Search results

Founded by a French Canadian who wandered just a little too far south, the Minnesota town of Little Canada was born in 1844 – a full two decades before Confederation. It was called “New Canada” then, when Benjamin Gervais decided to settle the area, now a suburb of St. Paul. The town of...

Legault is responding to a detailed complaint lodged by the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria and the ethics advocacy group Democracy Watch. Their lengthy report – “Muzzling Civil Servants: A Threat to Democracy?” – laid out repeated examples of taxpayer-funded science...

Am still using WLM but now they want me to change to Skype. I don't really feel like it. I am looking for a messanger service that we can send messages containing attachements (videos) back and forth. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Some young children accurately diagnosed as autistic lose their symptoms and their diagnosis as they get older, say US researchers. The findings of the National Institutes of Health study of 112 children appears to challenge the widely held belief that autism is a lifelong...

Heading south of the border? Enjoy your trip and stay out of trouble by studying these strange and wacky laws currently on the books in the United States. .BBC News - Bing Some light reading for a Sunday afternoon.

A large, rocky planet composed partially of diamonds has been discovered by astronomers at Yale University. The planet, called 55 Cancri e, has a radius twice as big as Earth’s and a mass eight times greater. It is one of five planets that orbit a star 40 light years from Earth. “This is our...

I need help getting rid of a video cd movie, it seems to come from Boss Construction and I have no idea how it got on my machine. It dated back to 2007. Name: Living_Early_Craftman.dat is one of them and there seems to be about 400. I tried to delete but they seem to go to the end of the list...

A genetic mutation introduced into tomatoes to make them ripen more uniformly might have inadvertently reduced some of the sugar content that makes them taste good, a team of researchers from the U.S., Spain and Argentina has found...

TORONTO - Police are investigating an east-Toronto Islamic school following a complaint it had been teaching its young students that Jews are “treacherous” and comparable to Nazis. The East End Madrassah (EEM), a Sunday school for Muslim children that rents space from an east-end public...

If ever there was a man who advocates bankrupting his nation and jeopardizing the entire world to facilitate the goals of a Greater Israel, it is Adm. James Lyons, U.S. Navy retired. To understand this man, it should be known that he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has not ruled out extending Canada's military involvement in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 withdrawal of NATO forces. Under questioning from Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair in the House of Commons Wednesday, Harper said Ottawa will "examine all options" if...

Assassinations on U.S. Soil Not Ruled Out by FBI | American Free Press A little extra to go with the Florida "Stand you ground"

Harper government draws up list of oilsands enemies This is only a paragraph in the article, but it brought back memories of the quote "I you aren't with us you are against us". Doesn't it sound familiar?

The Iranian oil embargo blowback By Pepe Escobar If the sorry parade of European poodles - or what analyst Chris Floyd delightfully dubbed Europuppies - had any...

CBC News Toronto's medical community is buzzing about an invention that could change the way health professionals screen for infectious disease and cancer. "We've been working on this...

A news site that monitors activity in North Korea reports citizens of that country have been shipped to labour camps if they didn't shed genuine tears after the recent death of dictator Kim Jong-Il. In a nation where Kleenex...

1. Greed 2. Power Hungry 3. Fear mongering 4. People starving although there are enough food supplies to go around. 5. Indifference 6. Lack of responsibility 7. Poverty 8. Prejudice 9. Lack of respect 10. Hate...

A week after the chair of Canada's spy review board resigned amid revelations of questionable business dealings and close ties to an African president, another committee member is defending his own work with the government of Saudi Arabia, prompting debate among intelligence experts over...

C'mon, do you really pay attention when you see a road sign like "Be alert for deer"? A hacker in Charleswood, Manitoba thought "Slow the f down" would better get people's attention. The digital deer alert sign erected by Manitoba Public Insurance was hacked October 23, according to the...

New York City is threatening to shut down a public bus line because it forces women to sit in the back of the bus in compliance with Orthodox Jewish gender segregation. Since 1973, the Private Transportation Corp has run public bus B110 as part of a...