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on April 13, 2015 in World News

Alachua County’s armored vehicle makes traffic stop after driver flips the bird

By Arek Sarkissian Staff writer The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office has launched an investigation into why deputies in a beefy armored vehicle performed a traffic stop on a Gainesville man who allegedly directed an obscene hand gesture toward them. Lucas Jewell, 23, recorded his interaction on a cellphone with a team of ASO deputies in special-operations uniforms after the imposing Lenco Bear Cat Armored Personnel Carrier stopped his Ford Taurus at the Alachua County Headquarters Library downtown. In an ASO report written for “informational purposes,” Deputy Charles Drake wrote that he and his colleagues were headed east along the 1400… View Article

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on April 13, 2015 in World News

Sentencing hearing for ex-Ont deputy education minister hears child porn details

Premier Wynne – Benjamin Levin Sentencing hearing for ex-Ont deputy education minister hears child porn details Child pornography files found on a computer belonging to a man who was once deputy education minister for Ontario and Manitoba were described in graphic detail Monday as his sentencing hearing got underway in a Toronto courtroom. Benjamin Levin pleaded guilty to three child pornography-related charges last month. The 63-year-old was originally charged with seven child porn-related offences. The Toronto police detective who led the investigation into Levin was called as a Crown witness and described a number of files found on Levin’s computer,… View Article

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on April 13, 2015 in World News

Why Canada should abolish the Indian Act and reserve system

Michael Den Tandt: Why Canada should abolish the Indian Act and reserve system By Michael Den Tandt April 13, 2015 Should a national public inquiry be convened to shine a klieg light on the plight of missing and murdered indigenous women? Absolutely. But let there be no flinching from the result, wherever it may lead — even if that is a final indictment of the parlous reserve system itself, and a concerted push to abolish the Indian Act, appalling racist relic that it is, once and for all. RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson caused a stir Friday with the release of… View Article

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on April 13, 2015 in World News

Parliament Hill: Unearthed artifacts tell pre-Confederation story

Parliament Hill: Unearthed artifacts tell pre-Confederation story If Parliament Hill has sometimes seemed throughout its history like a boozy, male-dominated powder keg, it’s worth noting that’s partly what it was built on. Recent archeological digs outside some of the main buildings in the precinct have turned up tens of thousands of artifacts from the early 19th century. They tell a story of life before Sir John A. Macdonald, before MPs and senators, and before Ottawa was even called Ottawa. Starting in 1827, the area that is now Parliament Hill was called Barrack Hill, a staging ground for the British Royal… View Article

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on April 13, 2015 in World News

Supreme Court to rule on Harper government’s sentencing law for gun crimes

Supreme Court to rule on Harper government’s sentencing law for gun crimes The Supreme Court of Canada is set to rule Tuesday on a key part of the Conservative government’s tough-on-crime agenda. The high court will deliver its ruling in a pair of cases involving mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes. The Ontario Court of Appeal struck down the law in 2013, calling it “cruel and unusual punishment,” so the provincial attorney general and its federal counterpart are appealing the ruling. The Appeal Court struck down both the three-year mandatory minimum for a first offence of possessing a loaded prohibited… View Article

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on April 13, 2015 in World News

Canadians ditching cable

Canadians ditching cable A new report says more Canadians are choosing to cancel their cable TV and satellite packages and there’s no sign of the migration slowing down. The Convergence Consulting Group says about 95,000 fewer households had a cable TV or satellite subscription in 2014. That’s a dramatic increase in the number of people without TV cable packages. The previous year the number of TV subscriptions fell 13,000. Brahm Eiley, president of Toronto-based firm that completed the study, says he expects the industry to lose another 97,000 in 2015 as the shift away from paying for traditional TV services… View Article

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on April 13, 2015 in World News

DHS is influencing America’s TV shows, movies, electric cars and much more!

DHS is influencing America’s TV shows, movies, electric cars and much more! DHS claims its “PATRIOTIC” to influence TV shows, movies, invest in sports centers, casinos, shopping malls, rest homes and more! The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) inspector general has released hundreds of pages of emails plus other documents in support of its investigation of improper influence on the EB-5 immigration program. Many of the documents discuss hundreds of millions of dollars in financing for film and television productions from Sony Pictures and Time Warner with prominent politicians including former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendall and the office of former Los Angeles… View Article

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on April 13, 2015 in World News

Citi Economist Says It Might Be Time to Abolish Cash

Citi Economist Says It Might Be Time to Abolish Cash Would this save the world economy? The world’s central banks have a problem. When economic conditions worsen, they react by reducing interest rates in order to stimulate the economy. But, as has happened across the world in recent years, there comes a point where those central banks run out of room to cut — they can bring interest rates to zero, but reducing them further below that is fraught with problems, the biggest of which is cash in the economy. In a new piece, Citi’s Willem Buiter looks at this problem,… View Article

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on April 13, 2015 in World News

Tony Blair: Democracy Doesn’t Work, But Totalitarianism Will

Tony Blair: Democracy Doesn’t Work, But Totalitarianism Will Globalist seeks control over everyone Tony Blair yesterday faced accusations of ‘megalomania’ over an interview in which he vowed to set up his own ‘leaders club’ of ex-statesmen – and appeared to dismiss the need for democracy. http://www.infowars.com/tony-blair-democracy-doesnt-work-but-totalitarianism-will/

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