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The Conservative government of Stephen Harper attracted considerable criticism when it elected to spend $28 million celebrating the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. It was noted that the war happened a long time ago, before Canada was even a country, and few Canadians know much about...

From Wikipedia: “Special-purpose districts or special district governments in the United States are independent governmental units that exist separately from, and with substantial administrative and fiscal independence from, general purpose local governments such as county, municipal, and...

Ivan Gedz Why don’t men ever get asked to show a little more skin? That’s the question a downtown restaurant on Somerset Street is asking with an event on Wednesday when male servers will don dresses and heels to draw attention to what the eatery sees as discriminatory dress codes...

because we must all be MADE equal by the gubmint, regardless of talent or lack thereof. The National Film Board of Canada, the country's public filmmaker, has promised half the movies it finances will be directed by women. Those urging Hollywood to close the pay...

via Mission Accomplished - Small Dead Animals Canadian crude oil imports increased 16 per cent in 2015 to 736 thousand barrels per day (Mb/d), reversing a three-year downward trend. The United States (U.S.) was the biggest gainer in the 2015 surge in imports, increasing its share of total...

because science is always settled and all that jazz. As you grow older and reflect on the things you learned in grade school, you slowly come to realise that many common, everyday facts that your third grade teacher told you about - facts that you took as truth your entire life - are, in...

MSNBC Reporter Has No Idea She’s Live During Interview, Tells Clinton Aide What She’ll Be Asking MSNBC had an awkward moment while trying to conduct a post-debate interview Sunday night, as reporter Kristen Welker appeared not to know she was live and told a Hillary Clinton aide what she...

well duh. even the Sun and Star can align on this obviousness. Norman Spector ‏@nspector4 When @sunlorrie...

the shiny pony pontificates for us: "Ultimately being open and respectful towards each other is a much more powerful a way to diffuse hatred and anger than...big walls and oppressive policies." what a turnip. trudeau tells...

probably the highest of the mental masturbatory media outlets in the world. Civilizations Die By Suicide By Kate on March 5, 2016...

a revisit of the 2013 article because stupid people these days. it's mainly americany but hey, apply the basics wherever needed. Progressives once championed state-led projects to advance human and economic development like FDR's (left) Tennessee Valley Authority. Today, despite enjoying...

via sda: Phys.Org; A team of researchers, led by Prof. Mahesh M. Bandi of the Okinawa Institute of Science...

Great moments in naiveté: "Insufficient political will". A conservative estimate of Canada's existing carbon-absorption capacity, based on land area and the global carbon-absorption average, indicates that Canada could already be absorbing 20 to 30 per cent more CO2 than we emit. Using the...

If the Mosul Dam goes, a lake of water will submerge cities from Mosul to Baghdad and kill hundreds of thousands. he Iraqi government and an Italian engineering firm have finally reached a tentative agreement that could provide a long-term fix for the world’s most dangerous dam. But the...

And so, just like that, with a sweeping victory in South Carolina, Sanders' Socialism crawls back into its cage and crony capitalism is alive and well. As Edward Snowden so perfectly sums up... Edward Snowden...

oh bravo. Germany does not know the whereabouts of 130,000 asylum seekers who were registered last year, officials say. The migrants did not appear at reception centres to which they had been directed, the government said in a written reply to a question. This may be because they have...

nice. More information has emerged on just how an illegal immigrant, who killed a Nebraska woman in a drunk driving incident, was allowed to get out of jail and skip town and future punishment. Omaha police charged illegal alien Eswin Mejia with killing 21-year-old Sarah Root while...

progs using their hate/racist labels to further their agenda. it's how they and the msm roll kids. Germany springs to action over hate speech against migrants BERLIN — Donald Trump may be testing the boundaries of tolerance on the U.S. campaign trail. But here in Germany, the government...

Zimbabwe is back in the news. Or, it was. For about two days. European and Western media have dutifully reported on the series of painful economic crises the country has suffered since independence with the occasional “so-bad-it’s-funny” article on the birthday celebrations of the country’s...