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Sent Nov 23rd. Dear Minister Duncan: In 2014, I died; my heart suddenly stopped, and stayed stopped through prompt CPR provided by police, until EMS arrived by bicycle and mostly revived me with an AED. After recovering from my mild case of sudden cardiac death, I was advised by my doctors to...

In the coming days, a Sri Lankan woman is to be led to an outdoor pit in Saudi Arabia. Her arms and hands will be tightly bound, her body buried up to her breasts. Saudi men will then surround her and begin to hurl rocks at her head to kill her slowly. A married housemaid, she was convicted of...

The Finnish government is currently drawing up plans to introduce a national basic income. A final proposal won’t be presented until November 2016, but if all goes to schedule, Finland will scrap all existing benefits and instead hand out 800 euros per month—to everyone. It sounds far-fetched...

Rather than continuing to throw subsidies at corporations and offering them more tax breaks that would further stifle growth, Gov. Dayton implemented policies to stimulate real financial growth. Chief amongst them was raising income taxes on top earners by 2 percent. That, combined with a...

A Halifax man allegedly threatened to harm a border services officer and throw him in a Dumpster if the officer didn’t return over $15,000 seized from the man’s wife, police allege in search warrant documents. According to the documents filed at Halifax provincial court in a threats and...

Somebody, presumably from German intelligence, leaked a memo to the media concerning the Saudi leadership and how it's destabilizing the Middle East. The memo was distributed to selected German journalists on Wednesday. In it, the foreign intelligence agency, known as the BND, offered an...

Senate votes 45 to 54 against a bill that would have stopped people on the terror watch list from purchasing guns. In the wake of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California that left 14 people dead, the Senate on Thursday voted on -- and rejected -- a series of gun control bills. Sen...

Toronto police have found several guns and a religious book in the trunk of a car that was abandoned after a crash. The single-vehicle collision happened at Allen and Transit roads, north of Wilson Avenue, around 4:30 a.m. on Friday. The routine investigation turned into something much more...

Whether you can like or dislike the NDP you should sign this Petition to Wynne Add your name right now: Stop the Sale of Hydro One - Ontario NDP

It's all over.......... http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6785645/scott-weiland-stone-temple-pilots-dead www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVD0JVnsXXw&list=RDvVD0JVnsXXw www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn94EcMHg6U

The hashtag #SueMeSaudi is soaring after a source at the Saudi Arabian justice ministry reportedly said he would sue a Twitter user who compared Saudi Arabia to the terror group "Islamic State." The justice ministry official was quoted by the government-aligned Al Riyadh newspaper as saying...

They were often seen as sources of cheap labour for Canadian families. Between 1869 and the late 1930s, over 100,000 juvenile migrants were sent to Canada from the British Isles during the child emigration movement. Motivated by social and economic forces, churches and philanthropic...

Back in 1977, ExxonMobil's senior scientist told the company's management committee that humans are probably causing the planet to warm through all our burning of fossil fuels. Months later, Exxon launched a massive program to further examine the link, research that included spending over $1...

One of the few, powerful weapons Palestinians have against Israel are video clips of Israeli military abuses posted to YouTube and Facebook. You don't have to see many of them to know they're detailed. They don't want anybody seeing what really goes on in the Gaza Ghetto. There's a reason for...

Judge denounces obsolete pot laws ("a law that would mean that half of all Canadians would have a criminal file is a stupid law"), fines man $1 for possession of 30 pot plants. Crown prosecutor demanded 3 months in jail. Articles in French so I will post using the translator....... While...

The study shows that Halifax has the highest collision frequency rate in the country, at 7.12 per cent. The study looked at All State Canada data and tracked collision frequency among customers in Alberta, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario and ranked 81 communities across the country...

York Regional Police are investigating recently opened storefronts on Yonge Street that appear to be dispensing medical marijuana. What started out as one store — with a street sign “Cannibliss” — has sprouted into two, both targeting the...

The TPP will make any ideas on a reduction of pollution, whether air or water, a moot point......

Because it's 2015...... The groundbreaking change means that Alberta strippers can now approach patrons to receive tips, provided they are wearing a g-string. Previously, a rule barring topless performers from getting within one meter of spectators that exotic dancers were only able to...

Commuter Ann Tobak said when she first saw the ads, “I thought, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.'” She knew right away it was promoting the series, but she still found the ads inappropriate, Tobak said. “They should go back and look at history and understand why this is something the average...