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New to me and I thought I'd seen them all. via LiveLeak: 9/11 Footage: A Reporter Doing His Job - YouTube 03:30 - South Tower (WTC2) collapses at 9:59am. Dust pouring out from window/s on 44th floor and from the louvers of mechanical equipment room (MER) on floors 41-42, north face of WTC2...

Gitxsan First Nation negotiator Gwaans (Beverley Clifton Percival) told the Straight that businesses were given until August 4 to vacate 33,000 square kilometres of land to which the Gitxsan hold title. After that time, “next steps” will be taken, Clifton Percival said in a telephone...

John Tory has the slight edge in a new mayoral poll that suggests the election is shaping up to be a two candidate race. The live telephone survey of 800 residents conducted this week found that the former leader of the Progressive Conservative party had 35% support among decided voters...

The IRS has shown that it has a hard time finding emails and a hard time explaining its recycling of hard drives. Then there are the guns. The elite unit of the IRS that gets to carry guns doesn’t exactly have a perfect safety record. According to a government audit, IRS Agents...

A 27-year-old Toronto man is accused of posing as a teacher to gain entry to a number of Toronto schools. Police say from the beginning of April until early June the man convinced staff at five different TDSB schools he was a certified teacher and worked as an educational or special needs...

and then of course, somebody went and ate it. July 30, 2014 The Inupiat have a name for walrus with extra tusks, says Mary Sage of Barrow, who shared pics from the spoils of a recent hunt: Tulugiagruaq. Wildlife biologists have a name for the toothy mammals too: “Supernumeraries.”...

https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/494932036399153152 An interim victory for the conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, which is suing the Obama administration over withheld Fast and Furious documents: a federal judge has lifted a 16-month delay in the Freedom of Information...

Winnipeg police say a 52-year-old man is dead after a North End standoff with officers. But they aren’t saying how he died. Police say they were called to a home on Stella Avenue yesterday morning by someone who said the man who lived there may have a weapon and was threatening to harm...

… letting her son walk to the park alone Via Reason. Their house is half a mile, or a 10-minute walk, away. There are registered sex offenders in the area. Should letting junior go alone be mom’s call or the state’s? This isn’t the only case recently of a mom being locked up for letting...

that's right, a neuroscientist...anyway, why do people (even the cops) keep calling an AR-15 an 'assault' rifle...it's a goddamn rifle ok. An Arizona brain scientist was arrested last week after two women said he pointed a semiautomatic rifle at them at an airport coffee shop. Dr. Peter...

Some locals have called her a ghost, others have called her a prophet, but regardless of her true identity, a mysterious woman shrouded in black has left Americans spellbound as she travels by foot across the country. This "woman in black," as she has been named on social media, has...

The Saskatchewan government has ordered its power utility SaskPower to remove 105,000 so-called smart meters installed at homes and businesses across the province, following concerns about eight unexplained fires associated with the units. The minister responsible for the provincial Crown...

oh dear. what's going on down there? The House on Wednesday approved a highly contentious lawsuit against President Obama over his alleged abuse of executive power, teeing up an election-year legal battle sure to spill onto the midterm campaign trail. The House backed the lawsuit...

'We don't want your kind in our neighbourhood,' letter reads A same-sex couple in Longueuil, Que., is scared after receiving an anonymous letter threatening them for hanging a gay pride flag from their balcony. The pair, granted anonymity by CBC News to protect their children, said they...

TORONTO — After a decade at the helm of the country's largest police service, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, who oversaw a high-profile investigation of Mayor Rob Ford, will be forced out in April. Toronto Police Services Board members met behind closed doors today to discuss the future...

In December 2013, when Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May was joined by Bruce Hyer, who’d left the NDP in 2012, many Green supporters believed their party was on the cusp of becoming a mainstream national institution. With two sitting MPs, it looked as though the Greens might finally...

OTTAWA — Former Ontario premier Mike Harris and Saskatchewan Tory Sen. Raynell Andreychuk will lead a Canadian delegation of election observers to Ukraine for the May 25 vote. Andreychuk led previous missions to Ukraine in 2010 and 2012 and is recognized as a leader in the...

A man once notorious as a leading Nazi figurehead who continues as a vocal white-rights activist is running for municipal office in Ontario’s cottage country, where he extolls the racial makeup of his township as “whiter than the driven snow.” John Beattie, campaigning for deputy reeve in...

VA manipulated vets' appointment data, audit finds Internal VA documents show the depth of fraudulent scheduling, manipulation of data and in some cases intimidation of staff to hide delays in medical care to veterans in the 6-million patient national system.Auditors found at least one...