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Sanders is opposed to all trade deals including the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the Obama administration plans to complete by the end of the year. He has called it “disastrous” and that it is “designed to protect the interests of the largest multi-national corporations at the...

POLICE have launched an investigation into a Chinese healer after the death of a young diabetic boy who attended a “slapping therapy” workshop. Aidan Fenton, 7, was getting treatment from the ­alternative Chinese medicine workshop at the Tasly Healthpac Centre in Hurstville when he died...

A Milledgeville church known for stating what some would call extreme beliefs, now threatens the lives of gay people. Robert Owens was just casually riding his bike on North Columbia Street in Milledgeville when he noticed a sign that read "Homesexuality is a Death Worthy Crime." "This is...

If you're tired of exceeding your data limit on your cellphone bill, you may be happy to hear that free public Wi-Fi is coming soon to Vancouver. The city has awarded Telus a five-year contract to offer free public Wi-Fi at 43 locations around the city. The initial target locations include 27...

Union condemns federal agency for lending Volkswagen $526 million to expand operations in U.S. and Mexico Unifor issued a statement Friday saying it’s “absolutely incredible” that Export Development Canada is helping facilitate the migration of the auto industry to Mexico. Unifor president...

The dispute over whether Newton or Leibniz invented calculus was decided by the Royal Society. Newton, as the President, appointed an impartial committee to decide the issue, which concluded in its official report that Newton was the inventor. Newton was the anonymous author of the report...

The court found the case to be a battle of egos and about “turf warfare in the competitive world of diet medicine” rather than about reputation. In the result, the court ordered each party to eat their own costs. The case is a good lesson in how adjudicating over principle can be an...

A California woman who won a trip to Edmonton on The Price is Right this week will tour the picturesque Rocky Mountains during her visit to Alberta. “We’re going to send you to an amazing place, Brenda, it’s a vacation to Canada,” The Price is Right announcer George Gray said as the prize was...

Stephen Harper’s notorious, proposed anti-union legislation is still floundering in its fourth year, unloved, unnecessary, unfair and largely unconstitutional. But not dead. Bill C-377, first introduced by British Columbia Conservative backbencher Russ Hiebertin December 2011, has been...

Former prime minister Jean Chrétien will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week to discuss that country’s relations with the West, it was announced Friday. Chretien will hold his discussion with the Russian leader on behalf of the InterAction Council, a group of former world...

The City of Vancouver is looking at new rules to regulate the booming retail marijuana business, including a $30,000 licensing fee to help recover the cost of enforcement. "In the last two years, the city has seen a rapid growth rate of 100 per cent per year in marijuana-related businesses ...

Plastic utensils, I can't recall the last time I may have used them but I have used them before. And as for silverware or metal utensils I have only ever bought them once, and it was a long time ago. The point of the article was the 'disposable' issue which causes the non stop cutting of...

CimaVax was developed by government-run Molecular Immunology Center. It's not brand new, and Cuba has not kept its success a secret. Cuban researchers were testing the drug in the 1990s and major world media outlets have reported on it in the 2000s. The center has also developed a second lung...

20 million mature trees are logged annually for no other purpose other than to provide China alone with disposable chopsticks. That doesn't even take into account the chopsticks used by other countries throughout Asia. In a report released earlier this year, the head of a major forestry...

CALGARY - Shareholders made it known they're unhappy with rich payouts to two former executives at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's annual general meeting on Thursday. An advisory resolution on the bank's approach to executive compensation was voted down by nearly 57 per cent of...

The mother says her 9-year old daughter, a fourth-grader at Copper Hill Elementary School, shared the news of the tooth fairy with her family on April 15 while watching a television program on fairies at home. A health teacher apparently told the class the tooth fairy is really their parents...

The concern about the Canadian Rangers and Junior Rangers was raised by the military chaplain responsible for the North and is found in a report prepared for the chief of defence staff and chief of military personnel by the chaplain general's office. The March 2014 report obtained through the...

An elderly cancer patient whose home flooded while she was getting treatment was denied coverage from Grey Power, because she left her house in Pembroke, Ont., unattended for more than four days. "I did not expect to be away from my house for any period of time." Scotland's home is now a...

Norwegian Ministry of Culture finalized a shift date this week, making it the first country to do away with FM radio entirely. The country plans to transition to Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) as a national standard. A statement released this week by the Ministry of Culture confirms a...

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