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    voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/Japan latest nation to contest Beijing's South China Sea claims:

    https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pa...ina-sea-claims
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    Tough tests for Joe Biden in 'new' Middle East:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55752102

    voanews.com/extremism-watch/experts - Israel likely to continue attacking Iranian targets in eastern Syria:

    https://www.voanews.com/extremism-wa...-eastern-syria
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    wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/18/Misinformation by activists on plastics [includes microfibers] - science is winning:

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/...ce-is-winning/
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    An old hot news item follow-up of an outrageous proposal made a couple of years back:
    A [rare?] case where sanity eventually prevailed, at least for now...:
    Federal minister cancels review, places proposed [2nd] Cape Breton airport (+golf combo) at taxpayer expense on hold:

    https://globalnews.ca/news/5684172/f...reton-airport/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin Pacey View Post
    torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial - Keystone a captive of US Democratic politics:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/edito...ratic-politics
    edmontonsun.com/opinion/columnists/Gunter: Protesters win, everyone else (including environment) loses in Keystone-XL cancellation:

    https://edmontonsun.com/opinion/colu...l-cancellation

    edmontonsun.com/opinion/columnists/Gunter: Feds' control over TMX-expansion has Kenney's hands tied over Trudeau's Keystone-XL failure:

    https://edmontonsun.com/opinion/colu...one-xl-failure
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    torontosun.com/news/national/Trudeau's 2021 is off to a bad start - vaccine malfunction, Keystone cancellation, and blowback from failing to vet Julie Payette:

    https://torontosun.com/news/national...-julie-payette

    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Kinsella: Trudeau's liberals are clearly nervous over vaccine-rollout:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...accine-rollout
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    An oldie but goodie (and shocker):
    tnc.news/2019/09/27/Federal Liberals play fast and loose with climate data, fabricating past weather patterns [after deleting a century of cross-Canada weather data - from the article: In a video shared by her official Twitter account and then later deleted, Minister McKenna could be heard suggesting that by repeating a claim loudly enough, people will eventually believe it.]:

    https://tnc.news/2019/09/27/liberals...ther-patterns/

    wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie#Goebbels's_use_of_the_expression

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_li...the_expression
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    Ottawa LRT-1: over 100 hours since last incident [stopped train]. Currently running... fast, mayor reports furious [I'd note ridership way, way down, due to pandemic alone]:

    http://occasionaltransport.ca/
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    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Bonokoski: Losing faith in Justin Trudeau ever again telling the truth:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...ling-the-truth
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    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Lilley: Canada gets zero, takes the brunt of vaccine slowdown:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...ccine-slowdown

    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Lilley: A year of covid-19 failures brought us to this point:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...-to-this-point
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