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Wow...made it to 96.... Alan Young, who gamely played straight man to a talking horse for five years in classic sitcom “Mr. Ed,” died Thursday at the Motion Picture and Television Home in Woodland Hills, Calif. He was 96. On the series, which ran from 1961-66 on CBS, Young played architect...

How could the Tesla car company, symbol of forward-thinking, wealth and techie cool have people from Eastern Europe working at their Bay Area factory making $5 an hour?! That’s right, over a hundred people were brought to Tesla’s Fremont, California plant from places like Slovenia and Croatia...

The Business Standard News has learned that Rightwing commentator Ann Coulter has been arrested by a security officer for trying to use a women’s bathroom in Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina is facing widespread criticism and a federal lawsuit for instituting a law that would force transgender...

The era of sprawling suburban build-out across much of the GTA might finally be over. With 3.5 million people set to move into the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area over the next 25 years, the province is promising sweeping changes to manage smart growth and curb urban sprawl that’s crippling...

In yet another example of the social democratic scourge of evidence-based decision-making, Alberta’s New Democratic Party Government is bringing in legislation that will result in the people who run government-financed agencies, boards and commissions being paid based on what they’re actually...

Pamela Wallin got her early Christmas gift yesterday. Today Mac Harb found his under the tree. Nobody is getting prosecuted (link is external) in the Senate expenses scandal. The RCMP and the Ontario Crown seems to have lost their appetite for political show trials after getting their butt...

So all you believers just keep it going because God will still accept you..... ‘I believe in a merciful God’: Retired priest admits to sexually abusing young parishioners at Ottawa church McGrory has neither been charged with a crime in Ottawa, nor defrocked by the Vatican. McGrory’s...

The goal was to make Saudi Arabia a bit more palatable to Canadians. The plan was to stage a festival in Ottawa, a celebration of Saudi culture (of some highly sanitized variety). The Saudi embassy blamed “logistical reasons” for its last-minute change of plans when contacted Monday and a...

A Grade 12 student from Vancouver, B.C., has won the top prize at the world's largest high school research competition. Austin Wang, 18, won the $75,000 U.S. Gordon E. Moore Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Ariz., for developing bacteria that speeds up...

Conservatives Can't Blame Liberals For Donald Trump. You Have To Own The Donald www.youtube.com/watch?v=6awy6gX2QK8

Has Reportedly Been Downloaded 10 Million Times In the Arabic translation of The God Delusion, under the title, Bassam added the words: “This book is banned in Islamic countries.” It is fortunate and wonderful that the banning of books in the Arab and Islamic worlds is no longer feasible in...

Despite the province’s 2008 poverty reduction plan, the women’s plight and that of almost 158,000 other single adults on welfare or Ontario Works is getting worse, according to a new report on social assistance being released Monday. For this group, the poverty gap has jumped by almost 200 per...

Americans have loved McDonald’s Quarter Pounder ever since a franchisee introduced the iconic burger to the country in 1972. In the 1980s, A&W attempted to capitalize on the success of the Quarter Pounder—and drum up a little competition for Ronald and friends—by introducing a third-pound...

The rout in crude prices is snowballing into one of the biggest avalanches in the history of corporate America, with 59 oil and gas companies now bankrupt after this week's filings for creditor protection by Midstates Petroleum and Ultra Petroleum. The number of U.S. energy bankruptcies is...

Bob Kinnear points out (link is external) the utter lack of a rational explanation for Ontario's giveaway of public assets and institutions - that is, other than to generate a source of unearned money for the financial sector...... It's hard for a lot of Ontarians to understand the latest wave...

The documents imply that even craven European leaders believe the US demands go too far. As War on Want puts it, they show that TTIP would “open the door” to products currently banned in the EU “for public health and environmental reasons”. Today is one such moment. The Transatlantic Trade...

faces removal from office. On Friday evening, SPLC President Richard Cohen said that Moore has disgraced his office and should be removed. "He is such an egomaniac and such a religious zealot that he thinks he can ignore court orders with impunity," Cohen said. "For the sake of our state, he...

Christian prayer in Sask. Legislature will continue, premier says - Saskatchewan - CBC News

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Rodrigo Duterte vowed to forget human rights if he wins Monday's election and "butcher" criminals, in a typically savage tirade to end an explosive campaign. Duterte, who has hypnotised millions of voters with his promises to eradicate crime and corruption, repeatedly warned tens of thousands...