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Stephen Harper to skip 'red Tory' Flora MacDonald's funeral If Flora MacDonald had been born 20 years later, she might well have been Canada’s first female prime minister. As it was, the Cape Breton-born politician, who died early Sunday morning in her 90th year, broke down the invisible...

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Cheap labor is the whole point of our corporate-rigged, NAFTA-style trade agreements. But tolerating slavery? Really? Unfortunately, it looks like that's what is happening with the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Companies get to move jobs, factories, even entire industries out of the U.S. to...

Christine Flynn, 31, said she was buckled in and waiting for Porter Airlines Flight 121 from New York to Toronto to take off early on Monday morning when an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man approached. "He came down the aisle, he didn't actually look at me ... or make eye contact. He turned to the...

Lion killer's dental practice getting some new Yelp reviews... http://www.yelp.com/biz/river-bluff-dental-Bloomington There are mounting calls for the prosecution of an American dentist who shot dead one of Africa’s most famous lions, as two other men involved in the hunt were due in...

If you're topless in any part of British Columbia and a police officer tells you to put a shirt on, you don't have to obey. That's the message a Kelowna woman wants to deliver to anyone who doesn't realize being topless in B.C. is legal. Susan Rowbottom says she was at a local beach last week...

Republicans vilify President Barack Obama for supposedly opening the border to ever-increasing multitudes of immigrants, legally or otherwise, but the Democratic presidential candidate said blame is cast in the wrong direction, reported Vox. “Open borders...

My first brush with greatness was meeting Frank and the Mothers by chance in a restaurant somewhere between Texarkana and who knows where but I was headed to Corpus Christi. I had stopped there late in the night (2 am?) and his RV's rolled in as they were on tour. I was the only person there...

I have a dog. We never take him in the car unless it's something specific to him. Leave the pets at home........ Jennifer Thi posted the video of the altercation between the man and two women, including herself, trying to help the canine (WARNING: strong language). It has since been...

Bare with us: Topless cyclists in Waterloo plan rally Waterloo Regional Police say they’re conducting a review into why an officer pulled over three topless female cyclists on the weekend. “It’s not an illegal thing to do,” Staff-Sgt. Mike Haffner said in an interview on Tuesday. “It’s...

Puerto Rico does not have enough cash flow to meet its upcoming Public Finance Corp. payment of $169.60 million due on Aug. 1, the Governor's Chief of Staff, Victor Suarez, said Monday. Suarez added that the commonwealth's government is considering raising between $400 and $500 million...

The name Alex Song is spoken in reverential tones in Canadian mathematical circles. The 18-year-old won the International Mathematical Olympiad in Thailand in mid-July, achieving the rare perfect score in the two-day competition against more than 600 high school competitors from 104...

Over 1,000 high-profile artificial intelligence experts and leading researchers have signed an open letter warning of a “military artificial intelligence arms race” and calling for a ban on “offensive autonomous weapons”. The letter, presented at the International Joint Conference on...

It has come out that our civil servants have been told to provide fodder to the Harper government’s wish to make terrorism a big issue in Canada. An issue big enough that we don’t notice the horrific mishandling of our economy and tax system. Harper used the Ottawa shooting to push...

A BRITISH deputy speaker in charge of upholding standards in the House of Lords has resigned after allegedly being filmed snorting cocaine with two sex workers. Video obtained by the Sun on Sunday allegedly shows Baron John Sewel, 69, naked and snorting white powder from a woman’s...

KELOWNA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is getting slammed on social media for having a group of front-line firefighters pulled out of the smoky hills near this bustling B.C. city so they could pose with him for a patriotic, pre-election picture. But things didn’t go quite as planned for...

Prosecutors are recommending a sentence of life in prison for a peanut executive convicted in a deadly salmonella-poisoning case. Stewart Parnell, the former owner of Peanut Corporation of America, was convicted last September of knowingly selling truckloads of peanut butter contaminated with...

These two troglodytes decided that it would be cool to go on vacation and leave a 9 week old puppy locked in the bathroom of their apartment - for 2 weeks. At some point in the future one or both of them are quite likely to become parents. In a perfect world not together but still... What...

Premier Kathleen Wynne rejected a request from Brown on Thursday for an immediate byelection in Simcoe North, where veteran Tory MPP Garfield Dunlop announced he would step aside Aug. 1 so the new PC leader could run for a seat. Wynne insisted she was “keen to let Brown have his shot” at...

Major policy decision will ensure consumers still have choice – even on all-fibre networks July 23, 2015 – TekSavvy Solutions Inc., one of Canada’s leading independent telecommunications providers, yesterday hailed a major policy decision from the CRTC, Canada’s communications markets...