Search results

This poll to see the opinions of people actively on the internet. Surveys and Polls we’ve seen are often done by a limited amount of people to represent our population as a whole. Thank you everyone for your vote, it’s much appreciated. vote Canadian Federal Election | Numbers Are...

A decision 16 years ago to divide Ontario Hydro into several different companies resulted in a new charge that's still on all electricity bills and a multibillion-dollar debt that critics warn will keep driving up rates for years to come. The residual stranded debt stems from the 1999 breakup...

Changes to the civil service code will effectively silence government scientists on important public issues Francis Maude has been warned that changes to the civil service code threaten to stop thousands of publicly-funded scientists from expressing their views on some of the most pressing...

Provincial Tories in northern Alberta are not pleased with Fort McMurray-Athabasca Conservative Member of Parliament David Yurdiga after he appeared in a photo on social media this weekend helping Wildrose leader Brian Jean and party volunteers assemble election signs Mr. Jean is the former...

Dismissing the Conservative economic plan as "an absolute disgrace" and "nonsensical," former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin has leapt into the debate over Finance Minister Joe Oliver's newly announced April 21 budget. In an interview on CBC Radio's The House, Martin told host Evan Solomon...

With all the publicity focused on the Beer Store in recent weeks, there is another beer story with profound implications that has received little media coverage. Crown Metal Packaging employees in Toronto, who make cans for all the major beer companies and many craft brewers, have entered the...

The office of MP Daryl Kramp, chair of the same Public Safety Committee that studied the controversial Bill C-51, called police on a group of protesters in Belleville, Ontario this week who were being "noisy," according to local newpaper QuinteNews. Another local news outlet...

Monique Guillamot found what appears to be a life-saving cure for her four-year-old son, but the government says he can’t have it. Her son Keyaan suffers from a rare condition called Dravet Syndrome and has been on life support four times. Doctors have prescribed large doses of various...

Thousands of anti-Islam and anti-racism protesters clashed in angry rallies around Australia on Saturday. The most violent clash was in Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city, where police struggled to separate 3,000 opposing demonstrators. The Victoria state ambulance service treated...

A Canadian female astronaut was sexually assaulted by a cosmonaut on a training mission. She reached out to the Canadian Space Agency and was told, "That kind of behavior is normal for Russians, and it would be too taboo to complain publicly." http://motherboard.vice.com/read/sexism-in-space

I don't know who approved this but it's not even close......... “I think it looks like a monster. That is just my opinion,” said the campaign’s organizer—a Jamestown man who wishes to remain anonymous, presumably so when the Lucy statue comes alive at dusk to devour its enemies, it can’t...

Recruiters were reportedly sent to scour the country for the prettiest women, who would then be recruited to the squad as dancers, singers, maids and concubines to senior officials in the ruling Workers’ Party (WPK). The girls could often be in their early teens when they were taken from their...

WTF is wrong with people........... Kamloops, B.C. woman Heather Arlene Carr, who died after setting a fire in a local park, was participating in a pagan ritual that went wrong, according to her husband. Carr, 40, got trapped in a rock structure which was on fire in Riverside Park in the...

On Thursday afternoon, police in Bahrain arrested Nabeel Rajab, one of the country's most prominent human rights activists, and charged him with insulting the Kingdom. In a statement, Bahrain's interior ministry accused Rajab, who is president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), of...

A Perth couple have described how a racial attack on their street has impacted on their children. video Perth couple describes impact of alleged race-hate attack on their children - 9news.com.au

Saudi Arabia's aggressive response to international criticism of its human rights and justice system continues with a warning to Canadian politicians. According to CBC News, the Saudi ambassador to Canada, Naif Bin Bandir Al-Sudairy, sent a letter to Quebec's National Assembly telling it not...

Justice Denis Thomas of Court of Queen’s Bench ruled that section 96 of the Labour Relations Code and section 70 of the Public Service Employee Relations Act violate the charter. Union lawyer Pat Nugent says the Alberta government did not oppose the judgement. In January, the Supreme Court...

Do Alabamans hate Obamacare so much that he felt all he had to use was that name to hide that fact that 'Rose’s law' was passed unanimously by the House and Senate in 1999? Here's the story about how the law came to be as it is now. In December 1998, Rose Church, a nurse from Haleyville...

Associated British Ports, the UK's biggest port operator, will see new owners docking after a third of the business was sold for £1.6bn to Hermes and Canada's Pension Plan Investment Board. The deal marks the second multi-million pound infrastructure purchase by Hermes and a Canadian...