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As he worked on the naked body of Milton Galarza-Rojas, Philadelphia paramedic Dale Schroeder said he recognized something he'd seen many times before: "track marks," the small bruises that mark the bodies of regular injection drug users. Problem was that little Milton, all 171/2 pounds of...

While federal budget cuts are sending some public servants to the unemployment line, most of those keeping their jobs will be laughing all the way to the bank with a pay raise and special lump-sum cheques of up to $150,000. The Harper government is in the process of handing out a...

via sda: Fine, Jail or Punt? Just in time for the next Liberal Leadership race, Elections Canada proves it has no guts*. Course, for the rest of us, Revenue Canada would just garnish our wages or something. * This doesn't include Court Orders involving the CPC or 30,000 flakes...

As lifeguards are paid and trained to do, Tomas Lopez rushed down the beach to rescue a drowning man — and then got fired for it. The problem: Lopez stepped out of the beach zone his company is paid to patrol, a supervisor said Tuesday. "I ran out to do the job I was trained to do," said...

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The United States is spending $92 million to build Afghanistan a new "Pentagon," a massive five-story military headquarters with domed roofs and a high-tech basement command center that will link Afghan generals with their troops fighting the Taliban nationwide.But when Defense Minister...

Every year, 'have' provinces like Saskatchewan and Alberta send billions in tax dollars to 'have not' provinces like Ontario and Quebec. A little research into 2012 Population Estimates reveals some more interesting information: more Equalization Program...

The Constitution's final boss is too hard so we should reset it to easy level where we can change it every other week to make it work says apparent teenaged article writer via Fark: Framers locked the nation into a...

leaves 19 children living alone in a sweltering house... for a week from Fark BOWLING GREEN, KY (WSMV) - A Bowling Green woman has been charged with child abuse after Warren County authorities removed 19 juveniles they said were left unattended for about a week in her...

Texas town bans display of flags on veterans' graves just in time for 4th of July via Fark A Texas town is reconsidering a controversial ordinance that it approved earlier this month that would ban the displaying of flags at gravesites. The ordinance, approved by the City Council of...

Man running across Canada for cancer charity arrested by Quebec police after using Trans-Canada Highway QUEBEC — A man attempting to run across Canada for charity was arrested near Quebec City for taking his journey along the shoulder of the busy Trans-Canada Highway. In a further blow...

Purchasing managers’ intentions rose in June, a survey by RBC said. Combined with reports of stronger U.S. factory orders in May and the prospect of interest rate cuts in the debt-laden eurozone later this week, it was a welcome...

THIS fiery streak in the sky amazed Perth beachgoers at sunset as a suspected meteor plunged into the ocean off the WA coast. PerthNow reader Gavin Trought snapped the 'fire in the sky' as it appeared over Cottesloe just before...

1. Abraham Lincoln, +27 points (28 percent place in top-2, 1 percent place in bottom-2) 2. Ronald Reagan, +25 points (31 percent place in top-2, 6 percent place in bottom-2) 3. Franklin D. Roosevelt, +22 points (23 percent place in top-2, 1 percent place in bottom-2) 4. John F. Kennedy, +19...

Or something. Via Beltway Confidential: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has a 4th of July-themed column in the Huffington Post musing on the word freedom and how it is interpreted by the Republican Party. His conclusion is that they use the word to con people. Let’s call this right-wing...

The Sound Of Settled Science h/t sda Steven Goddard;CRU shows temperatures in Illinois barely rising, at about 0.007 degrees per year since 1850. But it is worse than it seems. Essentially all of the rise occurred before 1930. Until about 10 years ago, NOAA , GISS and CRU all agreed that...

Well there ya go then. TWO men who allegedly tried to hijack a plane in China were beaten to death by passengers and crew. The Global Times newspaper reported that two of the suspects died in hospital from injuries they suffered...

Ontario’s Premier Dalton McGuinty is learning a lesson about the nature of friendship when it comes to being pals with organized labour: the good relations only last as long as the goodies are flowing labour’s way. Try to interfere with that steady accumulation of benefits, and the...

1 in 16. The ratio might be similar up here what with all the scooters bombing around to and from the Beer Store. A record of 8,733,461 workers took federal disability insurance payments in June 2012, according to the Social Security Administration. That was up from 8,707,185 in May. It also...

We're just as idiotic but dig this: Federally-Funded Study Finds Firework Injuries Occur Most Around Fourth Of July The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission — a federally-funded organization — conducted a special survey last year from June 17- July 17 and found that 65 percent of all...