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as leadership jockeying begins Wednesday night’s defeat in the House of Commons of a motion to study when life begins is more a reversal of fortune than a coup de grace to the hopes of pro-lifers. Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth’s motion would have set up a parliamentary committee to...

via Zip American “Peace Activists” Meet With Ahmadinejad, Trash Israel… TEHRAN (FNA) – Members of Veterans For Peace, along with other US peace activists, met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Addressing the meeting, veterans For Peace President Leah Bolger stressed VFP’s...

We bad. Iran's Foreign Ministry has cautioned Iranians against travel to Canada, alleging they're being "deprived of their basic rights to continue with their ordinary activities," according to Iran's state-run media. The IRNA report published Wednesday quotes a ministry statement saying...

via Fark Your puppy isn't wearing his seat-belt. Here's your ticket New Jersey Voters Say Mandatory Doggie Seat Belts A Good Idea It’s by a narrow margin, but New Jersey voters actually do...

McFury...pffft McDouche A Gresham man was arrested Sunday afternoon after allegedly throwing soda in a McDonald's manager's face and smashing a cash register after a dispute over onions on his quarter pounder burger. Gresham Police called it "McFury." Police arrested Jayme John Leon...

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Diplomats from Canada are among those who walked out on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the Iranian president took the podium today at the UN General Assembly. The Canadian delegation also walked out on the controversial leader’s speech last year. Canada’s controversial decision...

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Cops busted a lone protester -- angry with subway ads equating enemies of Israel as “savages” -- as she spray-painted over one of the controversial signs today. A Post camera crew captured the bizarre conflict between suspect Mona Eltahawy, 45, and a woman defending the ads. “Mona, do you...

Le big deal. Justin Trudeau will announce his long-awaited candidacy for the Liberal leadership next Tuesday, Quebec media are reporting. Montreal’s La Presse (link in French) says Liberal sources have confirmed Trudeau’s leadership intentions and he will make the announcement in a news...

This man had some pipes. Andy Williams, whose corn-fed good looks, easygoing charm and smooth rendition of "Moon River" propelled him to the heights of music stardom in the early '60s, died Tuesday at his home in Branson, Mo., following a battle with bladder cancer, his family announced...

MOSCOW — Seven individuals were reportedly arrested for allegedly trafficking uranium and weapons in a breakaway region of Moldova. The unnamed group had been detained last week in the separatist enclave of Transnistria, according to Moldova’s interior ministry, Reuters reported. The...

When Councillor Doug Ford spat “bunch of pricks” at reporters Monday, he was simply striving for greater accuracy. The journos had been pressing Ford about his assessment on radio a day earlier that they were “sucky little kids.” Just as ambiguously, kid brother Rob, the mayor, called us...

"You can't react every time you're insulted" Bill Clinton on anti-Islam film: "You can't react every time you are insulted", and man, if anyone would know, it's that guy The end. Bill Clinton on anti-Islam film: "You can't react every time you're insulted" - CBS News

Tell the CRTC to support, revitalize and reimagine the CBC I am writing in support of strong and vibrant public media for the 21st century. I note that tens thousands of Canadians have spoken out against funding cuts to the CBC; thousands also contributed and ranked ideas to strengthen the...

Road to Hollywood begins with 140 characters for Canadian comic Canadian comedy writer Deepak Sethi may be the only person in Hollywood not looking to get famous. It’s a wonder Tinseltown hasn’t booted him on that basis alone. But what the Toronto native lacks in notoriety, he makes up for...

It is one thing for tungsten-filled gold bars to appear in the UK, or in Germany: after all out of sight, and across the Atlantic, certainly must mean out of mind, and out of the safe. However, when a 10 ounce 999.9 gold bar bearing the stamp of the reputable Swiss Produits Artistiques Métaux...

More historical (some grimy and such) than you can shake a stick at. Enjoy: Browse All - NYC Municipal Archives

They sure have been punted down the short list of whoever might actually be an ally of any stripe, in the region, eh. In an interview with "60 Minutes," President Obama refers to concerns about a nuclear Iran from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as "noise." Obama then called...

via sda Scott Stinson: Is McGuinty’s energy strategy an ‘unmitigated disaster’ or just plain embarrassing?On Monday, a breezy day in which wind energy accounted for a relatively robust 1,456 MW of capacity at 6 p.m., Ontario was exporting more than 1,700 MW, at market prices, at the exact...

Things that only work in the movies: #7, Robbing a casino Three men 'posing as maintenance workers' arrested after botched Ocean's Eleven-style raid at Atlantis resort casino in Bahamas Three men, aged 24, 30 and 31, in police custody after daylight heist Entered the casino via basement...