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The Reese PBC burger. Yes, a Canadian restaurant chain has introduced a hefty half-pound patty topped with bacon, crispy onion strings and, er, crumbled Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. And that's not all: The burger itself is stuffed with Peanut Butter Cups before it is cooked! The Works...

An Illinois jury awarded $240,000 in damages and back pay to two former truck drivers who claimed religious discrimination when they were fired in 2009 after refusing to make beer delivery. A jury was convened to determine damages after US District Court Judge James E. Shadid ruled in favor of...

An Anglophile who decided he had heard enough from US Republican presidential candidates, wrote the desperate letter to Her Majesty herself. It read: “On behalf of the American people, I urgently implore you to take us back. “Clearly, the options we have to lead us aren’t up to par. Again...

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The Street Cleaning High Impact Team (SCHIT) will become known as something else after a councillor pointed out the potentially embarrassing situation. SCHIT has been set up by Cheshire West and Chester Council’s new ruling Labour administration to tackle ‘grot spots’ in the borough...

Premier Brad Wall's Saskatchewan Party government heads toward an election in April, it has clearly recognized the need to mind its P's and Q's. So one can only wonder why it's not better at minding its P3s. Its justifications for its public-private partnership approach - especially when...

though the Clark government doesn't seem to have any shame about having been caught. Andrew MacLeod reports (link is external) on the B.C Libs' deliberate practice of destroying information or ensuring that it was never recorded in the first place. .And Vaughn Palmer sees (link is external)...

The TrudeauMetre is a non-partisan collaborative citizen initiative that tracks his performance with regards to his electoral platform. https://www.trudeaumetre.ca/

The bizarre two-year era of one-person rule over Alberta’s massive, sprawling health care agency came to an end yesterday when the New Democratic Government of Premier Rachel Notley appointed a conventional board of directors to run Alberta Health Services. The restoration of board governance...

In his first post-election press conference Tuesday, Trudeau said he'd already "spoken with a number of premiers and talked about our interest and engagement in regards to attending Paris together." "I will be engaging with the premiers in the coming weeks to establish a strong position for...

Three careworkers busted for menacing a frail, 92-year-old man in a video that shocked Calgary will be jailed. Choking back tears, the son of a senior seriously abused at a southwest care facility said he accepts the 60-day sentence handed down to three women Wednesday. “I think it’s...

I would have changed the tittle to say Dems but........ www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGEL__A5Eok

Canada’s budding marijuana industry could blossom into a $5-billion market if Liberals make recreational pot legal | Financial Post

Pickens is using his rights under the North American Free Trade Agreement to bring claims against the Canadian province of Ontario and a Florida company that has provoked his ire. Like other investors who have challenged governments, Pickens has taken his dispute to an international court. He...

Perhaps no region in Canada better epitomizes the many daunting challenges facing the country’s healthcare system than the Prince Albert Parkland Health Region (PAPHR), in central Saskatchewan, which ranks at the bottom of our list. At a glance, the health indicators here are certainly...

With a campaign debt of roughly $1.5 million, new fundriaising numbers show the "collapse" of Alberta's long-governing Progressive Conservatives, say political analysts. Financial disclosures released Thursday evening by Elections Alberta show the Wildrose Party smoked the Alberta NDP in...

A handwritten draft of the world's most famous bible has been discovered in England. It contains handwriting of dozens of authors from 1604-1608. That handwriting is a crucial find, because it reveals how they translated & assembled the text. History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places |...

A frequent Fox News guest analyst has been charged with fraud after falsely claiming to be a former CIA agent, US prosecutors say. Wayne Simmons of Annapolis, Maryland, portrayed himself as an "outside paramilitary special operations officer" for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to...

Facebook has been constantly tracking your location using your iPhone’s GPS, and it’s draining your battery. It’s not surprising that Facebook does this, since the company has a history of tracking users when they’re not aware, and that the app tracks you when it’s off is clearly stated in the...

There were shades of the angry Tory at a Conservative campaign event in Brantford, Ont., Wednesday when a rally-goer made a bizarre, off-the-cuff comment to reporters. The Conservative supporter — who identified himself as a landlord in Brantford — was being interviewed by a reporter about his...