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Canada’s strategic voters lean Liberal as vote nears

October 17, 2015 admin conservative, conservatives, julie-gordon, lead-the-ruling, liberal, liberals, organizers, prime-minister, stephen-harper, support, the-center-left, their-support, vote-together

By Julie Gordon VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Organizers of two key strategic voting campaigns in Canada are throwing most of their support to the center-left Liberals, who lead the ruling Conservatives in polls and may also benefit from a bandwagon effect in the final days of the tight campaign. Both Leadnow, a non-profit group funded through individual donations, and website strategicvoting.ca have seen support grow as sentiment against Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his 10-year-old government builds and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau opens up a lead in opinion polls.

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Canadian government under fire in case of drowned Syrian toddler

September 4, 2015 admin brother, family, government-came, julie-gordon, stephen-harper, the-family, under-fire, vancouver

By Julie Gordon VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Canada’s Conservative government came under fire on Thursday after it emerged that the family of a Syrian toddler whose body washed up on a Turkish beach had wanted to emigrate to Canada, rattling Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s re-election bid.

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Students at Washington’s Howard University complain about mold, rats

September 3, 2015 publisher concerns, discuss-their, government-came, hashtag, high-tuition, julie-gordon, school, stephen-harper, students-first, the-family, the-issues, the-school, under-fire, vancouver

Officials at Howard University on Thursday met with students who have been complaining about rats, mold, high tuition and other issues at the school, one of the oldest historically black U.S. colleges

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Net-A-Porter founder leaves abruptly ahead of merger

September 3, 2015 admin 153-09-million, autumn, collections, italy, julie-gordon, london, online-fashion, planned-merger, school, silvia-aloisi, stephen-harper, the-completion, the-issues, under-fire, yoox-regarded

By Astrid Wendlandt and Silvia Aloisi PARIS/MILAN (Reuters) – Natalie Massenet, founder and executive chairman of online fashion group Net-A-Porter, said on Thursday it was the right time to leave after she resigned abruptly ahead of the completion of a planned merger with Italy's Yoox. Regarded as the fashion visionary of the soon-to-be-combined business, she was to become its executive chairman and oversee editorial content, one of Net-A-Porter's main strengths

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Texas teen fatally shoots himself while taking selfie

September 2, 2015 creative 153-09-million, coroner, houston, julie-gordon, online-fashion, police-said, selfie-photo, shot-himself, social-media, the-completion, the-issues

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A 19-year-old Texas man who was posing with a gun for a social media selfie photo accidentally shot himself and died from the wounds, Houston police said on Wednesday. “A witness told police he was taking a selfie with a gun and the gun accidentally discharged,” Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said. The identity of the man killed in the Tuesday incident in Houston has been withheld pending an investigation by the coroner.