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Do you leave a tip in your hotel room for the maid? Marriott is launching a program with Maria Shriver to put envelopes in hotel rooms to encourage tipping. The campaign, called “The Envelope Please,” begins this week. Envelopes will be placed in 160,000 rooms in the U.S. and Canada. Some...

Hey I'm on the fence as far as the 'climate change' goes. I just try to enlighten to what Science types are seeing. a) I don't care because there's not much I can do about it. b) I won't be around if temps really gets intolerable.

NASA has run the numbers. August, 2014 was the hottest August since records were kept of these things starting about 130-years back.

He doesn't even pretend to care about pollution as evidenced once again by his boycotting of the UN meet on Sept 23. He's selling Canadian resources out to foreigners that at one time he didn't agree with at all, and yet those foreigners haven't changed their ways. "'I think Canadians want...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is hosting a major climate summit in New York on September 23, 2014, “to mobilize political will” towards reducing global emissions. U.S. President Barack Obama will be attending, as will U.K. Prime Minster David Cameron. In fact, 125 heads of state will be...

I have been at peoples homes who have cable and all of the American channels seem to feature goober shows like Gator Hunting or Duck calls or Tow truck rescues and other junk. No American channels would be acceptable........ Rogers slams CRTC proposal to strip U.S. channels from basic...

Article 347 of the Cameroon Penal Code punishes “sexual relations with a person of the same sex,” with sentences of prison terms as long as five years in addition to fines. According to Michel Togue, a Cameroonian attorney who has defended many people accused of homosexuality, gay and lesbian...

Mix and match platform promises and see which party most closely reflects your values Click each election issue to see party platforms. Drag the platform points you feel are most relevant from the column on the left to the column on the right. Click the Reveal button to...

It was presaged by much U.S. citizens had no idea about at the time, such as President Nixon's earlier dictum to "Make the [Chilean] economy scream" to weaken the elected socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende, and stir opposition to him and his policies. Here is the CIA's version...

A majority of the Palin family — Sarah, Todd, Bristol, and Track — was allegedly involved in a booze-filled brawl over the weekend in which the former vice presidential candidate reportedly screamed, “Don’t you know who I am?” According to reports from local bloggers, the Palin crew showed up...

The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing Costco for creating a sexually hostile work environment after management allegedly told a female employee to “be friendly” to the man who was stalking her. According to the complaint, one of the “member-customers” of the...

Sam Sotiropoulos is a member of the Toronto School Board who has particularly negative views on LGBT people, which he expresses openly on Twitter. When asked to address those comments by a Global News reporter, however, Sotiropoulos avoided stating his own opinion, denied the existence of tweets...

A group of Australian solar power experts known as the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium, which includes scientists from the CSIRO, the University of Melbourne and Monash University, have been working on printable solar cells over the past seven years. And they’re finally just about...

. Kiel died at Saint Agnes medical centre in Fresno, California, the hospital confirmed without giving further details, citing patient confidentiality. TMZ said the towering 7ft 2in (218cm) character actor died a week after breaking his leg – it was not immediately known if the death was...

This is not your ordinary bad press. In fact, this isn’t even just heathens like me being unfamiliar with the Traditional Christian Ways of the especially holy. This is a dude who told a congregant to apologize to her abusive husband for “failing to bend to his will” by getting on her knees...

Campaigners say the men had received several death threats from illegal loggers, who are suspected of being behind the killings. Correspondents say indigenous people have felt under increasing threat from deforestation in recent years. The men included the outspoken anti-logging activist...

It’s still unclear what killed the fish, but the incident was the worst in a spate of environmental disasters in Mexico this year. Early last month, a river in the northern state of Sonora took on a sickly brown-red color after workers from a nearby mine dumped thousands of gallons of sulfuric...

Last year, 30-year-old Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi was punished for starting a progressive website that called for, among other things, religious tolerance and women’s rights. That was insulting to Islam, said his critics. He was sentenced at the time to seven years in prison and 600...

This isn't a game. It's important, deadly serious, because Canada is obliged to go to war to defend them if and when they're eventually attacked. I won't give you all the Countries right now because that would spoil it for you. Just sit there and think about how many you can name. But...