Ready and Steady Til He Comes!
On Tuesday, June 17, 2015, thousands of police officers, including members of the Edmonton Police Service and fellow officers from other parts of Canada, the U.S. and even Great Britain, marched through the streets of Downtown Edmonton in a dramatic funeral procession from the Alberta Legislature to the Edmonton Convention Centre, where they said goodbye to one of their own,
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by Calling Out Community, Posted June 6, 2015 71 years ago this morning (June 6, 1944) my Uncle Clayton Cross was on a landing craft with a handful of other prairie boys, crossing the English Channel from the relatively safe British coast, embarking on an adventure into Nazi-occupied France, and their target, code-named “Juno Beach” – an adventure that would
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👤 By Shawn J. ¦ Founding Editor, Calling Out Community ✒ Posted March 31, 2015. 🐦 Twitter: Follow Us ¦ 👍 Facebook: Like Us ✉ Email us with comments! This weekend, the summer blockbuster hit “San Andreas”… …rocked the foreign box office, according to IMDb.com, earning a leading $97.8 million from approximately 22,590 screens in 68 markets…Globally, “San Andreas,” which stars Dwayne
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Every time I read a news story as idiotic as this one, I wonder how much longer this planet actually has, with such stupid people elected to take care of it. How anyone can believe in evolution after seeing a politician at work amazes me – they are the poster kids for the devolution of society. And today, I’m awarding the 2015 Booby Prize
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by Calling Out Community, Posted May 18, 2015 Former New York Senator, former U.S. Secretary of State, former First Lady and now 2016 United States Presidential hopeful – Hilary Rodham Clinton’s resume reads better than three of her political opponents combined. With that much experience and knowledge under her proverbial belt, and recognizing the power of the media to pull
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by Calling Out Community, Posted May 8, 2015. Updated January 2, 2016. In early May, 2015, Labour Party leader David Miliband had detailed an action plan to start to oust current British Prime Minister David Cameron from Downing Street on the day after the general election, based on the private polling that showed the party ahead in key marginal seats.
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👤 By Shawn J. ¦ Founding Editor, Calling Out Community ✒ Originally Posted April 21, 2015. Updated April 20, 2016 🐦 Twitter: Follow Us ¦ 👍 Facebook: Like Us ✉ Email us with comments! “4/20” has become synonymous with a large, festival-like event in a city near you, held on April 20 annually, culminating with a massive public rally at 4:20 PM that day. Live bands will play, there
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The American deadline for filing income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) expires at midnight today, and I thought it would be a good for Americans to see where their hard-earned money is going. Into a black hole of debt repayments, so it seems. America is drowning in its national debt, and you can thank none other than the hippest
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Body On January 22, 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that they were moving the minute hand of the 68-year old Doomsday Clock from 5 minutes to midnight, up to 3 minutes to midnight, stating as their reasoning: “Unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued
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As Canada is just a few months away from legalizing pot, a first in North America, we are heading toward a collision course with a destiny that we aren’t even fully cognizant of at the moment, which will change us possibly forever. That’s exactly what the Liberals wanted – but it’s sure not what you’re going to appreciate in the
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