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on July 3, 2014 in World News

Rob Ford fact check: Verifying Toronto mayor’s remarks

Rob Ford fact check: Verifying Toronto mayor’s remarks Mayor blames drinking, drug abuse for racist, homophobic slurs In his first post-rehab interview, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admits to “lying, conniving and hiding to cover up” his substance-abuse problems. The mayor’s deceptions have led his political opponents and members of the public to question his most recent public statements, not least a remark to CBC News reporter Dwight Drummond that his “public record is better than any mayor’s in the city of Toronto.” Here’s a closer look at other comments the mayor made in his conversation with Drummond, and inconsistencies in… View Article

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on July 3, 2014 in World News

Google Moving to “Suppress Legitimate Journalism”

BBC Reporter: Google Moving to “Suppress Legitimate Journalism” “Right to be forgotten” ruling threatens to “curb freedom of expression” BBC economics editor Robert Peston warns that Google’s implementation of the controversial “right to be forgotten” ruling is working to “suppress legitimate journalism” after one of his articles about Merrill Lynch boss Stan O’Neal was scrubbed from the search engine. A recent ruling in the European Court of Justice mandated that Google must delete “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant” data when it receives a request to do so, which could open the floodgates for powerful individuals, corporations and institutions to… View Article

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on July 2, 2014 in World News

Rob Ford on drug use

Rob Ford on drug use: ‘You name it, I pretty well covered it’ Toronto mayor says drug use began long before he became mayor Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted today to CBC that he abused alcohol in his city hall office, but refused to say whether he would resign if he returns to drinking and using drugs. Ford made the comments Wednesday in a one-on-one interview with CBC’s Dwight Drummond, three days after returning to work following two months in a rehabilitation facility. In his interview with CBC, Ford also blamed his bad behaviour, such as making sexist and homophobic… View Article

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on July 2, 2014 in World News

Obama worst President in 70 years

Obama worst President in 70 years   <iframe width=”590″ height=”332″ src=”http://launch.newsinc.com/?type=VideoPlayer/Single&widgetId=1&trackingGroup=69016&siteSection=washingtontimes_pp_nws_non_sty_ppap&videoId=26323740″ frameborder=”no” scrolling=”no” noresize marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″></iframe>   Poll after poll shows President Obama’s approval rating dipping recently, and one new Quinnipiac University Poll finds that voters say Mitt Romney would have been a better choice in 2012. With Mr. Obama deploying military troops to Iraq, failing to find compromise with Congress and seeing major defeats in the Supreme Court, voters continue to sour on him.   Quinnipiac found 45 percent of voters say the country would have been better off if Mr. Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee, had been elected,… View Article

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on July 1, 2014 in World News

Corruption Making Americans Feel Less Free

Obama Admin Corruption Making Americans Feel Less Free Americans feel less free and are more dissatisfied with the “freedom to chose what they do with their lives” since President Barack Obama took office. Gallup concluded that was largely the case due to Obama’s scandals and poor economy. A Gallup survey found that percentage of Americans who are “satisfied with the freedom to choose what they do with their lives” dropped from 91% in 2006 to 79% in 2013. During that same period, Americans who “dissatisfied with the freedom to choose what they do with their lives more than doubled, from… View Article

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on July 1, 2014 in World News

Census Shows White Deaths Outpace Births

Census Shows White Deaths Outpace Births Other factors underscoring a changing country include a baby boom in big cities. For the second year in a row, the number of non-Hispanic white deaths in 2013 outweighed the number of white births, signaling an increasingly older and diversified American public. It is a trend that’s likely to continue for a while, as traditionally minority groups become the majority of the U.S. population. As a result of its slower growth rate, compared with other groups, the number of non-Hispanic white individuals declined to 62.6 percent of the total overall population in 2013 from… View Article

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on July 1, 2014 in World News

Former Bloc leader says Canada is ‘a great country’ 9

Former Bloc leader says Canada is ‘a great country’ 9 Canada got a ringing endorsement Monday from the unlikeliest of people — lifelong separatist and former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe. In a column in Le Journal de Montreal, a QMI Agency newspaper, Duceppe extolled the virtues of the country he tried to break up during his 21 years in politics. He blasted federal politics in general and Stephen Harper’s Conservatives in particular, but Duceppe said Canada Day gives him positive vibes. “I understand why Canadians celebrate the 1st of July, since Canada is a great country,” he wrote. “I… View Article

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on July 1, 2014 in World News

Don Cherry overlooked for Order of Canada once again

  Don Cherry overlooked for Order of Canada once again Don Cherry doesn’t need the Order of Canada to validate his importance to Canada — or his love of the country, either. And that’s a good thing because it doesn’t look like he will ever receive one. Most involved in the behind-the-scenes, decade-long movement to try to ensure Cherry joins this exclusive club were counting on this being the year he would finally get his due. Grapes turned 80 in March and Hockey Night in Canada is no longer a CBC entity. Cherry is coming out of an incredible era… View Article

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on June 30, 2014 in World News

Rob Ford: ‘I had become my own worst enemy’

Rob Ford: ‘I had become my own worst enemy’ Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he’s sorry for some of the things he did when using drugs and alcohol, but he’s resolved to make changes in his life following a stint in rehab. “When I look back on some of the things I have said and some of the things I did when I was using, I am ashamed, embarrassed and humiliated,” Ford told reporters at an invitation-only news conference Monday, when he returned to city hall after a two-month absence. Ford had taken a leave of absence to seek help… View Article

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on June 30, 2014 in World News

Profiteering on Banker Deaths

Profiteering on Banker Deaths: Regulator Says Public Has No Right to Details A man with a long history of keeping big bank secrets safe from the public’s prying eyes has denied the appeal filed by Wall Street On Parade to obtain specifics about the worker deaths upon which JPMorgan Chase pockets the life insurance money each year. According to its financial filings, as of December 31, 2013, JPMorgan held $17.9 billion in Bank-Owned Life Insurance (BOLI) assets, a dark corner of the insurance market that allows banks to take out life insurance policies on their workers, secretly pocket the death… View Article

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