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They should be shut down......... The Catholic Archbishop of Ottawa is calling on followers of the faith to “repent” and seek forgiveness for how the church mistreated thousands of aboriginal children in residential schools for many decades. The message is contained in a pastoral letter...

"apologies do not constitute an admission of fault" Apology Act, 2009, S.O. 2009, c. 3 | Ontario.ca

Sen. Bernie Sanders fired back at 80 CEOs who wrote a letter lecturing America about deficit reduction by released a report detailing how 18 of these CEOs have wrecked the economy by evading taxes and outsourcing jobs. 80 CEO’s raised the ire of Sen. Sanders by publishing a letter in the Wall...

Police in New York are investigating an alleged hate crime after an African American family received an anonymous note asking them to leave the town where they live. The Copes were asked to leave Lindenhurst on Long Island, which the letter claims is “84 per cent white”. “Attn...

As if one wasn’t already far too many, there’s a new Dimitri the Lover in town. Dimitri, of course, is James Sears, the man whose unsavoury history is well-documented and whose distressing voicemail messages to a woman recently made him the deserved subject of worldwide ridicule. In spite of...

KITCHENER, ON, May 22, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ - Dozens of correctional officers working in Ontario penitentiaries who are affiliated with the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers (UCCO-SACC-CSN) will be going door to door in the riding of Kitchener-Centre on Saturday, May 23, to urge voters not to...

In a widely-reported study of orchestrated deception, the Center found that President Bush and seven top officials made 935 false statements leading up to the Iraq war — and offer them in a database for all to see. Search 380,000 words of every public pronouncement by top Bush administration...

at preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, which might have forced Israel to reveal whether or not it has nuclear weapons Israel is not a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has never publicly declared what is widely considered to be an extensive...

A room devoted to the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike will be excluded from the renovated Canadian Museum of History A room devoted to the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike will be excluded from the renovated Canadian Museum of History, but officials promise the labour movement will still have a...

It was feared that the seven-year-old boy's mother, a Jehovah’s Witness, was causing him emotional harm by 'immersing' him in her beliefs A devout mother made a legally binding promise, backed up with the threat of criminal sanctions, never to talk to her son about her religion, take...

I n 2022, Qatar will host the World Cup. The host city has already made some waves with its stadium shaped like a certain body part. But what you might not know is that, since 2012, about 900 workers have died while working on infrastructure in Qatar, in a building boom anticipating the World...

The recently outed anti-gay pastor Matthew Makela is coming under fire not just for his hypocrisy but, according to the mother of one of his parishioners, he encouraged her gay son that since he was going to hell anyway, he might as well kill himself. After Queerty reported earlier this week...

A Filipino-born mother is facing some tough decisions now that the Immigration Department decided not to allow her to bring her daughter to Canada. Karen Talosig came to Canada seven years ago in search of a better life and to support her daughter back in the Philippines. She has been trying...

The Gambia's Foreign Minister Neneh MacDouall-Gaye, a Gambian who lived in the US until her appointment in January, said at an EU event this weekend that the country's government would observe international laws, but would continue to protect religious beliefs and traditions. "If you read in...

The practice of starting Mississauga city council meetings with the Lord's Prayer will end on Wednesday. Council recently passed a motion to stop opening meetings with the prayer and has decided to observe 30 seconds of silence instead. The motion passed unanimously. Mayor Bonnie Crombie...

When the sad time came to say good-bye to her late husband, Marie Diane Dodd knew a traditional service in a church wasn't the right fit. So she arranged a ceremony at the family's lakeside summer home outside Ottawa. It featured John's favourite memories and music, including a guitar riff by...

Conservatives turn down traditional TV debates for leaders “We quibbled over format, we quibbled over set design, we quibbled over timing,” explained spokesperson Kory Teneycke, a co-founder of the now defunct Sun News, in announcing that the Prime Minister would not participate in any...

With just five days to go before Ireland’s historic referendum on the legalisation of gay marriage, a bitter row has broken out between supporters and opponents over the funding of their respective campaigns. Supporters of a yes vote have accused opponents of a lack of transparency over finances...

More people have died from atomic wedgies than from overdosing on marijuana http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/05/oklahoma_man_who_killed_stepda.html

The Ottawa Senators made a desperate and unusual public plea Thursday for a donor willing to give a part of his or her liver to save the life of the team’s owner. Eugene Melnyk, who was noticeably absent from the Senators’ recent first-round NHL playoff run, is in a Toronto hospital in urgent...