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Real. Sweden heatwave: hottest July in (at least) 260 years Stockholm started recording monthly average temperatures as early as 1756, and with no end in sight to the ongoing heatwave, Swedish meteorologists can already say this year will go down in history. The old record was set in 1994...

Real. Out-of-control Ontario fire moving closer to Trans-Canada Highway One of the largest forest fires in northeastern Ontario, Parry Sound 33, is continuing to grow despite aerial and ground-level efforts to stop its spread. Officials with the province’s Ministry of Natural Resources and...

More real news. Get ready Canada, we’re about to have another epic battle over guns Nearly six years later this summer, I’m not sure we’re going to hear Prime Minister Trudeau waxing on similarly about guns. Toronto is definitely not in the mood for that conversation. In fact, I think you...

Time for some real news. Greece wildfires: Hugging bodies found near beach as death toll climbs to 74 RAFINA, Greece – Wildfires raged through seaside resorts near the Greek capital, torching homes, cars and forests and killing at least 74 people, authorities said, raising the death toll...

Identity politics? WUH OH Ontario Tory minister flip-flops on sex-ed curriculum stance Ontario's education minister went back and forth Monday on just what students will learn while her government scraps the province's modernized sex-ed curriculum. Ultimately, Lisa Thompson indicated that...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just won a House primary as a write-in — for a district she wasn’t intending to run in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is apparently so popular that she won a primary in a New York congressional district she wasn’t even intending to compete in. Ocasio-Cortez, the newly minted...

Australian Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Their Kids Are Getting Fined — and It's Working Although other parts of the world have been embroiled in a heated debate about whether or not kids should be required to get vaccinated, Australia recently took a hard-and-fast stance on the matter by fining...

Would've saved lives if we were less lenient on the far right. Neo-Nazi found guilty of killing 10 people, receives life sentence MUNICH — A Munich court has found the main defendant in a high-profile neo-Nazi trial guilty of murder over the killing of 10 people — most of them migrants —...

Mike Harris Part 2 and will be out just as quickly. Ontario PC government cancels $100 million school repair fund TORONTO -- Ontario's new Tory government has cancelled a $100-million fund earmarked for school repairs this year, a cut that comes as a result of Doug Ford's campaign promise to...

Prime Minister Trudeau spotted jogging in Toronto Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been spotted shirtless in public again when he went for a jog in Toronto on Thursday. Following a meeting with newly elected Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Trudeau pounded the pavement near Cherry Beach wearing...

They're not a real oil company anywayz.. Shell would support UK bringing forward petrol ban from 2040 CEO says earlier date would ease investment decisions and shift consumer attitudes First published on Thu 5 Jul 2018 14.47 BST Shell, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies, has...

Must be those minimum wage increases. Ontario: 35,000. Saskatchewan: 8,300. Manitoba: 4,100. The monthly figure came in well ahead of the 20,000 new jobs that economists had been expecting. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4736272?__twitter_impression=true

Trudeau suggests Ford doesn't understand refugee obligations after premier says Ottawa should pay for 'mess' TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is suggesting Ontario’s new premier doesn’t fully understand Canada’s international obligations when it comes to dealing with refugee claimants...

Cue the usually excuses from the conbots and Trumptards. Heat wave smashes records around the world — a look at the sizzling temperatures A persistent heat wave is gripping parts of the Northern Hemisphere and smashing weather records in Canada, the United States, Europe and the Middle East...

Mexico election: historic landslide victory for leftist Amlo Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a silver-haired 64-year-old who is best known as Amlo and counts Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn among his friends, was elected with at least 53% of the vote, according to a quick count by Mexico’s electoral...

Trudeau government reviewing $420 million in transfer payments to Ontario after Doug Ford begins 'orderly wind-down' of green programs By Steph Wechsler in News, Energy, Politics July 3rd 2018 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government says it's reviewing $420 million worth of transfer payments...

American patriotism is down (CNN) — In Gallup's 2018 poll, released Monday, a declining number say they are proud to be an American, with less than three-quarters saying they are, down six points since 2016. The driving force behind this lack of pride is a dip among Democrats, with their...

Poor orangutan. Nice of him to give his condolences to the victims of yet another US shooting. Weird how that happens so often over there. Trudeau calls Trump 2 days before Canadian tariffs take effect to say Canada 'had no choice' but to act Two days before Canada's retaliatory tariffs...

Well at least Canada is doing well. Thanks Trudeau! Goldman Sachs: The fiscal outlook for the US 'is not good' The fiscal outlook for the United States "is not good," according to Goldman Sachs, and could pose a threat to the country's economic security during the next recession. According...

'No one is beyond our reach': Canada joins 5-nation alliance to fight tax crime globally Canada is teaming up with four other countries to combat global tax crime. Made up of tax agencies in Canada, the U.S., U.K., Australia and the Netherlands, the new operational tax enforcement alliance —...