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The words of Sir Robert Borden established a verbal contract with Canada’s veterans, vowing that a grateful nation will provide adequate care and support to those who served, while forever honouring those who gave the greatest sacrifice. This solemn promise still echoes today across the war...

Iraq is aflame, the Islamic State is on the rampage, the situation in Afghanistan worsens by the day, and thousands of Americans—and many more Iraqis and Afghans—have died during the post-9/11 conflicts. Meanwhile, the combined cost of the “war on terror” comes to an estimated $1.6 trillion...

As many as seven people were shot early in the New Year in the southwest Calgary neighbourhood of Killarney, including two people with life-threatening injuries. more Calgary shooting: up to 7 injured, 2 in critical condition - Calgary - CBC News

I'd heard about this before but didn't realize she has since appealed. Last I had heard even the Police Union didn't want her back....... fired Windsor cop is back on the payroll after filing an appeal, further extending a process that has already limped along more than four years with...

The Interview, a highly controversial movie that was pulled from major cinemas and distributed mostly online (and only in the U.S.), sounds like a dream come true for scammers. It is no wonder, then, that a fake Android app has been making the rounds in South Korea, promising to download a...

Leelah Alcorn, the 17-year-old transgender teen who committed suicide on Sunday morning in Kings Mill, Ohio, has prompted advocates to petition for “Leelah’s Law” – a bill to ban conversion therapy in the U.S. The petition on Change.org by the Transgender Human Rights Institute has more than...

A flight from New York to Tel Aviv was delayed by half an hour last week after a group of male ultra-Orthodox Jewish passengers refused to sit next to women, the third such incident in recent months. The cabin crew on the Delta flight out of John F. Kennedy Airport tried to find seats for the...

More than 150 years ago, the end of the world came to Ireland. The Great Famine wasn’t just another chapter in the history of the Emerald Isle — it threatened the nation’s survival before it even became a nation. One million died. Two million fled. Today, the population of Ireland and Northern...

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...

Film at 11: Conservative backbencher Peter Goldring advocates body cameras to detect ulterior motives in late night Scrabble games. “MPs must learn, as I have from encounters with authority figures in the past, that all do not tell the truth. I now wear ‘protection’ in the form of body-worn...

A 33-year-old man was killed in a police-involved shooting in Scarborough early Wednesday, moments after a Warden station TTC collector was robbed at gunpoint. Toronto police officers received a 911 call after the TTC collector pushed an emergency alarm button shortly after midnight, alerting...

While honouring Second World War veterans Monday, a Calgary MP angered other ex-warriors by saying they’re all happy with how they’re being treated by Ottawa. Calgary-Centre CON MP Joan Crockatt helped hand out certificates and pins to seven Second World War and Korean War vets at the...

After being questioned by an investigator from the Quebec Ministry of Employment and Social Solidarity (MESS), the woman allegedly received a letter asking her to repay $25,738 in income that she’d made by begging near the Berri-UQAM metro station over the past 10 years. According to a report...

To date, 130 states have signed the ATT, with 60 having ratified it. These include major arms exporters such as France, the UK and Germany. This treaty aims to set the highest possible standards for cross-border transfers of arms and ammunition and to cut off the supply of weapons to...

Changes to the Canadian federal government's Copyright Modernization Act, also known as Bill C-11, will legally require ISPs to contact customers suspected of illegally downloading on behalf of the copyright holder as of January 1st. Here's how the new regulation will be implimented: 1...

During the PC leadership campaign, Premier Jim Prentice said he would not support tuition hikes as high as the U of A’s 56 per cent proposal and suggested the province review and simplify market modifiers to make the process more transparent. On Monday, the provincial government announced it...

Falkland Islands introduces support testimonial after army deal in between Russia as well as Argentina The aircraft, which Moscow will swap for beef and wheat, would be able to place air patrols over Port Stanley. Ministry of Protection authorities are afraid Buenos Aires would take delivery...

The British government is preparing to pay back billions in interest bearing bonds from the 18th and 19th century. Share prices went through the roof, speculation ran wild and money poured into ill-fated ventures before the boom turned, inevitably and catastrophically, to bust. After...

The Yukon government has cancelled interviews with both Whitehorse newspapers within the past week. In two separate incidents, officials took the step because they didn't like the treatment they were getting. On Monday Justice department officials cancelled an interview with the Yukon...

"[The man] had no shirt on. He started stabbing himself and going up and down the aisles screaming and ranting," said Simning Drennan said when the officers entered the Safeway, they saw a man with a knife who was repeatedly stabbing himself. "They started talking to him, issuing commands...