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OTTAWA — Amnesty International Canada says the federal government should arrest former U.S. president George W. Bush when he visits British Columbia next week. The rights body says both Canadian and international law oblige Canada to detain Bush and investigate him for war crimes and torture...

People are pissed off all over the place. Go figure? Toronto protest details murky amid online debates over transparency, media CBC News Posted: Oct 12, 2011 11:22 AM ET Canadian cities are expected to get their first taste of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement this weekend amid questions...

An explosion and fire has ripped through a refinery in north Regina, injuring 10 people and forcing 1,400 to evacuate the facility. Eight people were sent to hospital with burns, while two others were treated at the facility owned by Consumer's Cooperative Refineries Ltd. The company did not...

The safe injjection site in E Vancouver has been given an exemption from new drug laws leaving the issue as a Provincial health issue. WTG SCoC!!!

You'd think this was from the Onion but nope, they really want to swap spuds. The Island Party has come up with a unique plan to swap PEI potatoes for Cuban doctors. Jason MacGregor, the Island Party candidate in Souris-Elmira, is pitching the plan in an effort to have his community’s...

Harper defends MacKay over $3 million in VIP Challenger jet flights OTTAWA - Peter MacKay opened his chequebook for inspection by the country's ethics commissioner, while the prime minister defended him in a growing political brush fire over his use of government aircraft as defence minister...

Mystery over why 'America the Beautiful' picked to accompany broadcast of China space launch BEIJING, China - China's state broadcaster isn't saying why the station ran the music to "America the Beautiful" during the gala live broadcast of the country's latest space launch. Strains of the...

Federal Court tosses bid to limit final report into Afghan prisoner abuse OTTAWA - The Conservative government has been dealt a major setback in its attempt to limit what a military watchdog puts in his final report on the handling of prisoners captured by Canadian troops in Afghanistan. A...

Just in time too. Too many questions were being asked about this guy...and he might have answered them to the wrong people. WASHINGTON - The same U.S. military counterterrorism unit that got Osama bin Laden used a drone and jet strike in Yemen on Friday to kill the U.S.-born cleric suspected...

OTTAWA - John Baird has set a new gold standard for business cards. The Conservative foreign affairs minister demanded — and got — gold embossing on his business cards shortly after being shuffled into the portfolio last May, contrary to government rules. Baird then ordered the word "Canada"...

Free range eggs? Syria regime supporters pelt US ambassador with eggs, US condemns intimidation campaign. BEIRUT - Angry supporters of President Bashar Assad's regime hurled tomatoes and eggs at the U.S. ambassador to Syria as he entered the office of a leading opposition figure and then tried...

A sunspot, 62,000 miles across - so big it would dwarf the Earth - is releasing gigantic solar flares that could in theory wreak havoc with electrical communications ranging from handheld electronics such as iPhones to sections of the power grid. Nasa has detected two X-class solar...

WASHINGTON—Iraq has finalized a deal to buy advanced U.S. fighter jets, the first step toward building a modern postwar air force, officials said. Associated Press A Lockheed Martin F-6 Fighting Falcon performs during a demonstration flight at the 49th Paris Air Show at le Bourget airport in...

I can understand prisoners using a Bible for rolling papers, smuggling porn, pills and weed but why would someone have a brand new Michellin snowtire? The data obtained by The Sun contains details of 2,444 separate seizures at the province’s nine federal prisons. That’s more seizures than...

Foreign Oil Companies To Help Ease Labour Shortages... Foreign national oil companies (NOCs) will likely increase their presence in Canada’s oil sands, with one or two non-Chinese deals likely be struck in the next year, Deloitte predicted in a new report. Their role could help the sector...

Lawsuits in US courts are exposing the role played by international banks in financing terrorism. JPost 09/09/2011 15:19 In a recent ruling that sent shockwaves through the Western financial world, the New York District Court revealed that Clearstream, a Luxembourg subsidiary of Deutsche...

By JPOST.COM STAFF AND REUTERS 08/22/2011 14:49 Group says it will "temporarily" stop firing rockets; "truce has started," says Palestinian official; PMO denies that Israel signed any agreement. The Popular Resistance Committees, the group Israel says is behind a deadly terror attack...

It's for a wheelbarrows. WTF else would an aircraft carrier be used for? AFP WASHINGTON — The United States said Wednesday it would like China to explain why it needs an aircraft carrier amid broader US concerns about Beijing's lack of transparency over its military aims. "We would welcome...