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While honouring Second World War veterans Monday, a Calgary MP angered other ex-warriors by saying they’re all happy with how they’re being treated by Ottawa. Calgary-Centre CON MP Joan Crockatt helped hand out certificates and pins to seven Second World War and Korean War vets at the...

After being questioned by an investigator from the Quebec Ministry of Employment and Social Solidarity (MESS), the woman allegedly received a letter asking her to repay $25,738 in income that she’d made by begging near the Berri-UQAM metro station over the past 10 years. According to a report...

To date, 130 states have signed the ATT, with 60 having ratified it. These include major arms exporters such as France, the UK and Germany. This treaty aims to set the highest possible standards for cross-border transfers of arms and ammunition and to cut off the supply of weapons to...

Changes to the Canadian federal government's Copyright Modernization Act, also known as Bill C-11, will legally require ISPs to contact customers suspected of illegally downloading on behalf of the copyright holder as of January 1st. Here's how the new regulation will be implimented: 1...

During the PC leadership campaign, Premier Jim Prentice said he would not support tuition hikes as high as the U of A’s 56 per cent proposal and suggested the province review and simplify market modifiers to make the process more transparent. On Monday, the provincial government announced it...

Falkland Islands introduces support testimonial after army deal in between Russia as well as Argentina The aircraft, which Moscow will swap for beef and wheat, would be able to place air patrols over Port Stanley. Ministry of Protection authorities are afraid Buenos Aires would take delivery...

The British government is preparing to pay back billions in interest bearing bonds from the 18th and 19th century. Share prices went through the roof, speculation ran wild and money poured into ill-fated ventures before the boom turned, inevitably and catastrophically, to bust. After...

The Yukon government has cancelled interviews with both Whitehorse newspapers within the past week. In two separate incidents, officials took the step because they didn't like the treatment they were getting. On Monday Justice department officials cancelled an interview with the Yukon...

"[The man] had no shirt on. He started stabbing himself and going up and down the aisles screaming and ranting," said Simning Drennan said when the officers entered the Safeway, they saw a man with a knife who was repeatedly stabbing himself. "They started talking to him, issuing commands...

They belonged to a French businessman named Roger Baillon. He amassed a fantastic car collection through the Fifties and Sixties, but then he started to go bust and only managed to sell a few while he couldn't maintain the rest anymore. It has to be noted that many of these cars are extremely...

An OECD study reported in the Globe shows that Canada has dropped out of the top ten in research and development spending and now ranks 12th. While we de-industrialize and fall back on raw resource exports, previously underdeveloped countries -- Taiwan, India and Brazil -- are now outspending us...

Fewer and fewer Americans are getting overtime pay, and it's not because they're not working overtime. Rather, the rules that determine who gets overtime if they work more than 40 hours a week have become outdated. Salaried workers are only eligible for overtime pay if they earn less than $455 a...

The northernmost part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known as the Copper Country, after its thriving copper mines which led the world in production at the turn into the 20th century. While the mines wallowed in profits, workers – mostly recent immigrants – made a few dollars a day and had few...

Listening to the radio via the www whilst sitting here and on the news she say's the Pope is praying for everything but he hopes that "the wealthy will start caring about their fellow man".....

A home invasion in southwestern New Brunswick ended up with one person shot and four people facing charges. The St. Stephen RCMP were called to a house in Honeydale after the homeowner was assaulted. The police say the alleged assailant was shot in the leg and a vehicle was also shot in the...

Genentech pays doctors to prescribe its newer more expensive drug, which costs $2,000/dose vs. older, cheaper, equally-effective drug Avastin / $50/dose. When the drug maker Genentech introduced a major product in 2006, it found itself in an awkward position: persuading eye doctors to start...

Google CEO Larry Page has an unusual idea about what should happen to his billions should he die. Instead of giving it to a philanthropic organization, he'd rather hand over his cash to Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity. In a conversation with Charlie Rose at a TED...

Who sounds like he had sprung from the bowels of bigoted America. A law professor named an Ontario judge this week wrote two years ago for a conservative, U.S.-based institute that the legalization of same-sex marriage in Canada has harmed religious freedom and free speech, and led to the...

A Muslim family in Lewisville didn’t realize their religious flag was causing a stir - not until people started coming by to take pictures, and a journalist from a local TV station came to their house. To many Americans, the sight of a black flag with Arabic writing on it invokes an association...