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Knife-wielding assailants killed nine policemen and 17 civilians in a bloody attack that only ended after 10 attackers were shot dead in western China early Wednesday. At least three people were also injured during the early morning assault on the Lukqun Township in Xinjiang province...

As I write this I am still only being updated by text message on the proceedings in the Senate chamber but I am told Bill C-304 has passed third reading and will receive Royal Assent tonight making it law. What does this bill do? There are a number of amendments to the act that help limit...

is apparently a thing in American high schools now In the last year, there have been more than a dozen hazing incidents around the country involving high school boys who have sodomized other boys with foreign objects, reports Bloomberg. Over 40 boys have been reported victims. Most have...

A 14-year-old Texas teen, Miguel Martinez, is dead after impaling himself on the horns of a bull statue on the Texas Tech University campus. According to police, Martinez was running on the National Ranching Heritage Museum on the Texas Tech campus around 3am playing hide-and-seek when the...

7 MPs want voters who challeged them in court to pay their bills Seven Conservative MPs have submitted a combined bill of $355,907 for costs they want paid by a handful of voters who received misleading robocalls during the last general election, and had challenged them in court. The...

Bono, the lead singer for legendary rock band U2 and co-founder of the ONE Campaign, shares his insight as a husband of 30 years and a father of four children, and how his faith in Jesus Christ motivates him to use his celebrity status to fight for social justice around the world. “I believe...

More signs that Britain has lost it man. Oldfield loses right to stay in UK Boat Race protester Trenton Oldfield has been refused leave to remain in the UK after the Home Office decided his presence was not "conducive to the public good". The Australian, who disrupted last year's...

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service is a federal agency which, in the words of its mission statement is "dedicated to the protection of Canada's national security interests and the safety of Canadians." Like any other branch of government, it's not perfect, but their goal is to serve...

Hat tippage to Fark DES MOINES — During four years as the only Midwestern state to offer same-sex marriage, Iowa has seen thousands of couples travel to the Hawkeye State for wedding celebrations that have pumped millions of dollars into the state economy. But Iowa will get some...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Republican-dominated Texas Legislature pushed Monday to enact wide-ranging restrictions that would effectively shut down abortion clinics across the nation's second most-populous state, and Democrats planned an old-fashioned marathon filibuster to stop the final...

That's “arrest, fines and imprisonment”for you! Willful bastard. via sda: Bureaucracy run amok. Sigh. This episode reminds me of the union at Prince Albert Park (I think it was) where the union filled complaints against the seniors that...

This is satire. Although the news is real, very little actual reporting was done for this story and the quotes are imagined. It is the first installment of an ongoing series that examines the language journalists use to cover foreign countries. What if we wrote that way about the United...

yeah...um, after advertising for bar staff with ‘knowledge of British culture’ The owner of a Welsh bar in New York has been fined £1,600 for race discrimination after trying to hire staff with a 'knowledge of British culture'. Ex-pat Michael Colbert, 54, was hauled up in front of a...

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Spain's wind turbine manufacturers are laying off workers and farmers who installed solar panels are facing ruin as austerity policies afflict the long-coddled green energy sector...

via LiveLeak: Man with parkinsons show the effects of using a neurostimulator. - YouTube

In Retaliation For American Drone Strike That Killed Taliban Leader via Zip: How are those peace talks with the Taliban going, Mr. President? Via NY Times:ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In one of the most brazen attacks on foreigners in the country in recent years, militants killed nine tourists and...

Things have gotten so bad for Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government on its cursed green energy file that the Liberals aren’t even checking their new press releases to make sure their latest fibs are consistent with their old ones. Case in point was the claim by Energy Minister Bob...

via blazing cat fur Paris: Two Muslim women marry at LGBT center I'm sure this will go over well. “The caliphate is the sign of Islamic unity, and the manifestation of the connection between the Islamic peoples, and an Islamic symbol which the Muslims are obligated to think about...

Way to go fellas. Newly released Caltrans documents reveal there were quality-control problems with hundreds of the steel rods and bolts installed on the new Bay Bridge eastern span, including one batch that was improperly treated with brake cleaner and another with an aerosol product called...