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“It’s a perennial theme of segregationists that this activism is not sincere, that it’s not Americans advocating for their own rights but rather it’s a scam,” Mr. Kruse said. In his 1963 “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” defending nonviolent civil disobedience, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described the tactic as an effort to silence African-American voices. “If our white brothers dismiss as ‘rabble rousers’ and ‘outside agitators’ those of us who employ nonviolent direct action, and if…

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Advertisement President Trump addressed a range of policy issues, from tax cuts to gun policy to immigration, at Friday’s annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference. Below is a look at some of the facts and figures he cited that were accurate, false or could use some additional context. “We have passed massive, biggest in history, tax cuts and reforms … for 45 years nothing has been passed.” False. The $1.5 trillion in tax cuts that Mr. Trump…

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Advertisement In the nine months since Robert S. Mueller III was appointed to oversee the investigation into possible links between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, he has issued more than 100 criminal counts against 19 people and three companies. Of the 19 people, five — including three Trump associates — have pleaded guilty. Thirteen are Russians accused of meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Here is an assessment of the charges and the people facing them in the…

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February 23 2018 8:41pm Global News at 5:30 on Global Toronto for Friday, February 23, 2018. Hosted by Alan Carter and Farah Nasser. ‘ }); } else { var rel_id = svp.releaseInfo.contentId+””; if( typeof gnca_social_share_collection ); } }; // don’t do on IE, doesn’t work yet if ( !gNews.Common.isIE && !gNews.Common.isTrident && gNews.Common.isFlash ) {…

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Janet Stefaniuk fears she soon won’t have a place to live. The 64-year-old Oshawa, Ont., resident said she submitted an application to Harmony-King Co-Op Homes Inc. about seven years ago, but a staff member at the residences told her late last year that they no longer have her application. “They tore it up,” said the single resident. “That’s what they told me.” Story continues below Stefaniuk re-submitted her application in December 2017, but the residence gave her more bad…

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February 23 2018 7:47pm Emergency crews were on scene at the Imperial Road bridge following its collapse Friday afternoon. ‘ }); } else { var rel_id = svp.releaseInfo.contentId+””; if( typeof gnca_social_share_collection ); } }; // don’t do on IE, doesn’t work yet if ( !gNews.Common.isIE && !gNews.Common.isTrident && gNews.Common.isFlash ) { var gnca_videoShareCallbackInterval = window.setInterval(…

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Fri, Feb 23: Rumours ran rampant online after a city councillor claimed her tech sources said Amazon had named Toronto as one of the final two destinations for its new headquarters. But the tech giant was quick to dispel those claims. Kamil Karamali has more. Powered by WPeMatico

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February 23 2018 6:47pm Fri, Feb 23: Ontario consumers will have more protection from predatory door-to-door sales people as of March 1. As Sean O’Shea reports, the law is designed to turn the tables on scammers. ‘ }); } else { var rel_id = svp.releaseInfo.contentId+””; if( typeof gnca_social_share_collection ); } }; // don’t do on…

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