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Nearly 200 parents of high-school students in Fort Collins, Colo., recently gathered for “Parents’ Night.” Their children, they were told, could have great, well-paying careers while being “the next generation of makers.” The venue? Woodward Inc., an engine and equipment components plant...

A group of employees at a Saskatchewan daily newspaper has reached a deal to purchase the outlet and run it as an independent publication, just over a week after a sister daily in the province closed. Star News Publishing says it has sold the Prince Albert Daily Herald to a group of employees...

Samantha MacDougall thought her fight to get her late partner’s Canada Pension Plan benefits would take years. The government ended the fight for her. Newly approved changes to the Canada Pension Plan will mean widows and widowers, regardless of age, will receive full survivor benefits...

but in spite of it. In recent months, one of the United States’ most important debates has revolved around the broad concept of Net Neutrality (NN). Without delving into the technicalities, the concept of NN is that internet service providers (ISPs) cannot privilege or restrict internet data...

CBC News has learned the man charged in connection with a baseball bat attack on an immigrant family is a Toronto personal injury lawyer and the great-grandson of former Toronto mayor Nathan Phillips. Mark Phillips, 36, was charged on Dec. 8 with aggravated assault and three counts of assault...

Eighty percent of employees say managers are unnecessary, a national survey on manager-employee relationships found. The survey of more than 2,000 employees by Ultimate Software also found that 75 percent of employees say approachability is the most important quality in an effective manager...

Listen to the folks who run some of our biggest electric utilities: Tom Fanning, chief of Southern Company, in 2016 about its nuclear project in Georgia, which is years behind schedule: “It has gone beautifully. And we’re on schedule.” Kevin Marsh, CEO of SCANA, in 2016 about South...

Trade deals affect people’s everyday lives from the food we eat to the energy we use, and should not be discussed in secret, behind closed doors. Yet sadly, this is exactly what is happening at this year’s upcoming World Trade Organization meeting in Buenos Aires from 10-13 December. Friends of...

I recall some years ago someone was driving 60 in an 80 heading to cottage country for a long time., hwy 12 maybe. Eventually an OPP pulled them over. In court they won because there was no sign saying what the minimum speed was. If the following is true, they should have been charged with...

Liberal MP John Oliver said today the Trudeau government likely will begin to implement a national pharmacare program by 2020. “The expectation, the hope, from those that have been championing this for some time is that 2020 is the year that we see the beginning,” Oliver told an iPoliticsLive...

Hydro customers shelled out about $100 million in "inappropriate" payments to a natural gas plant that exploited flaws in how Ontario manages its private electricity generators, CBC News has learned. The company operating the Goreway Power Station in Brampton "gamed" the system for at least...

Members of a thalidomide survivor group say they felt belittled and are appalled after meeting with Kent Hehr, the federal minister for persons with disabilities, and accuse him of making repugnant statements about their life expectancies. The minister flat out denies at least one of their...

The good news is Canada has a much safer blood system today. Canadian Blood Services is better administered, more transparent and regulated properly. There has not been a single case of a patient infected by contaminated blood since the Krever report was tabled. Yet, debates about blood safety...

posed by household debt and stagnant wages Rising household debt and flatlining wages are becoming a major financial stability risk as Britain slows as a consequence of Brexit, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said. The warning from the Paris-based thinktank on...

The tour, which kicked off on Friday morning, will make stops in four states as well as Washington DC and the Puerto Rico. It will focus on several of the social and economic barriers that render the American dream merely a pipe dream to millions – from homelessness in California to racial...

CraveTV does not protect your email and password https://twitter.com/SpyMaster356/status/935995427995795456 Hey @CraveTVHelp and @Bell, why is your account login page not served over HTTPS? This one here: http://www.cravetv.ca/account/subscription/information… Any why does it redirect to http...

Monster heat wave reaches Greenland, bringing rain and melting its ice sheet https://thinkprogress.org/omg-heat-wave-scorches-greenland-up-to-54f-warmer-than-normal-9981de9c6a92/

Morneau can't be kept in a position which he's used mostly to enrich his own class of vulture capitalists. Bill C-27, the Act to Amend the Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985, may seem like the kind of legislation that would only interest an actuary. But for Fred Vettese, the chief actuary...

The procedure, called scleral pigmentation, is made by lancing a small needle into the top layer of the eye and injecting diluted ink. The process and ink formula are both considered cosmetic and are currently unregulated by the province. Within hours, Gallinger said she was in pain as the ink...

Hundreds of millions of cable modems affected by Intel Puma hardware bug that makes them susceptible to DoS and latency issues. Bad Modems