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door-to-door energy sales Albertans widely approve of the provincial government’s decision to ban doorstep sales of home energy products, according to a new poll. The online survey conducted by Insights West found 85 per cent of Albertans back the Notley government’s recent prohibition on...

It's TVO, not TV Toronto........... If you're on an antenna and in range, you'll be fine. But live in London, Ottawa, Windsor or elsewhere without cable or satellite and you're SOL for TVO starting at the end of July. TVO dropping over-the-air transmission outside Toronto

Nun receives death threats for suggesting Mary was not a virgin A nun in Spain who says she received death threats for suggesting that Mary probably had sex with her husband, Joseph, has apologised for any offence caused but accused her critics of deliberately misunderstanding her point...

Journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who works for pro-democracy group Open Russia, fell ill at about 05:00 local time. Mr Kara-Murza's wife told the BBC she was on her way to hospital where her husband is in a medically-induced coma. "He is already on life support and in a medicated coma. It's...

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Point: We needed to suspend refugees from accessing this country over national security concerns By: Brad Wall, Premier of Saskatchewan As I have said an open letter to the Prime Minister that I wrote a little more than a year ago, security must be a number one priority when it comes to...

We should be able to criticize aspects of any religion and in this case without it being considered Islamophobic. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize...

On January 28, 1916, Manitoba became the first province in Canada to extend the franchise to women voters. It all started in Manitoba Two years before, on January 27, 1914, a large group of women and men, many members of the Political Equality League of Manitoba, appeared before the Manitoba...

But that's finally starting to change—and these five CEOs, writers, and activists are helping to lead the charge Mapp started Outdoor Afro in 2009 as a blog. It has since blossomed into an organization that uses social media to organize outdoor meetups in African American communities...

All of us, our natural response is to say, 'Yes,' or 'Sure,' or 'Yes I can,'” said Hughes, but she says this is exactly what you do not want to do. Police say scammers record your "yes" response. In one variation of the scam documented by the Better Business Bureau in October 2016, the...

How rich elites took over BC…and the Liberals welcomed them If this were in Russia or China or the Balkans or some developing-world country, it would just be written off as nepotism or corruption, but here [in British Columbia], because it’s not illegal, it seems to just get a pass. It’s been...

When a football team is trailing and there are only a few seconds left on the clock, the quarterback will often pull a “Hail Mary" pass out of their playbook. That’s where they toss the ball as far as they can, from wherever they are on the field, even if they’re 50 or 60 yards away from the end...

You might be a financial wizard, With a sack of loot, All I see is a slimy lizard, With an expensive suit, Go on and run your corporation, Go and kiss some ***, You might buy half of the nation, But you can't buy class You bastards think it's funny, Lyin' and thieving all your life, Think all...

The announcement to lay off more than 600 workers at the CAMI - GM plant is a betrayal and shows why NAFTA is a terrible deal for Canadian jobs. "This decision reeks of corporate greed. It is not based on sales, it is an another example of how good jobs are being shifted out of Canada for...

Consumers and retailers be on guard: there's a new and more devious way for fraudsters to steal your credit and debit card information. "Shimmers" are the newest form of credit card skimmers, only smaller, more powerful and practically impossible to detect. And they're popping up all over the...

I'm thinking this will get straightened out but the cost of this should make us all grateful for our system...... A Manitoba man is calling for the province to pay $118,000 in medical bills for an emergency heart procedure that he says he was forced to get in the U.S. as he waited for the...

The French company Roquette announced today it is planning to build the world's largest pea-processing plant in the province and will hire about 150 full-time employees. The project, which will see a plant built near Portage la Prairie, is estimated to cost $400 million and will feed a growing...

The German cabinet on Wednesday decided to abolish the crime of lese majeste almost a year after a comedian was accused of offending a foreign leader after reciting an obscene poem about Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. Ministers in Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet agreed to scrap the...

Wilmington chapter of the Revolutionary Black Panther Party has announced plans to hold an “armed march” in the coastal North Carolina city on Sunday. The announcement was made on a Facebook page belonging to a group called the Revolutionary Black Panther Party of Wilmington. A poster uploaded...