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Paganism is the original religion of this land A full time pagan priest wants the theft of a statue of the Irish God of the Sea Manannán Mac Lír to be treated as a hate crime. Patrick Carberry, who says he left his job as a chef to become a full time “Traditional Celtic Shamanic priest”...

You can read more about why the long-form census is important here and here. Your MP's email address can be found here. Just send them a quick email saying something about how the long-form census is important to you because we need good information that isn't subject to non-response error...

US President Barack Obama plans to close a tax loophole that allows US firms to avoid paying taxes on overseas profits, the White House says. His 2016 budget will impose a one-off 14% tax on US profits stashed overseas, as well as a 19% tax on any future profits as they are earned. The...

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are eating up the middle. There is increasingly little room for Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats there. In Whitby-Oshawa, the NDP picked up only 8 per cent of the vote — down from 22 per cent in 2011. The Liberals, meanwhile, raised their vote share in that...

Ontario’s Liberal government has an almost pathological desire to involve the private sector in public business. When awarding contracts for new power plants, it has favoured private electricity firms over publicly owned Ontario Power Generation. It insists that large-scale public...

A Vancouver businessman has been paid millions of dollars in a secret settlement with the federal government after the Canada Border Services Agency wrongly accused him of exporting military technology to China in violation of export controls, a W5 investigation reveals. The payout to Steve de...

Controversial imam Hamza Chaoui will be denied a permit to establish his Islamic community centre in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, a borough in Montreal's east end. Chaoui is a Moroccan-born imam in Montreal with controversial views on sharia law and ties to suspected radicals. Borough...

The government says more than 2 million Toyota, Chrysler and Honda vehicles need a second fix for air bags that may inadvertently inflate while the car is running. The recall includes some Acura MDX, Dodge Viper, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Honda Odyssey, Pontiac Vibe, Toyota Corolla and Toyota...

Tens of thousands marched in the Spanish capital Madrid Saturday in a major show of support for fledgling leftist anti-austerity party Podemos, whose surging popularity and policies have drawn comparisons with Greece’s new Syriza rulers. Crowds chanted “yes we can” and “tic tac tic tac”...

An international coalition has launched a campaign to abolish blasphemy laws worldwide. The End Blasphemy Laws campaign has called on the international community “to look on blasphemy laws as they might look on laws restricting press freedom”. It is believed the campaign is the first ever to...

China’s education minister has vowed to ban university textbooks which promote “western values”, state media said, in the latest sign of ideological tightening under President Xi Jinping. “Never let textbooks promoting western values appear in our classes,” minister Yuan Guiren said, according...

When Julia Spiegelman and Erina Donnelly, two teachers who met as undergraduates at Bryn Mawr, became engaged, they were looking forward to planning a wedding that included elements from both of their religions. Ms. Spiegelman grew up attending a Reform synagogue in Andover, Mass., and Ms...

Toronto has been ranked the best city to live in the world by the Economist. The ranking aggregates Toronto's performance across a range of indexes, which include safety, livability and cost of living. National level rankings like the Economist's Democracy and Global Food Security Index were...

Regina city council voted to deny an application for a bar that would feature exotic dancers following an intense presentation of opinions from concerned groups and citizens Monday night A packed city council gallery erupted with a standing ovation in response to the decision. Most delegations...

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Families with income more than $233,000 a year stand to gain most under the Conservative government’s controversial income-splitting tax break, a new study of the costly program has found. “The richest families are most likely to make at least $1,000 from the new policy,” says the...

A mother who used a hot clothes iron to punish a child for raiding the family fridge lost her bid Tuesday for a lower sentence. In upholding the 20-month jail term handed the Toronto resident, who can’t be identified, Ontario’s top court said it saw no reason to interfere. Court records show...

Multiple sources tell CANADALAND that Sun News Network (SNN), the Quebecor-owned cable news channel that launched in 2011, is on the verge of closing. This follows a December report by James Bradshaw in the Globe and Mail that Moses Znaimer, the media entrepreneur who runs ZoomerMedia Ltd...

An average of 15 cases were discovered each day in November, according to data published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). Last November 466 cases of FGM were identified; while in October, the first month such figures were compiled, 455 cases were reported. The figures...

How did he manage to say that with a straight face? Guess he hasn't checked the CIA Files .......... The military option is out, President Barack Obama said Sunday, but the U.S. will be looking at all other options to "ratchet up the pressure on Russia" on the issue of Ukraine...