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A request for a lunch-hour haircut has turned into a battle over human rights, pitting freedom of religion against a woman’s right not to be denied service based on her gender. Faith McGregor walked into the Terminal Barber Shop on Bay St. in June to get a haircut — the “businessman,” short...

Derp. Canadian Mom on Mission to Get City to Chop Down Oak Trees…Because They Threaten Kids’ Allergies & Can Be Used to ‘Bully & Torment’ Fallen acorns a threat to kids with allergies, Vaughan mother claims - thestar.com h/t The Blaze

t's a common grumble that politicians' lifestyles are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay. Meet the president - who lives on a ramshackle farm and gives away most of his pay. Laundry is strung outside the house. The water comes from a well in a yard...

Christopher Daniels knows about internships. Daniels, 41, is a Red Seal certified chef, who worked as an intern in Toronto’s food industry and is still uncertain in terms of his career. Sometimes interns are paid. More often they work for free, hoping the internship will turn into a “real”...

...is a cocktail lover's guide to the life and works of Ernest Hemingway. Just as those drinks add depth, character and nuance to the scenes he was describing, they also add to the biography of one you might call, with apologies to Dos Equis, the original World's Most Interesting Man. I...

Case of mistaken identity nearly ends in arrest as man drives away with wrong girl A man narrowly avoided an abduction arrest after he picked up the wrong little girl at school and drove away with her. Art Deaner was supposed to pick up six-year-old Courtney Fetters yesterday at her...

Having Solved All Chicago’s Problems Rahm Emanuel Cracks Down On Junk Food In Vending Machines… Chicago is a war zone and this moonbat is worried about people eating M&Ms. Rahm Cracks Down on Chicago Vending Machines | NBC Chicago

Tom Mulcair cast himself as a latter-day Sir John A. Macdonald when he talked in Calgary about his vision of Western Canada oil being shipped by pipeline to central and eastern provinces to be processed and then sold domestically. It would be a nation-building project on a par with railway...

The Toronto Police Services Board is rethinking how to issue receipts for “street checks” and have put them on hold until at least next month, despite the fact the forms are already at the printers. Police Chief Bill Blair told the board Wednesday the receipts had been ordered, surprising...

Explanation: A Slower Speed of Light Official Trailer Some gameplay: A Slower Speed of Light - MIT Game Lab Relativity Engine - YouTube Download: A Slower Speed of Light | MIT Game Lab

via Fark: "There are times when you get old like this, you feel like you've lived too damn long" Man arrested for helping wife die in mercy killing SUN CITY, Ariz. -- An 85-year-old Sun City man charged with killing his wife is out of jail. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said George...

(Reuters) - Israel launched a major offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing the military commander of Hamas in an air strike and threatening an invasion of the enclave that the Islamist group vowed would "open the gates of hell". The onslaught shattered hopes...

The photograph above shows a rebel with an apparently complete (tube, gripstock and battery) SA-16. Another photo shows another rebel with an apparently complete SA-24, one of the most advanced heat-seekers in the world. This might be the only time an SA-24 MANPADS has been photographed...

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At least two hundred rebel soldiers had taken over Beerajam and Bariqa, two isolated villages nestled in the buffer zone established between the two countries following the Yom Kippur war in 1973. "The rebels are employing a clear tactic of drawing the regime forces to fight in...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – When this sun-drenched exurb east of Los Angeles filed for bankruptcy protection in August, the city attorney suggested fraudulent accounting was the root of the problem. The mayor blamed a dysfunctional city council and greedy police and fire unions. The unions...

Advice GOP leaders should, but probably won’t, take. Ronald Reagan Talks About Balancing the Budget on "The Tonight Show" h/t Zip.

An all-but-forgotten, 74-year-old painting by the Group of Seven’s A.Y. Jackson, a large canvas on which the renowned artist depicts the Northwest Territories mine that produced uranium for the world’s first atomic bomb, has emerged from the obscurity of a private collection to be sold this...

Yep. New details of one of the few 'vampire' burials reserved for social 'deviants' in early medieval Britain have emerged. Buried with a stake through a heart: the medieval 'vampire' burial - Telegraph

They're young, they're broke, and they pay for organic salmon with government subsidies. Got a problem with that? In the John Waters-esque sector of northwest Baltimore — equal parts kitschy, sketchy, artsy and weird — Gerry Mak and Sarah Magida sauntered through a...