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This woman was convicted of criminal negligent homicide. Isn't that exactly what the GM executives did..........? A Texas woman who became a convicted felon for causing a 2004 car crash that killed her fiancé has learned that GM counts the accident as one of 13 deaths it blames on its...

Drivers will have a new option for filling up when the city of Somerset's fueling station goes public. It's setting up shop with a refinery that reopened in January of 2013 and city officials expect that to make the price of gas more regionally competitive. The fueling station already...

Which of Canada's accomplishments of the last 150 years "make you most proud to be a Canadian?" Canadians have handed the Harper government a Top 10 list of the country's greatest heroes, featuring some of the Conservative party's greatest adversaries, past and present. The list...

Two men say a parking restriction in the City of Mississauga that’s in effect during Friday prayer services discriminates against Muslims and they’re asking the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario to back their claim. Salman Khalid, 32, is an emergency physician at a hospital about half an hour...

Low rates and a surplus of manpower in central Canada make this an ideal time for governments to invest in infrastructure, according to David Dodge, a respected economist and former governor of the Bank of Canada. “Just as we’re trying to encourage private companies to borrow to make...

A 55-year-old Pennsylvania mother of seven, sentenced to serve two days in jail because her children were absent too much from school and she couldn’t pay some $2,000 in truancy fines, was found dead in her cell. The Associated Press reported that District Judge Dean R. Patton, who sent her...

Debt audits show that austerity is politically motivated to favour social elites. As history has shown, France is capable of the best and the worst, and often in short periods of time. On the day following Marine Le Pen's Front National victory in the European elections, however, France made...

A MAN AND A WOMAN arrested at a Bangkok mall yesterday for protesting against the coup will undergo a process to "have their attitude adjusted", said deputy national police chief General Somyos Phumpanmuang. The pair, who come from Chon Buri and Samut Prakan, had got news about anti-coup...

While it is still a sad fact that justice in America is unequal for black and white but green seems to the best........ “Affluenza” has struck again. Samuel Curtis “S. C.” Johnson III, the 59-year-old billionaire heir to the S. C. Johnson & Sons (formerly Johnson’s Wax) fortune, who...

May 28, 1876 – New York’s Masonic Hall on the westside of Manhattan a crowd gathers to watch what the press had billed as a “pagan funeral,” was in fact intended to be the first public cremation to take place on American soil. Designed to create a spectacle and raise public attention, the event...

Well considering the source, I'm not surprised....... Deputy Foreign Minister Prince Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah on Wednesday called for tough action by governments against those who misuse freedom of expression to attack divine religions and Prophets. Addressing the 17th Non-Aligned...

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A Mississippi tea party official with close ties to U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel apparently ended up inside a locked and empty county courthouse late Tuesday night after primary election results had come in. Hinds County Republican executive chairman Pete Perry told TPM that he received...

“Target benefit plan,” eh? What’s next—a target wage plan? “We’ll try to pay you $22 an hour like the contract says. But if things get tight at budget time, we might have to drop that to $14 or so. OK by you?” No. Not OK. Workplace pensions are, in fact, deferred wages. They’re a forced...

A Toronto-area Tim Hortons worker, who didn’t want her name or outlet location identified for fear of reprisals, said her employer posted a memo notifying staff he was ending breaks with pay to recoup costs. “Given this new increase, as well as continued economic and competitive pressures...

While swathes of Europe – including significant parts of the UK – turned to the Right in last week’s European elections, some parts of the continent opted for a different direction when it came to placing a cross on their ballot paper. Nowhere more so was this the case than in Ireland...

Survey of violations of trade union rights - ITUC New ITUC Global Rights Index - The world’s worst countries for workers - International Trade Union Confederation www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-wdewTPTKs

They helped shape the way Britain was viewed by other countries for decades, and now the last in a series of more than 100 short films will be seen online for the first time. The British Council shot the promotional videos in the 1930s and 40s, painting a picture of a tea-loving, industrial...

Cathedral Bible College Sounds like a funky place. Cathedral Bible College markets itself via the Internet to foreign students and offers degrees in theology, divinity, Christian counseling, Christian ministry and a diploma in Bible studies. Agents with Homeland Security Investigations...

The Calgary woman who put needles and other sharp objects into food at a Calgary Co-op has launched a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the grocer. Tatyana Granada was convicted in 2012 of four counts of mischief and four counts of trespassing after she placed pins, needles and nails in...