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Excellent effort though and thanks for representing us young lady. :smile: Eugenie Bouchard’s historic run at Wimbledon has come to an end with a loss in the women’s final. Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic beat Bouchard 6-3, 6-0 to claim her second Wimbledon title. No Canadian had...

hroughout California’s desperately dry Central Valley, those with water to spare are cashing in. As a third parched summer forces farmers to fallow fields and lay off workers, two water districts and a pair of landowners in the heart of the state’s farmland are making millions of dollars by...

In the mid-sixties at the height of the “social revolution” the line between democratic benevolence and outright communism became rather blurry. The Democratic Party, which controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress, was used as the springboard by social engineers to introduce a...

BRAMPTON - The son of Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion has been slapped with $15,000 in fines for not filing his taxes. Peter McCallion, 60, said nothing in a Brampton courtroom Friday after pleading guilty to 15 counts of failing to file personal, corporate, and GST/HST tax returns dating...

U.S. overtakes Saudi Arabia, Russia to become world’s biggest oil producer: report The U.S. overtook Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s biggest producer of oil as extraction of energy from shale rock strengthens the nation’s economy, Bank of America Corp. said. U.S. production...

Justin Trudeau, MPVerified account ‏@JustinTrudeau Nice to introduce Xavier to the Prime Minister. Good of @pmharper to say hello. Enjoy #Stampede2014 Justin Trudeau, MP ‏@JustinTrudeau...

Nanaimo city council rescinds anti-Christian motion : Prime time : SunNews Video Gallery

thank gawd for tommy mulhair eh OTTAWA — The NDP is offering to help the Conservative government bridge the gap with First Nations in the after the Supreme Court's ruled last week in favour of Native title lands in British Columbia. In a letter written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper...

A helicopter pilot who died in a crash last year in northern Alberta was drunk at the time, the Transportation Safety Board has found. The pilot, whose name was not released, was working for Gemini Helicopters, which was hired by an oil company to monitor well sites southwest of Fox Creek...

One of Central Florida's best-known religious properties, the former forum for televangelist Benny Hinn's sermons, will hit the auction block Tuesday. It's the result of a multimillion-dollar foreclosure that displaced the property's most recent congregation, that of pastor Clint Brown's...

beyond the usual good-natured rib-tickling pick-on-barry thread fare: WASHINGTON — It’s not the kind of history Barack Obama planned on making — but Americans now rate him as the worst president since World War II. With two years left to go in his second term, Obama “beat out” predecessor...

Apollo Astronaut: Climate Alarmism Is the Biggest Fraud in the Field of Science

so you might as well hear this from uncle locutus first: White Sox Gave Fans White Ponchos, Which Turned Into Pictures of People in White Hoods John Danks had 10 strikeouts in a White Sox 3-2 win over the Angels on Wednesday. It was a rainy night, so the club apparently gave out white...

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YES! yabut... Irving Shipbuilding has announced four aboriginal tradespeople will be hired by a subcontractor as part of a signing and roofing contract for the National Shipbuilding...

Hessy Taft's baby photograph was selected by Nazi party as the ideal Aryan infant, but Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine never discovered that she was in fact Jewish When Hessy Taft was six months old, she was a poster child for the Nazis. Her photograph was chosen as the image...

Dean Skoreyko ‏@bcbluecon "Pembina Foundation and Pembina Institute have received nearly $7 million from American foundations" http://linkis.com/com/924fY It is no coincidence that U.S. foundations are funding a...

Fired employee suing company over racist paint names A black worker named Clinton Tucker claims in court that Benjamin Moore paints fired him after his repeated complaints about their “despicable and racially insulting paint colours called ‘Clinton Brown’ and ‘Tucker Chocolate.’” Tucker...

Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris has been found guilty of 12 counts of indecently assaulting four girls in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. One of the victims was a childhood friend of his daughter, another was an autograph hunter aged seven or eight. Prosecutors said Harris was...

^ via drudge Paris (AFP) - France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy has been charged with corruption and influence peddling, French prosecutors said Wednesday, a dramatic move in a criminal probe that could wreck his hopes of a political comeback. The decision came after Sarkozy was...