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    Vehicle explosion closes Canada-U.S. border crossing near Niagara Falls: FBI

    https://www.cp24.com/news/vehicle-explosion-closes-canada-u-s-border-crossing-near-niagara-falls-fbi-1.6656004 Some articles say all 4 bridges to New York from Canada are closed.
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    So this came from my anti-virus for this site

    Looks like someone, who was perhaps banned, may have given the site a thumbs down.
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    PC Majority

    CP24 calls it.
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    Canada Day 150 Celebrations

    Watching CBC and the coverage of Ottawa. Several observations: Lots of time wasted on the "indigenous" issues the CBC technology teams are pretty incompetent the lineup of singers in Ottawa is pretty lame. Of all the people available our headliner is Buffy St. Marie? Myself I will likely...
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    Not the best way to handle overbooking

    Police are filmed dragging man off United Airlines flight | Daily Mail Online United's CEO apologized today after a man claiming to be a doctor was left bloodied and unconscious as he was dragged off an overbooked flight to make room for staff. The airline is facing mounting outrage after...
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    Meanwhile in San Diego

    San Diego Padres baseball team accused of homophobia after recording of a woman singing national anthem played instead of the city's gay men's chorus who claim they were forced to walk off the field to taunts The incident occurred at Petco Park in San Diego on Saturday evening A hundred...
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    Toronto Marlies

    I know people are all excited about the Raptors and should be getting excited about the Jays (when they finally stop sucking), but there is another franchise in Toronto which has been doing pretty well this year. That is the Toronto Marlies. Although it is quite unusual to have hockey being...
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    Question for the forum Democrats

    Do you support Hillary or Bernie for your leadership? This is simply for my own curiosity. I have read a lot of discussions about the Republican slate. Not much about the Dems. Your thoughts and opinions?
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    Found an old floppy ....

    I found a floppy disk the other day and I showed it to my son. He had no idea what it was and I said it was sort of like a USB drive today just bigger and slower. He wanted to know how many videos we used to get on them? I laughed and said they weren't really used that way.
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    Casey Kasem Dead at 82

    A broadcasting icon. His AT40s from 1970 -- 1988 are legendary. RIP
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    More Lieberal Taxes in Ontario

    Ontario budget: tax hikes on high incomes, tobacco, aviation fuel - Toronto - CBC News Goody. More taxes. Somebody has to pay for those gas plants.
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    Jim Flaherty is dead

    Commons suspends, reports have Flaherty dead | CP24.com RIP Jim. One wonders if the resignation was too late for his health.
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    No more doorknobs (the non-living kind at least) in Vancouver.

    Vancouver shows doorknobs the door I am not sure what to say other than wow.
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    Ontario Liberals to pay to not produce electicity

    I saw this in the elevator that they will be paying wind turbine producers not to produce energy. I googled and all I got was this rather amusing letter/opinion piece. But the logic of this baffles me. It would not suprise me that to overcome the created shortfall we are buying more coal...
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    Internittent DNS errors

    ... when I try to access this site today. And sometimes its just for an icon or two, other times the whole page gives me a DNS error. This site only. Is there an issue and is anybody else experiencing this?
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    KC Chief player does murder suicide thing

    Suicide part in team practice facility. Kansas City Chiefs player fatally shoots himself, police say - NFL.com Rumour has it being Jason Belcher Jovan Belcher, ILB for the Kansas City Chiefs at NFL.com Leaves behind a baby. Something snapped.
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    Bombardier -- we give them money why?

    I saw on the news this morning that Bombardier is planning on closing one of its Canadian plants and relocating it to Mexico. This is the same Bombardier which takes millions of Canadian taxpayer bailouts and loans. Why are we subsidising a company which employs Mexicans? We should immediatly...
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    So ... how about them Cowboys?

    Haven't been here for a while but felt the compelling need to congratulate the Dallas Cowboys on another fine and properly ended season. They made it close threatening to make it to the Superbowl. But in the end they prevailed. Congratulations to all the Cowboys expecially Terrel Owens. Now if...
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    What happened to the PPM referendum last night?

    Have they released the vote tally of the referendum? Do we have PPM next vote or not?
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    Pickering: Sespool of Humanity

    I guess I probably have myself to blame. But it happened so fast. I was at a Pickering McDonalds with my son and his best friend. While they were playing I was doing Sudukos on my Palm. Then my son's best friend had to go pee. He took about 1 minute. I stupidly left the Palm on the table. Of...