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What is the F-35? The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is a single-engine, single-seat jet developed and produced by Texas-based defence giant Lockheed Martin. The U.S. Defence Department is overseeing the project and there are nine partner nations, including Canada. The F-35 is envisioned as a...

New book claims FBI cover up of third gun in murder of border patrol agent The Department of Justice is using the liberal “watchdog” group Media Matters for America to deflect questions about the Fast and Furious scandal, including those regarding a gun that might have been used in the...

Town that spent $1 million last year to switch to multispace parking meters will spend $100,000 this year to switch back to traditional meters An outcry against the multispace parking meters that replaced hundreds of single-space meters in Brookline last year has convinced Town...

OTTAWA - CBC wants more money from Canadians to pay for local services but isn't willing to say exactly what that money will buy. Last week CBC appeared before the CRTC, Canada's broadcast regulator, arguing in favour of keeping a pool of money called the Local Programming Improvement Fund...

U.S. News - Nor'easter to pound East Coast with rain, snow

Atheist Ashu Solo threatens human rights complaint after Saskatoon councillor’s dinner blessing SASKATOON — A Christian prayer by a city councillor at a City of Saskatoon volunteer appreciation dinner discriminated against non-Christians, says a volunteer who intends to complain to the...

Francois Hollande beat right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in France's first round of the presidential race, according to early estimates from several polling institutes. Both candidates qualified for the second round on May 6, with Mr Hollande taking 28 to 29 per cent of the vote...

Effective governing begins with having the courage to make tough decisions for the long-term health of the country, not for immediate political gain, former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney told The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas. “What do you want? Do you want popularity, or do you want...

Well it's in the Star...must be real news. ;-) Horse whisperer Lauren Bode says she’s been telepathically communicating with Boot, a 16-year-old Belgian cross living at Centre Island’s Far Enough Farm. So I test her. “Who’s going to win the Queen’s Plate?” Boot rolls his enormous dark...

From the 12th, but still...badguy failure. When a thief stole Barry Monaghan's keys and sped off in his car he didn't realise he had met his match. The brave grandfather clung desperately onto the back of his Ford Mondeo as it travelled at an incredible 80mph hurtling along country roads...

A leading anti-gay figure in the Republican Party attacked Governor Mitt Romney for hiring an openly gay spokesman, sending a shot from the GOP's socially-conservative base across the nominee's bow. Bryan Fischer, the director of issue analysis for the Tupelo, Miss.-based American Family...

Plenty of top Canadian fighters on the PPV card. I really like that young Rory MacDonald. Main action starts at 10pm. FirstRow Live Boxing UFC and WWE Online | Live Stream of HBO Boxing | Free PPV Streaming of Boxing,UFC and WWE

TORONTO - Thousands of demonstrators are marching through the streets of Toronto to protest what they call an unfair Ontario budget. The rally is part of a province-wide campaign to tell the minority Liberal government its budget cannot stand. More than 90 labour and community organizations...

In a happier world, Mark Steyn would be spinning Peggy Lee records on a late-night radio show, not cracking jokes about America’s fiscally suicidal deficit, Europe’s culturally suicidal immigration and Canada’s “profoundly wicked” human rights legal regime. It is a coy sentiment, because...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced new financial measures Friday for parents of children who are killed or missing due to a criminal act, in order to help them grieve and get their lives back on track without having to worry about paying the bills or losing their jobs. Harper...

Step 1: Scrap the code. Entirely. It’s not as impossible as it might sound. Even Obama’s own Bipartisan Deficit Commission, the so-called Simpson-Bowles Commission, called for tax reform that would lower rates and do away with many of the deductions and loopholes currently infecting the...

MONTREAL — Scores of people were arrested Friday as Montreal students continued their 10-week-long protest against a planned $325-a-year tuition fee hike. Students demonstrated outside a job fair for Quebec’s Plan Nord — a major initiative to develop the province’s north — and at least one...

YouTube loses court battle over music clips YouTube could face a huge bill for royalties after it lost a court battle in Germany over music videos. A court in Hamburg ruled that YouTube is responsible for the content that users post to the video sharing site. It wants the...

The discovery of what Chechen scientists believe to be dinosaur eggs is causing a ruckus among paleontologists. The sphere-like fossils were found on a construction site and the area has become a magnet for locals eager to look at the ‘dinos’. Workmen building a new road were blacking...