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British workers suffered the biggest drop in real wages of all major G20 countries in the three years to 2013, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Labour said the report underlined why the government has been unable to get the deficit down. Chris Leslie the shadow...

Seven countries have imposed trade restrictions on Canadian poultry as a fifth farm in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley was put under quarantine for avian influenza, officials said Saturday. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said that more than 140,000 turkeys and chickens from the affected...

Yesterday, a man in an SUV who'd been making online and in-person threats against the Muslim community ran down and killed a 15-year-old boy getting into the family car outside a mosque in Kansas City, Mo. At the end of last month a man with ties to extremist Christian groups and opposed to...

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Evidence of Early Metalworking in Arctic Canada The Viking-age Norse established settlements on the southwestern coast of Greenland about A.D. 1000, and these continued to be occupied until the early 15th century. Although less than 400 km separated the Norse Greenlandic colonies from the...

Raids against Islamic State are being conducted from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus "with broken jets and tired and fed-up people", BBC Newsnight has been told. In a letter, a serviceman said the base was being neglected, morale was poor and ground crews had taken to eating humanitarian rations...

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Apparently they 'muddy the water' by counting blood donations along with financial donations they get from citizens to give the impression that they aren't spending much on admin costs...... The American Red Cross regularly touts how responsible it is with donors' money. "We're very proud of...

The poodle speaks............. Politicians are not well paid compared with leaders in the private sector, Tony Blair has warned. Better salaries would improve the "gene pool" of political leaders, he wrote in an article in the New York Times. The former Labour prime minister...

TEMPE, Ariz. -- The uproar over police and the use of deadly force has caused the Tempe Police Department to cancel Saturday's "Run From The Cops" 5K. The third annual race was scheduled for Saturday morning at Tempe Town Lake. The name of the race is a play on words. Runners would have...

Florida Agrees That Satanists Must Have Equal Representation In Capitol The Satanic Temple — not to be confused with the Church of Satan, with which TST is not affiliated — describes its mission as "facilitating the communication and mobilization of politically aware Satanists...

When Canada needed her the most, she betrayed us miserably................. For many Canadians who worry about Stephen Harper's approach to parliamentary democracy, one of the low points came in December 2008. That's when he asked then governor-general Michaëlle Jean to shut down the...

The Canadian government is poised to relaunch a program that grants permanent residency to foreign millionaires but a veteran immigration lawyer says he fears Ottawa is still underpricing what amounts to a path to citizenship. Ottawa announced in February it would end the decades-old Immigrant...

One of the world’s best-known scientists is selling his Nobel Prize medal in a bid to allow him to “re-enter public life” after being shunned for the past seven years for his comments linking race and intelligence. American James Watson, who worked alongside British scientist Francis Crick...

When it comes to encryption, some of the Department of Justice’s views are… interesting. Now, it transpires that it’s been using laws that date back 225 years to get phones unlocked too. The Wall Street Journal reports that, back last month, its prosecutors managed to convince a federal...

The Alberta Energy Regulator says close to 60,000 litres of crude oil have spilled into muskeg in the province's north. An incident report by the regulator states that a mechanical failure was reported Thursday at a Canadian Natural Resources Limited pipeline approximately 27 kilometres north...

The story...... Jon Stewart Calls Out Media For Belittling Cannabis And Glorifying Alcohol |Higher Perspective

Alberta appears poised to be a leader for hemp firms which are diversifying processing and product opportunities. Marking itself as one of the top hemp-producing provinces, Alberta Agriculture has sought to support new biomaterials through agencies like Alberta Innovates-Technology Futures...

“We knew at the time we had to give back in some way. We had to reinvest, we had to diversify because all of our eggs were in that one basket, which was natural gas,” says Clugston. They started an energy conservation and renewable energy program called “Hat Smart.” And from 2008 to June 2014...