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We have long argued that the Ontario government’s headlong rush to convert Canada’s industrial heartland to “green” energy would turn out to be nothing but a colossal waste of money. Since most alternative energies remain commercially impractical (that’s why they’re still alternative and not...

Socio-political engineering. I suppose 9/11 will one day be classified as air rage. Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the...

It may have been a tough year for Arab regimes facing unprecedented popular demands for change. But King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has signalled serene royal continuity by ordering the construction of a specially equipped private train to whisk him and his entourage between the holy cities of...

Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is announcing a wide-ranging effort to use U.S. foreign aid to promote rights for gays and lesbians abroad, including combating attempts by foreign governments to criminalize homosexuality. In a memorandum issued Tuesday...

It mythfired alright. DUBLIN, Calif. (CBS) — A cast iron cannonball rocketed through two homes and landed inside a minivan Tuesday when a “Mythbusters” TV experiment went wrong. Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage are hosts of the scientific experimentation show, which airs on The Discovery...

Lined up in a gun rack beneath mounted deer heads is a Bushmaster Carbon 15, a matte-black semiautomatic rifle that looks as if it belongs to a SWAT team. On another rack rests a Teflon-coated Prairie Panther from DPMS Firearms, a supplier to the U.S. Border Patrol and security agencies in...

Toronto News: Rob Ford to contract out Toronto After you wade through The Star's butthurt prologue about this and that, you find this last sentence: His administration, in contract talks now with CUPE Local 416 and 79, wants to eliminate airtight job-security provisions that prevent the...

Mugger picks wrong victim: MMA fighter A would-be mugger on Chicago’s Southwest Side picked on the wrong person — a mixed-martial artist — and ended up with two black eyes and a gunshot wound to the ankle, the police say. Police say...

The Pentagon wants the world to know: When the American military stops spending billions per week in Afghanistan and eventually goes home, the Afghan economy is gonna be totally fine. After all, they’re sitting on trillions in mineral deposits, just waiting to be mined. Too bad many of the...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — An embattled phone-monitoring software maker said Friday that its wares, secretly installed on some 150 million phones, have the capacity to log web usage, and to chronicle where and when and to what numbers calls and text messages were sent and received. The...

The Post’s Sarah Boesveld lists five things you should know about the Statistics Canada Report on Cases in Adult Court by Province 2009-10: Canadian crime: Five things about doing time | News | National Post

A quality individual no doubt. But if not, it's ok 'cause he has him a mediweed card. He hopes to be out by Festivus. Here's Mr. Monroe: A young father allegedly hot-boxed his car with his two-year-old son in the back seat. JC Monroe was arrested after police saw a vehicle so thick...

More social engineering experiments by the 'participation trophy' generation of busybodies. Parents’ anger as Ontario school replaces Christmas concert with non- denominational February fest By Matthew Pearson OTTAWA — Parents have criticized a decision by an Ottawa-area school to cancel...

I know it's lame and should really require a thread-name contest but here ya go: Former sheriff's arrest in Colorado meth-for-sex case bewilders friends Former Arapahoe County Sheriff Patrick Sullivan's arrest in a meth-for-sex case left longtime law officers at a loss for words...

ANTIOCH (CBS) — A church in far north suburban Antioch is scrambling – after someone stole items that were donated as Christmas gifts for needy families. As CBS 2′s Pamela Jones reports, during regular business hours on Monday, somebody walked into St. Stephen Lutheran Church and stole $700...

It's deja vu all over again. The stock of a humongous American bank, Bank of America (BAC), is collapsing. This is stoking fears that Bank of America will go bust, taking the whole economy down with it. Why is Bank of America's stock tanking? Because the market thinks Bank of America is...

It's not really 'graphic'. GRAPHIC Houston Police gun down Occupy gunman on video - YouTube Story: Joshua Anthony Twohig: Occupy Houston Shooter Charged - Houston News - Hair Balls

The Ontario government and the provincial power authority say the safety of citizens was not placed in jeopardy when a group of workers allegedly indulged in “drug-related activity” while on the job. On November 18, 11 workers at the Pickering nuclear power plant were fired over allegations...

Well there ya have it. :lol: OTTAWA - The federal Liberals have returned to the position they had held for the past several years as the most popular opposition party, a poll released Monday showed. The federal election in May had reduced the center-left Liberals to a distant third place...

I know, I know...:lol: Associated Press ROCKY HILL, Conn. — Three asset managers from Connecticut's affluent New York suburbs claimed a $254 million Powerball jackpot on Monday off a $1 ticket. Gregg Skidmore, Brandon Lacoff and Tim Davidson came forward as...