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TORONTO – Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg took a break from her high-profile campaign against climate change this week to hang out with a fellow famous vegan and Earth lover in Ontario.

Only instead of handshakes, the meeting between the two influential figures involved a forehead pet and snout rub.

On Tuesday afternoon the 16-year-old and her father stopped by the Campbellville, Ont., animal sanctuary of Esther the Wonder Pig, a social media sensation with two books written about her and an upcoming feature film deal.

The gathering was kept secret until Wednesday, when a photo of them was posted on Esther’s social media pages with the caption: “We were gonna change the world together, but she took my last cupcake so the future ofJohn Riddell: Democracy in Lenin's Comintern

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Some extended thoughts about Stephanie Bottrill, the woman who committed suicide because of the bedroom tax.

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John French, Captain Beefheart: Through the Eyes of Magic, Proper Music Publishing, London, 2009.

After 766 pages documenting in exhausting detail the life and crimes