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Ontario's public broadcaster, TVO, has pulled an online game showing the bombing of a gas pipeline off of its website. The game, called "Pipe Trouble," sparked controversy when it was first posted this week. The game quickly caught the attention of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne who is now...

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OTTAWA -- Less than half the almost 300,000 people who signed up to take part in the federal Liberal leadership race have registered to vote, despite getting an extra week in which to do so. As of late Thursday, shortly before the midnight deadline, almost 43 per cent of supporters and...

Alberta Premier Alison Redford says her thoughts are with Ralph Klein and his family amid reports the former premier’s battle with illness has taken a turn for the worse. “He is a great man, and he redefined this province. And his legacy is important,” Redford told reporters following a...

A city report says Toronto is not short on homeless shelter spaces despite recent protests decrying the lack of beds. Members of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) camped out in Metro Hall last week to demand more spots for homeless people. But Mayor Rob Ford said the city's...

Whoever came up with the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" was a damn fool. For what can we actually glean from the photo of Toronto mayor Rob Ford and former mayoral candidate Sara Thomson at an event in Toronto last Thursday night? From my view, just two benign bits of...

The Nova Scotia man who captured dramatic video of a deer being rescued from the ice on Antigonish Harbour says he’s surprised the footage is attracting so much attention. “I am shocked,” Ian Waugh told CTV’s Canada AM in a phone interview Thursday morning. “But I just happened to be in...

For decades, mice have been the species of choice in the study of human diseases. But now, researchers report evidence that the mouse model has been totally misleading for at least three major killers -- sepsis, burns and trauma. As a result, years and billions of dollars have been wasted...

Chris Dorner at Feb 4, 2013 9:14:04 AM Last Resort From: Christopher Jordan Dorner /7648 To: America Subj: Last resort Regarding CF# 07-004281 I know most of you who personally know...

Tree Ring Studies Confirm Global Cooling The prestigious Nature Journal recently publisheda major climate change study named Orbital Forcing Of Tree-Ring Data that proves through analysis of over 2000 years of tree ring evidence that current climate models substantially underestimated...

via 5FF and Mark Steyn: I’ll say it again. After all these years, I still haven’t actually seen the “white supremacist” writings of Marc Lemire. Not that I’ve looked that hard, but you’d think if they were really so dangerous they’d have effortlessly risen to the surface, given the amount of...

via 5FF As usual: the real story is in the (500+) comments A teenage girl–an honor student who had just performed at President Obama’s inaugural–was gunned down Tuesday afternoon in the Kenwood neighborhood [of Chicago], just blocks from the high school she attended. 15-Year-Old Girl Shot And...

Geezus h. Outrage grows over ‘racist’ cowboys and Indians party held at Toronto bar Outraged Torontonians banded together on Saturday night to descend on a “racist party in full swing” at a Parkdale bar: A “cowboys and Indians” gathering complete with war paint and faux headdresses. The...

These obvious partisan media scumbags are obvious. All of them. via sda Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors...

How could it not succeed? :lol: Sex toys for seniors. Donald Trump. A bombastic former felon possessed of a British peerage. All of this may be storming onto Canadian TVs by springtime, when a new weekly show for older viewers co-hosted by the former media mogul Conrad Black is slated to...

Right. :lol: Draft UN climate report shows 20 years of overestimated global warming, skeptics warn A preliminary draft of a report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to the public this month, and climate skeptics say it contains fresh evidence of 20 years...

Some interesting bloggerism: The way a person speaks, their vocabulary, and their cultural practices will tell you, in very general terms, something about them. Even certain aspects about their physical appearance, such as whether they are unkempt or well-groomed, if their clothes are neat...

via sda The NDP's Apartheid Ruminations If there were a referendum in Canada, asking whether all citizens should be treated equally or whether...

Cute piece from Five Feet of Fury So who’s the broad? Meet Deborah Coyne, seen here at Trudeau’s state funeral with her love child by PET, standing next to the PM’s infamous ex-wife (and former Rolling Stones groupie turned bipolar drunk driver) Maggie and her kids, including Coyne’s future...

From Fark: Would-be carjackers to their victim: "What's this third pedal for?" ORLANDO, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 ORLANDO) - A Corvette owner said he was almost carjacked at gun point, but the would-be thieves ran away, because they couldn't figure out how to drive his car. It was just...