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More than 2,000 shop floor staff at Sports Direct are set for a life-changing windfall after record profits at the fast-growing, cheap-and-cheerful chain triggered a bonus payout that will see workers who earn £20,000 a year banking payouts of £100,000 each. While six-figure bonuses are...

Almost everyone knows CEO pay is out of control. It surged 16 percent at big companies last year, and the typical CEO raked in $15.1 million, according to the New York Times. Meanwhile, the median wage continued to drop, adjusted for inflation. What's less well-known is that you and I and...

for 15 minutes and he releases her. LANCASTER, Penn. -- Temar Boggs, 15, is being praised as a hero after saving a 5-year-old girl from an attempted abduction. Pennsylvania police say the girl was kidnapped while playing in her front yard. Two hours later Temar and a friend spotted the...

There are ways that Canada could curb corporations from using tax havens to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. The Japanese government has shown us one way to do this. Japan has a law called the Tax Haven Counter Measure Law. It applies to any Japanese subsidiary in a low tax jurisdiction...

On the second anniversary of her son John’s fatal crash, Sharon Jobson hoped to spend a quiet moment at the railway crossing where his truck collided with a Via train. The warning lights and gates she fought for would have just been installed — protecting her other son who still uses the...

A former employee of Walmart in Kemptville, Ont., says she was fired for confronting a customer who left a dog in a truck on a hot day this week. "[The manager said I was fired] because I was rude to a customer, but I felt because I was not even on the clock, it shouldn't have been an issue...

Joe Muto used to think of Fox News as just the place he worked. That is, until the mid-western liberal agreed to become a mole inside the right-wing machine. He worked worked eight years as a producer with the Fox News Network and says not only is he not conservative, he's not even blonde...

Here's the relevant law, from the webpage of Senator Patrick Leahy: Coups d'Etat Sec. 7008. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to titles III through VI of this Act shall be obligated or expended to finance directly any assistance to the government of any...

There will be no free trade agreement between the EU and the U.S., if the charges of espionage are true, warns EU Commissioner Google Oversæt

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and you know it's about more than religions and terrorists. And to prove it just look to the last line in the story. The owners are winning and Canada is becoming more American every day............... "The bill from Alberta Conservative MP Brian Storseth passed in the House of Commons...

The first article asks why, the second article answers why.................... Two lung disease specialists are accusing Health Canada of shortening some patients' lives, by denying them access to an inexpensive, relatively harmless drug not sold in Canada. “I am appalled and angry that a...

From Reuters comes news that the government of Ecuador has unilaterally waived trade rights with the United States, rejecting accusations that US threats to end a favorable trade deal were the reason they hadn't formally offered Ed Snowden political asylum. (Reuters) - Ecuador said on...

People are out on the streets not because some thug got too ambitious. People are out because their country is being taken away from them. That’s worth writing about. more https://medium.com/better-humans/c48a55c30e29

:lol: Man Shot Attempting To Rob Patrons Waiting For Lebron X Denim Shoes A would-be robber in Atlanta’s Little Five-Points area was gunned down by a patron waiting outside of a store to purchase the newly released Lebron James‘ sneakers, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The...

Woman lets male stranger she met at Walmart take her child for a snack. Child found murdered days later. The body of 8-year-old Charish Lilly Perriwinkle was discovered near a church in Jacksonville, Fla. around 10 a.m. Saturday, Jacksonville.com reported. Perriwinkle was abducted from a...

I will say that while they were nasty in their prime I give them kudos for apologizing, which must be a big step for some of them............. The leader of Exodus International, a Christian ministry that worked to help people repress same-sex attraction, has apologized to the gay...

Sherwin Smith, deputy director of the Tennessee Division of Water Resources is warning his fellow citizens to watch what they say, especially when complaining about their water. “We take water quality very seriously. Very, very seriously,” said Sherwin Smith, deputy director of TDEC’s...

Here we go again. Brazil has been bamboozled into blowing $13bn on next year's football World Cup, and then on a similar sum to be later extorted by the International Olympic Committee to host the 2016 Games. Brazil's leftwing leader, Dilma Rousseff, was bequeathed the games by her populist...

Federal authorizes seized 14 7-Eleven stores in New York and Virginia, and indicted nine owners and managers, charging them with stealing identities and exploiting more than 50 illegal immigrants. Farrukh and Bushra Baig, a married couple who owned or managed a dozen of the convenience stores...