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MPs’ summer break kills bill that would strip terrorists of Canadian citizenship
OTTAWA -- The last legislative fight of the spring session in the Commons appears to have been won by the New Democrats. The decision by the House to adjourn for the summer a few days early nixed Conservative efforts to amend a private member’s bill to strip Canadian citizenship from dual nationals convicted of terrorist acts. The bill originally sought to remove citizenship only from ...
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Rare early maps of Toronto Montreal part of 1812 cache that fetches almost $700000 in U.K. bidding war
A one-of-a-kind collection of Canadian history from the War of 1812 -- along with a spectacular set of hand-drawn maps from the early days of Toronto, Montreal, Halifax and other future urban hubs -- were sold at a British auction on Wednesday for almost $700,000, triple the expected price. The huge cache of letters, maps and other original artifacts left to posterity by Sir John Coape ...
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Lawmakers question Obamas pledge to scale back US nuclear arsenal
President Obama's pledge to cut the United States' nuclear arsenal by one-third is sending the wrong message to the global community, some Washington lawmakers said Wednesday. "Now is not to the time to pursue further strategic nuclear force reductions," Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said following Obama's speech in Berlin, Germany. Inhofe was among several ...
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Tropical Storm Barry forms in Gulf aims toward Mexico
OUTLOOK: Now we have Tropical Storm Barry, the second named storm of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. After bulking up in the warm waters of the southern Gulf ...
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President Obama Lives have been saved by NSA surveillance
Speaking in Germany with Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Obama attempted to put German and American citizens at ease after revelations that the NSA has been collecting phone and internet data in a dragnet operation. He repeated the now familiar talking point from government officials that the programs had prevented more than 50 terrorist plots, and added the assertion ...
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Video Obama salutes the Berlin Airlifts Candy Bomber
During a speech in Berlin, President Obama paid tribute to 92-year-old Gail Halvorsen, a retired Air Force colonel who dropped candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift, saying, "We could not be more proud of ...
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Most Wanted Professor Nabbed in Mexico
This 2011 image shows Walter Lee Williams, 64, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives who has been arrested in the resort city of Playa del Carmen, Mexico, June 18, ...
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President Obama relying on untested oversight board on NSA
In this June 6, 2013, file photo, a woman talks on the phone outside the U.S. Courthouse in Washington, where the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court resides. The obscure oversight board that President Barack Obama wants to scrutinize the National Security Agency's secret surveillance system is little known for good reason. The U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has ...
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Half of Canadas First Nations children live in poverty study says
Half of Canada's First Nations children live in poverty, a report by the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives indicates. "The poverty rate is staggering," said report co-author David Macdonald of the indigenous population of Canada. "A 50 percent poverty rate is unlike any poverty rate or any other disadvantaged group in the country, by a long shot the worst." The ...
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Matthew Depew Columbine survivor dies working on power lines in New Mexico
Matthew Depew, a survivor of the 1999 Columbine High School shootings who was working for Xcel Energy in Carlsbad, N.M., died Saturday while working on power lines, according to local authorities.Depew, 30, was reportedly working to restore a power outage on State Road 360 when he was electrocuted at about 6:40 a.m., and all attempts to save his life were unsuccessful, according to a press ...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX ends lower as Fed comments drag
TORONTO, June 19 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index retreated on Wednesday, led by declines in most major sectors, as the U.S. Federal Reserve said it could slow the pace of its bond buying program later this year. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index unofficially closed down 99.17 points, or 0.80 percent, at 12,268.29. Seven of the 10 main sectors on the index were ...
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Emily VanCamp on Living in New York Working with Samuel L. Jackson and the Intimidating Set of Captain America
Emily VanCamp has been working in New York this summer. "I'm shooting a couple of movies, actually," she said at Clinique's Dramatically Different party on Tuesday. "I'm wrapping up Captain America on Monday. I'm also, at the same time, shooting a little indie film here in New York, called The Girl in the Book, which I'm really passionate about and ...
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Canadian high school seniors at risk of chronic disease study
18-year-old Mark Begin smokes a cigarette while his friend April Donovan, left, looks on in downtown Ottawa on Monday June 14, 2004. A new survey says 17.8 per cent of Canadians smoke, compared to 24.3 per cent who smoked 10 years ago. It's the second time in as many days that a federal study suggests a drop in youth smoking. (Tobin ...
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Canada’s women’s soccer team loses to Germany in friendly
Canada's Kadeisha Buchanan, left, and Germany's Dzsenifer Marozsan challenge for the ball during the international friendly women's soccer match between Germany and Canada in Paderborn, Germany, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. (Martin ...
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Five reasons to pay attention to Canadas new open data portal
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper attends a news conference after a G8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 18, ...
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Theft of design data of F-35 jet Canada is considering is helping adversaries Pentagon
An F-35 fighter jet prepares for landing with its lift fan cover deployed over Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., in this undated handout file image. Lockheed Martin, the U.S. manufacturer of the stealth fighter, has signed a deal with a leading Canadian maker of flight simulators in anticipation of the federal government choosing to stick with the controversial program. (Lockheed ...
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Obamas Nuclear Push Moscow Fears Loss of World Power Status
A world without nuclear weapons? It's a nearly inconceivable scenario for the Kremlin, even if its arsenal costs Russia billions each year. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, the country has suffered a major drop in influence. Now it's doing all it can to cling to the geopolitical power it has ...
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Group Exclude Chad troops from UN force in Mali
UNITED NATIONS -; A network of human rights groups on Wednesday criticized plans to include Chadian troops in a new U.N. peacekeeping force for Mali while Chad's military remains on a U.N. `list of shame' for child recruitment. But U.N. officials made clear they had no intention of excluding a country whose soldiers are considered among the best African desert ...
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Feds in Calif. bust international gambling ring
SAN DIEGO -; Federal authorities have charged 18 people with involvement in an illegal gambling ring they say spanned from California to Peru and used violence against customers with outstanding ...
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Zimmerman jurors asked about neighborhood watch
George Zimmerman smiles in response to a juror's answer during questioning in Seminole circuit court on the eighth day of his trial, in Sanford, Fla., Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe ...
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Uncertain future for border prosecution program
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents keep watch at a checkpoint station, on Feb. 22, 2013, in Falfurrias, Texas. Some drug smugglers caught at the highway checkpoint about an hour north of the Texas-Mexico border are losing their drugs, but not facing prosecution because cooperation between local and federal prosecutors has broken down. (AP Photo/Eric ...
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Montana court says bison transfer legal
BILLINGS, Mont. -; The Montana Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling that blocked transfers of Yellowstone National Park bison as part of a government-sponsored conservation ...
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Obama Offers Few Nuclear Policy Surprises in Berlin
WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Wednesday delivered in Berlin a modified replay of his 2009 Prague speech on the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, featuring a similar brand of soaring oratory about high ideals that his European fans and critics alike have come to expect. It is four years later, though, and Europeans, like their U.S. counterparts, have had plenty of time to glimpse the ...
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Obamas Turbulent European Vacation
President Obama's honeymoon with the world is over. What was it, exactly, about Obama's controversy-marred trip to Germany and the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland that fell so flat? Ummm, how about everything? There were the snarky words from Vladimir Putin, who expressed an almost Soviet-esque distance from Washington in his views about Syria. "Of course our opinions do not ...
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Obamas in Berlin Michelle and daughters visit Holocaust memorial while Barack calls for nuclear weapons cuts
US President Barack Obama's wife Michelle laid flowers today during a sombre visit to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. America's First Lady was joined by daughters Malia, 14, and Sasha, 12, as well as the president's half sister Auma. The Obamas are spending two days in Germany and Michelle took their daughters and Auma while Obama was in talks with the country's leader ...
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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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