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Perhaps no single person has had a bigger impact on the Great Lakes as we know them than Howard Tanner. Born on Sept. 4, 1923, the son of a grocer in northern Michigan started fishing on Sunday mornings with his father at age 5. The two chased brook trout near the railroad tracks along the...

Ottawa has quietly paid EI sickness benefits to some women who fell ill during maternity leave while continuing to fight a multi-million-dollar class action lawsuit against others, the Star has learned. Calgary mother Carissa Kasbohm, 30, who developed a serious blood illness while on...

Fifteen Indians lost their sight after a doctor used suspected infected equipment to remove cataracts at a free eye surgery camp, the latest incident to highlight the dangers of shoddy medical treatment in the country. India has the world's largest number of blind people and cataracts are one...

Monika Dutt makes the case for a national pharmacare program. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2014/12/Affordable_Access_to_Medicines.pdf And the Institute for Research in Public Policy concludes that in the absence of a...

American who helped craft Uganda’s ‘Kill the Gays’ bill to be tried for crimes against humanity The First Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Pastor Scott Lively’s petition to have a crimes against humanity lawsuit against him dropped. The anti-gay pastor will stand trial in a federal...

CBC News reports (link is external) on the continued growth of food bank use in Saskatchewan - a fact which seems to be entirely in keeping with Brad Wall's plans (link is external). And Will Chabun reports (link is external) on a new CCPA/Parkland Institute study (link is external) showing...

It would be hard to invent a more destructive ritual of national self-punishment. Year after year, we hand oil companies gigantic tracts of pristine land. They skin them of entire ecosystems. They vacuum billions of dollars out of the country. Their oversized power, sunk into lobbying and...

James Lewis Smithson was a Briton who died in Italy in 1829, at the age of 75. Six years later, the primary beneficiary of Smithson’s will died, and urgent letters were sent Washington, D.C. It emerged that Smithson’s estate, worth an estimated £100,000, had devolved “to the United States of...

British workers suffered the biggest drop in real wages of all major G20 countries in the three years to 2013, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Labour said the report underlined why the government has been unable to get the deficit down. Chris Leslie the shadow...

Seven countries have imposed trade restrictions on Canadian poultry as a fifth farm in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley was put under quarantine for avian influenza, officials said Saturday. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said that more than 140,000 turkeys and chickens from the affected...

Yesterday, a man in an SUV who'd been making online and in-person threats against the Muslim community ran down and killed a 15-year-old boy getting into the family car outside a mosque in Kansas City, Mo. At the end of last month a man with ties to extremist Christian groups and opposed to...

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Evidence of Early Metalworking in Arctic Canada The Viking-age Norse established settlements on the southwestern coast of Greenland about A.D. 1000, and these continued to be occupied until the early 15th century. Although less than 400 km separated the Norse Greenlandic colonies from the...

Raids against Islamic State are being conducted from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus "with broken jets and tired and fed-up people", BBC Newsnight has been told. In a letter, a serviceman said the base was being neglected, morale was poor and ground crews had taken to eating humanitarian rations...

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Apparently they 'muddy the water' by counting blood donations along with financial donations they get from citizens to give the impression that they aren't spending much on admin costs...... The American Red Cross regularly touts how responsible it is with donors' money. "We're very proud of...

The poodle speaks............. Politicians are not well paid compared with leaders in the private sector, Tony Blair has warned. Better salaries would improve the "gene pool" of political leaders, he wrote in an article in the New York Times. The former Labour prime minister...

TEMPE, Ariz. -- The uproar over police and the use of deadly force has caused the Tempe Police Department to cancel Saturday's "Run From The Cops" 5K. The third annual race was scheduled for Saturday morning at Tempe Town Lake. The name of the race is a play on words. Runners would have...