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“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

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Alberta as we know it today simply would not exist without the millions of immigrants and refugees who built it, who loved it, and who were proud to call it home - including my grandparents and my mum. This bitter xenophobia is as unAlbertan as it’s possible to be. I’m ashamed. I’m disgusted.

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Way to go America

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Laugh at the picture, then reflect on the state of the country.

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"COVID tends to spike in the late summer and early fall, so people should consider opening windows to increase ventilation, wearing a mask in certain situations and avoiding crowded areas." abcnews.go.com/Health/covid...

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Rodney Scott - Bitter Tears [USA, Rock & Roll] (1961) Dark & moody atmospheric track from a Campbell, Missouri born singer who released a few singles in the early 60s https://redd.it/11o0uzq https://youtu.be/phq4sj_yEDI

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“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

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Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

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There’s so much bad news but this made me laugh out loud.

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Canada is facing a housing crisis. Could it take a page from Europe? In the Austrian city of Vienna, more than half of its residents live in some form of subsidized housing www.cbc.ca/news/world/e...

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EXCLUSIVE: A judge was lobbying for a seat on the federal bench. After he sided with the president in a defamation case, Donald Trump gave him one.

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www.thewhig.com/opinion/lowe... Lower immunization rates driving measles outbreaks | The Kingston Whig Standard

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This regime and it's agents are completely out of control.

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I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

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Sometimes one nice tree can bring so much joy. Thank you neighbours!

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Planners call it “the popsicle test.” Can a child in your neighbourhood safely walk to a store, buy a popsicle and walk home before it melts? Zoning often prohibits small shops in residential areas. We’re proposing to change that. Tell us what u think! Info sessions June 18 & 19 tinyurl.com/4mpv7mhk

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Fortunate Son ... the song about the rich privileged kid who gets everything handed to him and shirks military service! LOL!

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And there it is. The Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.

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Love this! Sidebar though, St. John's City Council only a few years ago voted unanimously, as part of an update to the sign bylaw, to make posters on poles illegal outside of designated areas downtown.

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Is soup gay?

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An Army vet heading to the VA took a wrong turn—and was detained by Marines in LA. While they acted professionally, their detaining him was likely illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act. It’s another line being crossed—and it puts our Marines in a bad spot. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Denmark’s Ministry of Digital Government is phasing out its use of Microsoft Office.. to switch to open source alternatives like LibreOffice instead. Why? Because relying too heavily on a US tech giant for your nation’s digital infrastructure is starting to feel a bit... well, risky.

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Ontario’s information minister has found that Premier Doug Ford’s staff used code words in communications about the Greenbelt to thwart freedom-of-information requests.

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Favourable views of the US have collapsed almost everywhere around the world since Trump took over. Notable exceptions: Israel, Nigeria, India, South Africa and Turkey.

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This is very dangerous way to phrase the mission when regular US military forces are part of it. "Liberate" a major US city from its duly elected state and local officials? Utterly unacceptable language

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Biking regularly for transportation appears to lower risk of dementia by 19% and Alzheimer's disease by 22%. Cycling might even help increase the size of a brain region important for memory. www.upi.com/Health_News/...

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A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.

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“Whatever happens, stay alive. Don't die before you're dead. Don't lose yourself, don't lose hope, don't lose direction. Stay alive, with yourself, with every cell of your body, with every fiber of your skin. Stay alive, learn, study, think, read, build, invent, create, speak, write, dream, design.

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WE ARE THE SPIDERS OF THIS HOUSE OUR ANCESTORS COLONIZED THE BASEMENT POOR CHOICE OF WORDS—NOBODY LIKES A COLONIZER THESE DAYS WE’VE BEEN HERE SINCE THE JAZZ AGE THREE HUNDRED GENERATIONS, GIVE OR TAKE YOU’VE BEEN HERE FOR TWO YEARS WHO DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO WIN?

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www.cbc.ca/player/play/... We love the work Silver Wolf Band is doing with these kiddos to uplift the community through music! We're so grateful to have them perform for this years Folk Fest! Catch them on Saturdays main stage or the Traditions Tent for Art of the Ballad: Songs as Storytelling

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EXCLUSIVE: CA National Guard troops sent by Trump to LA amid immigration protests are sleeping on concrete floors. No fed funding for food, water, fuel, equipment or lodging. Source: “Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight” www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

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This is precisely correct.

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Anyone concerned about the state of democracy should read this stuff.

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My column: Winnipeg is the latest North American city to effectively eliminate single family zoning, allowing 2-4 homes on every lot city-wide, as-of-right. This will reshape our neighbourhoods over time, allowing more “missing middle” housing to be built. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

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Please read this, and understand that Gene is not making this up. www.timescolonist.com/opinion/gene... #VictoriaBC #yyj

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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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Doctors will urge the UK's data watchdog to investigate whether NHS England broke the law in training its generative artificial intelligence model Foresight on patient records.

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🇸🇱 VIDEO: Sierra Leonean villagers fight back against alarming deforestation In a protected rainforest near Freetown, a widow prepares to burn tree trunks to make charcoal — an illegal activity contributing to deforestation in a country already vulnerable to climate change.

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www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-off... “My career in public health and vaccinology started with a deep-seated desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population, and that is not something I am able to continue doing in this role," Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos wrote.

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That escalated quickly.

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FDA rushed out agency-wide AI tool—it’s not going well arstechnica.com/health/2025/... @arstechnica.com 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca

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