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One year ago today - January 7th 2015 - two Muslim fanatics burst into the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed a dozen people, including the bulk of the senior editorial staff and some of France's best known cartoonists. I heard about the attack shortly before I went...

Either they are lying to us about screening refugees or playing word games By Brian on January 7, 2016 6:39 AM...

CALGARY – TransCanada Corp. has filed a US$15 billion lawsuit against the United States government over its rejection of its Keystone XL pipeline. “Through the NAFTA claim, TransCanada will be seeking to recover more than US$15 billion in costs and damages that it has suffered as a result...

your moral and intellectual superiors eh. Sociologist in WaPo: ‘America has been lied to about climate change’ LOL… “Congress can and should act to investigate this issue fully.” Sociologist Robert Brulle writes in the WaPo: Follow-up...

— and nobody said anything While TransCanada Corp. has been cooling its heels on its Keystone XL proposal for the past six years, the oil pipeline business has been booming in the United States. Crude oil pipeline mileage rose 9.1 per cent last year alone to reach 66,649 miles, according...

BOSTON — The scope of a sexual abuse scandal at St. George’s School in Rhode Island widened substantially on Tuesday as lawyers reported that at least 40 former students had made credible reports of sexual abuse, and in some cases rape, by seven former staff members and four students over...

It's thought to be the first cyber attack to cause a blackout. Malware is no longer reserved for the millions of consumer PCs all over the world -- it's now used in corporate espionage, as tool to disrupt the...

Can Tom Mulcair hang on as leader of the federal New Democrats? I’m no longer sure he can. In Toronto at least, the mood among many NDP activists is unforgiving. Now a prominent NDP provincial legislator has gone public with her demand that Mulcair step down. “He’s got to go,” says...

As it was in the beginning... A schism emerged after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, and disputes arose over who should shepherd the new and rapidly growing faith...The title passed to a trusted aide, Abu Bakr, though some thought it should have gone to Ali, the prophet’s cousin...

Laurentian University professor loses class after asking students to sign form allowing offensive language At the start of this school year, Laurentian University professor Michael Persinger handed his first-year psychology students a form warning them he might use profanities and other...

'Renewables' are not shackled by lack of innovation, they are shackled by the math. [...] Perhaps the way to understand the significance of Einstein’s equation is to compare it to another equation, the formula for kinetic energy: Kinetic energy is the energy of moving objects, “E” once...

probably a small atomic bomb or else an abject hydrogen failure with these puny results. Bill Ide 易順泰 Verified account ‏@Bill_Ide China Earthquake Administration also confirming North Korea quake (test)...

Animated stereoscopic photographs taken aboard the Union Navy gunboats USS Hunchback, USS Mendota, and USS Agawam during the American Civil War. Attributed to Mathew Brady and probably taken by his photographer Egbert Guy Fowx.

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A 3-year-old girl who was taken in a stolen car was found by police early Sunday morning after hours of searching. It all started around 8:30 p.m. at the Smith’s near Lomas and San Pedro. Police say the mother was filling up water jugs when a thief jumped in the car...

More than a dozen U.S. Army special operations soldiers are trapped in Marjah, Afghanistan, taking cover in a compound surrounded by enemy fire and hostile Taliban fighters after a U.S. special operations solider was killed earlier in the day, senior U.S. defense officials told Fox News late...

Don't think government debt matters? Canadian governments spent same on interest payments as they did on K-12 education. Budget deficits and increasing debt are key fiscal issues as the federal and provincial governments prepare to release their budgets this year. Combined...

A man who sent drunken text messages claiming Saskatoon police had dropped him outside Saskatoon will serve time behind bars for the lie, which spawned a massive investigation by a police force that still has to grapple with its history of “starlight tours.” Dustin Keegan Eagle, 28, was...

A new law would shut down the last arena of independent public review of the billions of dollars in public spending on electricity. Ontario's desire for total control over all aspects of the electricity sector is nearly fulfilled. The push to eliminate dissent and independent review of...

Anyone could have seen this coming from a mile away. Alberta’s credit rating has now officially been downgraded by bond rating agency Standard and Poor’s, tumbling from our coveted AAA status. The government’s poor budgeting and snowballing debt load played a big role, but the premier and...

"Activists" fukkin' Canadian-hating scumbags sure. :lol: TORONTO — Enbridge Inc. says flow on a pipeline through southwestern Ontario was shut down for several hours by protester activity near Cambridge, Ont. Spokesman Graham White says the protesters partially restricted flow on...