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which concluded that the government did not tax all forms of income equally; that you paid more tax on income earned through labour than income earned through capital gains. Carter’s suggestions—which were strongly supported by labour and the NDP at the time. Somewhat recently Brian Topp...

A Calgary man has been arrested in Orlando, Fla., after a pantless joyride across airport tarmac. According to the Orlando Police Department, Richard Hogh was kicked off a flight to Chicago Friday morning after United Airlines employees found him acting erratically. Hogh had sat in an...

The Democrats hysterical warnings about Russians under our beds, and Donald Trump's weird connection with poor, working class whites, are equally bizarre as long as you are using the archaic and obsolete left-right paradigm of democracy that we've been taught. It finally occurred to me the...

Canadian Reginald Fessenden and his message was “One Two Three Four — is it snowing where you are Mr. Thiessen? If it is, telegraph back to me.” How Canadian - he talked about the weather! While Marconi is often credited as being “the”, or at least, “a” father of radio, he was in fact...

The challenges of living in rural Nova Scotia may differ in some ways from living in the Halifax area, but one thing is same across the province: low-wage workers need to make more money if they are to break the cycle of poverty. The living wage for a hypothetical family of four where both...

After Nearly 500 Years in Business, the Company that Cast the Liberty Bell Is Ceasing All Operations In 1751, Pennsylvania statesman Isaac Norris II commissioned Whitechapel’s most famous American bell to hang from the State House (now Independence Hall). Upon arrival from London, the “State...

Despite its dated condition, the estate sale property, which sold on Monday for $1.1 million, attracted about 800 visitors over the course of three open houses — and 50 offers ahead of the designated offer presentation time. People are accustomed to homes being staged to look and smell like...

I don't watch the Super Bowl unless I happen to be somewhere and a TV may be on and I have never noticed the commercials. One year I watched a few ads on the computer and I just shrugged and don't get the excitement the pedestrians seem absorbed with, but now the dollar fight is growing...

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The FBI Completed More Gun Background Checks on Black Friday Than on Any Other Day in U.S. History Gun ownership has traditionally been associated with the right wing in America but the election of Donald Trump has prompted some left-wingers to join gun clubs - and even start preparing for the...

Boyle, 33, who is Canadian, and Coleman, his 31-year-old American wife, have been held by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network since October 2012. They were kidnapped near Kabul, Afghanistan, during a backpacking trip through Central Asia. Coleman says the video was made Dec. 3, and is...

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Then the story took an even darker twist. Even in Pakistan, where hundreds of “honor killings” are reported every year, this case was extreme. According to court filings and interviews with people who investigated it, the families confined the girls for weeks, threw boiling water and hot...

I really thought this was a top, not a bra and I don't get the backlash. Guess I'm out of the loop........ An Edmonton woman said she was stunned when she was told to cover up while wearing a sports bra during a workout at a city-run recreation centre. Coral Wiebe told CTV Edmonton that she...

Let's see if the Don stops all of this freeloading by other countries........ President Rodrigo Duterte threatened Saturday to terminate a pact that allows U.S. troops to visit the Philippines, saying “bye-bye America” as he reacted with rage to what he thought was a U.S. decision to scrap a...

and must stop managing refugees and migrants for the UK, Arnaud Montebourg, a key contender to become the Socialist party’s presidential candidate, has warned. The flamboyant leftist told the Guardian he saw himself as a French version of Bernie Sanders, the US senator who made a bid to become...