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:cry: In 1980, thousands of Americans were under siege by an unknown virus, destined to attack whomever it wished in a vicious, unbelievable way. The response from the government was to ignore it, the response from the primary community it attacked was denial, and the response from the doctors...

Is there such a thing as being anti-American, anti-Canadian, anti-(insert nationality here)? Does any one human being have the ability to hate an entire country and it's people? If anti-anything does exist, how can you discern the difference between not liking certain aspects of that country...

Well we're finally done, after three long years of gathering information on our two countries we will be ready to begin the estimated 4 hour documentary film on US/Canadian relations. For those of you who are recent to Canadian Content, I am involved in a non profit organization that...

The image of the US as a gas-guzzling, energy consuming nation is at odds with a number of green initiatives in the country at large. In the boardrooms of great corporations, among city mayors and state governors, even among evangelical Christians - the most loyal supporters of President...

The White House has given details of 10 major terror plots that President Bush says have been foiled by the US and its allies since the 11 September attacks. Mr Bush cited the disrupted plans in a speech, designed to boost support for the so-called war on terror. They include a plot to use...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wayne Gretzky knew about a betting ring at the center of an unfolding National Hockey League scandal, the New Jersey Star Ledger reported on Thursday, citing law enforcement sources. Gretzky, whose wife, actress Janet Jones, has been implicated as a heavy bettor with the...

Study Says Drug Used in Africa Prevents Spread of AIDS Virus From Mother to Child By MIKE STOBBE ATLANTA Feb 9, 2006 (AP)— The drug nevirapine prevents the spread of the AIDS virus from mother to child time after time, a new study suggests, challenging earlier findings. The new research...

Canada's province of British Columbia has announced plans to protect a huge swathe of Pacific Coast rainforest, known as the Amazon of the North. The forest is home to a rare white bear species and is the ancestral land of several indigenous Canadian tribes. The deal will save a vast area of...

Nurse Saves Boy, Boy Saves Nurse (CBS) A boy whose life was saved by an off-duty nurse had the opportunity to save his savior's life seven years later. The first incident happened in 1999, when Kevin Stephen went into cardiac arrest after being hit by a baseball bat at a game. Penny Brown...

(CBS) There’s an oil boom going on right now. Not in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait or any of those places, but 600 miles north of Montana. In Alberta, Canada, in a town called Fort McMurray where, this time of year, the temperature sometimes zooms up to zero. The oilmen up there aren’t digging...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he doesn't want nuclear weapons. The world is suspicious. How dangerous is he? By Babak Dehghanpisheh and Christopher Dickey Newsweek Feb. 13, 2006 issue - Born to a blacksmith, educated as a revolutionary, trained as a killer and derided by rivals as...

QALAT, Afghanistan - Police killed four people Wednesday as Afghans enraged over drawings of the Prophet Muhammad marched on a U.S. military base in a volatile southern province, directing their anger not against Europe but America. The U.S. base was targeted because the United States "is the...

Petitioners welcome decision to study Arctic habitat impacts ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In a move hailed by environmentalists, the Bush administration announced it will review whether polar bears should be considered a threatened species given indicators that their icy habitats are melting away due to...

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins (Author) Forty years after Kenyan independence from Britain, the words "Mau Mau" still conjure images of crazed savages hacking up hapless white settlers with machetes. The British Colonial Office, struggling...

By John Newby January 26, 2006 I've heard and seen many reports concerning detention camps that have been built throughout the country. Quite frankly, I viewed them with a bit of skepticism, not that I didn't trust the source or the information, I didn't trust the conclusions. The claims have...

Polls Show Many Americans are Simply Dumber Than Bush By Paul Craig Roberts 01/29/06 "ICH" -- -- Two recent polls, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll and a New York Times/CBS News poll, indicate why Bush is getting away with impeachable offenses. Half of the US population is incapable of...

Almost 1,000 Danish websites have been defaced by Islamic hackers protesting about controversial cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad. The attacks typically replace home pages with pro-Islam messages and condemn the publication of the images. Hack attack monitoring group Zone-H said the...

HISTORY LESSONS How Textbooks From Around the World Portray U.S. History. By Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward. 404 pp. The New Press. $26.95. Daniel Swift HAD you gone to high school in Norway, your textbook would have taught you Columbus was old news: the most important arrival in America was...

By DINESH D'SOUZA Colonialism has gotten a bad name in recent decades. Anticolonialism was one of the dominant political currents of the 20th century, as dozens of European colonies in Asia and Africa became free. Today we are still living with the aftermath of colonialism. Apologists for...

By MARTIN SIEFF UPI Senior News Analyst WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Conventional Wisdom has so far paid almost no attention to the strategic consequences of Stephen Harper's victory with the Conservative Party in Canada on Monday. Conventional Wisdom as usual is wrong. Harper's victory is...