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TORONTO - Ontario’s debt is nearly twice as large as California’s — even though the province has far fewer people and a much smaller economy, the Fraser Institute says. The right-wing public policy think-tank will release a report Tuesday that compares Ontario’s debt burden to that of...

The University of Regina's administration has apologized after the school's cheerleaders planned a "culturally inappropriate" cowboys and Indians night. The cheer team members dressed up Thursday night for their last practice, the group said on its Instagram account, where the photos were...

Now everybody is getting mad. Been going on for16 years mind you. But now they're mad. Anyway... It’s 2014 and yet it seems you can’t go a week without a ridiculous story transporting us back to Nazi Germany. Last week it was a Florida woman doing the Heil Hitler salute at a community...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church, Church of England and al-Azhar, the Cairo-based seat of Sunni Muslim learning, came together on Monday for a rare display of interfaith action among them in calling for an end to modern slavery within 20 years. Their joint statement...

Nearly 10 percent of children are hospitalized for a mental health diagnosis, but minority children are frequently overlooked. More than 4 million American children and adolescents have a mental illness, and a study from the University of California, San Francisco shows mental health...

(Reuters) - An experimental Amgen Inc cancer vaccine used to treat advanced melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, proved effective in a late-stage study in shrinking tumors in a way that suggests the drug triggered the intended systemic immune response, according to data presented on...

(Reuters) - A California man who prosecutors say was on his way to Syria to join an Islamist militant group was arrested on Monday near the U.S.-Canada border in Washington state on a charge of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization, federal officials said. The...

An agreement has been reached with the City of Vancouver and the provincial and federal governments to pay $50,000 to each of 13 families who had a relative killed by Robert Pickton, says Jason Gratl, the lawyer representing the children of the victims of the B.C. serial killer. more...

Well done. WASHINGTON — A team of Navy SEALs has taken control of a stateless oil tanker seized earlier in the month by Libyan rebels, the Pentagon said Monday. The SEALs boarded the tanker Morning Glory late Sunday in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea near Cyprus. Rear Adm...

Starting about 90 miles northwest of Sacramento, an unbroken swath of national forestland follows the spine of California's rugged coastal mountains all the way to the Oregon border. Near the center of this vast wilderness, along the grassy banks of the Trinity River's south fork, lies the...

Woodland is shipped 3,800 miles and burned in Drax power station. It belches out more CO2 than coal at a huge cost YOU pay for... and all for a cleaner, greener Britain! Drax Power Station in Yorkshire is switching from coal to biomass pellets The wood for the pellets is transported from...

Thought to be the origin of skiing, the Altai mountains stand tall in the far northern corner of the Xinjiang Province, China. The area is populated by a mix of ethnic Kazakhs, Mongolians, and Tuwas, who handmake wooden skis the same way their forefathers did thousands of years ago. Magnum...

Passengers at a French railway station were left horrified when a high-speed TGV train arrived at a platform with the dead body of a cyclist stuck to the front of the train. The body of a cyclist hit by one of France's high-speed TGV trains was embedded into the front of the driver's...

I note that Mr. Gordon Knight, of RestoreCSA.com, formally requested that your Department furnish responses to five questions relating to your Government’s relationship with the Canadian Standards Association (CSA). Your Department responded by stating that your colleagues at the CSA are...

Does religion do more harm than good? Tony Blair & Chris Hitchens debate. Munk Debates - Twitter

Acidic waters killing off millions of scallops along the West Coast | CTV News or are they? hmmm. World's Best Ocean Scientists Confirm Skeptics Correct: Ocean Acidification Hysteria Is Unwarranted C3: World's Best Ocean Scientists Confirm Skeptics Correct: Ocean Acidification Hysteria Is...

This being an avant-garde crowd [if you’re among the few who can afford to attend, don’t forget to sport your new Google Glasses] there are also geneticists, theoretical physicists, cyber-security experts, “user experience masters,” climate scientists, “techno-illusionists,” astronomers...

The peopling of the Americas has been the subject of extensive genetic, archaeological and linguistic research; however, central questions remain unresolved1–5. One contentious issue is whether the settlement occurred via a single6–8 or multiple streams of migration from Siberia9–15. The...

Fred Phelps, the 84-year-old driving force behind the Westboro Baptist Church, is reportedly in hospice care and "on the edge of death" in Kansas, his estranged son says in a Facebook post. Nate Phelps also claims that the elder Phelps was ex-communicated by his own church last year...

punk-a s s scum Byron White, 17, is accused of callously killing David Peterson, 54, during a scuffle in a Greenwood parking lot. The teen was on the lam for about a week before cops captured him trying to board a flight to Atlanta. A Seattle teen shot and killed a man for his...