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The player and assistant coach struck up a friendship, Ferber becoming a mentor both on and off the ice. Within two months, Ferber began sexually preying on the 15-year-old during hockey road trips and secret encounters carefully hidden from Petrie’s parents. . [At a February court hearing]...

"The rich believe, 'If I sacrifice then my business will prosper'," she said. "The poor believe if they sacrifice a child they'll get rich." "Now we are going into elections, you will find that there are so many Ugandans, even high profile people, going to witch doctors' shrines," said Binoga...

The annual event is purported to dispel evil ghosts, cure disease and even boost men's sexual performance. The fight is on to stop an annual Chinese event which is expected to involve the slaughter of more than 10,000 dogs, some of whom are burned or boiled alive. However gruesome it...

NDP’s new political funding rules turn the Tories’ world upside down There weren’t any real surprises in the Notley Government’s first Speech from the Throne yesterday, although the ban on corporate and union donations expected by nearly everyone nevertheless seemed to come as a deep shock...

The big five vultures anticipating the joys of feeding off Medicare's carcass include a B.C. medical privateer's legal challenge, a major trade deal, the public-private partnerships fleecing health budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars in excess costs in virtually every province, a new...

She doesn't seem to understand that she supposed to be the Minister of Health, not the Minister of Pain and Suffering. For barely two months ago she was going after Vancouver's pot shops as if she was the Minister of Justice. And now she's going after people who take marijuana for medicinal...

For Suncor’s roughly 1,000 heavy-haul truck operators, however, the prospect of driverless trucks has raised more immediate fears of significant job losses. “It’s very concerning to us as to what the future may hold,” said Ken Smith, president of Unifor Local 707A, which represents 3,300...

Americans were angry when Wall Street’s greedy and risky behavior triggered a global financial crisis in 2008. They were angrier still when the government had to borrow and spend hundreds of billions of dollars to rescue mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest banks and the...

Up to half a million refugees are gathering in Libya to attempt the crossing to Europe on the deadly boats that have killed thousands already. The toll of misery was revealed by senior Royal Navy officers leading Britain’s Mediterranean rescue mission off the Libyan coast. Britain’s amphibious...

Ontario has passed a landmark law banning so-called “conversion therapy” on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children and preventing medical practitioners from billing OHIP for it. The legislation proposed by New Democrat MPP Cheri DiNovo won unanimous support from all three parties at...

A group of western tourists who stripped naked at the peak of Mount Kinabalu last month will be prohibited from leaving Malaysia, as their act of "disrespecting the mountain" could have caused the devastating earthquake that killed at least 13 people. The earthquake comes a week after a...

Peter Robbins, who as a boy famously voiced the character Charlie Brown in the Peanuts cartoons, was scheduled to be sentenced Friday for multiple probation violations, but a judge instead granted a defense request that he be evaluated for mental competency. Peter Robbins, 58, pleaded guilty...

On Thursday, a collection of Christian, Jewish, Muslim and other faith leaders gathered with secular reproductive justice advocates in Washington, D.C. for a “Faith Leaders’ Summit.” The summit was convened to discuss the Helms Amendment, an addition to the Foreign Assistance Act enacted in 1973...

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Mark Taylor is not homeless, but that’s the impression he gave earlier this week during a curbside sting to catch disobedient motorists. Donning blue jeans, sunglasses and a baseball cap, Taylor stood at a busy intersection Monday afternoon in Vernon, British...

In war and peace, Wabakinine, head chief of the Mississaugas who made their home on the north shore of Lake Ontario, was a strong friend and ally of the British in the late 18th century. Respected as a warrior, he’d assisted the British effort during the American Revolution by participating in...

This is a long detailed story so click on the link to read.......... When missionary Karen Hinkey found out her husband was attracted to children, she tried to separate from him. Her church elders told her to knock it off and “submit” to their will. Christianity Today calls TVC one of...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed a measure this week that criminalizes female genital mutilation, in one of his last official acts before yielding the country’s top office to Muhammadu Buhari, the International Business Times reports. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed a...

Doctors used a technique called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to extract oxygen-deprived blood, warm it up and add oxygen, before pumping it back in more Italian boy survives being trapped underwater for 42 minutes - Europe - World - The Independent

Katriuk, who moved to Canada in the 1950s, was a member of a Ukrainian battalion of the SS, the elite Nazi storm troops, between 1942 and 1944, according to the AP, citing war reports. And he was accused of taking part in a brutal massacre during World War II, the horrifying details of which...

Leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Belz sect in north London wrote to parents saying "no child will be allowed to learn in our school" if their mother drives. Women driving "goes against the laws of modesty within our society", it said. A spokesman from the Belz Community said they were...