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The United Steelworkers union is calling on Prime Minster Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne to defend the country’s more than 100,000 steelworkers and pensioners who are threatened by a “deepening steel industry crisis.” Earlier this week, Essar Steel Algoma Inc. filed for...

One of his most successful, and also most controversial raids – fictionalized by Ernest Hemingway in the short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro – was on 25 December 1917. Catching the Germans off guard, he and Lt. Harold Hudson, his wingman, shot up the airfield of Fliegerabteilung (A) 204...

The poll, conducted by Forum Research on Friday evening, shows that 65 per cent of decided and leaning voters pick the Liberals, compared to 21 per cent for the PC Party and just 13 per cent for the New Democrats. During the day Friday, reacting to an earlier poll, PC Party Leader Paul Davis...

Children of same-sex couples will not be able to join the Mormon Church until they turn 18 — and only if they move out of their parents’ homes, disavow all same-sex relationships and receive approval from the church’s top leadership as part of a new policy adopted by the Church of Jesus Christ...

Two people you didn’t realize are still running for president and one you couldn’t forget if you tried to are attending the “National Religious Liberties Conference” (Freedom 2015), a two-day conservative fest that started Friday. Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee, and Ted Cruz are each making...

The Liberal government has taken the gags off federal scientists(link is external). Alain Vezina, regional director of science for the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, confirmed Friday morning that scientists at the institute are allowed to openly speak to media...

Mike McKinnon reported here (link is external) on the glaring gap between what Brad Wall knew about the failings of the Boundary Dam carbon capture and storage project, and the propaganda he spread publicly starting last year. Wall defends silence on Boundary Dam shortcomings | Globalnews.ca...

I did not vote for the liberals and I am concerned for the future of Canada and I'm going to watch and fight them to the best of my ability if I see them going against the Canadian values that I want to continue and improve on so I'm hopeful Boomer and all the others who, for what ever reason...

The text of the Agreement was released by TPP Parties on 5 November 2015. List of Participants in the Negotiations Australia Brunei Darussalam Canada Chile Japan Mexico Malaysia New Zealand Peru Singapore United States of America Viet Nam Treaties and International Law - Treaties for...

Wildrose members, dissatisfied with the Mr. Jean’s underwhelming recent stagecraft in the Legislature and the media, have been muttering about a rebellion, perhaps a prudent decision has been made by his strategists to get the review over with now while there’s still some relief about the...

Downing Street has been ridiculed for digitally adding a remembrance poppy to a photograph of David Cameron that it was using on its Facebook page. No 10 ridiculed after adding poppy to David Cameron Facebook picture | Politics | The Guardian

Six Indonesian provinces have declared a state of emergency. Indonesia along with Singapore and Malaysia have been choking under a thick haze of wildfire smoke caused by the annual burning of land for the production of pulp, paper and palm oil on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and...

Laura McIntyre began educating her nine children more than a decade ago inside a vacant office at an El Paso motorcycle dealership she ran with her husband and other relatives. But problems began when the dealership's co-owner and Michael's twin brother, Tracy, reported never seeing the...

Alberta’s Wildrose Opposition is gearing up for a battle over its objection to the NDP government’s proposal to convene the legislature at 9 a.m. Government house leader Brian Mason said the province wants to extend sitting hours to begin at 10 a.m. Tuesdays and 9 a.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays...

A legal opinion shows that Bill 179, the Private MRI Facilities Licensing Act, violates the Canada Health Act. Bill 179 permits private MRI clinics to charge patients out-of-pocket user fees for MRI services, which will allow patients to jump the queue for diagnosis and treatment. In 2008...

The Reese PBC burger. Yes, a Canadian restaurant chain has introduced a hefty half-pound patty topped with bacon, crispy onion strings and, er, crumbled Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. And that's not all: The burger itself is stuffed with Peanut Butter Cups before it is cooked! The Works...

An Illinois jury awarded $240,000 in damages and back pay to two former truck drivers who claimed religious discrimination when they were fired in 2009 after refusing to make beer delivery. A jury was convened to determine damages after US District Court Judge James E. Shadid ruled in favor of...

An Anglophile who decided he had heard enough from US Republican presidential candidates, wrote the desperate letter to Her Majesty herself. It read: “On behalf of the American people, I urgently implore you to take us back. “Clearly, the options we have to lead us aren’t up to par. Again...