Something mysterious is blocking vehicle key fobs from working in a small Alberta town

Key fobs that suddenly won't unlock vehicles. Cars that won't start. Alarms that go off for no reason. Something mysterious is thwarting drivers outside a grocery store in the small Alberta town of Carstairs — and it's sparking all kinds of theories.
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How screwed is Huawei?

After years of public mistrust, the US government has finally, officially laid out its cases against tech giant Huawei. The Chinese company stands accused of a laundry list crimes ranging from wire fraud to trade-secret theft to violating Iranian sanctions to obstruction of justice — all told, we're looking at 23 charges across two states. (Naturally, the company denies allegations of wrongdoing.) And now that the US government has made its claims against Huawei we're left with one weighty question: Just how screwed is this company, exactly?
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Bell Asked Canadian Government to Ban Certain VPNs

Newly revealed documents show that media giant Bell previously urged the Canadian Government to ban 'copyright infringing' VPNs. The request was made in a 2017 submission regarding the NAFTA trade deal negotiations. This call didn't lead anywhere but with site-blocking still on the agenda, VPNs remain a topic of interest.
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Time Is Running Out for a Beloved Mechanical Horse-Race Game in Vegas

There's only one Sigma Derby machine left.
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Chicago Is So Ridiculously Cold That the Railroad Tracks Need to Be on Fire to Keep the Trains Moving

There are over 140,000 miles of privately-owned standard-gauge rail in the United States, vital to the transportation of billions of tons of freight and people. Occasionally, it gets really cold where some of those train tracks sit. Like right now, in Chicago, where Wednesday’s high temperature is expected to be thirteen degrees below zero. Those temperatures are potentially deadly for humans, and deforming for the long pieces of metal that trains ride on.
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Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail

Japan is in the grip of an elderly crime wave. Poverty and loneliness are two of the possible causes.
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Milkmen return to London as millennials bid to cut plastic waste

Milkmen and milkwomen are making a comeback in London as millennials have started using glass milk bottles in a bid to cut down plastic waste. Dairies in the capital told of a "phenomenal" upsurge in interest from younger customers at the start of the year amid growing public upset over plastic waste.
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'No one likes being a tourist': the rise of the anti-tour

With the tourism explosion affecting even smaller cities such as Porto, visitors and locals alike are looking for more ‘authentic’ days out. But is that possible?
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San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city

Would become first in the nation to ban the tech
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A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’

Apple decided several years ago to produce a high-end Mac in Texas. The problems that surfaced illustrate the challenges of domestic manufacturing.
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On the Way to Auschwitz, I Found ‘Heil Hitler’ Signs For Sale

On a Holocaust education trip in Poland, a writer discovers Nazi memorabilia at a flea market, in apparent violation of the law. But nothing is quite that simple.
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One family, two worlds: Viral Peppa Pig video exposes China's deep social divides

A video promoting the once-blocked cartoon pig has gone viral on Chinese social media, striking at the heart of the country's social issues.
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Концертный зал имени П. И. Чайковского с участием Анастасия Тюрина
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What happened when Oslo decided to make its downtown basically car-free?

It was a huge success: Parking spots are now bike lanes, transit is fast and easy, and the streets (and local businesses) are full of people.
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Why Big Brother Doesn’t Bother Most Chinese

For now, citizens are embracing social-credit systems that establish greater trust between people and businesses.
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Tell Me How This Ends

America’s muddled involvement with Syria. By Charles Glass.
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This Ancient Dead Bug Could Change What We Know About Opal Formation

The markets of Southeast Asia are common places to find the fossils of insects, embedded in amber millions of years old. But last year, gemologist Brian Berger found something much more rare and astonishing.
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It's a false comfort to say the murder and rape of women is caused by sexism

Aiia Maasarwe’s death has been used as grist for the gender culture wars, a pointless loop of generalisation, accusation and defensiveness
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Antietam Time Travel: A Veteran of America’s Bloodiest Day Returns

At 4 p.m. on September 18, 1891, Oliver Cromwell Gould, son of 10th Maine Infantry veteran John Mead Gould, took a photograph of Antietam’s East Woods.
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The Costs of the Confederacy

In the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology
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A new Mississippi flag has a surprising champion: A segregationist’s grandchild

Laurin Stennis designed a banner that could change how the world sees a state with a brutal racial history — and perhaps how it sees her famous family.
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A Second Brexit Vote Could Worsen the Chaos Created by the First

The first vote on whether Britain should leave the European Union created more problems than it solved. A second could do much the same — or even worse.
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For the security of Canadians, Huawei should be banned from our 5G networks

China is willing to take extreme measures for its national interests; we must do the same
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Can you Marie Kondo when you're poor?

I wasn’t seeking happiness or a peace of mind. I was looking for food. By Keshia Naurana Badalge.
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Derry Girls: the Northern Irish sitcom that captures teenage girlhood – no matter where you live

Many shows about teens don’t push past cliches – but Derry Girls gives us complex, unpredictable characters who are never completely in control
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What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals

Would the F.B.I.’s smear campaign against Martin Luther King Jr. work today? By Beverly Gage. (Nov. 11, 2014)
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Reflections on Antarctica

Colin O’Brady and Louis Rudd spent almost two months racing across Antarctica, a journey that killed an explorer who attempted it in 2016. Back in warmer climes, they spoke about the race of a lifetime.
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The Vice President’s Men

When George H.W. Bush arrived in Washington as vice president in January 1981 he seemed little more than a sideshow to Ronald Reagan, the one-time leading man who had been overwhelmingly elected to the greatest stage in the world... By Seymour M. Hersh.
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A Murder in Gdańsk

The assassination of Gdańsk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz at a fundraising event for Poland's most beloved charity culminates years of fear-mongering about the country's opposition and judiciary by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. And now the PiS has chosen the wrong scapegoat for Adamowicz's murder. By Sławomir Sierakowski.
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Jesse James's life of crime began in the bloody violence of the Civil War.

The violence of the U.S. Civil War transformed Jesse James from Missouri farm boy to vicious killer.
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A Mexican airline trolled Americans as the border wall debate continues and it's brilliant

Mexican airline AeroMexico added a bit of tongue-in-cheek humour to its newest advert by trying to turn some American people’s suspicion and dislike of its country on its head. As the government
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Native Americans are recasting views of indigenous life

By countering the racist fixations that have plagued stories of Indian culture, they hope to reverse the “invisibility” that many feel.
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The Kind of American Christian Man I Am

I want to take a moment and explain a few things.  I just wrote a strong post this morning that many people may find offensive.  That is fine.  I am not apologizing for what I said and I stand by i…
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The Plot to Kill George Washington

In The First Conspiracy, thriller writer Brad Meltzer uncovers a real-life story too good to turn into fiction
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Why Infants May Be More Likely to Die in America Than Cuba

Many Americans would welcome some traits of the island’s free, universal health care system.
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Huawei's Many Troubles: Bans, Alleged Spies, and Backdoors

Its execs have been arrested. Its gear is banned in places. And countries are reconsidering relationships with the company. How much trouble is Huawei really in?
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How the Klan Fueled Prohibition

The 1920s weren’t just gin joints and jazz. Anti-immigrant racism was all the rage. By Lisa McGirr.
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Russian TV airs doc claiming Nazi-loving Ukrainians are running Canada's government

Canada's caught in a rhetorical crossfire in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. One of the Kremlin's most prominent propagandists has aired a segment with the incredible claiming that Nazi-loving Ukrainians are running Canada's government and shaping anti-Russian policies.
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A searing reflection on the Troubles and their aftermath

“Say Nothing” evokes the worlds of both the victims and their assailants
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Did Civil War Soldiers Have PTSD?

One hundred and fifty years later, historians are discovering some of the earliest known cases of post-traumatic stress disorder. By Tony Horwitz.
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Ray Comfort: Why the Catholic Church Is Filled With Homosexuals and Pedophiles Who Molest Little Boys

Recently, a very angry man took out his frustrations on me because of pedophile priests in the Roman Catholic Church. I don’t blame him for being angry. His language would curl your ear hair,…
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Victoria Mata - BB AA - Gymnastics 2017 Mexico Open

This is Victoria Mata, a Mexican gymnast, competing on beam at the 2017 Gymnastics Mexican Open.
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Canadians Spent $1.6 Billion on Legal Weed in 2018: Report

The figure doubled from the year before.
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That Moment I Escaped North Korea

We talked with another advocate of the organization Liberty in North Korea, Geum Hyok Kim. Geum is a defector from the ruling class of North Korea who didn’t realize the nature of the regime until he left. He tells his beautiful, reflective story of growth, understanding freedom, and realizing what’s important.
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Poland’s ruling party will exploit Gdańsk murder

Law and Justice’s call for national unity should raise alarm bells in Europe.
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Dangerous minds: the writers hounded by the FBI

From James Baldwin to Susan Sontag: the American authors labelled enemies of the state. By Douglas Kennedy.
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Who Will Be the American Justin Trudeau?

With a restless Democratic base leaning left, party centrists are looking for their Justin Trudeau — a candidate who will seem progressive while preserving the status quo. By Luke Savage.
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Brexit vote: Jeremy Corbyn tables vote of no confidence after May suffers historic defeat

Prime minister addresses Commons after huge defeat for her Brexit deal.
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Poland’s transformation is a story worth telling

It’s one of the world’s most successful economies — just don’t tell the right-wing government.
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China's cotton seeds sprout on Moon

The seeds, inside a sealed container, are the first plants ever grown on the Moon's surface.
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