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We have become accustomed to the idea that we may, someday, run out of oil. The world's great forests are being stripped away. Underwater aquifers, a vital source of water for millions, are being depleted at an alarming rate. But very few of us have ever imagined that we are also in danger of...

Tyler Morning Telegraph - Burned vehicle found in Smith County believed to belong to man found dead last week near the Antioch Cemetery

This conclusion was part of a study by the United Nations' Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, a body that reports to the international organization's High Commissioner on Human Rights. The group of experts, which includes leading human rights lawyers from around the world...

sayyyyyy now.......... A Labrador West physician who asked a woman during a Pap test if she “liked big ones or small ones” has lost his medical licence for six months and must be chaperoned when seeing female patients for two years once he goes back to work. A three-person tribunal established...

An offshore publishing company accused of disseminating junk science and duping researchers has taken over the publishing of several respected Canadian medical journals, a joint CTV News/Toronto Star investigation has found. Researchers and editors are sounding the alarm about a company called...

A Portland man says a taxi driver pulled out a bull horn and yelled anti-gay slurs at him and his friends outside a bar this week. Ty Raia says he was at Scandals bar in SW Portland just after 10 p.m. Tuesday when a man driving a Portland Taxi cab pulled up. “He came out of the cab wearing a...

For the first time in Canada, a self-proclaimed “Freeman on the Land” has been charged after a “paper terrorism” incident. Edmonton police announced Wednesday they have charged 45-year-old Allen Boisjoli of Vegreville with intimidation of a justice system participant. In May 2015, police said...

***** Riot, Putin's worst nightmare, are headed to Toronto for a special appearance at the Queen Elizabeth on November 12. The Russian feminist art collective and punk rock group, famously arrested four years ago for breaking into an anti-Putin punk song on the altar of a Russian Orthodox...

a team of philosophers from the University of Waterloo (link is external) for their research paper entitled, "On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bull****."

Parents fighting Ontario’s year-old sex education curriculum booed Premier Kathleen Wynne and Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown at a protest Wednesday. The updated document includes warnings about online bullying and sexting, but some parents have taken issue with discussions of...

Ontario’s governing Liberals could well win another majority — if they send leader Kathleen Wynne packing. A new poll from Mainstreet Research for Postmedia, released Thursday, asked respondents how they’d vote if the Liberals called an election with somebody other than Wynne leading the party...

a move that Catholic leaders say could bankrupt the church in the largely Catholic U.S. territory. Church leaders say lifting the statute of limitations would subject the church to unlimited financial liability, forcing the closure of parish churches and schools on the island where more than...

With the outbreak of WW 1 and Canada's subservient entry as British cannon fodder, the federal government effected a number of articles in the War Measures legislation embodied in the British North America Act. https://libcom.org/library/iww-canada-g-jewell

A Toronto landlord says she's been conned by a "professional tenant" who's been living in her Yorkville home since July without paying rent. "It's been a living hell for the past two months," Robin Ennis said in an interview with CBC News. The matter is the subject of a case being heard by the...

Windsor & Essex County Crime Stoppers voted Thursday, to remove Jon-Paul Fuller the day after Ontario Provincial Police raided greenhouses in Leamington, Ont. Police said they found more than 2,900 marijuana plants with an estimated value of $2.9 million, along with 41 kilograms of harvested...

The Government of BC rejected a similar proclamation request, citing the fact the Criminal Code was under federal jurisdiction. In June, the BC Humanist Association helped launch an official e-petition calling on the federal government to repeal Canada’s prohibition on blasphemous libel. The...

I have no idea. Next time you are at a store check out the price. I think she said in the clip they are at Sobeys, Whole Foods and Metro so far. Of course if you aren't a diabetic or weight watcher that wants to eat potatoes but can't until now, you won't buy them if they cost more than the...

Canada’s first low glycemic response all-purpose potato is supported by the Canadian Diabetes Association This variety resulted from the potato breeding programs’ focus on lower reducing sugars and high dry matter. These are among the factors that influence Carisma’s nutritional content and GI*...

David Ball notes (link is external) that many municipalities are retaking control over their own services after learning that the promises of efficiency through privatization are entirely illusory...

The recent furor over the drug company Mylan jacking up the price of lifesaving EpiPens has brought out the biohackers. A team of DIY enthusiasts calling themselves Four Thieves Vinegar have published plans that will allow anyone to build a device to self-inject epinephrine on the cheap...