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No rice for you! WASHINGTON — Susan E. Rice may have hoped that paying a conciliatory call on three hostile Senate Republicans on Tuesday would smooth over a festering dispute about the deadly attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, and clear a roadblock to her...

1910s America in Color ~ Kuriositas

Which CEOs Earn the Most? Executive compensation is a hot-button issue, particularly in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and reforms enacted under the Dodd-Frank Act . Increasingly, shareholders are asking whether CEOs are worth many...

The response to the Bank of England’s selection of Bank of Canada chief Mark Carney to be its next chief is being met with near universal praise. Given how explosive subjects of monetary policy are (at least in popular discussion) the lack of controversy is Surprising. A lot of attention has...

Seems like something Michael Palin should have tried for his travel series stuff. Anyway, here ya go (with bonus "Are You Smarter Than a Foreign Diplomat - Foreign Service Exam) A British adventurer has become the first person to travel to all 201 sovereign states in the world without flying...

Go about your business now. The Conservative Party won two of three federal byelections Monday night, holding on to its seats in Calgary Centre and Durham, Ont., while the NDP kept its seat in Victoria http://enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDistricts_e.aspx?ed=1245 Tories and NDP hold on to...

Title lifted from another board: Liverpool Care Pathway: far-reaching independent review announced Norman Lamb, the care minister, has announced a far-reaching independent review of the Liverpool Care Pathway, saying it is “unacceptable” that people are being put on it without...

via Zip Then again, it’s not like the NYT’s anti-Israel bias is a secret. Via WFB: The New York Times has again attempted to negate the presence of terrorists in the Gaza Strip. Reporter David Carr claims that two senior Hamas terrorists killed last week in precision Israeli airstrikes...

via sda The things that make you go hmmm.... So here’s what concerns me: how was Maher able to contact these individual donors – indeed voters – when the only information Elections Canada publicly provides is the postal code? Update: Excellent points in the comments - if you insist on...

With total ad sales sliding 5.1% in the third quarter of this year, newspapers have set what must be some sort of record in the annals of American business by having their primary revenue stream fall for 24 quarters in a row. In 72 months of unremitting declines, the industry’s...

Bully for them. It’s being called the toughest anti-bullying legislation in the country, but Alberta’s new Education Act – which many predict will set the tone for the rest of Canada – is being blasted by a family research group. In a report that was to be released Monday, the Institute of...

Rolling Stones tickets remain unsold after price hike Hundreds of tickets for the Rolling Stones 50th anniversary gigs remained unsold on Sunday night as touts were accused of pricing fans out of the market. Just hours before the band took to the stage at London’s O2 Arena, scores...

Woman detained for riding manatee... Man Jailed Four Days for Recording Cops... Company fires 150 employees for not getting flu shots... School District Requiring Students To Wear Microchips To Track Every Move... Palm scanners in schools, hospitals... What the heck is goin' on down there...

One of the nastiest fights in years in the House of Commons is coming to a head as Members of Parliament prepare for a vote on the Conservatives’ bid to force labour unions to publicly disclose extensive internal information. The contentious legislation, which opponents see as an attempt to...

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If Harry Reid Goes Through With Unprecedented Plan To Change Filibuster Rules… From Zip: They better. Via Politico:A partisan war is brewing that could bring the government to a screeching halt as early as January — and no, it’s not over the fiscal cliff. It’s all about the filibuster...

My comments last week about coming legally to grips with the issue of the possible secession of a province from Canada were intended to be the first part of an ambitious outline of a successor to Sir John A. Macdonald’s ambitious National Policy of 1878. This was the program that propelled...

Inside the enormous Whole Foods Market in Oakville, west of Toronto, a red and yellow streaked Honeycrisp is plucked from the top of an orchard’s worth of apples in wooden crates near the entrance. A round sticker near its stem says: “Certified Organic.” At $7.68 a kilo, four of them cost...

I ain't even mad but...*gag* Twitter explodes over pop icon's wardrobe choice Our Prime Minister is a Belieber. Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with 18-year-old pop singer Justin Bieber Friday in Ottawa, just ahead of the...

So there. OTTAWA - The federal Conservative Party on Friday produced copies of cheques for seven donors from a Montreal riding association who earlier had told Postmedia News they did not contribute to the party. The cheques - all for $1,000 - appear to show that the donors who said they...