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The US's largest police union has urged Amazon to remove a T-shirt from its third-party marketplace that says: “Bulletproof: Black Lives Matter”. The Fraternal Order of Police has already succeeded in having garment removed from Walmart supermarkets. But as of Sunday morning it was still...

Would you please stop offering me videos I would never watch. Just because I watched a part of a video for 10 seconds does not mean I am interested in that subject or the poster. The reason I only watched it for 10 seconds is because I did not like it. And no, I don't want more suggestions to...

Donald Trump’s newly tapped White House communications director, Jason Miller, backed out of the job following claims that he had an affair with another transition official, according to three sources close to the Trump transition. Two days after his appointment as communications director was...

Right wing social justice warriors started the war on Christmas. Or rather the war on everyone who doesn't celebrate Christmas. I find it hilarious that all it takes to trigger them is to wish them a happy holiday........... Life is filled with paradox, even at a time as delightful as...

by age 30, would transform the world. Merry Newtonmas! Isaac Newton b. Dec. 25, 1642, died March 20, 1727, London English physicist and mathematician, who was the culminating figure of the scientific revolution of the 17th century. In optics, his discovery of the composition of white light...

Most Christians understand Christ was not actually born on this date (biblical scholars believe he was born in the spring, because the Bible mentions shepherds in the fields at the time of his birth). The idea that Christ was born on December 25 doesn’t appear in the historical record until the...

which concluded that the government did not tax all forms of income equally; that you paid more tax on income earned through labour than income earned through capital gains. Carter’s suggestions—which were strongly supported by labour and the NDP at the time. Somewhat recently Brian Topp...

A Calgary man has been arrested in Orlando, Fla., after a pantless joyride across airport tarmac. According to the Orlando Police Department, Richard Hogh was kicked off a flight to Chicago Friday morning after United Airlines employees found him acting erratically. Hogh had sat in an...

The Democrats hysterical warnings about Russians under our beds, and Donald Trump's weird connection with poor, working class whites, are equally bizarre as long as you are using the archaic and obsolete left-right paradigm of democracy that we've been taught. It finally occurred to me the...

Canadian Reginald Fessenden and his message was “One Two Three Four — is it snowing where you are Mr. Thiessen? If it is, telegraph back to me.” How Canadian - he talked about the weather! While Marconi is often credited as being “the”, or at least, “a” father of radio, he was in fact...

The challenges of living in rural Nova Scotia may differ in some ways from living in the Halifax area, but one thing is same across the province: low-wage workers need to make more money if they are to break the cycle of poverty. The living wage for a hypothetical family of four where both...

After Nearly 500 Years in Business, the Company that Cast the Liberty Bell Is Ceasing All Operations In 1751, Pennsylvania statesman Isaac Norris II commissioned Whitechapel’s most famous American bell to hang from the State House (now Independence Hall). Upon arrival from London, the “State...

Despite its dated condition, the estate sale property, which sold on Monday for $1.1 million, attracted about 800 visitors over the course of three open houses — and 50 offers ahead of the designated offer presentation time. People are accustomed to homes being staged to look and smell like...

I don't watch the Super Bowl unless I happen to be somewhere and a TV may be on and I have never noticed the commercials. One year I watched a few ads on the computer and I just shrugged and don't get the excitement the pedestrians seem absorbed with, but now the dollar fight is growing...

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The FBI Completed More Gun Background Checks on Black Friday Than on Any Other Day in U.S. History Gun ownership has traditionally been associated with the right wing in America but the election of Donald Trump has prompted some left-wingers to join gun clubs - and even start preparing for the...

Boyle, 33, who is Canadian, and Coleman, his 31-year-old American wife, have been held by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network since October 2012. They were kidnapped near Kabul, Afghanistan, during a backpacking trip through Central Asia. Coleman says the video was made Dec. 3, and is...

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Then the story took an even darker twist. Even in Pakistan, where hundreds of “honor killings” are reported every year, this case was extreme. According to court filings and interviews with people who investigated it, the families confined the girls for weeks, threw boiling water and hot...

I really thought this was a top, not a bra and I don't get the backlash. Guess I'm out of the loop........ An Edmonton woman said she was stunned when she was told to cover up while wearing a sports bra during a workout at a city-run recreation centre. Coral Wiebe told CTV Edmonton that she...