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Pierrefonds resident Michael Reilley says two Montreal police officers abused their power by fining him $162 after he stopped them for making an illegal left turn. The incident occurred Saturday morning when Reilley was driving south down Victoria Avenue just past Côte-Ste-Catherine Road...

Whichever religious function the parents participate in they shouldn't be taking their kids there until the kids are old enough to decide if they want to participate in such functions. There is a lot of sorrow sowed, in many different ways, by people attempting to indoctrinate their...

A massive toxic algae called red tide is killing sea turtles, sharks and fish in the northeast Gulf of Mexico and is threatening the waters and beaches that fuel Florida's economy. Fishermen who make a living off Florida's coast are reporting fish kills and reddish water. This particular...

Anomabo residents defecate along beaches to pacify gods About 70 yards from the landing beach, there is a modern 10-seater water closet facility constructed for the fisher folk by the Mfantsiman Municipal Assembly. But they are not interested. And why should they be? Their gods would be...

The National Labor Relations Board has ordered CNN to rehire 100 workers and compensate 200 others for a labor dispute that originated in 2003. The 11-year dispute stems from CNN’s decision to replace a unionized subcontractor called Team Video Services, which provided the network with audio...

Do you leave a tip in your hotel room for the maid? Marriott is launching a program with Maria Shriver to put envelopes in hotel rooms to encourage tipping. The campaign, called “The Envelope Please,” begins this week. Envelopes will be placed in 160,000 rooms in the U.S. and Canada. Some...

He doesn't even pretend to care about pollution as evidenced once again by his boycotting of the UN meet on Sept 23. He's selling Canadian resources out to foreigners that at one time he didn't agree with at all, and yet those foreigners haven't changed their ways. "'I think Canadians want...

I have been at peoples homes who have cable and all of the American channels seem to feature goober shows like Gator Hunting or Duck calls or Tow truck rescues and other junk. No American channels would be acceptable........ Rogers slams CRTC proposal to strip U.S. channels from basic...

Article 347 of the Cameroon Penal Code punishes “sexual relations with a person of the same sex,” with sentences of prison terms as long as five years in addition to fines. According to Michel Togue, a Cameroonian attorney who has defended many people accused of homosexuality, gay and lesbian...

Mix and match platform promises and see which party most closely reflects your values Click each election issue to see party platforms. Drag the platform points you feel are most relevant from the column on the left to the column on the right. Click the Reveal button to...

It was presaged by much U.S. citizens had no idea about at the time, such as President Nixon's earlier dictum to "Make the [Chilean] economy scream" to weaken the elected socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende, and stir opposition to him and his policies. Here is the CIA's version...

A majority of the Palin family — Sarah, Todd, Bristol, and Track — was allegedly involved in a booze-filled brawl over the weekend in which the former vice presidential candidate reportedly screamed, “Don’t you know who I am?” According to reports from local bloggers, the Palin crew showed up...

The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing Costco for creating a sexually hostile work environment after management allegedly told a female employee to “be friendly” to the man who was stalking her. According to the complaint, one of the “member-customers” of the...

Sam Sotiropoulos is a member of the Toronto School Board who has particularly negative views on LGBT people, which he expresses openly on Twitter. When asked to address those comments by a Global News reporter, however, Sotiropoulos avoided stating his own opinion, denied the existence of tweets...

A group of Australian solar power experts known as the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium, which includes scientists from the CSIRO, the University of Melbourne and Monash University, have been working on printable solar cells over the past seven years. And they’re finally just about...

. Kiel died at Saint Agnes medical centre in Fresno, California, the hospital confirmed without giving further details, citing patient confidentiality. TMZ said the towering 7ft 2in (218cm) character actor died a week after breaking his leg – it was not immediately known if the death was...

This is not your ordinary bad press. In fact, this isn’t even just heathens like me being unfamiliar with the Traditional Christian Ways of the especially holy. This is a dude who told a congregant to apologize to her abusive husband for “failing to bend to his will” by getting on her knees...