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Premier Rachel Notley is promising that South African firefighters who stopped working in a fight over their pay level will be compensated in accordance with Alberta labour laws. Notley said Thursday the Alberta government had thought the contract negotiated with the firefighters to help battle...

We have a huge opportunity to end data caps Canadians are getting a bad deal when it comes to data caps. On home Internet, data caps are rare outside Canada.1,2 On wireless, other countries experience much better deals than us. Big Telecom have been using caps to rip off Canadians for years...

Two lovers accused of plotting to kill their spouses in Saskatchewan have been found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder. The jury in Prince Albert took close to 30 hours before convicting Curtis Vey and Angela Nicholson on Sunday. Crown prosecutor Lori O'Connor had argued that the pair...

Viewers who tuned into last night’s CMT Music Awards were left wondering whether or not they were watching a country music award show. The fan-voted show kicked off with a number of collaborative performances featuring country stars and others outside the genre, from rockers Cheap Trick to...

The 2016 election has been a wild ride, with two insurgent grassroots campaigns literally giving the political establishment a run for its money. But as the events of this presidential primary season play out, it’s becoming clear the U.S. election — and even more so, the presidential race — is a...

Danish politicians will now limit the number of the Queen’s grandchildren who are entitled to a salary from the state: bad news for the eight grandchildren of Margrethe II, good news for anyone who believes in basic common sense. How does this compare to the financial situation vis-a-vis royals...

2 kilograms Average price is $10.00 a gram but special orders and auctions can cost upwards of $65/gram! Well crap, the picture won't post.

The Liberal government has quietly reversed a controversial policy that saw opposition MPs barred from most military bases, continuing a trend of opening up the Canadian Armed Forces to increased public and parliamentary scrutiny. The base-visit policy came to light in September 2014, after...

from Lake Michigan, a move Ontario cottagers fear could signal the beginning of the end of the Great Lakes. “Despite the fact they look like large bodies of water, they don’t replenish easily.” Since 2005, Canada and the U.S. have created joint and independent bodies to protect Great Lakes...

For the past three decades, the US and Great Britain have led the global drive to undermine labor’s advances. First, the economic structure sustaining labor organizations were dismantled and fragmented. Then organized labor was decimated, co-opted and corporatized. What does it mean when...

With the arrival of Justin Trudeau and his new government this past year, Canadians seem to be caught in some ambivalence about populism. Trudeau may be popular, but he’s not populist. No Canadian would confuse him with Mr. Everyman, even if he held some ordinary jobs in his past...

Jonathan Pitre will travel to Minnesota this summer to begin a blood and marrow transplant in a perilous, last-ditch bid to halt the advance of his blistering skin disease. Pitre will become the first Canadian to take part in an ongoing clinical trial operated by the University of Minnesota’s...

A South Florida district judge ruled on Wednesday that Chiquita executives’ decision to back the AUC showed that “profits took priority over basic human welfare.” The judge also rejected the company’s claims that the issue should be resolved in Colombian courts, given that victims’ families have...

A sensible person could easily reach the conclusion a carbon levy is a good thing that will benefit society or a bad thing that won’t. There’s room for a lively discussion about these differing propositions. But how does a sensible person come to the conclusion a modest new tax is the...

Police in London, Ont., are being forced to defend decals on patrol cars that have the word "police" written in a number of different languages, including Arabic, which is the one that has angered some people. Although the decals have been on London Police Service cruisers for at least nine...

son involved with white supremacist groups. "He is continuing to fall further away into a direction and into a place where he will become more radicalized and violent," the man's father told Radio-Canada. The family say they reached out to a Quebec government-funded deradicalization centre in...

Pearson never told anyone — his fans, his conservative Christian family, his wife — that he was gay. Until now. I was scared of what God would think and what all of these people I loved would think about me,” the 35-year-old singer wrote in a letter to his fans that was first published by...

Pricey cellphone plans in many Canadian provinces appear to be driving consumers toward a booming black market business. At last search, online ad site Kijiji in Toronto was crawling with advertisements for a bargain Koodo or Fido phone plan — just $48 a month for unlimited Canada-wide calling...

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said the province is facing a $1 billion shortfall in resource revenue. Wall made the comment in the legislature Monday while defending cuts to heritage language schools as part of a review of all spending. Saskatchewan facing $1B resource revenue shortfall, says...

Half of the Iwo Jima flag raisers were killed a few weeks after the picture was taken, one by friendly fire. The other half stuggled with PTSD for the rest of their lives. One was fired from a job on Memorial Day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima