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Legislation Preventing Employers From Asking for Facebook Passwords Defeated A last-minute proposed amendment to the Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act that would have made it illegal for employers or the federal government to ask for employees' or prospective employees' Facebook...

Most Ph.D. students spend their days reading esoteric books and stressing out about the tenure-track job market. Thomas Herndon, a 28-year-old economics grad student at UMass Amherst, just used part of his spring semester to shake the intellectual foundation of the global austerity movement...

We are extremely disappointed with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision to end support for the Health Council of Canada....Everyone in this country should be deeply concerned because the federal government is distancing itself from the health and health care of Canadians. Or take it from my...

I guess it would be to simplistic to suggest that if the Mexican wages were better that would cause a lot of them to stop migrating north and possibly cause some to return........ It is no secret that the wage gap between Mexico and China has been narrowing in recent years. While labour...

Dozens of employees at Canada’s largest bank are losing their jobs to temporary foreign workers, who are in Canada to take over the work of their department. “They are being brought in from India, and I am wondering how they got work visas,” said Dave Moreau, one of the employees affected by...

After much ponderous thought I must say the direction that Mr Harper and the Conservatives are moving Canada in are unprecedented and of the best value for Canada to progress to the worlds zenith of quality living for all it's citizens........... April Fools Day Comes But Once A...

Isn't America generous? It spent trillions of dollars to make Iran the dominant power in the region and to allow China to stitch up Iraq's oil reserves And now, a decade later, Iraq is on the verge of becoming the world's second-largest oil producer. Oh boy, all those years of war and...

Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman on Thursday announced he has reversed his longtime opposition to same-sex marriage after reconsidering the issue because his 21-year-old son, Will, is gay. Portman said he decided to announce his change of heart on Thursday because he anticipates getting...

These shocking photos show how the bodies of seven men were found on plastic chairs in Mexico having been shot in the head, with threat messages nailed to some of their chests using ice picks. A placard on one of the bodies, which were found early yesterday morning in Uruapan, Michoacan...

The government is characterizing its Bill C-56 as an anti-counterfeiting bill, yet this week NDP MP Charmaine Borg framed it more accurately as "ACTA through the backdoor." During Question Period on Monday, Borg asked Industry Minister Christian Paradis directly if the bill paves the way for...

Canadian federal research deal 'potentially muzzles' U.S. scientists The Canadian government is requiring foreign researchers who collaborate with federal scientists to sign agreements that could potentially muzzle them, a U.S. scientist says. Andreas Muenchow, a physical oceanographer at...

Events of the past week have demonstrated what the limits of responsibility are in the Harper government. Violating the ministerial code of conduct is fine — Jim Flaherty’s letter to the CRTC, for instance. Expensing a $16 glass of orange juice — okay, too. Bilking tens of thousands of dollars...

Prohibition took another strange turn this week when it was reported that RCMP officers in Alberta have started to strap on snowboards and patrol the Lake Louise and Nakiska ski resorts in an effort to deter “substance abuse”. http://drugpolicy.ca/2013/02/canadas-war-on-pot-just-got-weirder/

They are claiming it's to build latrines etc., because they don't want to tell the truth or they wouldn't get the funding. They will get into these villages and 'rat out' the gays to the Uganda Authorities with taxpayers money........... An evangelical organization that describes...

“The government has given away land that is not theirs to give, and we have a duty to protect it. Where there is industrial mining, the rivers die and we lose our way of life. They want us to give up our traditions, work in the mines, and let them pollute our land. But we will give our lives to...

An increasingly problematic aspect of free trade agreements (FTAs) is the inclusion of investor-state provisions that essentially allow companies -- typically huge multinationals -- to challenge the policies of signatory governments directly. The initial impulse behind these was to offer...

No word on who alerted the media to this tards situation but here it is........... A Clarksville man said that he quit his job last week in order to save his soul. Walter Slonopas, 52, resigned as a maintenance worker at Contech Casting LLC in Clarksville after his W-2 tax form was...

On Friday February 1st, the Federal Court of Canada released a decision granting U.S. war resister Jules Tindungan a new hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB). The Court found errors in the original IRB decision pertaining to issues which are at the heart of asylum claims by...

It was a small group of 25 that arrived in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, but it could be the start of something far bigger for Haiti’s inchoate tourism sector. The group of tourists were the first to have purchased packages to the country through Canadian firm Transat; about 25 passengers...

well of course there's big money involved............. In malpractice case, Catholic hospital argues fetuses aren’t people Lori Stodghill was 31-years old, seven-months pregnant with twin boys and feeling sick when she arrived at St. Thomas More hospital in Cañon City on New Year’s Day...