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They belonged to a French businessman named Roger Baillon. He amassed a fantastic car collection through the Fifties and Sixties, but then he started to go bust and only managed to sell a few while he couldn't maintain the rest anymore. It has to be noted that many of these cars are extremely...

An OECD study reported in the Globe shows that Canada has dropped out of the top ten in research and development spending and now ranks 12th. While we de-industrialize and fall back on raw resource exports, previously underdeveloped countries -- Taiwan, India and Brazil -- are now outspending us...

Fewer and fewer Americans are getting overtime pay, and it's not because they're not working overtime. Rather, the rules that determine who gets overtime if they work more than 40 hours a week have become outdated. Salaried workers are only eligible for overtime pay if they earn less than $455 a...

The northernmost part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known as the Copper Country, after its thriving copper mines which led the world in production at the turn into the 20th century. While the mines wallowed in profits, workers – mostly recent immigrants – made a few dollars a day and had few...

Listening to the radio via the www whilst sitting here and on the news she say's the Pope is praying for everything but he hopes that "the wealthy will start caring about their fellow man".....

A home invasion in southwestern New Brunswick ended up with one person shot and four people facing charges. The St. Stephen RCMP were called to a house in Honeydale after the homeowner was assaulted. The police say the alleged assailant was shot in the leg and a vehicle was also shot in the...

Genentech pays doctors to prescribe its newer more expensive drug, which costs $2,000/dose vs. older, cheaper, equally-effective drug Avastin / $50/dose. When the drug maker Genentech introduced a major product in 2006, it found itself in an awkward position: persuading eye doctors to start...

Google CEO Larry Page has an unusual idea about what should happen to his billions should he die. Instead of giving it to a philanthropic organization, he'd rather hand over his cash to Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity. In a conversation with Charlie Rose at a TED...

Who sounds like he had sprung from the bowels of bigoted America. A law professor named an Ontario judge this week wrote two years ago for a conservative, U.S.-based institute that the legalization of same-sex marriage in Canada has harmed religious freedom and free speech, and led to the...

A Muslim family in Lewisville didn’t realize their religious flag was causing a stir - not until people started coming by to take pictures, and a journalist from a local TV station came to their house. To many Americans, the sight of a black flag with Arabic writing on it invokes an association...

Boxing great Muhammad Ali was hospitalized with a mild case of pneumonia that was caught early and should result in a short hospital stay, an Ali spokesman said Saturday night. The three-time world heavyweight champion, who is battling Parkinson's disease, is being treated by his team of...

A Muslim woman who says she was forced to attend Christian church services during a 60-day jail stint in Cleveland on an assault charge has sued the county. Sakeena Majeed said in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday that a correction officer made her and other Cuyahoga County jail inmates attend...

A Methodist church in Indiana that suffered a massive walk-out after forcing its gay choir director to resign, will close its doors for good at the end of 2014. David Mantor, pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Alexandria, Ind., says the decision to close the church resulted from...

Ontario’s premier hopes Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn’t have a “vendetta” against the people of the province, saying the well-being of Canadians should dictate their working relationship, not his “feelings.” Kathleen Wynne’s last meeting with Harper was more than a year ago, on Dec. 5...

How One Man Is Terrorizing Neighbors With a Hostile Holiday Decoration Display Homeowners on Fairley Road in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, say their neighbor Bill Ansell is terrorizing them year round with his hostile anti-Christmas spirit. “Any opportunity he has to make our life a...

Residents near Houston are afraid and outraged after discovering a man playing Santa Claus, inviting children to sit on his lap, is a registered sex offender. The part that's making them angry the most is there's nothing they can do about it because it's not against the law in Texas. The...

I've never seen the show so I don't know what he's advising but.......... The TV personality who describes himself as “America’s doctor” has been widely delivering medical advice with zero scientific basis, according to a new study. About half of recommendations from Dr. Mehmet Oz have...

The man told the pastor he was “barking up the wrong tree” and acted like he was reaching for a gun. A southern Indiana minister who preaches against homosexuality was accused of soliciting gay sex at a park. Gaylard Williams, pastor of Praise Cathedral Church of God in Seymour, was...

A U.S. requirement that American steel be used to update a ferry terminal in B.C. is causing some tension with Canadian officials, potentially threatening the project. The terminal is on Canadian soil, in Prince Rupert, B.C., but the land is leased to the state of Alaska. Under a 50-year lease...