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Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence...

It remains to be seen how firm the “no deficits” language will be, but if the current government really does intend to tie the hands of future governments, one has to assume that the Conservatives are thinking that those future governments will not be Conservative. Let’s not disappoint them...

Section 37, which was made law as part of a 2001 anti-terror act, allows a judge to order information be kept secret to protect a “specified public interest.” It has been invoked previously to protect evidence presented in the trial of Canadian terrorist Momin Khawaja. Federal government to...

and the circus of beer......... Every major Radio, TV and Newspaper is debating the change in Beer sales in Ontario and yet the fact that 60% of Hydro will be sold to Private Companies seems to be a secondary issue........ Ontario will hike beer tax, sell majority of Hydro One to...

Mexico issued an alert late Wednesday for several of its states after potentially deadly radioactive material was stolen from a truck this week. Mexico’s interior ministry said iridium-192 had been stolen from a truck in the southern state of Tabasco. "This source could cause permanent...

Police in Hamilton, Ont., have implemented a new approach to dealing with people with mental health issues, after a successful 15-month pilot program saw apprehensions under the Mental Health Act fall nearly 50 per cent. Hamilton police officially launched the Mobile Crisis Rapid Response...

They are paid $8 per day - that's right, not per hour, per day. If your answer is no, you have plenty of company. The Los Angeles Times is the only English-language mainstream media venue to regularly cover the strike. Canadian media, predictably, only wants to know how it will affect...

NDP Leader Rachel Notley pledged Friday that an NDP government will upgrade and refine more bitumen in Alberta. Standing in front of Edmonton’s east-end upgraders, Notley said she will establish a royalty regime that rewards companies for adding value to provincial resources at home. “I...

A new Islamic fatwa in Turkey has decreed that Muslims are allowed to use toilet paper. The Directorate of Religious Affairs for Turkey stated that the use of the material for hygiene is acceptable but water was preferable. Islamic teachings traditionally state that followers should use water...

Jordan and Tommy Gray's 3-year-old daughter was watching "SpongeBob" when two armed men broke into their home near Buechel on March 21, 2013, and robbed them at gunpoint. Two years later, when one of the offenders was about to be sentenced, Jordan wrote in a victim impact statement that her...

At six-foot-seven and 360 pounds, athlete Brodi Henderson has always been the biggest guy on the team. Now, the 20-year-old from Victoria, B.C., is using his size and strength to his advantage as the only North American to be accepted into the Japan Sumo Association. “He’s really strong,”...

Polling conducted in the run-up to Easter has found that almost two-thirds of Britons describe themselves as "not religious." In his Easter message, Prime Minister David Cameron claimed the UK was "still a Christian country," but YouGov found overwhelming lack of religion in the UK in its...

in the world due to public outrage it will upset their ancestor's gods. The 18-storey, $1.4 bn (£957m) Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) project was proposed by the University of Hawaii and is projected to be operational by 2024. Funding for the project has reportedly come from the US, Canada...

“I know I may have offended people, but they were words, and I made no threats,” Connecticut man who believes that the December, 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School never took place has been arrested for harassing members of the school staff. According to WFSB News...

Ontario drivers were overcharged $3 billion over a decade by highly profitable insurance firms while accident benefits were slashed, a personal injury lawyers' group says. The insurance industry denies the allegation. The average family should have paid $100 to $120 less for auto insurance...

A retired Calgary couple is thankful to be alive after being attacked by pirates while on a sailing trip in Honduras. Two weeks ago, retired nurse Loretta Reinholdt, 54, and former computer programmer Andy Wasinger, 46, set off in a 17-metre hired boat with a captain, heading from Belize to...

Autopsy results released Monday afternoon say a Waukegan teen who was shot and killed by Zion police on Saturday was shot in the back. The Lake County Coroner says 17-year-old Justus Howell was shot twice in the back and one of the bullets penetrated his liver and heart, WBBM Newsradio’s Terry...

Legendary pop singer Barry Manilow married his longtime manager (and long-rumored boyfriend) Garry Kief last year in a private ceremony at the singer's Palm Springs, Calif., home. Not even the wedding's "20 to 30 guests" were told what would happen that day, People reports. They were merely...

and it came from a Ford salesman .........