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Germany is expressing its irritation with Canada for refusing to contribute to an international bailout fund as Prime Minister Stephen Harper faces increased pressure from the G20 to show “solidarity” with countries tackling Europe’s financial crisis. Canada is on track to be one of the few...

Face to Face: The Canadian Personalities Hall ... Grouped under five key themes, 27 individuals have been selected from thousands of potential candidates. Some are well known, others are not, but they have all helped shape Canada. In the years to come, we will be featuring other notable...

President Obama at a press conference this morning insisted that high-level national security leaks are not coming from the White House. "The notion that my White House would purposefully release classified information is offensive," President Obama said. But a Republican memo from the...

Federal civil servants — who weren’t laid off — paid ‘staggering’ $1.2B in severance OTTAWA — The federal government paid $1.2-billion in voluntary severance last fiscal year to 91,613 public servants who either remain in their jobs, retired or quit on their own — a perk unheard of to most...

Guitarist and singer Bob Welch, whose work in the early 1970s for Fleetwood Mac set the stage for the band's multi-platinum success later in the decade, died on Thursday at his home in Nashville. He was 66. According to a spokesman for the Nashville Police Department, Welch was found dead of...

From small dead animals: Affinity CU, giving back to the members http://www.elections.sk.ca/resources/new-democratice-party-sk-section-fiscal-period-return.pdf small dead animals

You don’t generally get to pick your battles, and, if you’d asked me circa 2007 if I wanted to spend much of the next half-decade battling for the restoration of freedom of speech in Canada and elsewhere, I’d probably have decamped to the South Sandwich Islands. But then the Canadian Islamic...

The Obama Administration has given a former director at the scandal-plagued Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) nearly half a billion dollars to offer “struggling” Illinois homeowners mortgage assistance, a Judicial Watch investigation has found. It means the...

During a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder argued that an alleged email between high ranking Justice Department officials referencing the failed gun-running operation Fast and Furious was inaccurate and cited his “superior knowledge” to...

That's right... A set of supersized headphones has been stolen from a Metro Transit bus shelter in Halifax. The headphones — measuring 1.5 metres high and 1.5 metres wide — had been put over a bus shelter near the corner of South Street and Tower Road as...

From LIFE: Before and After D-Day: Rare Color Photos From England and France, 1944 - LIFE

MONTREAL - An ultra left-wing group has claimed responsibility for a dozen suspicious packages sent Wednesday to Premier Jean Charest's office, cabinet ministers and Quebecor Media outlets. It's the latest case of attempted intimidation of political figures and media agencies during a...

OTTAWA — A Conservative backbencher is demanding Canada reconsider its membership in the United Nations after the world body criticized the government for its treatment of alleged war criminals and changes to the refugee system. Ontario MP Larry Miller said he is also upset the UN deployed...

TV went into the gutter long ago and the execs/ratings companies are just whistling past the graveyard. Don't Mean To Be Alarmist, But The TV Business May Be Starting To Collapse - Business Insider

Bravo. The Ontario government admits it has no idea how many people are out on bail in the province. The suspect in Saturday’s fatal shooting rampage at Toronto’s Eaton Centre was out on bail at the time and under house arrest. Attorney-General John Gerretsen says the bail system works...

From Fark: When you think of rogue human sexuality, do you think of nuns? The Vatican does. Giggitus The Vatican denies there's a connection, but its reprimand of an influential American nun, at a moment when the Holy See is already engaged in an intense fight with most American nuns, sends...

Liberal talk show host Bill Press, perhaps best known for comparing Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally to “allowing Al Qaeda to hold a rally on September 11 at Ground Zero” while simultaneously bemoaning the “toxic” nature of talk radio and its destructive effects on civility, has let loose...

"America's Got Talent" contestant Timothy Michael Poe claimed on TV to have TBI from Afghan War grenade attack. Military: Not so fast h/t Fark Military disputes TV contestant's claim of combat injuries A contestant on "America's Got Talent" gained sympathy from the judges and applause...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The first doctor to reach President Abraham Lincoln after he was shot in a Washington theater rushed to his ceremonial box and found him paralyzed, comatose and leaning against his wife. Dr. Charles Leale ordered brandy and water to be brought immediately. Leale's...

Mayor Rob Ford vowed Tuesday to “get serious” about creating jobs by attracting more business to Toronto, in part by driving down the commercial property tax rate. Speaking to a sold-out crowd of 300 business people, Mr. Ford set a target of creating 50,000 jobs over the next five years to...