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Public Accounts records show that Ontario’s ministries collectively spent more than $18 million on temp agency services last year. They’ve flouted workers’ right to public holidays, rest periods and permanent employment. But they’re still doing business on the taxpayers’ dime. The Ontario...

In Canada, text messages to landlines are converted into voice messages, so friends or family members who don't have a mobile phone can listen on a landline. English and French supported. http://www.bell.ca/Mobility/Features/Text_messaging_plans/Features.tab

The Sheldon Kennedy Story is a movie about hope and healing. Based on a true story, NHL hockey player Sheldon Kennedy finds the courage to reveal the sexual abuse he suffered as a boy at the hands of his junior hockey coach. When Calgary Flames hockey star Sheldon Kennedy meets Jana, a...

The White House today lifted a longstanding restriction on medical marijuana research, giving a green light to a growing group of mainstream scientists who are interested in investigating the potential health benefits of pot. Such research will no longer have to undergo review by the Public...

Tara, a tabby from Bakersfield, Calif., has won an honor that so routinely goes to that other kind of pet, it's known as the Hero Dog award. This time, the Society for The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles had to scratch out "dog," and etch "cat" on the trophy instead. Who can forget...

Yes, that's what you think it is........... https://www.facebook.com/TobiasHuchSeite/videos/10152790960641142/

On April 10, 2014 — seven months into the clergy sex abuse scandal — Archbishop John Nienstedt's top advisers gathered for a private meeting. They had just received several affidavits from an internal investigation of Nienstedt that had been authorized by the archbishop himself to address...

National Aboriginal Day takes place on June 21. It is a special day to celebrate the unique heritage, diverse cultures and outstanding achievements of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in Canada.

Chairman of Seaspan caught drunk driving after crashing his vehicle in Vancouver Kyle Washington, the executive chairman of Seaspan Corp., has been handed a three-month driving ban but avoided a criminal record after pleading guilty to a charge of driving without due care and attention...

The announcement of Caucasian Heritage Night came two days after nine people were shot and killed at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. A white suspect is in custody, and the Department of Justice plans to investigate the shooting as a hate crime. "We understand in light of recent...

Putin says Harper will change his mind on Russia in G8 if U.S. tells him to Russia appears to be angling to make it the G-8 once again and President Vladimir Putin suggests it's something Prime Minister Stephen Harper will just have to accept. "I don't want to offend anyone, but if the...

Emerging after weeks of absence, Justin Trudeau could do no better than to defend his pitiful support of Bill C-51. A flailing performance, it reinforced (if such were necessary) the man’s utter lack of principle, not to mention his unbearable lightness of being. He might have made, he said, a...

Since "Rockin' in the Free World" was written as a critique of the Republican George H. W. Bush administration and how it did not care about America's poor, you can see why Young wouldn't be very excited about the conservative multi-billionaire appropriating his tune and misrepresenting its...

Believers will cite Genesis as the Pope has........

'Religious counselling' among 25 bail conditions imposed on radicalized Canadian Aaron Driver, a Winnipeg man who was arrested for expressing support online for ISIS, has been released on bail with 25 conditions, one of which is that he undergo "religious counselling." Winnipeg human...

Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen says the FBI will be involved in the investigation of a shooting at a historic black church that killed nine and is being called a hate crime. Mullen said the FBI would aid the investigation while speaking at a news conference that was also attended by FBI...

As many as 600 million Samsung phones may be vulnerable to attacks that allow hackers to surreptitiously monitor the camera and microphone, read incoming and outgoing text messages, and install malicious apps, a security researcher said. The vulnerability is in the update mechanism for a...

Premier announces he’ll hire a consultant to get to the bottom of the consultants situation. Paddon found that despite the fact the government had recently saved $5.6 million by getting rid of several consultants and creating cheaper permanent staff positions instead, the government still...

Five Hamilton police officers are facing criminal charges for allegedly writing 32 falsified tickets as members of the high-profile ACTION unit. It's alleged the tickets named 18 people who had no idea they were victims. All seven have now...

A local shipbuilder was not appeased by a hastily arranged teleconference Tuesday with government officials to discuss a process that awarded a $40-million ferry contract to a Chilean company. Andy Stanton, the president of Hike Metal Products in Wheatley, was hoping to learn from the Ministry...