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No argument against a financial transaction tax has stood up to scrutiny, so politicians must resist lobbying and see sense The path to implementing a tax on financial transactions (known as the FTT) was never going to be smooth. This week's announcement that the expected coalition between...

That's Odd; Politician nailed for personal gain while in Office. He must have really screwed up to get caught....... Former Congressman Renzi disregarded his oath to uphold the law, ignoring the interests of the people he was elected to serve in favor of his own interests," First Assistant...

Ed Miliband vows to tackle the issue of low pay as his 'central mission' Firms that pay their staff the living wage will be given a tax rebate of up to £1,000 for each worker by the next Labour government, potentially increasing incomes for millions of employees, Ed Miliband pledges today...

First they launched a consultation for the outsourcing of probation services. That happened in January and finished in February. This is commonly agreed to be not really long enough to solicit the views of the experts in the field – but if you have already determined not to listen to them then...

Vivien Suttorp, Alberta’s South Zone medical officer of health, said Thursday that the Lethbridge area has some of the lowest immunization rates in the province, less than 60 per cent, well off the stated goal of 98 per cent for Albertans. That has health workers targeting communities near...

Last week, Bell announced plans to implement new consumer monitoring and profiling practices that would greatly expand how it uses the information it collects on millions of subscribers. The planned scope of Bell's profiling is unprecedented in Canada, reflecting the power of a...

American standards............... Police Dog Bites Fifth Grader During Fake Drug Raid (Video) Police Dog Bites Fifth Grader During Fake Drug Raid (Video)

Prime Minister Harper and RCMP Commissioner Paulson: Stop the Senate cover-up! Canadians deserve to know the truth! This scandal is no longer just about the misspending of taxpayer dollars but about the integrity of our political leaders. It is unclear what is really happening in the...

Only a government obsessed with its own powers and completely indifferent to our country's constitutional foundation would have tried this .............. "The transcript of the pre-Confederation conferences shows that the founding fathers discussed the role and composition of the Senate at...

that they ingested ‘hand sanitizer’…….? Health Canada has released a statement warning people about “Bodico Hand Sanitizer” after two recent deaths in Ontario might have been the result of using the product. The statement says that initial testing results of Bodico Hand Sanitizer, 8...

A belt! Really? For another $150.00 he could buy my car............. Nineteen year old Christian Trayon is suing Barney's, an upscale Manhattan men's clothing store for having him arrested after he purchased a $350 belt with his debit card. Quote Trayon Christian, a 19-year-old...

Here on the Kansas plains, thousands of soldiers once bound for Iraq or Afghanistan are now gearing up for missions in Africa as part of a new Pentagon strategy to train and advise indigenous forces to tackle emerging terrorist threats and other security risks so that American forces do not have...

An Ontario man has spent three years fighting a Rogers bill that has ruined his credit rating and turned his life upside down - even though he has never had a Rogers account. Dave Johnson, 61, of Pembroke, Ont. got a bill in 2010 from a collection agency working on behalf of Rogers Wireless...

Editorial- When Premier Kathleen Wynne took over from Dalton McGuinty, it wasn’t long before she showed former Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. boss Paul Godfrey the door. Godfrey was let go last May because Wynne was less than thrilled with his controversial...

The NFL, meanwhile, keeps $45: making it a huge moneymaker for a league that already enjoys nonprofit tax-exempt status. (The league says that it doesn’t actually profit from this, however. See below). So should the NFL get flagged for “pinkwashing”: exploiting a good cause for its own benefit...

Patty Konietzky thought the small purple lesion on her husband's ankle was a spider bite. But when the lesion quickly spread across his body like a constellation, she knew something wasn't right. After a trip to the hospital and a day and a half later, Konietzky's 59-year-old husband was dead...

Four days after publishing the 2014 public debt forecast, Spanish officials have determined a typo mistakenly increased the country's debt figures by €10 billion -- the equivalent of about $13.6 billion "It is an erratum," an economy ministry spokeswoman told the Agence France-Presse. She...

there's this sad decision; International Development Minister Christian Paradis says the government will not fund overseas projects that allow war rape victims and child brides to obtain an abortion. To its credit, the NDP jumped in with appropriate outrage. Conservatives must...

Amazon is the biggest threat to independent booksellers and it's a huge threat. It offers deals on books the indies often can't match and usually throws in free shipping to boot. Why that should matter to all of us is that excessive domination of the market by a mega-seller reduces...

So who in purchasing thought these would be a big seller? An Osama bin Laden costume sold by Wal-Mart and other major United States retailers has been removed after store management officials received complaints from the Sikh community. Wal-Mart pulls Osama bin Laden costume after...