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When Congressman Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher moved into a four-bedroom, four-bathroom, million-dollar Costa Mesa rental home on April Fool's Day 2010, the immaculate, 6,300-square-foot property could have been featured in a glossy real-estate magazine. Built in 1948, the two-story, Orange Avenue...

A court in Canada has ruled Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen can try to seize the assets of oil giant Chevron based on a 2011 decision in an Ecuadorean court found it liable for nearly three decades of soil and water pollution near oil wells, and said it had ruined the health and livelihoods of...

A private firm with a federal contract - and backed up by city police - forced motorists off Laurel Street and into a private parking lot Friday to question them about their driving habits and ask for a swab of their mouth. "I feel this incident is a gross abuse of power on many levels,"...

The greatest threat confronting Canadian politics is not the concentration of power in the Prime Minister’s Office. Nor the suffocating clutch of party discipline around backbench MPs. These are consequences of a deeper rot. A crisis of character. A crisis that should be properly identified as...

Hutton said the new code of conduct means the government can punish employees for saying something they don't like, even if it is true and in the public interest." A new “loyalty agreement” for employees of members of Parliament makes government even more secretive at a time when...

My Political view on this; Seems the Liberals are doing everything they can to appeal to Ontario voters. They (liberals) had a long time under Dalton to address the worker protection roll backs of the Harris Cons but up until now, nothing......... My real life experience on this...

Only in Britain or would that apply to Canada? Department wrongly announced that section of law threatening people with life imprisonment had been repealed It turns out you can draw a life sentence under a law that forbids anyone from advocating the abolition of the monarchy. It's right...

Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford has been accused of vote buying after he was filmed handing out $20 bills to public housing residents. It’s the second time in a week he has faced accusations of using his personal wealth for political gain. What he’s doing is just plain corrupt,”...

'Gay Away' gimmick candy at Manitoba store offends parents - Manitoba - CBC News

The drop in teenage pregnancies is the success story of our time Here are the facts: since 1998, the proportion of pregnancies in under-18s has fallen by a remarkable 34%, to 30.9 per thousand. Until then the number had been rising since the late 1960s. But here's what people wrongly think...

The Conservatives came to power with a commitment to right-wing, business-friendly policies meant to bring a more free-market focus to Canada, which before moving into 24 Sussex Drive Harper often derided as a tax-addicted welfare state. In practice, this meant pro-growth economic policies...

Members of the world’s oldest faith would like to join a display of religious symbols at Oklahoma’s state capitol, joining a Judeo-Christian tablet and a proposed Satanist monument. The Universal Society of Hinduism plans to submit an application to the Oklahoma State Capitol Preservation...

J. S. Woodsworth Born in Ontario but raised in Manitoba, James Shaver Woodsworth (1874–1942), was a Methodist clergyman, social worker, politician, and the first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Woodsworth started out as a Methodist clergyman in 1896, but had become a...

Wal-Mart bans man for life for matching ads Joe Cantrell made a hobby out of browsing local stores and going to Wal-Mart to get the cheapest prices for its products through ad matching, according to television station WXYZ. However, last week, Cantrell took a trip to Wal-Mart's San Tan...

the dots............ Uruguay has become the first country in the world to make it legal to grow, sell and consume marijuana. After nearly 12 hours of debate, senators gave the government-sponsored bill their historic final approval. The government hopes it will help tackle drug cartels...

Editorial: Shame on Redford New union laws violate basic rights Needless to say, making it illegal to just talk about striking is the kind of law one might expect in some banana republic or other oppressive totalitarian state. Every opposition party opposes this legislation, but...

Three members of a so-called 'Muslim Patrol' were today jailed at the Old Bailey for repeatedly trying to enforce Sharia law in East London. Jordan Horner and another Islamic extremist told one couple they could not hold hands while walking down the street, because it was in a 'Muslim area'...

The Tory backbench may have the best idea to emerge from the Conservative ranks since Harper rose to power. A Conservative backbencher, Michael Chong, plans to introduce An Act to Amend the Canada Elections Act and the Parliament of Canada Act next week that would pose an enormous threat to...

Joe Lieberman, who once promised he’d never become a lobbyist, becomes a lobbyist - Salon.com

If you’re one of the many Yahoo users (Yahoosers?) who hasn’t been terribly impressed with the numerous recent “upgrades” to the web giant’s e-mail service, you’re not alone, especially in the Yahoo offices, were 3-out-of-4 employees have apparently decided to just stick with Microsoft Outlook...