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    nationalpost.com/opinion: Randall Denley: Trudeau's plastics ban promises results but Ontario's plan is already en route to delivering them:

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ran...elivering-them
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    nationalpost.com/opinion: John Robson: You can't tame Trump but we can stop provoking him:

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/joh...-provoking-him
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    A recent National Post article re: the situation in Hong Kong:

    https://nationalpost.com/news/world/...o-restore-calm
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin Pacey View Post
    A recent BBC article on the high tensions in the Gulf between the US and Iran:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48631320
    Here's the wiki re: US-Iran relations:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E...ates_relations
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin Pacey View Post
    Something that possibly should be hotter in the news than it was was last December's admission by the Pentagon that it had indeed been studying UFO sightings, still, for years. At the very least, it's an admission the US government can lie to the public in a big way :

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanc...cation_Program
    Here's the wiki re: UFOs:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniden..._flying_object

    [edit1: wiki re: 1960s British Sci-Fi TV series: ]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captai..._the_Mysterons

    [edit2: wiki re: 1960s American Sci-Fi TV series:]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invaders

    [edit3: wiki re: UFO, 1970 Sci-Fi TV series: ]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(TV_series)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin Pacey View Post
    Here's a wiki about Maxime Bernier, a Canadian Conservative politician in the news who's had ups and downs over the years:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxime_Bernier
    Here's the wiki re: the federal Canadian political party called People's Party of Canada (formed last year, and led by Maxime Bernier):

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People...arty_of_Canada
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin Pacey View Post
    Here's the wiki re: the Israel-Palestine conflict; perhaps a hint of how contentious it is can be gathered from the disputed neutrality of parts of the article itself, alone:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel...inian_conflict
    Here's the wiki re: Trump Peace Plan (full details still undisclosed, to say the least):

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_peace_plan
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    Here's a relatively new centre-right Canadian news website, which the left-wing CBC apparently was so concerned about that it investigated it:

    https://www.thepostmillennial.com/
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    Here's the wiki re: cultural appropriation, which notes criticisms of the idea that it's wrong, as well:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation
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    Fwiw, here's the wiki re: political correctness:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness
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