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Calgary removes $559,000 sculpture after realizing it’s basically a giant sun laser that burns through clothing After a sun-singed jacket, some software glitches and more than a year with blue construction fence around a beautification project, city officials have removed a $559,000 art...

A violent drug dealer who hid from police in the basement of his family’s Onoway house for 17 years was finally sent to prison Friday.Since 1995, Benjamin Louis Young had been wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after he abducted and beat a man he believed stole two pounds of marijuana from him...

After spending nearly half a billion dollars on 20 planes to outfit the Afghan Air Force, the Defense Department turned around and scrapped 16 of the aircraft for 6 cents on the pound—just $32,000, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction has learned. SIGAR determined that...

A bank in Florida refused to cash a check for an armless man because he could not provide a thumbprint. "They looked at my prosthetic hands and the teller said, 'Well, obviously you can't give us a thumbprint'," Steve Valdez told CNN on Wednesday. But he said the Bank of America Corp branch in...

Eleven children die in Robert Reid Hospital over the weekend SANTO DOMINGO. Eleven children with different pathologies died over the weekend at the Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital, where the central oxygen system suffered a breakdown and the 2 elevators were out of service, which...

On PBS last night -Oct 08- they had a well done show on this ZMapp and how the Canadian guy came up with it and why it works by using the EBOLA! virus to fight EBOLA!. This is the drug they gave to the 2 Americans brought back with EBOLA! and are supposedly cured............. Video...

Get this: Ting, a mobile service provider based in Canada, can’t sell its services to Canadians because the Big Three (Rogers, Bell, and Telus) are blocking them from operating in their home country. Unfortunately, the Big Three have regulated our mobile phone and Internet market by creating...

Indianapolis veteran is hit by SUV while crossing the street after leaving a VFW. SUV drives away. Man crawls. He is hit by a 2nd SUV and it drives away as well. Man is almost on sidewalk. Man is then hit by truck. Truck drives away. Man is almost dead. Man is hit by car. Car drives...

An 18-year-old from Canada has invented a way to clean up the toxic waste produced from extracting oil from tar sands. Hayley Todesco used knowledge gained from fifth grade science to come up with a filtration system using sand and bacteria to quickly break down the waste. This waste is...

Frequent travelers often carry personal Wi-Fi hotspots — tiny devices that can connect to the Internet via cell phone towers. For $50 a month, they can connect to the Internet on the move, often avoiding hefty fees charged by hotels, airports and conference facilities. Some people upgrade their...

The M3M communications satellite, which was originally to be launched aboard a Russian rocket, will instead blast into orbit from India next July. The announcement that a deal has been signed with India was made at the International Astronautical Congress in Toronto, a few days after Canada...

An Antelope Valley man whose pit bulls mauled a woman to death last year was sentenced Friday to 15 years to life in prison. Alex Donald Jackson -- who had faced 24 years to life in prison -- was found guilty on Aug. 29 of second-degree murder for the death of 63-year-old Pamela Devitt. On...

Transport Ministry cuts ties to border agency after migrant blitz Ontario Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca has cut his ministry’s ties with the Canada Border Services Agency for the foreseeable future. Del Duca spokesperson Patrick Searle said Thursday operational relations with...

On Sunday night, Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill into law that will hold companies responsible when their subcontracted temp agencies endanger or underpay workers. Now, when a subcontracted temp firm rips off a low-wage worker, the company at the top may have to pay a price. The law, known...

Kew Gardens are giving visitors the opportunity to sample mind-altering plants as part of a new season focusing on intoxication and drugs. The Plant Connoissuers’ Club, a workshop which will be run by what Kew Garden calls architectural foodsmiths Bombas & Parr, will give visitors the...

Toronto Police shot and killed a pit bull on Saturday just after 4 p.m. when it attacked a shih tzu and held the small dog down with a “locked-jaw grip,” police said. Police received a call for an “unknown trouble” at a Toronto Community Housing Corp. home at Winchester Street and Rose Avenue...

Woman Who Really Hates Mexican Flag Loses Her Job Over Hatred Of Mexican Flag A Southern California woman is out of a job and facing death threats after she used her cell phone to videotape an encounter with a homeowner over a Mexican flag flying in the homeowner’s front yard — and published...

as the opposition party tries to get answers on Iraq http://globalnews.ca/video/1578828/unreal-exchange-in-house-of-commons-over-canadas-involvement-in-iraq …

Well, you can't spell crap without rap......... Three miserable rappers in Atlanta have also shown themselves to be miserable human beings. Joey Garron, 28, Robert Johnson, 23 and Ketorie Glover, 23, apparently thought they had mad skills when it came to freestyle rap. However, over the...

I briefly heard a new clip yesterday on the radio in which Obama is thanking/crediting all of Freedomlands new friends helping to attack ISIS. This left me wondering how did Obama convince so many Countries to help in stopping the problem Americans created in the first place? He's got at...