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December 10 is International Human Rights Day (link is external). The date commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (link is external) in 1948, the first global human rights document.

Know when you should double up...... Long John Index Weather Map - December 8, 2016 — The Long John Index Service of Canada

A UPS company truck driver was fatally shot and run over in a Walmart parking lot in Ithaca this morning. The 52 year old truck driver, William Schumacher, had started seasonal work with UPS only four weeks ago, hauling packages between processing hubs. Around 1 a.m. as he made his way back...

Toronto city planners thought they’d found the perfect place to hold a public meeting on an accessible, affordable housing project in Toronto’s east end. The only trouble? The Legion Beaches Branch isn’t accessible. We tried to find an alternative, Lazy Daisy’s, but there was no accessible...

On Tuesday, the Canadian Supreme Court is scheduled to hear an appeal whose outcome will help shape access to information on the global Internet. Recognizing the high stakes, the court has heard the arguments of many interested observers, such as our organization, a free press group based in the...

European Union leaders have been welcoming the result, which comes amid fears of populism undermining established parties. European Council President Donald Tusk conveyed "wholehearted congratulations" while Germany's Social Democrat Vice-Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, called the result "a clear...

The controversial human rights record of Gulf states should not be a bar to increased post-Brexit trade with them, Theresa May has said ahead of a high-profile visit to the Middle East. Ms May will be the first British Prime Minister, and first woman, to attend the Gulf Co-operation Council...

Edmonton police have issued a warning about a sexually violent offender who has been released and will be living in the city. Leon Halkett, 31, has preyed on random women, as well as women he has been in a relationship with, according to a release. EPS is seeking a recognizance order on...

Stephanie Kim says she’s experienced racism before, but she was caught off guard by a series of racial slurs she experienced while standing in line at a bank on Friday. Kim, 27, was waiting to speak with a teller at a TD branch, located at Queen St. W. and Spadina Ave., when she says she heard...

Theresa May orders crackdown on unauthorised leaks by ministers and civil servants, leaked memorandum reveals Theresa May orders crackdown on unauthorised leaks by ministers and civil servants, leaked memorandum reveals | The Independent

A court has given the town of Publier, in eastern France, three months to remove the work. If it fails to do so, it will be fined €100 (£80; $105) a day. Mayor Gaston Lacroix said he will try to relocate the marble statue on private land. The image of the mother of Jesus has been standing...

Archie Bunker always wanted 7 Jewish lawyers to sue people...... He’s the face of personal injury law in Ontario. On television, radio, social media, billboards, buses and atop urinals at the Air Canada Centre, you will find the image and the message of lawyer Jeremy Diamond. “Nothing is...

Well praise the Lord indeed......... The Wildrose Opposition’s impassioned defence of a private Christian school association that oversaw about a third of the province’s home-schooled children and the entity it hired to oversee the work is unravelling like an old sweater caught on a nail –...

Cap and trade to cost people, business $8B in first years: auditor Cap and trade to cost people, business $8B in first years: auditor | National Newswatch I haven't read it yet but on the radio I was ummmm, not stunned but left saying WTF over the 'tar test'. Apparently there is a 2 part test...

Researchers at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children are poised to begin a clinical trial using cannabis extracts to treat children with severe epilepsy whose seizures can't be controlled with existing medications. The trial is believed to be the first in Canada to test an oral preparation that...

The performance on Saturday night by the far-right metal group Graveland at the Plaza Theater was canceled about an hour before the performance was to have begun. The organizers of the festival reported taking this decision "for security reasons". They added that the owners of the Plaza Theatre...

Sixty years ago, I was home after school, sitting in our living room on New York’s Central Park West, reading a history of Rome when the announcer on WQXR broke in to announced, “Israeli armored forces are thrusting deep into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.” So began the 1956 Arab-Israeli Suez war, a...

The court has ruled against a former Manitoba marriage commissioner's claims that the province's requirement to perform same-sex marriages violates his freedom of religion. In September, Kevin Kisilowsky filed his case to the Court of Queen's Bench in Winnipeg calling for the law mandating that...

“During the campaign, Donald Trump made a 100 percent commitment to prevent United Technologies from shipping 2,100 jobs from Indiana to Mexico. All of us need to hold Mr. Trump accountable to make sure that he keeps this promise. “Let’s be clear: it is not good enough to save some of these...

Ron Glass Dead: ‘Barney Miller’ and ‘Firefly’ Star Dies at 71 | Variety