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We'll see I suppose. Skydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner is more than halfway toward his goal of setting a world record for the highest jump.Baumgartner lifted off Thursday for a test jump from Roswell, N.M., aboard a 100-foot helium balloon. He rode inside a pressurized capsule to 71,581...

OTTAWA – The vast majority of Canadians pegged managing the economy as the top priority for the federal government, and most of them say Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservatives are doing a good job of it, according to an Ipsos Reid poll released on Thursday. Eighty-seven per...

Finance Minister Dwight Duncan will deliver the grim news about Ontario’s fiscal situation on March 27. That’s the day Duncan is to table the first budget since Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals were re-elected Oct. 6 with a minority government. With a $16-billion deficit this year, the...

Human-rights organisation calls for Dante's 'racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic' epic poem to be removed from classrooms Abandon all hope, ye who enter here: Dante's medieval classic the Divine Comedy has been condemned as racist, antisemitic and Islamophobic by a group calling for it to be...

Scarborough MPP Brad Duguid believes underground is the way to go for Toronto's transit expansion, but he's willing to leave the final decision up to city council. In fact all six Scarborough MPPSs - including former city councillor Duguid - have expressed their preference for an underground...

Executives at The New York Times have rejected a full-page anti-Islam advertisement that mimicked a controversial anti-Catholic advertisement they published on March 9. According to a Mar. 13 letter sent by the Times to the ad’s sponsor, anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller, the $39,000...

Almost one in 10 Alberta men believes hitting a woman is okay if she makes them angry, says a recent poll. The Leger Marketing survey also found 40 per cent of the men say women who dress provocatively risk being raped “This is first study of its kind that has been done in Alberta and I...

Less than a week after a US staff sergeant allegedly massacred 16 civilians in Kandahar, American soldiers were banned from bringing guns into a talk by Mr Panetta at a base in Helmand province. Around 200 troops who had gathered in a tent at Camp Leatherneck were told "something...

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/03/vile-leftist-verbally-assaults-mitt-romney-at-st-louis-campaign-stop-you-fking-chickenhawk-video/ An unhinged leftist verbally assaulted Mitt Romney today at his campaign stop in Kirkwood, Missouri. Then he had the gall to post the video himself. What a...

& Faking Biblical Walk on Water Energy-drink maker Red Bull said Wednesday it has dropped an advertisement in South Africa after an outcry from both Christians and Muslims for its portrayal of Jesus Christ walking on water. South Africa's Roman Catholic bishops urged Christians not to...

Twitter closed down a string of accounts purporting to be authored by the Syrian president and the first lady, emails reveal. A senior aide to Asma al-Assad, Fares Kallas, took issue with the site over 11 accounts. Half of the accounts using the first lady's name and all but one of those...

Tempers are flaring over a version of the American flag flying in Lake County. A veterans group says the flag is an outrage. The flag, which features a picture of President Obama, was taken down Tuesday afternoon. Korean war veteran Don Van Beck said his blood was boiling. "I can't...

A 16-year-old Moroccan girl has committed suicide after a judge ordered her to marry her rapist, according to Moroccan media reports. Last year Amina’s parents filed charges against their daughter’s rapist, a man 10 years older than her but it was only recently that a judge in the northern...

In a speech lamenting the vicious tone of the attack ads used against him, former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff on Tuesday told a law school audience that his party did the same thing to Stephen Harper, unfairly tarring him as a dangerously right-wing, American-style political extremist...

The former Liberal party staffer who created the Vi-kileaks30 Twitter account is being summoned to appear before a Commons committee this week after he didn't show up to testify Tuesday. The House of Commons ethics committee voted be-hind closed doors to summon Adam Carroll to appear before...

That's right, a question. A question. :lol: The New York Times bestselling author of the explosive new book, Hollywood Hypocrites: The Devastating Truth About Obama’s Biggest Backers, Jason Mattera, had his crew’s camera snatched and hurled by comedian Chris Rock when he asked the star why...

TOKYO (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 hit east of Tokyo on Wednesday but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no initial reports of damage or troubles at area nuclear plants, the Japan Meteorological Agency and local media said. The...

that will automatically stop the pump if an uninsured car tries to fill up Cameras at petrol stations will automatically stop uninsured or untaxed vehicles from being filled with fuel, under new government plans. Downing Street officials hope the hi-tech system will crack down on the...

At least 28 people - including 22 children - have been killed in a coach crash in a tunnel in Switzerland. Another 24 children were injured in the crash near Sierre, in the canton of Valais, close to the border with Italy. The coach, carrying 52 people back to the Belgian...

Mired in a $16-billion deficit and facing an uncertain financial future, Ontario is turning to consumers to help it dig out of trouble. The province announced Tuesday it will raise a range of driver fees, including licence validation, renewals, replacement, driver exam fees, trailer permits...