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Squadron Leader Les Munro hopes to raise £50,000 from sale of medals to go towards newly-built London memorial to airmen killed during Second World War The last surviving Dambusters pilot is to sell his gallantry medals awarded for the famous raid and donate the proceeds to the Bomber...

By WARREN KINSELLA TORONTO—You’re the incumbent, you’re smart, you’ve got plenty of experience, but you can’t get ahead in the polls. So what do you do? You call for a series of leaders’ debates, that’s what you do. Stephen Harper, however much he disdains the mainstream...

The Keystone XL pipeline got an emphatic endorsement Monday from a powerful backer of President Barack Obama who questioned the handling of the file. To billionaire investor Warren Buffett, the delay is a thumbing of the nose at Canada. “I would have passed Keystone,” Buffett said in an...

Washington, D.C. — Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu will address a joint session of congress on March 3rd, and in a political move, leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus are planning to skip the speech in protest of Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Netanyahu to do so. While the...

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Rich Weinstein is the single person considered most responsible for exposing one of the biggest blows to the Affordable Care Act’s image: a series of videos in which a key Obamacare architect discusses the “stupidity of the American people” and how that helped get the bill passed. Now...

“I’ve already said I’m happy to look at how we can increase pipeline production for U.S. oil, but Keystone is for Canadian oil to send that down to the Gulf. It bypasses the United States and is estimated to create a little over 250, maybe 300 permanent jobs. We should be focusing more...

shocking. TORONTO - The city and its two largest agencies, the TTC and the Toronto Police, spent $55.6 million last year supporting a roster of more than 1,600 employees on long-term disability, the Toronto Sun has learned. According to information obtained under municipal...

Cleanliness, it turns out, has been one dirty trick. One reason early-20th-century Americans ramped up their weekly baths to daily showers is that marketing companies capitalized on the insecurities of a new class of office drones working in close quarters. As Gizmodo wrote last week, to sell...

Not A Muslim By Kate on March 1, 2015 7:28 PM | 17 Comments *clicky picky...

wow, and from warren of all people. h/t sda red on red March 1st, 2015, 10:51 am A few weeks ago, when some nice folks were encouraging me to run for the Liberal nomination in Toronto Danforth, I finally met with one of Justin Trudeau’s most senior advisers...

Canadian consumers who bought electronics between April 1,1999 and June 30, 2002 are eligible to get at least $20 back following several class action lawsuits against the manufacturers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM). Following an $80 million settlement with firms including Samsung...

The Lonesome Boatman ‏@Mon_The_Hoops81 34 years ago today Bobby Sands started his 66 day hungerstrike...The sacrifices of 1981 will never be forgotten. Bobby Sands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bobby Sands...

via sda A story to watch...

there um, might be some bad words and a few slaps among these ok: Bouncers - Full Episodes http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMRH4P3FpNoilTdbQDXYqdSbeHicK1LxB

Scott Walker Wants Colleges to Stop Reporting Sexual Assaults [UPDATED] which of course wasn't true at all but anyway... from that site's retarded cousin: Adam ‏@nannystatehate It doesn't even matter if The Daily...

They were there at the start, when the study of climate was in its infancy, but today the names of meterologists such as Hubert Lamb are seldom mentioned by those colleagues and their heirs who very quickly grasped that sound science doesn't pay half as well as a good scare story Hubert...

PUTIN CRITIC SHOT DEAD AT KREMLIN MOSCOW (Reuters) - Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition politician and former deputy prime minister who was an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead meters from the Kremlin in central Moscow late on Friday...

Information from the Farm Financial Survey for 2013 is now available. The Farm Financial Survey provides data on average farm assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses, capital investments and capital sales for 2013. Average net worth per farm in Canada amounted to $2.3 million in 2013, up...

With the plunge in oil prices over the last six months (and already soft natural gas prices), it’s not headline news to note that provinces heavily dependent on energy-related revenues are suffering. The decline in the resource sector has also contributed to a decline in the value of the...