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Apple responds to AG Barr over unlocking Pensacola shooter's phone: "No."

Edited January 14, 20206 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

A Florida woman tried to build a bomb inside a Walmart using items she didn't pay

Pakistani kidnap/rape gangs in Manchester. Cops knew . Did nothing. Told mass arrests would look "racist". And the Left wonders why it loses elections.

Oh, look... More partisan tears from the con-troll with no actual proof to substantiate his bullshit narrative and exaggerated stories of the progressive, liberal, lefty boogeyman hellbent on destroying "traditional" culture and morals.

Meanwhile, in actual news: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/usmca-senate-passes-1.5429451

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Senators on Capitol Hill have finally approved the latest version of North America's free trade pact.

The implementation bill for the long-awaited U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement passed on a vote of 89-10.

That means it now needs only the signature of President Donald Trump to be fully approved in the United States.

Canada itself has yet to ratify the agreement, a process that's expected to begin shortly after MPs return to the House of Commons Jan. 27.

 

So how about Buzzergate eh! 

On 2019-08-24 at 12:15 PM, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-thursday-edition-1.5253270/steve-mcqueen-s-1968-mustang-from-bullitt-up-for-auction-after-45-years-with-nashville-family-1.5253273

https://www.motor1.com/news/392277/original-mustang-bullitt-auction-price/

 

Whose up for Bankruptcy Thread?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ten-thousand-villages-winnipeg-closing-1.5434881

The owner of greeting card retailers including Carlton Cards and Papyrus is closing all of its stores in North America, including 76 Canadian locations.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-unpaid-taxes-oil-industry-rural-municipalities-1.5433435

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The amount of unpaid property taxes that oil and gas companies owe Alberta rural municipalities has more than doubled over the last year, a trend some are calling a tax revolt.

Rural Municipalities Alberta said Monday that a survey of its members shows that they are owed a total of $173 million — a 114 per cent increase since a similar survey was done last spring.

"Municipalities require property taxes to provide the infrastructure and services that industry relies on to access natural resources," association president Al Kemmere said in a release.

"If Alberta's property tax system is not amended to prevent oil and gas companies from refusing to pay property taxes, many rural municipalities will struggle to remain viable."

 

4 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

The owner of greeting card retailers including Carlton Cards and Papyrus is closing all of its stores in North America, including 76 Canadian locations.

 

I would assume they lost a lot of business to the dollar stores and online greetings.....

It's literally raining iguanas in Florida.

“Iguanas are cold blooded. They slow down or become immobile when temps drop into the 40s (4-6 Celsius). They may fall from the trees, but they’re not dead,” the weather service said.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/cold-weather-in-florida-causes-stiffened-iguanas-to-start-falling-from-trees

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/scientists-move-doomsday-clock-closer-midnight-n1121176?cid=ed_npd_bn_tw_bn

On 2020-01-22 at 9:51 AM, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-unpaid-taxes-oil-industry-rural-municipalities-1.5433435

 

Related.  Farmers getting upset with deadbeat owners of oil and gas wells, confrontation imminent, UCP nowhere to be found.

 

 

Alberta landowners urge farmers to cut power to wells with unpaid debts

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-landowners-farmers-power-unpaid-debts-1.5438969

32 minutes ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

Farmers getting upset with deadbeat owners of oil and gas wells, confrontation imminent, UCP nowhere to be found.

 

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Industry has said low oil prices and falling profits in Alberta's conventional oilpatch mean companies have to cut costs to keep the lights on and employees on the payroll.

. Oil company history is pretty straightforward.

Wham bam thankyou maam.

Thanks solong for keeping an eye on this. very interesting.

 

Edited January 24, 20206 yr by Mark F

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/6477906/mighty-ducks-star-shaun-weiss-arrested/

Sad what drugs can do to someone...

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/authorities-find-longest-southwest-border-smuggling-tunnel/2300783

1 hour ago, Brandon said:

https://globalnews.ca/news/6477906/mighty-ducks-star-shaun-weiss-arrested/

Sad what drugs can do to someone...

Ex-NHL goalie Ed Belfour arrested on mischief, intoxication charges

 

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/6472350/ed-belfour-arrested/

https://www.transparency.org/cpi2019

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Since its inception in 1995, the Corruption Perceptions Index, Transparency International’s flagship research product, has become the leading global indicator of public sector corruption. The index offers an annual snapshot of the relative degree of corruption by ranking countries and territories from all over the globe. In 2012, Transparency International revised the methodology used to construct the index to allow for comparison of scores from one year to the next. The 2019 CPI draws on 13 surveys and expert assessments to measure public sector corruption in 180 countries and territories, giving each a score from zero (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

Canada was ranked 12th in the world last year.

Edited January 30, 20206 yr by blue_gold_84
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The America Is Nuts Thread

 

Edited February 1, 20206 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

3 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

The America Is Nuts Thread

 

Maybe if you don’t set off the detector they give you a gun to borrow for the length of your stay in the capital 

https://www.chrisd.ca/2020/02/03/liquor-mart-robbery-theft-man-hit-unconscious/

57 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.chrisd.ca/2020/02/03/liquor-mart-robbery-theft-man-hit-unconscious/

I’m sure the province will be happy to tell this elderly hero that it was his own fault.  Maybe charge him for the bottle he broke with his head. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-court-appeal-trans-mountain-1.5450748

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The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Indigenous groups challenging the federal government's approval of the Trans Mountain expansion project — clearing yet another major legal hurdle for the long-delayed $7.4 billion project, which will carry nearly a million barrels of Alberta oil per day to the B.C. coast.

In a unanimous 3-0 decision, the court ruled that Ottawa carried out "reasonable" and "meaningful" consultations with Indigenous peoples affected by the project's construction before approving the pipeline for a second time.

"This was anything but rubber-stamping exercise. The end result was not a ratification of the earlier approval, but an approval with amended conditions flowing directly from renewed consultation," the court said. "All very much consistent with the concepts of reconciliation and the honour of the Crown."

 

On 2020-01-30 at 12:01 PM, blue_gold_84 said:

Canada was ranked 12th in the world last year.

I have a problem with transparency International:

If you look at their definition of corruption, you realize that they rank USA incorrectly, giving them far more credit than they are due; they put it within ten points of Canada.

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Grand corruption consists of acts committed at a high level of government that distort policies or the central functioning of the state, enabling leaders to benefit at the expense of the public good

By that defintion the USA is absolutely wallowing in corruption.

Edited February 4, 20206 yr by Mark F