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Campaigners say the men had received several death threats from illegal loggers, who are suspected of being behind the killings. Correspondents say indigenous people have felt under increasing threat from deforestation in recent years. The men included the outspoken anti-logging activist...

It’s still unclear what killed the fish, but the incident was the worst in a spate of environmental disasters in Mexico this year. Early last month, a river in the northern state of Sonora took on a sickly brown-red color after workers from a nearby mine dumped thousands of gallons of sulfuric...

Last year, 30-year-old Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi was punished for starting a progressive website that called for, among other things, religious tolerance and women’s rights. That was insulting to Islam, said his critics. He was sentenced at the time to seven years in prison and 600...

This isn't a game. It's important, deadly serious, because Canada is obliged to go to war to defend them if and when they're eventually attacked. I won't give you all the Countries right now because that would spoil it for you. Just sit there and think about how many you can name. But...

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe said Friday that whites who are still in the country should go back to England as he vowed that those removed from land redistributed to black Zimbabweans would never be allowed to return. Mugabe was speaking during the installation of a chief at Murombedzi Growth Point...

Jeremy McNaughton won’t quickly forget his encounter with a rogue beaver that attacked him off the shores of Nova Scotia. The 23-year-old Halifax man was snorkelling in Spanish Ship Bay, near Sherbrooke, with a couple of friends, when one of them looked down and noticed an animal of generous...

Richtree Market, the union-busting Toronto eatery that got the clever idea of terminating all of its unionized employees, shutting down its restaurant, located in the Eaton Centre, only to reopen later a few doors down (about 50 metres) from its original spot, much larger and still within the...

Lee told ThinkProgress that Canada’s main driver of forest destruction is an “increased frequency and extent of forest fires” driven by climate change. These fires are likely converting areas that were once heavily forested into shrublands. Logging and road-building are the second-biggest causes...

Seventeen fake cellphone towers were discovered across the U.S. last week, according to a report in Popular Science. Rather than offering you cellphone service, the towers appear to be connecting to nearby phones, bypassing their encryption, and either tapping calls or reading texts. Les...

High-speed chases are usually dangerous and can be deadly, but police are using new technology, both safe and discreet, that tracks the suspect(s) by GPS. The system is called "Star Chase", and so far it's been installed in twelve St. Pete Police cars. Above the front bumper on the passenger...

A French court has upheld a ban on a Muslim engineer from accessing nuclear sites, citing his links with what it termed as "jihadist networks", but his lawyer called it a case of Islamophobia. Lawyer Sefen Guez Guez told AFP news agency on Monday that he was looking at launching an appeal. The...

to speak to a dietician about any food and nutrition questions you might have. Registered Dietitians are there to provide answers to nutrition and healthy-eating questions, Note: the service does not replace advice from your medical doctor or individual counselling with a Registered...

per student to help with daycare because the Teachers are locked out. Is what the teachers are asking for more than this $40.00 a day........? While a media blackout continues, information received suggests that "one of the major stumbling blocks in the contract that the government...

Short History of the Labour Movement in Canada and Quebec http://uncorrectedproofs.blogspot.com/2007/01/short-history-of-labour-movement-in.html www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY0HO_0Olng

China's National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee set the stage for a political showdown on Sunday when it rejected democrats' demands for the right to freely choose Hong Kong's next leader in 2017, leading scores of protesters to take to the streets. Scuffles broke out on Monday...

One of two men convicted in the deaths of four Alberta Mounties has been arrested. Alberta RCMP ‘K’ Division confirms Dennis Cheeseman was arrested for possession of a controlled substance. Sgt. Steve Vince with Strathmore RCMP says he was arrested in Whitecourt on Friday after a member of...

As hemp makes a comeback in the U.S. after a decades-long ban on its cultivation, scientists are reporting that fibers from the plant can pack as much energy and power as graphene, long-touted as the model material for supercapacitors. They’re presenting their research, which a Canadian...

If this is true Wayne Rooney's been named England's new captain https://twitter.com/ManUtd/status/504948124277026816

Couldn't he find a pay phone and use a calling card.....? Alberta PC leadership candidate Thomas Lukaszuk says he's sorry he didn't check into the details of his data plan but is defending a $20,000 cellphone bill that taxpayers footed while he was on a private trip. The bill, which was...

The 23-year-old, who once aspired to play in the NHL, is now one of dozens of Canadians under RCMP investigation after allegedly making their way to Syria, some to join extremist factions such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham. The RCMP declined to comment on the case but friends and...