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J. S. Woodsworth Born in Ontario but raised in Manitoba, James Shaver Woodsworth (1874–1942), was a Methodist clergyman, social worker, politician, and the first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Woodsworth started out as a Methodist clergyman in 1896, but had become a...

Wal-Mart bans man for life for matching ads Joe Cantrell made a hobby out of browsing local stores and going to Wal-Mart to get the cheapest prices for its products through ad matching, according to television station WXYZ. However, last week, Cantrell took a trip to Wal-Mart's San Tan...

the dots............ Uruguay has become the first country in the world to make it legal to grow, sell and consume marijuana. After nearly 12 hours of debate, senators gave the government-sponsored bill their historic final approval. The government hopes it will help tackle drug cartels...

Editorial: Shame on Redford New union laws violate basic rights Needless to say, making it illegal to just talk about striking is the kind of law one might expect in some banana republic or other oppressive totalitarian state. Every opposition party opposes this legislation, but...

Three members of a so-called 'Muslim Patrol' were today jailed at the Old Bailey for repeatedly trying to enforce Sharia law in East London. Jordan Horner and another Islamic extremist told one couple they could not hold hands while walking down the street, because it was in a 'Muslim area'...

The Tory backbench may have the best idea to emerge from the Conservative ranks since Harper rose to power. A Conservative backbencher, Michael Chong, plans to introduce An Act to Amend the Canada Elections Act and the Parliament of Canada Act next week that would pose an enormous threat to...

Joe Lieberman, who once promised he’d never become a lobbyist, becomes a lobbyist - Salon.com

If you’re one of the many Yahoo users (Yahoosers?) who hasn’t been terribly impressed with the numerous recent “upgrades” to the web giant’s e-mail service, you’re not alone, especially in the Yahoo offices, were 3-out-of-4 employees have apparently decided to just stick with Microsoft Outlook...

and his brother got the farm......... www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFC84HPzEyU

Jim Love, chair of the Royal Canadian Mint (and close personal friend of Jim Flaherty), ran a lucrative side business advising Canadians how to avoid paying taxes. Besides the issues of conflict of interest and treason, how the hell does the chair of the mint have enough spare time to run...

Between 200 and 300 workers at the Irving-owned Halifax Shipyard walked off the job this morning, complaining of bullying by management. The workers said they're upset by the death of a co-worker. Protesters said the worker, who had about 30 years of experience at the company, was recently...

So if this had not made it to the newspapers he would have been allowed to adopt.........Scary ......... A Swedish man convicted for molesting a five-year-old girl in his neighbourhood has been given the green light to adopt a child of his own, as Swedish authorities said they did not fear...

Disabled woman denied entry to U.S. after agent cites supposedly private medical details A Toronto woman is shocked after she was denied entry into the U.S. because she had been hospitalized for clinical depression. Ellen Richardson went to Pearson airport on Monday full of joy about flying...

Report doesn't seem to jive as to how long they were held captive although 2 days would have been too long, never mind 2 years but the neighbours say they didn't even know kids lived there. Of course possibly the neighbours had moved in within the last 2 years......... Tucson police said...

Although it is called a "free trade" agreement, the TPP is not mainly about trade. Of the TPP's 29 draft chapters, only 5 deal with traditional trade issues. Most would set rules on non-trade matters that affect our daily lives: food safety, internet freedom, medicine costs, job off-shoring...

Parents were ordered to send their children to a workshop on Islam or have them labelled as racist for the rest of their school career. They were sent a letter warning that the primary school pupils would have a ‘racial discrimination note’ put on their records if they did not go...

Swiss voters are going to the polls to decide on strict new laws to limit executive pay to no more than 12 times the wage of the lowest-paid worker in the same company. The 1:12 initiative is backed by Switzerland Young Socialists, who gathered the necessary 100,000 signatures to call a...

A Pennsylvania pastor on trial by Methodist church officials for officiating at his son's 2007 same-sex marriage ceremony was found guilty on Monday of violating church law and being disobedient. Reverend Frank Schaefer, pastor of the Zion United Methodist church in Lebanon, Pennsylvania...

Remember back in October when a group of Tea Party truckers said they were going to shut down DC traffic because of Obama and....well something? Yeah they failed at the whole thing So Remember Those Truckers Who Were Going To Block DC Traffic And Arrest Politicians? LOL J/K - The Superficial...

I have to steal the response from one of the commenters to the article........