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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized on Friday to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a 2010 raid on a Turkish flotilla ship that left nine people dead, a move that will help restore strained ties between the countries. The call, which happened as President Barack...

One of Canada’s most notorious child molesters has been re-arrested once again, and fresh sex-related charges are pending. Gordon Stuckless, who spent years in prison for offences committed while he worked at Maple Leaf Gardens, was to have appeared in court at Old City Hall Friday morning in...

Get out and push! TAKO, Sask. — Bad weather and freight train problems have resulted in 154 Via Rail passengers being stranded aboard their own train in Saskatchewan for the past 24 hours. Via Rail says its Number Two train from Vancouver to Toronto was halted early Thursday near the tiny...

over lack of non-Christian chaplains and fish on Friday in federal prisons.... VANCOUVER — A group of British Columbia prisoners is suing the federal government over its decision to cancel contracts for part-time chaplains, saying Ottawa has nearly eliminated minority faith ministries in...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.5 million to study biological and social factors for why “three-quarters” of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not, calling it an issue of “high public-health significance.” Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass., has...

This spring is going to see flooding again in Manitoba along the Assinboine River. Are they preparing or are they going to wait until the last minute again?

Saskatchewan the lowest at 4.0%. Why not just say Saskatchewan Has The Lowest unemployment Rate In Canada? Must be a tough pill to swallow for Calgary Herald writers? CALGARY — Alberta’s unemployment rate remained unchanged in January at 4.5 per cent, second lowest in the country behind...

And they are fracking too! Accounts of billion-dollar cost overruns and logistical nightmares in the year-end financial and operating results of oilsands producers should give pause to companies lining up to be part of the looming LNG boom in northern B.C. A half-dozen megaprojects have...

The Conservative government will introduce new legislation to toughen penalties for child sex offenders and create a “Victims Bill of Rights” to put more focus on victims of crime, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson says. Mr. Nicholson laid out the next stage of his government’s anti-crime agenda...

Adios amigo! Retailers prepare to round prices up or down as penny disappears. Local businesses in Regina were free to start rounding their prices up or down to the nearest nickel starting Monday, after the Royal Canadian Mint officially stopped distributing the copper coins. Pat Bohn, who...

Apparently it's offensive to women. The ad features a 1969 print called "Hi-Ho, Silver," which shows a young woman in a cowboy hat and skirt straddling a fence. The caption says: "Still on the fence?" and encourages farmers to choose the wheat board for marketing grain. Read more: Canadian...

Yes? No? Voice your pros and cons. Wouldn't it be wonderful to live in a world where you can pay $2.02 for a $1.27 item and get an even 75 cents back without being told it will "screw up the till"? YES and higher standards to Graduate!!!

Last Updated Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 3:16PM CST Two Regina women are facing 44 charges following an investigation into the alleged physical and sexual abuse of two young girls. The two women, ages 37 and 55, made their first court appearance Thursday afternoon. Both were remanded into...

Premier Brad Wall hopes the Nebraska governor’s approval of a new Keystone XL oil pipeline route through the state helps convince U. S. President Barack Obama to sign off on the project. Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman approved a new route for the pipeline on Tuesday that avoids the state’s...

A coyote ate your sh*t tzu! Concerns of a high number of missing dogs in southeastern Manitoba have escalated following the gruesome discovery of a skinned animal on the side of a highway on Wednesday. RCMP are investigating the remains of the animal, which was spotted in a ditch by a...

1. These are Jews, a culture synonymous with swindlers. The phrase ‘Jew’ and ‘cheater’ have been so interchangeable historically that they have entered the English language as a verb. ‘He jewed me!’ Well the Jews have jewed us too. And [Jews] come here [to Canada] to jew us again, to rob us...

An MIT grad student is turning a bad party night into a product with potential. It was fall semester last year when 23-year-old Dhairya Dand decided to hit up a party at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Several hours later, he found himself in the hospital. He'd had an...

I wonder if anyone has applied for this job thinking it was the Rat Patrol like in TV? CALGARY - City officials have confirmed a rodent found in a New Brighton home is a roof rat, and provincial rat catchers will be scouring the area in case there's more. On Thursday, Dan Reiter discovered...

З Різдвом Христовим z Rizdvom Khrystovym Merry Christmas to the Ukrainians of Canadian Content Petr This is how we roll!

From where? Fighter jets? Ballet shoes for Quebec? Indian Reserves? Interest on debt? None of the above. An estimated $20B is lost simply by having to discount our oil because of bottlenecks in distribution. What is the fix? Is it easy to fix? Yes! All it takes is two pipelines. A...