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The federal government wants to delay the implementation of its much-touted new methane regulations by up to three years. Documents obtained by CBC News show the initial federal plan was to phase in tough rules to control methane from the oil and gas industry starting in 2018, with all of the...

On Thursday afternoon, the CRTC dropped a bombshell ruling on the status of net neutrality—the principle that all web services should be treated equally by providers. And, blessedly, it's good news. The CRTC ruled that "[internet] service providers should treat data traffic equally to foster...

The Alberta government initiative, believed to be the first of its kind in Canada, will be watched closely by the federal government to see if it can be implemented federally or in other provinces, federal Employment, Workforce Development and Labour Minister Patty Hajdu said in Edmonton...

Lawmakers in about a dozen states are considering a bill that would block pornography from all new phones and computers unless consumers pay up. Backers of the porn tax plan to introduce it on the federal level this month. State Rep. Kelly Townsend (R-Mesa) considered sponsoring a version of...

The Rover pipeline spilled an estimated 2 million gallons of drilling fluid pollutants into wetlands "adjacent to" the Tuscarawas River in Navarre, Ohio, last week, according to a notice of violation filed by the Ohio EPA. Another 50,000 gallons of fluid were spilled into wetlands closer to...

And while forensics can work magic in capturing a criminal those same lab results can be twisted to fit a desired narrative as we saw in Ontario......... http://forums.canadiancontent.net/news/77677-good-thing-we-dont-put.html?highlight=Waudby A mass dismissal of wrongful convictions ─...

A Donald Trump supporter who allegedly assaulted a young woman during a campaign rally last year is claiming the president is to blame in his response to a lawsuit against him. Alvin Bamberger, 75, who is accused of shoving protester Kashiya Nwanguma at a Louisville, Kentucky, rally on March...

Note that $29.10 per MWh is 2.91 cents per kilowatt-hour. For context, the average U.S. residential price for electricity is 12 cents per kWh. Stunning drops in the cost of wind and solar energy have turned the global power market upside down. For years, opponents of renewable power, like...

Saskatchewan – home of Premier Brad Wall, who a well-known Alberta right-wing Opposition figure not long ago declared to be the real leader of Western Canada – that province was shedding jobs in the same time period. According to the same Statistics Canada report, employment declined in...

On the other hand, the overall unemployment rate remains higher in Alberta – probably partly because so much of the Canadian oil industry is headquartered in Calgary and partly because more people are looking for work again now that the economy is perking up and there are more grounds for...

forcibly removed from her flight and returned to Saudi Arabia because she didn't have permission from her male guardian to travel. Dina Ali Lasloom, 24, intended to flee to Australia to escape a forced marriage, Human Rights Watch cited a Canadian witness as saying. The witness said Lasloom...

High-risk sex offender Apay Ogouk, 33, likely to live in Winnipeg - Manitoba - CBC News

A Kelowna man serving a life sentence for strangling a teenage girl to death 16 years ago is missing from the minimum security unit at a prison in Mission, B.C. Robert Raymond Dezwaan was not accounted for in the Mission Institution on the afternoon of Apr. 14, Correctional Service Canada...

Leaked internal emails appear to show employees at one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies calling for “celebration” over price hikes of cancer drugs, an investigation has revealed. Staff at Aspen Pharmacare reportedly plotted to destroy stocks of life-saving medicines during a...

Tesla was not immediately available for additional comment. But the automaker has long planned to add both a semi truck and a pickup truck to its lineup of cars. Musk discussed both in the second volume of his "master plan" for Tesla. "We believe the Tesla Semi will deliver a substantial...

Truck drivers across Russia launched a nationwide strike March 27 aimed at abolishing the country's controversial “Platon” truck tax, in which heavy vehicles are charged tolls on federal highways – supposedly to repair Russia's damaged roads. Drivers from cities across Russia participated in...

I was just on a newspaper website reading a story when, for reasons unknown to me, I clicked open the obituary link. I see two names that I knew from childhood. One was a father to a school kid who lived on the same street as me. He was an ambulance driver for the local hospital. Occasionally...

A group of alumni from one of Ontario's largest Christian summer camps is fighting to end an anti-gay policy that requires staff to condemn "homosexual and lesbian sexual conduct" if a camper asks them about it. Volunteer and paid staff at Ontario Pioneer Camp in Port Sydney, Ont., must sign a...

Canada needs it's own travel ban.......... An American woman has pleaded guilty in a plot to kill shoppers at a Halifax mall on Valentine's Day, a potential massacre avoided by a Crime Stoppers tip to police. Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath of Geneva, Illinois, was one of three people involved...

Canada needs to get used to that. To me, there's no doubt in mind that if Canada really wants to be a leader in global change, it's time to confront the raging Islamophobia that long existed before six Muslim men were shot down in a mosque in Quebec by a white shooter in late January. This...