Rokeš
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Joined March 2009
If you want a sense of how much has changed in the NHL in the past 10 years. It's January 26. The top scorer in the NHL is Connor McDavid, with 90 points. 2nd is MacKinnon with 88. On January 26 2016, the top scorer in the NHL was Patrick Kane with 73. 2nd was Benn with 58.
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Boosting the GST credit is good policy. American-style phaseouts to the boost after a period of time? Not so good.
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I am not enjoying being colder than Churchill (where my sister says she stepped outside and thought it was quite warm today).
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The Vancouver skyline is absolutely hideous. A jumbled mess of ugly, no national character, no human scale, imposed upon very pleasant background scenery. A true city of the shitegeist.
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We haven't even accomplished all this *within Canada*.
Imagine a world where any citizen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the United Kingdom can live, work, study and build a life in any of our four nations - without visas, permits or barriers. Free movement within CANZUK would unlock boundless opportunities: skilled
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I was hoping there'd be improvement with managing two games a week in his second go round with Champions League fixtures but that hasn't been the case.
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I think Newcastle's struggles comes down to Howe's involvement in transfers and Howe struggling to manage more than 1 game/week.
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Canada is a real place with real politics and a real people. It's not a place for frustrated American progressives to project their political impotence.
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Oh come on, no Leafs game but we still don't get Cuthbert? Chris Cuthbert calling Habs-Bruins is what God, nature, and Richard Zednik intended.
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Get this man Dougie Hamilton so he can stick to the left side.
Lane Hutsonās defense partners this season: ⢠Engstrom - Hutson: 26:03 mins ⢠Matheson - Hutson: 52:00 mins ⢠Xhekaj - Hutson: 61:33 mins ⢠Guhle - Hutson: 73:51 mins ⢠Hutson - Dobson: 175:03 mins ⢠Struble - Hutson: 315:01 mins ⢠Hutson - Carrier: 319:20 mins
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Rachel Reid, Canadian writer of Heated Rivalry, tells Variety she was on a five-year waiting list to see a Parkinson's expert. But now that she's famous, she has an appointment in two weeks. https://t.co/gFNxc2k8hH
variety.com
'Heated Rivalry' author Rachel Reid talks about Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie's first sex scene, her hopes for Season 2 and fighting Parkinson's.
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āCanada cannot disarm its civilian population and lay the groundwork for an insurgency at the same time. It just canāt.ā
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Looking up ER wait times in Canada and the USA š. The worst part is it's completely within the power of each province to fix healthcare; everyone from the Alberta UCP to the BC or Manitoba NDP the even campaign on it! But at the end of the day they do diddly squat.
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š: "So much patriotic ink has been spilled over Heated Rivalry's success, but the most Canadian detail is in a BBC piece: the author has Parkinson's disease, and was on a 5-year waiting list for treatment until she entered the ranks of the nation's elite" https://t.co/r1wZt8n7Kt
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I'm old enough to remember when climate activists were telling us to pivot from natural resources to tech.
NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis goes after AI data centres. Lewis calls for a pause on data centre construction, @CBCDavid reports https://t.co/d0MgYYm9tL Find out more at https://t.co/1zbPY5GAhV
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