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Debunking Canadian health care myths By Rhonda Hackett As a Canadian living in the United States for the past 17 years, I am frequently asked by Americans and Canadians alike to declare one health care system as the better one. Often I’ll avoid answering, regardless of the questioner’s nationality. To choose one or the...
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Bob Corker, the Republican Senator from Tennessee, talks more sense than has come from the mouths of most in Washington for months. “Voters want to see the end of ‘too-big-to-fail’ financial firms but don’t care about the other, more arcane details that divide the two parties.” Has Congress allowed themselves to become so polarized...
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Australia’s government is banning adult publications and films featuring women with small breasts, says Aussie activist Fiona Patten. A ban that classifies normal female bodies as ‘obscene’ could not be any more insulting, says adult industry blog, Ms Naughty. Not only does this encourage women to have breast augmentations, it characterizes men who think...
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Just when we thought kindergarten was decades behind us… Rove once again proves that he doesn’t play well with others, manipulates the class with his own version of ‘facts’, and admits that a factor in going into Iraq was to stop Saddam from holding all of his own oil on his own side of...
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