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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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American troops killed in Syria bomb attack claimed by Isil

Click:Car Shelters   American troops have been killed in a bomb attack in Syria claimed by Isil, just weeks after Donald Trump said the terror group had been defeated and announced he would pull out US forces.  The attack took place in the northern town of Manbij, where US troops were on patrol.  The exact […]

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Bombardier Is Cutting Thousands Of Jobs

MONTREAL — Bombardier Inc. says it’s cutting about 5,000 jobs across the organization over the next 12 to 18 months as part of a new restructuring plan. The cuts are expected to lead to about US$250 million in annualized savings by 2021. The company also announced the sale of what it called a number of […]

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Zimbabwe security forces fire on protesters amid anger over fuel price hikes

Zimbabwean security forces on Tuesday fired on hundreds of protesters who barricaded roads and burned tyres over fuel price rises of 150 per cent. Protesters in the capital Harare and the second city of Bulawayo chanted slogans against President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who introduced the price rises on Sunday in the face of the country’s worst economic […]

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Daughter of Italy’s murderous mafia godfather names new Paris bistro Corleone

It is not your average Parisian dining experience, but it may add a little extra frisson to the fettucine. The daughter of a notorious mafia killer nicknamed The Beast has opened a restaurant in Paris – and she has called it Corleone after her hometown, the infamous lair of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra. Corleone, in the […]

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