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Pettitt and about 400 others who didn't get into the auditorium after it reached the 700-person capacity listened to Sanders' speech over loudspeakers placed in the lobby. People packed the lobby all the way to the front doors and some found standing room in the stairwell. Tears came to Jane...

Mary (mother of Jesus) is considered one of the most righteous women in the Islamic religion. The Quran states clearly that Jesus was the result of a virgin birth, but that neither Mary nor her son were divine. In the Quran, no other woman is given more attention than Mary and the Quran...

But they can't keep their story on the same page........ Finance Minister Joe Oliver said Wednesday he believes relaxing labour laws to make it easier to lay off workers would help spur economic growth. The Conservatives insist he wasn’t talking about Canada. But party officials gave...

At least 800 British-born United Kingdom residents enjoy "non-domiciled" status, a tax break intended for temporary residents, according to data released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by Reuters. Since 2008, the number of British-born non-doms has remained within a range...

Now, in a state of decorous pandemonium, the Senate is disgracing itself yet again — trying to use parliamentary privilege to keep information vital to Duffy’s defence secret. The Senate leadership is stepping on old men, women and children in a mad rush for the lifeboats. They are devising...

as part of Justice Department agreement Cleveland police will stop hitting people on the head with their guns and document any time they unholster them, according to a consent decree between the U.S. Justice Department and Cleveland police released today. The Justice Department found in...

'live by the sword, die by the sword'......... Hawaii police identified the victim as 47-year-old Randy Llanes of Kailua-Kona. DOBOR staff and witnesses say he jumped into the water and speared the fish. The fish then reportedly struck the man in the chest with its sharp bill. He was...

A mother and daughter say they've been blindsided by a call from a collection agency demanding almost $5,000 for an emergency medical airlift in Ontario that happened 17 years ago. Annette Trepanier says it took the province almost two decades to let her know about the bill from 1998. In...

They should be shut down......... The Catholic Archbishop of Ottawa is calling on followers of the faith to “repent” and seek forgiveness for how the church mistreated thousands of aboriginal children in residential schools for many decades. The message is contained in a pastoral letter...

"apologies do not constitute an admission of fault" Apology Act, 2009, S.O. 2009, c. 3 | Ontario.ca

Sen. Bernie Sanders fired back at 80 CEOs who wrote a letter lecturing America about deficit reduction by released a report detailing how 18 of these CEOs have wrecked the economy by evading taxes and outsourcing jobs. 80 CEO’s raised the ire of Sen. Sanders by publishing a letter in the Wall...

Police in New York are investigating an alleged hate crime after an African American family received an anonymous note asking them to leave the town where they live. The Copes were asked to leave Lindenhurst on Long Island, which the letter claims is “84 per cent white”. “Attn...

As if one wasn’t already far too many, there’s a new Dimitri the Lover in town. Dimitri, of course, is James Sears, the man whose unsavoury history is well-documented and whose distressing voicemail messages to a woman recently made him the deserved subject of worldwide ridicule. In spite of...

KITCHENER, ON, May 22, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ - Dozens of correctional officers working in Ontario penitentiaries who are affiliated with the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers (UCCO-SACC-CSN) will be going door to door in the riding of Kitchener-Centre on Saturday, May 23, to urge voters not to...

In a widely-reported study of orchestrated deception, the Center found that President Bush and seven top officials made 935 false statements leading up to the Iraq war — and offer them in a database for all to see. Search 380,000 words of every public pronouncement by top Bush administration...

at preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, which might have forced Israel to reveal whether or not it has nuclear weapons Israel is not a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has never publicly declared what is widely considered to be an extensive...

A room devoted to the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike will be excluded from the renovated Canadian Museum of History A room devoted to the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike will be excluded from the renovated Canadian Museum of History, but officials promise the labour movement will still have a...

It was feared that the seven-year-old boy's mother, a Jehovah’s Witness, was causing him emotional harm by 'immersing' him in her beliefs A devout mother made a legally binding promise, backed up with the threat of criminal sanctions, never to talk to her son about her religion, take...

I n 2022, Qatar will host the World Cup. The host city has already made some waves with its stadium shaped like a certain body part. But what you might not know is that, since 2012, about 900 workers have died while working on infrastructure in Qatar, in a building boom anticipating the World...

The recently outed anti-gay pastor Matthew Makela is coming under fire not just for his hypocrisy but, according to the mother of one of his parishioners, he encouraged her gay son that since he was going to hell anyway, he might as well kill himself. After Queerty reported earlier this week...