Tag: canada
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Canadian Government Loses Appeal To Stop Medical Marijuana Patients From Growing Pot At Home
from cbc.ca: The federal government has lost its latest attempt to prevent medical marijuana patients from growing pot at home. New rules were introduced earlier this year that prohibited home growing and instead shifted production to commercial operations, but a group of patients is challenging that regime. Those patients won a court injunction earlier this…
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Canadians Cut off From Local Water Supplies After Billion Gallon Waste Spill
from rianovosti.com: Hundreds of British Columbia residents can no longer consume water at the place where they live following a billion gallon spill of mining waste that reached rivers and creeks in the Cariboo provincial area, the CBC reports. The open-pit Mount Polley copper and gold mine recently suffered a breach in a tailings pond,…
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Canadians Cut off From Local Water Supplies After Billion Gallon Waste Spill
from rianovosti.com: Hundreds of British Columbia residents can no longer consume water at the place where they live following a billion gallon spill of mining waste that reached rivers and creeks in the Cariboo provincial area, the CBC reports. The open-pit Mount Polley copper and gold mine recently suffered a breach in a tailings pond,…
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@DeadlineLive: James Evan Pilato on the Summer of Chaos
http://archive.org/download/20140806DeadlineLive/20140806_DeadlineLive.mp3 Download MP3 Media Monarchy joins Jack Blood for August to talk about the seemingly non-stop chaos of Ebola, border wars, plane crashes, Mideast clashes and the politics of marijuana + the ‘This Day In History’ headlines and more on Deadline Live!
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Canadian cyber-bullying law would let police ‘remotely hack into computers, mobile devices, or cars’
from nationalpost.com: The Harper government’s new cyberbullying legislation includes little-noticed provisions that would allow police to remotely gain entry to computers and track cellphone users’ movements, privacy experts warn. Bill C-13, being studied by the House of Commons justice committee this week, is described by the Conservatives as cyberbullying legislation, but will dramatically expand the…
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Canada Military Reviews Widespread Sex Assaults
from farsnews.com: Canadian Defense Minister Rob Nicholson reacted to the issue on Thursday and noted that he was “deeply angered upon learning of the alleged assaults”, Press TV reported. “Sexual misconduct of all kinds will not be tolerated within the Canadian Armed Forces,” Nicholson said, adding that he had requested General Tom Lawson, Canada’s chief…
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Three More Vaccines Now Mandatory for Ontario Children
from theglobeandmail.com: Ontario is making three more vaccines mandatory for schoolchildren, a move that cements the province’s hard line against parents who decline to immunize their children. As of this September, Ontario students will need to be vaccinated against whooping cough, meningococcal disease and, if they were born after 2010, chickenpox. All three are already…
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GMO Cultivation Declines in Developed Nations for First Time in 18 Years
from naturalnews.com: For the first time since their initial commercialization in the mid-1990s, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are on the decline in the industrialized world, says a new report by the pro-biotech lobbying group International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, or ISAAA. Despite heavy promotion of the technology by the chemical industry, which…
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Access to Affordable, Healthy Food in Canada’s North Nears Crisis
from america.aljazeera.com: Here are grocery prices in some remote communities in Canada’s north: $10 for a carton of milk, $28 for a cabbage, $65 for a chicken. Leesee Papatsie, a resident of Iqaluit, the capital city of the vast northern territory of Nunavut, has seen it all — and documented some of the more budget-busting…
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Canada pursues wider biometric data sharing with Five Eyes allies
from globeandmail.com: Canada is eyeing greatly expanded sharing of immigration information — such as fingerprints of visa applicants — with not only the United States but other key allies. An internal memo prepared for Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander says the government is building an information technology system that could be used for the…
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North American Integration Continues After Robert Pastor’s Death
from thenewamerican.com: The plans of the last decade for a North American Union (NAU) led by Robert Pastor, director of the Center for North American Studies at American University (AU) in Washington D.C. have accelerated in recent months under different cover. Pastor died on January 8, but not without having done serious damage to American…
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Warnings of Boycott Rile Israel While Canada’s PM Makes Friends
Harper Making Good Friends As He Supports Isolated Israel* from dailystar.com.lb: Economy Minister Naftali Bennett dismissed Monday a growing chorus of alarm that Israeli business will face international isolation if peace talks with the Palestinians fail. Indicating rising friction within the government, Bennett urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ignore the warnings, saying an independent…


