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Almost 45 percent of the American population will be obese by 2030. That will increase the total toll on the healthcare system from related illnesses to a staggering $60 billion. Over the past 30 years, global obesity rates have more than doubled, and behind the stark statistics is a simple...

Google's independent advisory council says Europe's Right to Be Forgotten ruling should be contained within the continent and that its reach shouldn't extend to .com domains. The advisory council is composed of independent experts who were invited by Google and tasked with helping the search...

Weaver said he initiated the lawsuit in 2010 when the National Post refused to retract the offending articles “that attributed to me statements I never made, accused me of things I never did, and attacked me for views I never held.” “I felt I had to take this matter to court to clear my name...

crazy........... Think MLSE is bad? A look at 10 of the worst team owners in Canadian sports history | National Post

A Saskatchewan municipal leader was removed from office Thursday after an inquiry found that he stood to earn up to $57 million on a land development. Kevin Eberle, reeve of the Rural Municipality (RM) of Sherwood, owned land on which the Wascana Village development was to go. The matter...

Tony Abbott is on the ropes. The Australian public have about had it with his ways - equal parts thuggish and thick. Finally members of his own party seem to have had enough of this anchor round their necks and have introduced a "spill motion" that could result in a leadership contest. Abbott...

Obama at Prayer Breakfast affirms right to be godless Obama reminded his audience of the deplorable history of Christianity, pointing out the horrors of the Crusades and Inquisition, as well as America’s racist past with slavery and Jim Crow: "central to that dignity is freedom of religion...

An investigative report into the billionaire Koch brothers' connections to Canada was pulled from Global's newsmagazine show 16x9 shortly before broadcast, and an article published on the same topic was scrubbed from GlobalNews.ca, CANADALAND has learned. Last Thursday at 11:06am, an article...

He threatened to fight with members of the flight crew and referred to people on the plane as “peasants.”. Paris Hilton's younger brother, Conrad Hilton, reportedly grabbed a flight attendant’s shirt and said: “I could get you all fired in five minutes. I know your boss. My father will pay this...

Fiji will remove the union jack from its flag and replace it with a design that symbolises the Pacific country, not former colonial power Britain, the prime minister has said. “We need to replace the symbols on our existing flag that are out of date and no longer relevant, including some...

As clean water once again flows from taps in the city of Winnipeg, members of a nearby First Nation community say they remain under a boil water advisory that's been in effect for nearly two decades. Some members of the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation were in Winnipeg earlier this week to protest...

In these darkest of times, it appears that a newly discovered threat has arisen plunging all of mankind into a state of catatonic fear from which there is no recovery—a ring! A Kermit, Texas, fourth-grader named Aiden Steward brought a Hobbit-esque replica of the ring to class, claiming it...

Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island’s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age. Worship of the gods in Scandinavia gave way to Christianity around 1,000 years ago but a modern...

Paganism is the original religion of this land A full time pagan priest wants the theft of a statue of the Irish God of the Sea Manannán Mac Lír to be treated as a hate crime. Patrick Carberry, who says he left his job as a chef to become a full time “Traditional Celtic Shamanic priest”...

You can read more about why the long-form census is important here and here. Your MP's email address can be found here. Just send them a quick email saying something about how the long-form census is important to you because we need good information that isn't subject to non-response error...

US President Barack Obama plans to close a tax loophole that allows US firms to avoid paying taxes on overseas profits, the White House says. His 2016 budget will impose a one-off 14% tax on US profits stashed overseas, as well as a 19% tax on any future profits as they are earned. The...

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are eating up the middle. There is increasingly little room for Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats there. In Whitby-Oshawa, the NDP picked up only 8 per cent of the vote — down from 22 per cent in 2011. The Liberals, meanwhile, raised their vote share in that...

Ontario’s Liberal government has an almost pathological desire to involve the private sector in public business. When awarding contracts for new power plants, it has favoured private electricity firms over publicly owned Ontario Power Generation. It insists that large-scale public...

A Vancouver businessman has been paid millions of dollars in a secret settlement with the federal government after the Canada Border Services Agency wrongly accused him of exporting military technology to China in violation of export controls, a W5 investigation reveals. The payout to Steve de...

Controversial imam Hamza Chaoui will be denied a permit to establish his Islamic community centre in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, a borough in Montreal's east end. Chaoui is a Moroccan-born imam in Montreal with controversial views on sharia law and ties to suspected radicals. Borough...