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A minor incident in Sarnia's CN Rail yard recently was greatly exaggerated by a tweet from national Green Party leader Elizabeth May over the weekend, says a miffed Mayor Mike Bradley. He sent out a curt email response to May when it became clear that she had taken a phone call from “a...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dennis Farina, the former Chicago cop turned film and TV actor best known for his role as wise-cracking detective Joe Fontana on the hit NBC police drama "Law & Order," died in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Monday, his publicist said. He was 69. Farina, who parlayed his...

mad mad mad mad mad :lol: The last two years has seen The Toronto Star become the Wyle E. Coyote of newspapers. Their editors and reporters have had all their outlandish attempts to dislodge Toronto's Mayor Rob Ford from office fail abysmally with their intended target emerging more secure...

George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue someone who was trapped in an overturned truck, police said today. Sanford Police Department Capt. Jim McAuliffe told ABC News that Zimmerman “pulled an...

Most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron has announced. In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales - in line...

A Kitchener woman who operated a home day care has been arrested after she allegedly poisoned two young children in her care. Christine Allen, 32, who may have also used the name Christine Keilbar, is charged with two counts each of aggravated assault and administering a noxious substance...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged the city of Miami and its former budget director with fraud on Friday for allegedly making misleading statements and omissions in bond documents in order to mask general fund deficits. The SEC, which has limited authority over...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have struck again! Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer. Glenn Richter arrived at a West Side synagogue on Monday to...

The Schenectady-based Wandering Dago food truck, which had a contract to operate at Saratoga Race Course this season, was told to leave the track after opening day on Friday because an unnamed state official found the name offensive, according to the truck's co-owner Brandon Snooks. "We got...

So there...plbbbthththth A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries

The fine upstanding piece of dog sh!t The fight began almost as soon as an Orlando police officer pulled over a car with faulty taillights. It ended after Akil Asim Horsford's gun malfunctioned and he took a bite out of an officer's arm. Horsford, 23, began arguing when officers...

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Asylum-seekers arriving by boat will no longer be resettled in Australia but will go to Papua New Guinea, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced. The news came as Mr Rudd set out an overhaul of asylum policy ahead of a general election expected shortly. Australia has...

Mr. Scumbag OTTAWA - The curator of the Canada Agriculture Museum was arrested Thursday, suspected of being "a major distributor" of child pornography. Franz Klingender, 59, is set to appear in Ottawa court Friday. Police raided both his modest east-end apartment and his office at...

le derp MONTREAL - Quebec's education ministry admits it gave out 130,000 high school diplomas with one pretty obvious grammatical error on them.Most of the diplomas were presented in last month's graduation ceremonies across the province, but the error has been there for the past nine...

Citing a $1 billion budget deficit, Chicago Public Schools will lay off more than 2,000 employees, more than 1,000 of them teachers, the district said Thursday night. About half of the 1,036 teachers being let go are tenured. The latest layoffs, which also include 1,077 school staff...

The officers who traditionally pounded the streets, talking to residents and businesses, are now also required to carry out investigations and respond to 999 calls. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary warned today that budget cuts risk “eroding” neighbourhood policing where...

via Fark: Looks like all those greedy, dishonest mortgage bankers who knowingly caused the 2008 financial collapse are gonna get away with it now that the five-year statute of limitations is about to run out. Just kidding. They're all gonna fry Federal Prosecutors May Charge Wall Street...

WEST PENN TWP., Pa. - A freak accident in Schuylkill County nearly cost a man his life Thursday. The man was driving his minivan south on Route 309 in West Penn Township when a utility pole at Route 443 snapped, causing part of the pole to fall through the windshield, police said. Read...

via Danger, Will Robinson For thousands of years, ambitious men have always taken advantage of crisis, social turmoil, and economic downturns to solidify their positions and take control (Caligula, Ivan the Terrible, Stalin & Hitler come to mind). People in desperation have almost...