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After a disastrous interview with the Globe and Mail’s Denise Balkissoon on race in Canada, Vancouver radio station CKNW host Ian Power has been fired. Balkissoon told CANADALAND she will save her thoughts on the ordeal for the next episode of the Globe and Mail podcast Colour Code, which she...

Bové called on PM Justin Trudeau to explain why he was held at the airport Anti-globalization activist and European Parliament MP who opposes a trade deal between Canada and the European Union now says he will be allowed to stay in Canada after all. According to José Bové, who says he missed a...

Repeat after me; 'Conservatives are fiscally responsible' (when it comes to their personal money).... Rona Ambrose’s nearly $320,000 in expenses leads MPs for first half of 2016: analysis

Hasenfus a “father” and “common citizen” who himself was a victim of the “irrational and unjust policy of the U.S. administration.” Thirty years ago , a complete unknown sprang into the international limelight. His name was Eugene Hasenfus. Shot down Oct. 5, 1986, while kicking crated cargo to...

Bonnie Crombie says local web publication crossed the line with article headlined, ‘Bonnie’s Muslims Are Molesting Teenage Girls in Mississauga Highschools.’ Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie says she has filed a hate-crime complaint with Peel police after a local website published an article...

A fourth attempt to modernize Canada’s century-old animal cruelty laws was put down in the House last night. Liberal backbencher Nathaniel Erskine-Smith was hoping his private member’s bill would be sent to committee for study, but it was defeated by a vote of 84-198. Although the rookie MP had...

Margaret McGregor and Lisa Ronald question why Christy Clark's B.C. Liberal government is insisting on inferior, for-profit senior care rather than allowing for public facilities. Opinion: Private vs. public less of an issue than quality residential care | Vancouver Sun

What could be more nefarious than cheese fraud! I'll tell you what: Turns out Castle Cheese wasn't just selling customers bogus non-Parmesan and non-Romano cheeses—they were selling customers wood pulp. Yup, that's right: wood. pulp. "The motive for doing so was simple—it was less costly for...

Pope Francis was upset to hear that two former nuns had married in a civil ceremony in Italy, Vatican Deputy Secretary of State Archbishop Angelo Becciu said Friday. “How much sadness on the pope's face when I read him the news of the two married 'nuns'!” Becciu tweeted. Federica and Isabel...

Let's start in Utah..... A Utah businessman is making an impassioned appeal to voters in hopes of being elected governor. "Super" Dell Schanze, famous for his unusual Totally Awesome Computer commercials, is warning voters that if they vote for anyone other than him they will "face the...

David Letterman goes to India to get his beard trimmed https://vimeo.com/185650992

The Ontario legislature voted Thursday to ban cities from removing fluoride from their water supplies. Though the motion brought forward by a Liberal MPP is non-binding —meaning it’s more symbolic than prescriptive —it could send a clear signal to cities and suggest where the government is...

Why do millions of Christians in the United States believe that their faith, financial status and health are all intertwined? That's the question that Paul Kennedy explores with Kate Bowler, author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel. They turn to the early 20th century...

the Liberals now support. When Stephen Harper's Conservatives announced in 2011 they would unilaterally reduce health care funding by $36 billion, few Canadians other than one premier and the Fraser Institute applauded the move. Now you can add another name to the list: Justin Trudeau's...

India, one of the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters, has ratified the Paris global climate agreement. Under the deal, India has committed to ensuring that at least 40% of its electricity will be generated from non-fossil sources by 2030. CO2 emissions are believed to be the driving force...

Every child should be taught about the negative impact and suffering caused by the British Empire, Jeremy Corbyn has suggested. Mr Corbyn told young Labour supporters that the national curriculum should be re-written to teach children about how the Empire expanded "at the expense of people"...

Over the past two days, a major health care summit has taken place in Ottawa at the Chateau Laurier Hotel. The summit, titled "A New Health Accord for All Canadians," is a partnership between the Canada 2020 think tank and the Canadian Medical Association (CMA). This summit featured a variety...

It's one of the most famous delis in the U.S., if not the world; its food has been called "nearly orgasmic" — but now comes word that New York's famed Carnegie Delicatessen will be closing its doors at the end of 2016. The deli first opened in 1937 — meaning that it will close just shy of its...

Dundee boxer was rushed to hospital suffering severe bleeding and swelling to his brain after a fifth-round loss in a contest. The fighter from Dundee, dubbed "Iron Mike", suffered a fifth-round loss to Welshman Dale Evans in a St Andrews Sporting Club welterweight fight at Glasgow's Radisson...

Cancer patients and their families receiving treatment at a Barrie hospital were left “furious” after an ad for a funeral home greeted them on the gates of the hospital parking lot. Lori Waltenbury, 29, was taking her aunt for her second chemotherapy treatment when she saw the ad wrapped...