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    Here's one link re: 10 reasons why the internet is no substitute for a library:

    https://www.researchgate.net/publica..._for_a_library
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    Somewhat old article:
    GOLDSTEIN: Massive taxpayer subsidies powering Ontario's electricity sector, says report [Costs for Ontario's electricity system increased by 75% from 2006 to 2019 {largely McGuinty-Wynne liberal era} while demand dropped 10% - a major reason to vote for Ford is the hope electricity costs don't skyrocket any further, as under pretty socialist/greenie Ontario libs]:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/golds...or-says-report
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    A wiki re: Kraken (fictional sea monster!?) followed by a wiki re: sharks (both are sea creatures that were chosen as nicknames for Western NHL hockey teams, Seattle and San Jose respectively):

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

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark
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    theguardian.com/food/2021/oct/20/'World's most sustainable spirit' - vodka made with CO2 captured from air:

    https://www.theguardian.com/food/202...ainable-spirit
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    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Bonokoski - will it be three more years of Donald Trump 'mulling'?:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...-trump-mulling
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    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Lilley - Bank of Canada plays chicken with inflation as poultry prices spike:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...y-prices-spike

    torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/Editorial - a $50 billion hole in Trudeau's fiscal plan:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/edito...ms-fiscal-plan
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    John Ivison: Wage subsidy program and similar pandemic emergency spending should be ended [According to a new examination of CEWS, the program was as profligate as it was scattergun and would likely not pass the most desultory cost-benefit analysis]:

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/joh...hould-be-ended
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    John Ivison: House of Commons vaccine mandate tramples over rights of MPs [What the Liberal-dominated Board does not do is make decisions on fundamental constitutional questions. Yet that is what it has just done]:

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/joh...accine-mandate
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    John Robson: If you want to destroy Canada, ignore the results of the Alberta referendum [If the final tally shows Albertans want to end equalization, and the feds ignore that, the province's next vote will be on separation]:

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/joh...rta-referendum
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    Rex Murphy: On climate change, the CBC has crossed the line from news agency to PMO mouthpiece [To save time and money, why not just have the news anchors read press releases from the Prime Minister's Office?]:

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex...pmo-mouthpiece

    On the other hand...
    The reconciliation project is vulnerable to cynicism — and Trudeau's Tofino trip didn't help [Polling shows the number of Canadians who see Ottawa as an obstacle to progress is growing]:

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tru...tion-1.6216707

    nationalpost.com/news/canada/'Not accurate', Truth and reconciliation centre says of Trudeau's claim that all residential schools documents are transferred:

    https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...re-transferred
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