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He had hoped to finish in time for Christmas but injuries and bad weather have caused delays, and he has the final quarter from Banff through the Rocky Mountains to Vancouver left to run. Mr McDonald, from Gloucester, said he had seen the new year in with a crowd of people and was set...

Manitoba reporter fired from her job for "biased" reporting on federal politics On a rainy afternoon in October, Jill Winzoski, a 38 year old reporter at The Selkirk Record, walked into her boss' small office and took a deep breath. That morning, Winzoski's editor had told her over the phone...

State Sen. Wendy Davis, on Monday called on Gov. Rick Perry to remove William J. White as chairman of the Texas Finance Commission. BUT WHY REMOVE HIM YOU MAY WONDER The finance commission, which White chairs, oversees the state agency that is supposed to...

“A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. "They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalysed thought. "And that’s a problem because privacy matters, privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want...

Scientists say the closure of some of the world's finest fishery, ocean and environmental libraries by the Harper government has been so chaotic that irreplaceable collections of intellectual capital built by Canadian taxpayers for future generations has been lost forever. Many collections...

Marks & Spencer is facing a boycott from hundreds of customers furious at the store’s decision to allow Muslim staff to refuse to serve customers buying alcohol or pork products. The policy was revealed after customers trying to buy pork or alcohol from a Muslim shop assistant in...

Suicide rates among middle-aged Americans have risen sharply in the past decade, prompting concern that a generation of baby boomers who have faced years of economic worry. More people now die of suicide than in car accidents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which...

Dilma Rousseff was thoroughly charmed. Brazil had been struggling for years to decide which company to choose for a $4 billion-plus fighter jet contract, one of the world's most sought-after defense deals and one that would help define the country's strategic alliances for decades to come. But...

When Congressman Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher moved into a four-bedroom, four-bathroom, million-dollar Costa Mesa rental home on April Fool's Day 2010, the immaculate, 6,300-square-foot property could have been featured in a glossy real-estate magazine. Built in 1948, the two-story, Orange Avenue...

A court in Canada has ruled Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen can try to seize the assets of oil giant Chevron based on a 2011 decision in an Ecuadorean court found it liable for nearly three decades of soil and water pollution near oil wells, and said it had ruined the health and livelihoods of...

A private firm with a federal contract - and backed up by city police - forced motorists off Laurel Street and into a private parking lot Friday to question them about their driving habits and ask for a swab of their mouth. "I feel this incident is a gross abuse of power on many levels,"...

The greatest threat confronting Canadian politics is not the concentration of power in the Prime Minister’s Office. Nor the suffocating clutch of party discipline around backbench MPs. These are consequences of a deeper rot. A crisis of character. A crisis that should be properly identified as...

Hutton said the new code of conduct means the government can punish employees for saying something they don't like, even if it is true and in the public interest." A new “loyalty agreement” for employees of members of Parliament makes government even more secretive at a time when...

My Political view on this; Seems the Liberals are doing everything they can to appeal to Ontario voters. They (liberals) had a long time under Dalton to address the worker protection roll backs of the Harris Cons but up until now, nothing......... My real life experience on this...

Only in Britain or would that apply to Canada? Department wrongly announced that section of law threatening people with life imprisonment had been repealed It turns out you can draw a life sentence under a law that forbids anyone from advocating the abolition of the monarchy. It's right...

Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford has been accused of vote buying after he was filmed handing out $20 bills to public housing residents. It’s the second time in a week he has faced accusations of using his personal wealth for political gain. What he’s doing is just plain corrupt,”...

'Gay Away' gimmick candy at Manitoba store offends parents - Manitoba - CBC News

The drop in teenage pregnancies is the success story of our time Here are the facts: since 1998, the proportion of pregnancies in under-18s has fallen by a remarkable 34%, to 30.9 per thousand. Until then the number had been rising since the late 1960s. But here's what people wrongly think...

The Conservatives came to power with a commitment to right-wing, business-friendly policies meant to bring a more free-market focus to Canada, which before moving into 24 Sussex Drive Harper often derided as a tax-addicted welfare state. In practice, this meant pro-growth economic policies...

Members of the world’s oldest faith would like to join a display of religious symbols at Oklahoma’s state capitol, joining a Judeo-Christian tablet and a proposed Satanist monument. The Universal Society of Hinduism plans to submit an application to the Oklahoma State Capitol Preservation...