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The federal government has granted an exemption to Microsoft Canada that will allow the company to bring in an unspecified number of temporary foreign workers to British Columbia as trainees without first looking for Canadians to fill the jobs. A notice posted on the Citizenship and...

The number of supertankers sailing to China jumped to a record in ship-tracking data amid signs that the oil-price crash is spurring the Asian nation to stockpile. There were 83 very large crude carriers bound for Chinese ports, according to shipping signals from IHS Maritime compiled by...

An elderly woman has died and about 30 others are sick after a church potluck dinner in a small New Brunswick town. More than 100 people gathered at Nackawic Community Hall last Friday Dec. 5 for a turkey dinner sponsored by a local church. "One person was admitted to hospital and they...

Dalai Lama, who is visiting Rome, had requested a meeting. A Vatican spokesman said that although the Pope held him "in very high regard", the request had been declined "for obvious reasons". Correspondents say the Vatican does not want to jeopardise efforts to improve relations with...

If the 16th century was the renaissance of ------ popes, the 10th century was the true dark age of the papacy. Popes during this time period were basically Genghis Kahn with a prettier hat. Pope John XII assumed the throne of Saint Peter at the seemingly tender age of 18, but back in the 10th...

Cracker jailed for saying "&*_! the police" wins $100,000 for 1st Amend violation I'm not suggesting that if the colour was different we would be reading a different story......... It started when Marietta resident Amy Barnes went to the store on her bike to buy some butter in April 2012...

Albino people, who lack pigment in their skin and appear pale, are killed because potions made from their body parts are believed to bring good luck and wealth. More than 70 albinos have been killed over the last three years in Tanzania, while there have been only 10 convictions for...

According to a source familiar with the negotiations, Mr. Znaimer is eager to make a deal that would see ZoomerMedia Ltd., a company he controls, buy the news and opinion channel before the year is over. Mr. Znaimer currently has exclusive negotiating rights, and the price of the purchase would...

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Evan Solomon spent much of Power and Politics trying to get Con MP Erin O-Toole to respond (link is external) to recently revealed records showing nearly 900 job positions eliminated across Veterans Affairs with the biggest cuts going to the Disability Awards branch. "How are these...

Founder of Super Soaker and Nerf Guns, has been awarded a nearly $73 million settlement from Hasbro Inc. for unpaid royalties, Johnson, a nuclear engineer, Tuskegee University Ph.D. and former NASA scientist, founded his company in 1989. Johnson holds more than 80 patents, with more than 20...

Perhaps no single person has had a bigger impact on the Great Lakes as we know them than Howard Tanner. Born on Sept. 4, 1923, the son of a grocer in northern Michigan started fishing on Sunday mornings with his father at age 5. The two chased brook trout near the railroad tracks along the...

Ottawa has quietly paid EI sickness benefits to some women who fell ill during maternity leave while continuing to fight a multi-million-dollar class action lawsuit against others, the Star has learned. Calgary mother Carissa Kasbohm, 30, who developed a serious blood illness while on...

Fifteen Indians lost their sight after a doctor used suspected infected equipment to remove cataracts at a free eye surgery camp, the latest incident to highlight the dangers of shoddy medical treatment in the country. India has the world's largest number of blind people and cataracts are one...

Monika Dutt makes the case for a national pharmacare program. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2014/12/Affordable_Access_to_Medicines.pdf And the Institute for Research in Public Policy concludes that in the absence of a...

American who helped craft Uganda’s ‘Kill the Gays’ bill to be tried for crimes against humanity The First Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Pastor Scott Lively’s petition to have a crimes against humanity lawsuit against him dropped. The anti-gay pastor will stand trial in a federal...

CBC News reports (link is external) on the continued growth of food bank use in Saskatchewan - a fact which seems to be entirely in keeping with Brad Wall's plans (link is external). And Will Chabun reports (link is external) on a new CCPA/Parkland Institute study (link is external) showing...

It would be hard to invent a more destructive ritual of national self-punishment. Year after year, we hand oil companies gigantic tracts of pristine land. They skin them of entire ecosystems. They vacuum billions of dollars out of the country. Their oversized power, sunk into lobbying and...

James Lewis Smithson was a Briton who died in Italy in 1829, at the age of 75. Six years later, the primary beneficiary of Smithson’s will died, and urgent letters were sent Washington, D.C. It emerged that Smithson’s estate, worth an estimated £100,000, had devolved “to the United States of...