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He was born under a spruce tree and he went to school at age 13 by piloting a log raft down the Yukon River. At the age of 82, he dislocated his arm after rolling his ATV, and hiked three miles to catch a ride to the hospital. At 93, he walked five miles through thick snow after his snowmobile...

A mob dished out some very sweaty justice to an alleged thief who was spotted attempting to rob a pensioner with a knife – he was stripped naked, then wrapped head to foot in clingfilm and tied to a lamppost. People took photographs as 32-year-old Valentino Abeyta Barrera sweltered in Chilean...

Sun TV fired first in what could be the beginning of a nasty civil war within Canada's conservative movement. Preston Manning, founding father of the modern conservative movement and head of the right-wing Manning Centre, made a pair of surprising appearances recently in the Globe and Mail...

After a call from ServiceOntario, the couple discovered that the wedding ceremony wasn't just badly done — it also wasn't official. The man who performed their ceremony was not a legally ordained minister in Canada and was not legally allowed to marry them. "The woman on the other end of the...

Twitter, hungry for new data to fuel its targeted advertising, will start looking at what other apps its users have downloaded. Starting Wednesday, the company will begin collecting data on which other apps its users have on their iOS and Android smartphones. The data, Twitter says, will help...

The Irvings are secretive billionaires who have a monopoly on New Brunswick's news media. Journalist Jacques Poitras, author of Irving vs Irving, describes how the family subtly suppresses criticism and destroys competitors. [00:00:21] "A journalist disaster zone, that is what a Senate...

In 1925, France had recovered from World War I, and Paris was booming, an excellent environment for a con artist. Lustig's master con came to him one spring day when he was reading a newspaper. An article discussed the problems the city was having maintaining the Eiffel Tower. Even keeping it...

Savvy Black Friday shoppers should pay attention to products’ final price, not just how much they’re supposedly saving. That’s the takeaway from a new report released by Vancity Credit Union, which warns some major U.S. retailers inflate prices before Black Friday and Cyber Monday to make...

The political sting operation — just the latest in a series of covert Tory efforts aimed at capturing verbal gaffes by Liberals — was launched at a Nov. 13 public meeting in Canmore, Alta., by a young Conservative who's been involved in at least one other similar plot. She secretly recorded a...

A flawed workplace insurance program exposed in 2008 for giving rebates to dangerous employers is still handing out the cash rewards, a new report by the Ontario Federation of Labour has found. The problem was earlier exposed by a 2008 Star investigation that found Ontario’s Workplace Safety...

A sophisticated piece of malware believed to have been created by a government to obtain confidential information has been detected. The bug, known as Regin, is believed to have been created in 2008 to spy on individuals, businesses and rival government organisations, according to...

The French far right’s cosiness with Vladimir Putin’s Russia is back in the spotlight as Marine Le Pen’s party confirms it borrowed nine million euros from a Russian lender, saying “no one else will give us a cent”. France’s far-right National Front (FN) said Sunday it had borrowed the money...

Indeed, why should ordinary Americans care about the rampant corruption, extrajudicial violence and culture of impunity that has overtaken Mexico in the eight years since then-President Felipe Calderón declared war on the drug cartels? Why should they care about 100,000 dead and at least 20,000...

Quebec is putting an end to the universal fee structure for its publicly funded daycare system. The government will now have parents pay on a sliding scale according to their household income. The current rate of $7.30 a day per child will remain in effect, but when families prepare their...

SPOILER ALERT: CLICK HERE TO TRY THE SURVEY BEFORE READING BELOW ABOUT THE OVERALL RESULTS. Read this after the survey.......... ‘Cloud of misperception’: Canadians don’t know their country as well as they think, online survey finds | National Post

John Smid was executive director of Love in Action for 18 years The former head of a group that claimed it could stop people being attracted to those of the same sex has married his male partner. John Smid, executive director of the ‘Love in Action’ group from 1990 to 2008, said he had...

A former member of a Conservative riding association in southern Ontario has struck a compliance agreement with Elections Canada after he tried to cast two votes in the last federal election. A notice published Friday on the Canada Gazette website says Bryan Vanderkruk admits to requesting a...

The U.S. Embassy in Mexico issued a security message Friday warning U.S. citizens to avoid the Pacific resort of Acapulco because of violence and protests. In yet another blow to a coastal city once favored by U.S. movie stars and jet-setters in the 1950s and '60s, the embassy said its...

Conley was found guilty in August, along with his brother, Nicholas, of torturing their mother's pit bull after it had bitten Conley's 13-year-old son. According to testimony, the dog was hung from the roof of a house, stabbed multiple times and placed in a shallow hole attached by a chain to a...