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How do blacklisted companies accused of funneling resources into war zones continue to do business? How do criminals maintain companies behind a veil of secrecy? How do corporations try to dodge millions in taxes while impoverished governments struggle to provide citizens with basic health care...

New York taxi drivers to be banned from flirting with or ejaculating on passengers New York City officials have revealed new proposals that would ban taxi and hire car drivers from flirting with passengers or initiating any kind of unwanted physical contact. The Taxi and Limousine Commission...

Calgary's C-Train already runs on it and now 500 Alberta schools have signed up to be powered by the wind. Across the province, 25 school boards have signed 25-year contracts with Calgary-based BluEarth Renewables, which built a 29-megawatt wind farm near the Saskatchewan border in order to...

Dr. Stiglitz' advice to Trudeau is that the Trans Pacific Partnership may well be the worst trade deal ever and Canada would do well to turn it down and, at a minimum, demand to renegotiate (link is external) its terms. "I think what Canada should do is use its influence to begin a...

A carbon tax may be a controversial topic in the United States, but in one Canadian province, this eight-year-old policy has been such a success that on Wednesday more than 100 businesses said they support a tax increase. In a letter addressed to Premier Christy Clark, who governs the...

The State Department tweeted out a warning to Americans traveling overseas Wednesday — and then deleted the tweet after a deluge of criticism from people who called it sexist. The tweet, sent from the State Department's @TravelGov account at 1:20 p.m. ET, in essence told Americans that...

French President François Hollande has decided to abandon a bill that would have revoked citizenship for convicted terrorists and strengthened the country's state of emergency. In a rare address to reporters following the weekly cabinet meeting, Hollande said Wednesday he had no choice...

The Conservatives first promised to create an Office of Religious Freedom during the 2011 election campaign. The office’s mandate is to “speak out and to protect and promote religious freedom around the world.” While the Conservative initiative was criticized for mixing politics and religion...

By Tammy Roberts I’ve been trying to wrap my head how Marquart’s appraisal (herein “The Appraisal”) landed at $129,000 per acre in the first place, when all other appraisals for the same dirt were coming in at $30,000 – $60,000 per acre. (This will make more sense if you read my earlier post...

The Fife-based plant – the biggest of its kind in Britain – has been generating electricity for a quarter of Scottish homes for almost half a century but has bowed to a mixture of old age, rising transmission costs and higher taxes on carbon. “Coal has long been the dominant force in Scotland’s...

Premier Kathleen Wynne says the Liberal government has no plans to raise the $100,000 threshold for Ontario's so-called sunshine list of public sector workers. The list comes out later today, and will provide salaries and benefits for tens of thousands of workers, including police...

Canada announced on Thursday it would give Air Canada AC.TO more leeway to decide where its planes are maintained, prompting union protests that the move could cost thousands of jobs. Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Air Canada, currently bound by a 1988 law spelling out...

Comedian Garry Shandling, star of It’s Garry Shandling’s Show and The Larry Sanders Show, died Thursday. Shandling was a five-time Emmy Award nominee for Lead Actor, and he grabbed gold once (with Peter Tolan) for Outstanding Writing. The comedian also amassed three American Comedy Awards...

Overnight, Calgary mother Christianne Boudreau has a new identity, "mother of a terrorist," when her son Damian is killed fighting with ISIS. CBC.ca - Program Guide - Programs_

Prab Gill won today’s by-election in Calgary-Greenway with 27 percent of the vote, holding the northeast Calgary electoral district for his Progressive Conservative Party. The by-election was triggered after the death of popular MLA Manmeet Bhullar in November 2015. Perhaps demonstrating how...

In a detailed 21-page financial analysis of Gospel for Asia prepared in November, Morrison alleges as much as $128 million US in worldwide donations over an eight-year period went "missing" in India. Morrison also alleges Gospel for Asia's...

The City of Montreal has cancelled the 2017 World Police and Fire Games after several unions have said they intend to boycott the event. "We're cancelling the games when that shouldn't be the case," Mayor Denis Coderre . "There are men and women who have contributed and for them these games are...

Harry Leslie Smith writes (link is external) about the problems with a U.K. budget and economic plan designed to avoid any moral compass: Nothing better illustrates to me that Osborne is sailing us back to the harsh and socially unsustainable cruelty of the 1930s than his removal of...

Neoliberalism ...is an economic principle. It refers to the belief that markets should be frictionless and unfettered by things like regulation or organized labor. Neoliberalism has its roots in the Chicago School of economics pioneered by Milton Friedman in the 1970s. The concept found its...

Alliance says cutting of marketing system led to $6.5B loss in 2 years More than 50 farmers from the Swan River and Pelly areas of Manitoba and Saskatchewan met February 10, 2016 and unanimously passed a resolution calling for the re-establishment of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), and...