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Edward Snowden will be answering questions submitted by the public on his official support site, freesnowden.is, this Thursday 23 January at 8pm GMT, 3pm EST. The support site is run by The Courage Foundation and is the only endorsed Snowden Defence Fund. This is the first Snowden live chat...

Some Peace River area doctors are afraid to speak out about health impacts of oil and gas activity and in some cases have declined to treat area residents who wondered if their health problems were related to emissions, says one of two independent health experts hired by the Alberta Energy...

For the first time, German state schools are offering classes in Islam to primary school students using state-trained teachers and specially written textbooks, as officials try to better integrate the nation’s large Muslim minority and counter the growing influence of radical religious thinking...

The children's mother, Zakieya Latrice Avery, 28, and Monifa Denise Sanford, 21, are charged with killing a 1-year-old and 2-year-old and severely injuring a 5-year-old and 8-year-old inside the home. Police said they attempted an exorcism and stabbed the two children to death. Police...

A nun who gave birth to a baby boy in the central Italian city of Rieti, said she had no idea she was pregnant, local media report. The 31-year-old was rushed to hospital with abdominal pains, which she thought were stomach cramps. The young mother, who is originally from El Salvador...

Nigeria's law is not as draconian as a Ugandan bill passed by parliament last month which would punish "aggravated" homosexual acts with life in prison. It awaits the president's signature. But Nigeria's law reflects a highly religious and conservative society that considers homosexuality a...

Police are warning the public about the release of a convicted pedophile considered to be a high risk to re-offend. Ryan James Gabourie, 32, will be released from Headingley Correctional Institution Thursday after serving sentences for breaching the conditions of his release from a federal...

Exactly one month after announcing the move, Google has updated its terms of service, allowing the company to use your profile information in ads. That means your face, name and personal details will start popping up all over your network. Yay! Well, that might not be a reaction you share. As we...

New Brunswick RCMP's Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit is asking people to share pictures via their social media networks of a man sought in an ongoing investigation into a sexual assault against a child and the production of child sexual abuse images. The pictures are captured from a...

Gee, it seems like just 20 months ago when Arthur Porter (currently residing in a Panama penal colony) was replaced by Chuck Strahl, who promised he "won't lobby" governments. Brian Hutchinson: Chuck Strahl takes on an unlikely role as Canada’s new spywatcher | National Post However...

Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives Back in 2012, when Canada's Harper government announced that it would close down national archive sites around the country, they promised that anything that was discarded or sold would be digitized first...

It always pays to have friends in Washington........... Taxpayers have been subsidizing CEO pay for fast food companies and other firms due to a loophole that allows unlimited corporate tax write-offs on performance-based compensation for top executives. From 2011 through 2012, CEOs of...

He had hoped to finish in time for Christmas but injuries and bad weather have caused delays, and he has the final quarter from Banff through the Rocky Mountains to Vancouver left to run. Mr McDonald, from Gloucester, said he had seen the new year in with a crowd of people and was set...

Manitoba reporter fired from her job for "biased" reporting on federal politics On a rainy afternoon in October, Jill Winzoski, a 38 year old reporter at The Selkirk Record, walked into her boss' small office and took a deep breath. That morning, Winzoski's editor had told her over the phone...

State Sen. Wendy Davis, on Monday called on Gov. Rick Perry to remove William J. White as chairman of the Texas Finance Commission. BUT WHY REMOVE HIM YOU MAY WONDER The finance commission, which White chairs, oversees the state agency that is supposed to...

“A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. "They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalysed thought. "And that’s a problem because privacy matters, privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want...

Scientists say the closure of some of the world's finest fishery, ocean and environmental libraries by the Harper government has been so chaotic that irreplaceable collections of intellectual capital built by Canadian taxpayers for future generations has been lost forever. Many collections...

Marks & Spencer is facing a boycott from hundreds of customers furious at the store’s decision to allow Muslim staff to refuse to serve customers buying alcohol or pork products. The policy was revealed after customers trying to buy pork or alcohol from a Muslim shop assistant in...

Suicide rates among middle-aged Americans have risen sharply in the past decade, prompting concern that a generation of baby boomers who have faced years of economic worry. More people now die of suicide than in car accidents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which...

Dilma Rousseff was thoroughly charmed. Brazil had been struggling for years to decide which company to choose for a $4 billion-plus fighter jet contract, one of the world's most sought-after defense deals and one that would help define the country's strategic alliances for decades to come. But...