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The pending closure of the only school in Coles Island, New Brunswick is just the latest example of how an aging population and outmigration are impacting rural communities across Canada. According to the latest figures from Statistics Canada, more people died than were born last year in New...

A theme park plans to cut down more than 18,000 trees for the construction of what it says will be the largest solar farm in New Jersey. Six Flags Great Adventure says the facility will generate 21.9 megawatts, or enough to power about 3,100 homes, and capable of meeting all of the park's...

A Vancouver real estate agent who has just sold a home for $567,000 over its published listing price says that underlisting is an accepted selling strategy in the real estate market. "If the product's right, the timing's right and the inventory is right, it's the right strategy," Paul Eviston...

Microsoft Corp. is sounding a new set of alarms about a product that could soon be vulnerable to attacks by hackers. Less than a year after warning businesses and consumers about the end of support for its popular if dated Windows XP operating system, the company says it will drop support on...

The scientist who served up the world's first laboratory grown beef burger believes so-called "cultured meat" could spell the end of traditional cattle farming within just a few decades. That's not the news Australia's multi-billion dollar beef industry wants to hear but it's the message that...

The former Wildrose leader lost the riding of Highwood tonight. The Herald’s Trevor Howell has this report from High River: Smith lost her bid to carry the Tory blue and orange banner in the general election to Carrie Fischer, a rookie councillor for the town of Okotoks. Party officials said...

The Government of Quebec released its budget yesterday featuring two Internet-related measures that are sure to attract attention and possible litigation. First, it is moving forward with plans to study a new tax on residential Internet services in order to provide support for the cultural...

Megan Whitfield, Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) Toronto local president, said a number of workers have raised objections to a newspaper Canada Post has been paid to distribute in the Beaches-East York area. Your Ward News, produced as a community flyer by the New Constitution Party of...

Ford has announced that the new S-Max, which goes on sale in Europe in August, will have a new feature that automatically slows you down so that you're traveling within the speed limit. Called the Intelligent Speed Limiter, the new feature is a combination of two nascent automotive...

So the Piggy writes her up or DUI even though he did not test. BUT the Jury, a group of Floriduhs finest citizens, finds her GUILTY ! The Judge goes on a rant dissing said Piggy and the prosecutor about the situation and now the Judge seems to be getting chastised for his outburst...

A Hamilton man has been sentenced to life in prison for an attack in which he stabbed his friend 68 times and left him to die on the side of the Red Hill Valley Parkway. Drew Reid, who was 18 at the time of the murder, won't be eligible for...

"I feel like I’ve been robbed. Even if I wanted to pay them this outrageous amount of money, nobody will answer me, and there’s just no end in sight," Townsend said. Townsend said she believed that after loading her possessions in Regina the movers would head straight to Westlock, Alta, so...

Canadian police used tear gas and reportedly fired rubber bullets and sound bombs at hundreds of students protesting austerity measures at an anti-capitalist rally in Montreal. Thousands took to the streets on Tuesday to protest sweeping education cuts. Police declared the march illegal from...

China, the People's Republic Whereof, wants to establish an Arctic research station in Tuktoyaktuk or Cambridge Bay, NWT. John Higginbotham, senior fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Arctic policy expert...

The Mayor’s Office in Toronto is today occupied by a much slicker operation than it was during the years of dysfunctional, bigoted buffoonery that unfolded under Rob Ford. Mayor John Tory has resumed the drive toward a fully fledged neoliberal city but has the basic political skills to frame his...

When a passing male stranger came upon Frank Angley, who was on his knees suffering a heart attack in the driveway of his West Carson Street home, the man didn’t pick up one of the many nitroglycerine pills that had spilled out on the ground. He didn’t use Angley’s cellphone, which was lying on...

Did you hear about the man who entered New Orleans’ airport with explosives and a machete? No? A Muslim American man carrying a duffel bag that holds six homemade explosives, a machete, and poison spray travels to a major U.S. airport. The man enters the airport, approaches the TSA security...

I got a call 2 weeks ago from someone purporting to be from my cable provider. They actually left a message with a return phone number, some sort of 1- 899 type number and said I had a virus that could affect their whole system and if I didn't contact them my internet would be shut down. I...

after almost 400 years after British colonisation The island was under the UK’s control from 1627 up until independence in 1966 and has remained a constitutional monarchy ever since. But the Prime Minister has laid down his plans for Barbados to become a republic with a ceremonial President...

The Conservative government's anti-terrorism bill contains "ill-considered" measures that will deprive Canadians of liberties without increasing their safety, the Canadian Bar Association says. The bar association objects to the planned transformation of the Canadian Security Intelligence...