to Saltara. Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins and defending champion Ryder Hesjedal both withdrew from the Giro d’Italia before the start of the 13th stage, Friday, May ...
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Diane-35 benefits outweigh risks when used as authorized for acne Health Canada
OTTAWA - Health Canada has completed a safety review of the anti-acne medication Diane-35 and determined the drug's benefits outweigh its risks when appropriately used. In Canada, Diane-35 is approved for the temporary treatment of severe acne in women who are unresponsive to other treatments. The federal agency says it should not be used in patients with a history that puts them at risk ...
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Son named as suspect in murder of New Brunswick businessman Richard Oland court documents
The suspect in the slaying of New Brunswick businessman Richard Oland is his son Dennis, state search warrant documents that were executed in the investigation. A Saint John, N.B., judge quashed on Friday a publication ban on the identities of those subject to the search warrants. Dennis Oland's property in Rothesay, N.B., a suburb of Saint John, was searched after his father's death ...
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Obama criticized over asking Marines to hold umbrellas
Marines in uniform aren't supposed to hold umbrellas, but a spokesman says President Barack Obama's request Thursday was an "extenuating circumstance." (Jacquelyn Martin, The Associated ...
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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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