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recommendations. Jeffrey Sachs points out (link is external) that Bernie Sanders' economic policy prescriptions are exactly what the U.S. in particular needs in order to offer a more secure life for the population as a whole: The United States unleashed the power of CEOs to enrich...

Clear Channel Communications, now known as iHeart Media sent out a list of songs to their stations to be removed from playlists in the aftermath of the attacks. A few of the 165 songs on that list were John Lennon’s Imagine, a song about peace and love; Black Sabbath’s War Pigs, an...

comment. A brouhaha over comments made about Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne in the Alberta legislature continued to escalate Friday with the Opposition Wildrose party suspending the MLA who made them. But by late Friday, Wildrose Leader Brian Jean issued a terse, short news release saying...

@BernieSanders: Game on. I look forward to debating Donald Trump in California before the June 7 primary. https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/735689625407131648 Here is the Kimmel interview with Trump https://youtu.be/b9PNE4BMluk?t=11m40s www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXuBJvzeC1Q

LONDON - The following article is taken from Akaash Maharaj's letter to Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom. Dear Prime Minister Cameron, We are writing on behalf of parliamentarians from around the world and from across Britain's political parties, to make a common appeal to...

If you want to be a serial killer, then being a long-haul trucker is an excellent career choice, according to the FBI. In a recent blog post and accompanying video about the Highway Serial Killings (HSK) initiative, the nation's top law enforcement agency noted: "If there is such a thing as an...

The Liberal Party’s leadership should withdraw the proposed new party constitution because it was put together without adequate “member consultation and engagement,” and a significant number of delegates will oppose it on the convention floor which could make this week’s biennial policy...

Newly unearthed documents suggest Ontario’s Liberal government could have saved hydro customers $1.5 billion by terminating an agreement with Samsung, but decided against it. The papers, uncovered by Progressive Conservative Finance Critic Vic Fedeli, relate to the 2009 Samsung green energy...

Every Friday, just yards from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm aloft in a cheery wave, hundreds of young bearded men make a show of kneeling to pray on the sidewalk outside an improvised mosque in a former furniture store. The mosque is one of scores built here with Saudi government money and...

Grassroots Conservatives in Canada are angry at their party. They're angry at the way their party lost last fall's election. They're angry that former leader Stephen Harper abused the power of the leader's office. They're even angry that millions of dollars they donated were wasted on a...

The Harper government failed, over years, to live up to its constitutional obligations to fill vacancies on the bench, with perverse negligence for a party that claimed to be all about law and order. Yet the new Trudeau government hasn’t fixed the problem the Conservatives created. Since taking...

An Edmonton woman who once told an employee "if you can stand, you can work" has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for exploiting more than 70 foreign workers. Jennilyn Morris is the first person in Alberta to be charged and convicted under the Immigration and Refugee Protection...

Worlds largest cruise ship launches According to its owners, Royal Caribbean, each of the Harmony’s three four-storey high 16-cylinder Wärtsilä engines will, at full power, burn 1,377 US gallons of fuel an hour, or about 96,000 gallons a day of some of the most polluting diesel fuel in the...

With the loaded pistol in his hand, he felt the events of the previous year sweeping over him, flooding him with grief. Named and shamed — in his estimation — by his own party as the culprit in the notorious 2011 election robocalls scandal, named in court documents, his religious beliefs shaken...

it wasn't all so long ago there were no cell phones. Just how important is everyone's issues that we have to do this......? Ontario is considering the idea of putting signs on highways to alert drivers about upcoming areas where they can safely pull over to text or check their emails. All...

Wow...made it to 96.... Alan Young, who gamely played straight man to a talking horse for five years in classic sitcom “Mr. Ed,” died Thursday at the Motion Picture and Television Home in Woodland Hills, Calif. He was 96. On the series, which ran from 1961-66 on CBS, Young played architect...

How could the Tesla car company, symbol of forward-thinking, wealth and techie cool have people from Eastern Europe working at their Bay Area factory making $5 an hour?! That’s right, over a hundred people were brought to Tesla’s Fremont, California plant from places like Slovenia and Croatia...

The Business Standard News has learned that Rightwing commentator Ann Coulter has been arrested by a security officer for trying to use a women’s bathroom in Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina is facing widespread criticism and a federal lawsuit for instituting a law that would force transgender...

The era of sprawling suburban build-out across much of the GTA might finally be over. With 3.5 million people set to move into the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area over the next 25 years, the province is promising sweeping changes to manage smart growth and curb urban sprawl that’s crippling...

In yet another example of the social democratic scourge of evidence-based decision-making, Alberta’s New Democratic Party Government is bringing in legislation that will result in the people who run government-financed agencies, boards and commissions being paid based on what they’re actually...