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Fox News Channel said Friday that it had fired liberal commentator Bob Beckel for making a racially insensitive remark to a black employee. Fox offered no details on the case, but a lawyer for the employee said Beckel had "stormed out" of his office Tuesday when the man, who is a technician...

Chief Prosecutor Marianne Ny has today decided to discontinue the preliminary investigation regarding suspected rape concerning Julian Assange," a statement read. Assange, 45, has lived in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, after taking refuge there to avoid extradition to Sweden over...

The Conservative Senate leadership has kicked Nova Scotia Senator Stephen Greene out of the Tory caucus just hours before he was set to have dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Greene, who was appointed in 2009 by former prime minister Stephen Harper, said he was "ambushed" this morning...

Chapter one of that story takes us back to last February and the critical moment when David Cameron returned from his negotiation with the EU ministers to present his gamble to the public. He came back from Brussels with predictably few new concessions but with a sense, reinforced by his gilded...

Burlington can now call itself the vinyl record capital of Canada. At its new 20,000-square-foot plant, Precision Record Pressing held an opening celebration Thursday for more than 100 invited music industry guests, including representatives...

The university religion professor who has a massive following in Saudi Arabia made his call on Twitter to 17.4million people. But it has received a backlash from footy fans pointing out Muslim players regularly make religious gestures on the pitch. Al Arefe wrote: “I’ve seen video clips of...

I think the Doctor is politely telling fatties to lose weight....... “It’s not helping people in the long run.” Dr Reed Siemieniuk, McMaster University The panel of physicians, physiotherapists, academics and patients reviewed 13 randomized trials with control groups and found patients who...

Ontario taxpayers would be right to be shocked at how a high-paid health-care CEO can hold down two jobs at the same time. Would you like a job that pays $726,000 a year, plus expenses? Would you like to still have enough time on your hands to be able to hold down another position with a...

A popular drug that promises rapid relief from diarrhea is worrying doctors and emergency room staff because of the dangerous high it gives opioid abusers. The over-the-counter medication Imodium, whose main ingredient, loperamide, is an opioid, is cheap and easy to buy at a drugstore. It's...

"There's a strong public view, I think, that photo radar has gone beyond just enforcing safe traffic and has become, in some cases, a bit of a cash cow for municipalities," Mason said Thursday. "That is a misuse, if that is occurring. "We need to know to the degree to which that is...

So much for keeping america safe by selling weapons to the biggest funder of terroism in the middle east ......... The United States is close to completing a series of arms deals for Saudi Arabia totaling more than $100 billion, a senior White House official said on Friday, a week ahead of...

I'm thinking this weak showing is because most Canadians don't understand the ramifications......... As part of its legislative package last month to legalize marijuana, the government also tabled a bill to update impaired-driving laws. Bill C-46 would drop the requirement for police to have a...

Woman pictured with salesman at car dealership buying a Range Rover used fake ID An Ontario teacher is working to clear her name and her credit score, after someone appears to have used her identity to open credit cards, take out a loan and purchase a luxury SUV. Tara Douglas arrived home from...

While President Trump has talked tough in the past about his skeptical views on climate change, his administration appears to be taking a more cautious approach to the issue on the world stage in the early days of his presidency. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signed a document today...

Too many honkies on stage......... https://theleapblog.org/statement-on-withdrawing-from-canadian-journalism-foundation-event-in-toronto/ As the event changed and took shape, I raised concerns about the lack of diversity with the organizers, as did other panel members. Those concerns...

Mother fired while caring for son with cancer says Alberta rules must change Amanda Jensen will never forget the day she learned her six-year-old son Jake had leukemia — a heartbreaking moment made worse by the chain of events that followed that left her without a job. Now she's pushing for...

We Could Have Been Canada And what if it was a mistake from the start? The Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the creation of the United States of America—what if all this was a terrible idea, and what if the injustices and madness of American life since then have occurred...

Alberta Canada's only male majority province Census 2016’s odd man out: Alberta the only majority male province | Edmonton Journal

co-opted by white supremacists The creator of Pepe the Frog has symbolically killed off the cartoon frog, effectively surrendering control of the character to the far right. Matt Furie, an artist and children’s book author, created the now-infamous frog as part of his “Boy’s Club” series on...

He obviously does not want to Wynne....... Patrick Brown has tapped a veteran of numerous Tory campaigns — including Kevin O’Leary’s aborted federal leadership bid — to run his election next year. Andrew Boddington, who was the party’s executive director during former leader Tim Hudak’s...