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The province has appointed the Honourable Hugh Segal to provide advice on the design and implementation of a Basic Income Pilot in Ontario, as announced in the 2016 Budget. Basic income, or guaranteed annual income, is a payment to eligible families or individuals that ensures a minimum level...

The Historic Route 66 welcome center in Conway, Missouri will receive the nation’s first solar roadway panels on a public right of way. Their project received tons of attention in 2014 after the world caught wind of the couple’s ambitious plan to harness the energy being soaked up by the...

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal, Christian Lépine, has ordered that beginning sometime this year, priests and other pastoral workers in Montreal parishes will no longer be permitted to spend time alone with children. The decree comes in the wake of continued allegations of sexual and...

For 48 minutes Thursday, Robert-Falcon Ouellette sat in a committee room on Parliament Hill and spoke passionately about the reasons a guaranteed minimum income would have a profound effect on people in his Winnipeg Centre riding. For 48 minutes, he cited the history of the idea, referenced the...

In the middle of April, Facebook removed more than six Arabic-speaking atheist pages due to “violations” of Community Standards. This is not the first time that Facebook has censored atheists and freethinkers in the MENA region. In response, the Atheist Alliance – Middle-East and North Africa...

The gloating head of the Catholic League on Monday ripped into the “victims’ lobby” he says is out to “rape” the Catholic Church over the issue of child sex abuse. Markey’s bill would have extended the timeframe in which a victim could bring a case by five years, opened a six-month window to...

and Continue 84-Year-Old Ban on Corporate Ownership North Dakota voters have rejected a measure that would have permitted corporations to own and to operate dairy and pork farms of up to 640 acres. On Tuesday, 75.7 percent of voters opposed Measure 1. North Dakota is one of only nine states...

that airlines can’t fly into. St. Helena is a small remote island in the South Atlantic. Located 1,200 miles west of the African mainland, the island is most famous for being Napoleon Bonaparte’s place of exile. Until recently, St. Helena, a British overseas territory with a population of...

In an event that went largely unnoticed, we have, in fact, passed the point where OPEC's key member Saudi Arabia can dictate oil prices any longer. No one seems to have taken in the momentous occasion if not comprehended its historical significance. Much hasn't been said or written, it has to...

Over one million people took to the streets in France this week in protest against an ever-increasing totalitarian French government, in some of the largest anti-government protests the country has ever seen. The Paris march was led by the biggest autonomous bloc that has been seen in the city...

King called the business-card-size papyrus “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife.” But even without that provocative title, it would have shaken the world of biblical scholarship. Centuries of Christian tradition are bound up in whether the scrap is authentic or, as a growing group of scholars...

A woman and her attorneys have been charged with secretly videotaping her having sex with a former CEO of Waffle House, and using the recording to try to extort millions of dollars from him. Mye Brindle, John Butters and David Cohen were indicted Friday, Fulton County District Attorney...

At approximately 2:30 a.m. on June 16th a Kingston Police uniform patrol officer was originally dispatched to the end of Biscayne Street, off of Highway 15. A resident had heard a male yelling for help and it appeared to be originating down an embankment near the Cataraqui River. While...

A Kenyan court has upheld the use of a**l examinations to determine a suspect’s sexual orientation, dismissing the argument that the procedure amounts to torture and degrading treatment. There was no violation of rights or the law, Mombasa high court judge Mathew Emukule said on Thursday. “I...

Grieving families are blocking the organ donations of one in five Ontarians who registered to donate before they died, the Star has learned. Data obtained by the Star from the Trillium Gift of Life Network reveals how often opportunities for potentially life-saving transplants are lost because...

The ads are enticing: The promise of "Free TV" and the chance to "Say goodbye to cable bills forever." So it's no surprise Canada's cable giants are targeting upstart dealers selling loaded Android TV boxes. The devices enable users to access pirated content with ease for a one-time fee Bell...

Voice of Judy Jetson, Janet Waldo, dies at age 96 | abc7.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtkGaFKs2rY

I entered a local grocery store to meet my wife, who had been shopping there. She told me that she had seen a man wearing a Trump t-shirt. It was when she told me who was wearing the repugnant apparel that I reacted with both shock and outrage: a judge who sits the Ontario Superior Court of...

Foxxy blond doesn't know when to shut up.... Emily Austen, a 27-year-old Fox Sports Reporter, was fired today after making insensitive remarks about Mexican, Jewish and Chinese people. On the 35-minute long broadcast, Austen said a number of terrible things that you can watch above. She called...

I suppose we will have to see how the other Muslims Mosques react to this......... A mosque in Toronto is creating a name for itself for welcoming the LGBT community, as well as to people of all faiths. Founder El-Farouk Khaki said it was important for him and his co-founders to create the...