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THE IMF has held up its hands and admitted it got it wrong when calculating the effects of austerity in Ireland. The organisation said that it completely underestimated how the Irish economy would perform under strict spending rules. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in an academic...

Questions about the handling of the original list reached a near frenzy in Athens last week as two former finance ministers were pressed to explain why the government appeared to have taken no action on the list. The subject has touched a nerve among average Greeks at a time when the Parliament...

Richard Herman, 53, was so fed up with the unwanted calls arriving from India, he decided to take matters into his own hands. He warned the company that, in future, he would invoice them £10 for every minute of his time they used. When the calls continued he began recording them before finally...

Parliament should look into how to raise the level of online discourse by making anonymous commenters identify themselves, according to Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro. “While I believe firmly that the right to free speech must be strongly defended and protected, I also believe it should be...

VIENNA/AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - International election monitors took a dim view on Wednesday of Texas' threat to prosecute them if they observe voting in the state a bit too closely on November 6. The exchange pitted the Vienna-based human rights watchdog Organization for Security and...

The story goes like this: Staples founder Tom Stemberg was in the midst of a nasty divorce with his wife Maureen Stemberg Sullivan. Romney, a friend of Stemberg’s who invested in his company, testified in court that Staples was not worth very much. Staple’s stock was “overvalued,” Romney said in...

‘Greedy’ U.S. billionaire urges Michigan voters to reject free bridge to Canada Of course I'm not sure who decided that Candians should pay for it..... ‘Greedy’ U.S. billionaire urges Michigan voters to reject free bridge to Canada | Canada | News | National Post

Draft will be presented to the UN with aim of creating int'l law The Qatari Justice Minister is designing a law that would ban attacks on or offenses to religion. The ultimate goal of the initiative is to create an international law with the help of the United Nations. News of the...

Confidential federal research on free-trade talks with Europe shows that giving the European Union just one part of what it wants on drug patents would cost Canadians up to $2 billion a year. The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has always insisted it’s a "myth" that the...

Despite this high number of Canadian wanting to retain our resources for Canadians, now and in the future, it appears the Harperites don't care. So what could possibly motivate some politicians to sell Canadians out? more The Tyee – China Trade Deal a '31-Year Ball and Chain' on...

A ketchup counterfeiting operation in New Jersey is making consumers think twice about what they're putting on their food. Officials discovered the fake ketchup factory after tenants complained about flies and rotten odors coming from another part of the 7,000-square-foot warehouse in Dover...

Workplace computers contain so much personal information nowadays that employees have a legitimate expectation of privacy in using them, the Supreme Court of Canada said in a major ruling Friday. Supreme Court rules employees have right to privacy on work computers - The Globe and Mail

Up to 2,000 Chinese miners on their way to British Columbia to fill jobs Canadians can't do safely An initial group of 200 Chinese citizens will begin to arrive in British Columbia in coming weeks to work at new mines in the western Canadian province. The full time workers – whose number...

Italy’s Catholic Church will be forced to pay taxes starting in 2013 after the EU pressured the country’s government to pass a controversial law stripping the Church of its historic property tax exemption. ­The Catholic Church in Italy is excluded from paying taxes on its land if at least a...

Strikers have returned to work with their heads held high and their wallets full at Walmart’s largest North American distribution center. Warehouse workers in Elwood, Illinois, announced Saturday that they had won their key demand, reinstatement of all who were fired or suspended for on-the-job...

Cancer will never be cured. There's too much money in the medicine............. AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — At least seven more scientists have resigned in protest from Texas’ embattled $3 billion cancer-fighting program, claiming that the agency in charge of it is charting a “politically driven”...

[Editor's note: The Tyee sent veteran energy issues journalist Mitchell Anderson to Norway to learn how it amassed a $600 billion oil savings fund for its population of under 5 million, a stark contrast to Canada.] How did Norwegians get so petro-smart? These benefits include free...

Canadian-Owned Firm Gives $1 Million to Romney Super-PAC, Raising Red Flags Foreigners aren't allowed make campaign donations. But post-Citizens United, the rules have gotten hazy. Restore Our Future, the super-PAC supporting Republican Mitt Romney's run for president, received a $1...

This week is Banned Books Week, designed for people to read and celebrate those books and authors once deemed too offensive for a reader’s pysche, and remember that there are still people and organizations that try to keep books out of other people’s hands. (Here’s a list of the 10 Most...

Focus on the Family's "Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America," written in 2008, goes 0.5-for-34 on its predictions. In 2008 prominent Christian Right group Focus on the Family put out a sixteen page document called “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America.” The document was in the form of a...