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The dark blue Toyota Mirai (Japanese for "future") parked outside the offices of ITM Power in Sheffield, northern England, is a rare beast. At the time of writing it was one of just 28 fuel-cell cars on the road in the UK, pioneering the use of hydrogen to power private and public transport...

When Europeans lose their taste for democracy, bad things have been known to happen. Whether it's Hungary or Poland, both of which have authoritarian, illiberal governments, or the rise of authoritarian movements in the Netherlands, France and Britain, good old liberal democracy is taking...

Two-thirds of Canada's electricity supply now comes from renewable sources such as hydro and wind power, the National Energy Board said in a report released Tuesday. Renewable energy production jumped 17 per cent between 2005 and 2015. The portion of all electricity in Canada generated by...

On the list are: five Islamic preachers who are nationals of Canada, Saudi Arabia, Syria and the United States and US Evangelical Pastor Terry Jones, who burned copies of the Koran in 2011. "I am also very pleased that it is now clear to everyone that these people are not welcome in Denmark,"...

The Swedish government, with its proclaimed "feminist foreign policy", has been under pressure to reveal how Sweden voted when the UN elected Saudi Arabia to the UN Commission on the Status of Women in April. In a comment, Foreign Minister Margot Wallström has said that they will not reveal...

This is your day, and I hope you, your fellow workers, and your families all take time to celebrate. But we must also remember today, especially today, our brothers and sisters who are in jail -- workers whose only crime was doing their job as trade unionists. Please take one minute today to...

By Christian H. Cooper I spent a lot of my time pondering basic questions. Where will my next meal come from? Will I have electricity tomorrow? I became intimately acquainted with the embarrassment of my mom trying to hide our food stamps at the grocery store checkout. I remember panic setting...

If you think we're getting fake news now, just wait for this............ Do you remember the Mission Impossible tech that lets Tom Cruise’s character Ethan Hunt mimic the voice of other characters using some nifty speech synthesis technology? Well, a Montreal-based startup called Lyrebird...

This box can see through walls — and it could shake up home security http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/aura-cognitive-systems-home-security-wireless-spectrum-1.4086660

The overwhelming generosity of Salvation Army donors was evident in the warehouses. They were overflowing with playpens, deodorant, diapers, fruit cups, margarine, candy, bedding, expensive bikes, and so, so many toys from the Christmas Toy Mountain campaign. Except these donations weren’t...

Voters at an “all candidates” election debate on mental health and addiction missed out on one key viewpoint Monday night. That’s because, despite going to “great lengths” and extending “numerous” invitations, the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)’s B.C. branch said no southern...

The father of the three-month-old baby whose death has been ruled a homicide has been put on administrative leave by the Calgary church where he serves as an associate pastor. Rockyview Alliance Church said in a statement they were deeply saddened by Cyrus Nel’s death almost two years ago. It...

When the standard malaria medications failed to help 18 critically ill patients, the attending physician in a Congo clinic acted under the “compassionate use” doctrine and prescribed a not-yet-approved malaria therapy made only from the dried leaves of the Artemisia annua plant. In just five...

A Texas logistics company fired one of its employees because she was not Christian enough and “needed to examine her walk with Jesus,” the woman claims in court. Dee Anne Thomson sued Houston-based Gulf Winds International for age and religious discrimination and retaliation, claiming it fired...

Ontario’s NDP is pledging to create a provincial pharmacare plan, appealing to the grassroots about a year out from the start of next year’s election campaign. Leader Andrea Horwath announced the policy Saturday in a speech to about 1,000 delegates at the party’s convention. “Seeing a doctor...

Mexico has surpassed 2,000 homicides in a month for the first time since the summer of 2011 and had more killings in the first quarter of 2017 than in the start of any year in at least two decades, according to data released Friday. Unlike 2011, when bloody cartel clashes in Ciudad Juarez drove...

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in Catholic schools The ruling Thursday by a Saskatchewan judge that the province’s government may no longer legally fund non-Catholic students in Catholic schools is the legal equivalent of the Mother Of All Bombs! In an era of declining enrolments in many communities in which separate...

Andy Guo, an 18-year-old Chinese immigrant, loves driving his red Lamborghini Huracán. He does not love having to share the car with his twin brother, Anky. “There’s a lot of conflict,” Andy Guo said, as a crowd of admirers gazed at the vehicle and its vanity licence plate, “CTGRY 5,” short for...

A fungus that causes “vomitoxin” has been found in some U.S. corn harvested last year, forcing poultry and pork farmers to test their grain, and giving headaches to grain growers already wrestling with massive supplies and low prices. The plant toxin sickens livestock and can also make humans...