Monthly Archives: April 2019

11 killed in Israeli airstrikes against Iranian bases in Syria

Israeli airstrikes in Syria killed 11 Iranian and pro-regime fighters on Monday, in the most serious direct confrontation between Iran and Israel in the last six months.  Israeli warplanes attacked bases belonging to Iran’s elite Quds Force after an Iranian missile was fired from Syria towards the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on Sunday, the Israeli military […]

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5 Workouts To Take Out Of The Gym And Into Nature This Spring

Click:composite polymer insulator Healthy living isn’t one size fits all. After graduation from college, I found it challenging to lose the weight I gained during school, and to eat healthy and keep fit. I believed that if I wanted to be fit, I had to hit the gym regularly and only eat salads. It wasn’t […]

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Divers find cockpit voice recorder from Lion Air jet crash in Indonesia

Navy divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of the Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October, Indonesian officials said on Monday, in a possible boost to the accident investigation. Ridwan Djamaluddin, a deputy maritime minister, told reporters that remains of some of the 189 people who died in the crash were […]

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Microsoft Announces New Canadian Headquarters In Downtown Toronto

Microsoft has announced plans for a large new Canadian headquarters in downtown in Toronto, what it describes as a “massive new investment.” The company plans to move into 81 Bay Street, the first of two buildings in the “CIBC Square” complex near the city’s waterfront, currently under construction. Its head office is currently located in […]

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Why Your Local Small Business Feels Burned By The Carbon Tax

If you live in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario or New Brunswick, you’ve been hearing a lot about the carbon tax rebate coming your way after filing your 2018 income taxes. You know, the one that is supposed to be larger than the amount you actually pay toward the new federal carbon backstop that kicks in on […]

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Republican rebellion against Donald Trump’s border wall shutdown stance gathers pace

A Republican rebellion against Donald Trump’s refusal to reopen government without new money for his Mexico border wall appears to be growing as his TV address failed to break the impasse.  Three Republican senators are now publicly calling for the government shutdown to end even if there is no border wall deal, while half a dozen […]

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Doug Ford's Ontario PCs Say Killing Cap-And-Trade System Will Cost $5M

TORONTO — Ontario’s new Progressive Conservative government expects to spend up to $5 million to compensate companies that bought into the province’s cap-and-trade system, the provincial environment minister said Wednesday before moving to repeal the carbon pricing program. Rod Phillips introduced a bill that, if passed, will lay out the legal framework to wind down […]

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Yoshi’s Crafted World review – at long last, a worthy successor to Yoshi’s Island

The key word here, really, is craft. It’s there, first of all, in the aesthetics of this, Good-Feel’s second outing with Yoshi (or third if you want to be really picky and include the 3DS offshoot with Poochy). This a world of lollipop sticks and sticky-back plastic, where discarded cereal boxes stand in for rolling […]

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British ‘spy’ accused of receiving USB stick with ‘state secrets,’ lawyer says

Investigators have accused a British citizen held on espionage charges in Russia of receiving a USB stick that contained state secrets, his lawyer has said.  Paul Whelan, 48, believed the USB stick had photographs and other information about a church he had visited, lawyer Vladimir Zherebenkov said. FSB security agents swooped in and seized him […]

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Toronto Beats Silicon Valley In Tech Job Creation: CBRE

Toronto has added the most technology jobs in the past five years and has the fourth best technology talent market in Canada and the U.S., according to a new report. The report by CBRE Group says Toronto added 82,100 technology-related jobs between 2012 and 2017 to beat out the San Francisco Bay Area for the […]

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