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Nick TimiraosVerified account ‏@NickTimiraos The U.S. economy has contracted 3 times in this recovery It hasn't in any other since 1981 GDP shrinks for the third time in 6 years as...

Political parties spending $20 Million each Unions ... much, much more https://twitter.com/BillTufts/status/605344949392035840 It promises to be one of the longest and dirtiest campaigns in Canadian federal political history and it could be the “mother” of all elections, unlike any...

EXCLUSIVE: Boys soccer team refuses to play against team with 2 girls

President Obama's second-term agenda, it seems, is in the hands of the courts. Same-sex marriage. Obamacare. Climate change. And now immigration. And in many cases, there is significant doubt about whether his signature initiatives will stand legal scrutiny. The latest blow to Obama's...

The newly released financial files on Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton's growing fortune omit a company with no apparent employees or assets that the former president has legally used to provide consulting and other services, but which demonstrates the complexity of the family's finances...

You've probably already noticed that the Canadian media is aggressively fact checking certain election campaign commercials while ignoring others. We can all complain about "media bias," but I think I've discovered a concrete reason why the Media Party picks apart certain commercials more than...

oh dear Deborah Drever, who was suspended from the Alberta NDP caucus last week after a series of social media gaffes, has apologized for her "problematic" posts. MLA Deborah Drever expresses regret over offensive photo "I am sorry that my actions were hurtful," the 26-year-old political...

uh oh Elections Nova Scotia has launched an investigation into taxpayer-funded partisan pamphlets the governing Liberals are sending to areas where byelections will soon be called. The single-sheet flyer is going out to 33,000 homes in Dartmouth, Sydney and industrial Cape Breton...

must have been 'missed' in yesterday's news feed. Quebec’s longstanding love-hate relationship with Pierre Elliott Trudeau is morphing into collective indifference towards the son. MONTREAL—Once a lightning rod for sovereigntist voters and a beacon for Quebec federalists, Liberal Leader...

Ottawa is proposing to allow Canadians to voluntarily contribute more to the Canada Pension Plan in exchange for a bigger guaranteed payout from the government-run program. The announcement marks a significant shift for the Conservatives, who have long resisted changes to the CPP. It also...

Sidney Blumenthal emailed Hillary Clinton at least two intelligence reports about Libya which were not included in the trove of 296 emails released by the State Department on Friday. Clinton has claimed that in December she turned over all official government emails she sent or received...

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Andrew CoyneVerified account ‏@acoyne This is a good ad. sure as heckfire beats the boardroom folk. Stephen Harper?s New Attack Ad Is Out, and It?s Hilariously Bad | VICE | Canada

redux for some, farce for most Lyman Cutlar was an American farmer who, in 1859, had squatted on the San Juan Islands near Seattle. In June, he saw a large black pig eating his potatoes and shot it dead. The pig, it turned out, was owned by Charles Griffin, a ranch manager employed by...

OTTAWA - The Tories walk away from the election debate negotiations, the Liberals make a set of demands to suit their leader, and the smaller parties balk at being shut out. That was 1968. Nearly a half-century after the first televised match-up between Canada's federal party leaders, some...

EXCLUSIVE: The United Nations Foundation created by billionaire Ted Turner, along with a branch of media giant Thomson Reuters, is starting to train a squadron of journalists and subsidize media content in 33 countries—including the U.S. and Britain--in a planned $6 million effort to...

Global temperature change observed over the last hundred years or so is well within the natural variability of the last 8,000 years, according to a new paper by a former Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) lead author. Dr. Philip Lloyd, a South Africa-based physicist and climate...

Andrew CoyneVerified account ‏@acoyne 10 senators to be referred to RCMP, ~ 30 more with questionable expenses. These ppl sat in judgment of Duffy/Wallin? Canada’s auditor general will recommend that the Senate...

TVOntario has scrapped plans to air a hard-hitting documentary on Premier Kathleen Wynne after the film’s director quit over journalistic concerns, the Star has learned. The broadcaster, which is owned by the provincial government, had planned to show Premier: The Unscripted Kathleen Wynne...

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