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by djkivi 5y ago
Conrad Black hasn't owned the National Post for over 20 years.
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by djkivi 5y ago
On that linked Wikipedia page, the major western countries (e.g. Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Switzerland, UK, US, ...) don't appear to have any data listed.
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by djkivi 5y ago
Early on it was debunked, but now maybe not so much... https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1396769717805780994
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WestJet/TELUS launch facial recognition boarding trial at Calgary Airport(calgary.ctvnews.ca)
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UC slams the door on standardized admissions tests, nixing any SAT alternative(latimes.com)
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by djkivi 5y ago
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” - Albert Einstein https://www.goodreads.com&#x
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Frank Herbert by Timothy O'Reilly(oreilly.com)
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Here is an article from Maclean's discussing Canada's post-2008 recession economic performance: https://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/stephen-harper-and-... I think your view of Stephen Harper's
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by djkivi 5y ago
Alberta has a lot of oil, and even created a fund, the Heritage Fund, in the 1970s to save some of the wealth from drilling oil. Unfortunately Alberta has mismanaged that fund so it is now far smaller than Norway's. https://
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Justin Tucker’s Quest for the 70-Yard Field Goal(theringer.com)
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by djkivi 5y ago
I don't understand. Some of our most trusted news sources told us that a lab origin was debunked. https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/841925672/scientists-debunk-l...
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by djkivi 5y ago
Who controls the past controls the future? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/16/tom-cotto...
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by djkivi 5y ago
This post collects some "evidence": https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnfx0r/not_conf...
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US agencies scrub websites to protect Afghans left behind(apnews.com)
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I doubt Biden intended for Afghanis to be hanging on US airplanes as they took off from Kabul.
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by djkivi 5y ago
He did get it, but didn't Biden initially question whether these vaccines would be safe? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-trump-coronavi...
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by djkivi 5y ago
I thought this theory was debunked by scientists over a year ago? https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/841925672/scientists-debunk-l...
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by djkivi 5y ago
What a difference a year makes? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/why-scientists-belie...
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by djkivi 6y ago
Not in Europe, but I'm not sure how much I trust that list when it ranks Vancouver and Montreal ahead of Toronto.
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by djkivi 6y ago
Even 25 years later I see Seinfeld is on 11 times tomorrow with my cable package.
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by djkivi 6y ago
Well, the Bay's been around since God who knows...maybe it's time to move on.
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by djkivi 6y ago
That article doesn't say how much Musk or Buffett are actually worth. Musk is now at $70.5B, while Buffett is at $69.2B according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index which is at https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires&#x
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by djkivi 16y ago
KeyTweak is how I do it on Windows: http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/