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Written before the Iraq Invasion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Clark is a fierce critic of US foreign policy, but he detests the ignorant anti-Americanism of left-liberals ‘I am 25, a graduate who has travelled extensively after university...

Golden retriever back after 2 years on the run Technological devices couldn’t make Sam return, but a ham dinner could STRATHAM, N.H. - Satellite tracking, helicopter surveillance and dart guns failed. In the end, it was a ham dinner and a remote-controlled net that brought a golden retriever...

Mailman jailed for hoarding postal items Carrier said bag was too heavy, and he ended up with 13,819 items at home LONDON - A mailman who hoarded thousands of letters and parcels at his home was jailed for four months on Friday. Christopher Meek, 19, admitted hoarding 13,819 postal items...

Chiropractor claims to travel through time Ohio investigates provider who offers to reach into past to heal patients COLUMBUS, Ohio - A chiropractor who claims he can treat anyone by reaching back in time to when an injury occurred has attracted the attention of state regulators. The Ohio...

Think your phone bill is high? Try $218 trillion Malaysian man hit with gigantic bill, ordered to pay up or face prosecution KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he received a U.S. $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face...

I wasn't interested in this movie until recently. Well it's a great movie about racism. Has anyone seen it?

Canada's new Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, has been urged by more than 60 leading international climate change experts to review the global warming policies he inherited from his centre-Left predecessor. In an open letter that includes five British scientists among the...

Rome, 5 April (AKI) - The secretary general of Italy's largest Muslim organisation, the Union of Islamic communities in Italy (UCOII), has called on Italian Muslims to vote for the Party of Italian Communists at the general election. Hamza Piccardo sent an email late Tuesday to Muslim centres...

Well the other day I was browsing books on amazon.com and came across something amusing. Two books with the same title although they appear to be vastly different in content. 1) While Canada Slept by Andrew Cohen 2) While Europe Slept by Bruce Bawer I looked for "While America Slept", but darn...

One of the most persistent themes in Noam Chomsky's work has been class warfare. The iconic MIT linguist and left-wing activist frequently has lashed out against the "massive use of tax havens to shift the burden to the general population and away from the rich," and criticized the concentration...

National PostCANADA 'I hope to be able to establish a relationship with more maturity." So said Prime Minister Stephen Harper (in French) on the eve of his Cancun summit meeting with Presidents Vicente Fox and George W. Bush, and the job is already well begun. Harper's visit to Afghanistan, his...

Relations between Indonesia and Australia have soured further after an Australian newspaper published a cartoon lampooning Indonesia's leader. Indonesia said the drawing, apparently depicting the president and a Papuan as fornicating dogs, was "not helpful". It followed the publication in an...

The documentary "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West" is a film that every person who isn't a radical Islamic fascist (or who doesn't aspire to live under shari'a law) ought to see. Those who think it's possible to negotiate with terrorists will have their worldview shaken, and those...

Miller blames U.S. gun laws, launches job project CTV.ca News Staff With Toronto's homicide numbers keeping pace with 2005, which was dubbed 'The Year of the Gun,' concerns that the city may be experiencing a repeat are being downplayed by Mayor David Miller, who blames guns from the U.S. and a...

Ian MacLeod, with files from Joanne Laucius, The Ottawa Citizen; with files from Citizen News Services Published: Thursday, March 30, 2006 Momin Khawaja of Ottawa was devising a way to fit a remote-controlled model airplane with explosives, a London terrorism trial of seven Britons charged...

THE Federal Government will legislate against any attempts by the ACT to give gay couples the same rights as married couples, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said today. Mr Ruddock said today the Government would investigate what it could do to block attempts by the ACT Labor Government to pass...

The United States is assessing whether to help Libya destroy its stockpile of chemical weapons in an operation which could cost over $100 million (£57.5m). Pentagon experts are writing a proposal outlining the options for helping Tripoli comply with an international treaty on banned weapons...

New York has released partial tapes of emergency calls from the World Trade Center on 9/11 for the first time. Nearly nine hours of calls show the responses of emergency operators to callers amid the chaos of the attacks. The words of the operators - but not the callers - were released...

GM supplier returns massive overpayment Instead of $1,988, JR Industries got check for $3.95 million DETROIT - General Motors was supposed to send supply contractor JR Industries a check for $1,988. Instead, GM sent 1,988 times that amount. After several weeks, the supplier’s owner has...

Nigerian soccer referees OK'd to take bribes Official: Bribery acceptable, but refs shouldn't let cash influence decisions LAGOS, Nigeria - Soccer referees in Nigeria can take bribes from clubs but should not allow them to influence their decisions on the field, a football official said on...