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Afghan insurgents launch rocket–propelled grenade into main U.S. base. Voter turnout for Saturday’s Parliamentary ‘elections’ was extremely low in Marja, a Helmand Province battleground, as bullets flew over the polling station near the district center, firefights erupted in the fields lining the network of canals and insurgents launched a rocket–propelled grenade into the main United States Marine base here. By noon there were reports that fewer than 100 people had voted in southern Marja. The population of all of Marja is about 80,000.
RCMP have laid five charges against a Calgary man related to the operation of a website highly critical... Ridge Meadows RCMP have made an arrest in connection to an alleged gang rape at a party in Pitt Meadows last weekend. Off With the Muzzles. What is the Harper government afraid of? Scientists at Natural Resources Canada have been told they need "pre-approval" from the minister’s office before speaking to journalists, according to access-to-information documents obtained by Postmedia News.
These new rules, imposed in March, affect not only scientists speaking on controversial topics such as climate change and Alberta's oilsands, but also those researchers studying pre-historic glacial melting.
Markets/Economics BusinessHaiti’s Disaster Capitalists Swoop In. Refugee evictions, private land grabs, disaster capitalism—you can't tell the story of Haiti without all this. Eight months after the earthquake, many of the 1.7 million Haitians living under tattered tarps in squalid squatter camps around Port-au-Prince are being forced to abandon the tent cities they've set up on privately owned land Meanwhile, businesses—eager to slurp up the spoils of disaster—are swooping in to score major paydays by moving the refugees to new camps, some set to operate as industrial work zones. And there's no one stopping it....
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