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Natalie Portman experienced 'sexual terrorism' (CNN)Natalie Portman said experiencing "sexual terrorism" at the age of 13 made her feel the need to cover her body and inhibit expression. The award-winning actress shared her traumatic experience Saturday while addressing a crowd of thousands...

Art of the fail? No deal reached between Schumer, Trump as U.S. government shutdown looms Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday to search for ways to avert a U.S. government shutdown, but Schumer said afterward that disagreements...

The Medical And Social Benefits Of Safe And Legal Abortion Despite the claims of those who oppose safe and legal abortion, many demonstrable health benefits — physical, emotional, and social — have accrued to Americans since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in its decision...

You'd be hard pressed to find people who still care about this story, but there it is. McGuinty aide David Livingston found guilty in gas plants trial One of former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty's top political staff was found guilty Friday of criminal charges for wiping government...

World Class City Toronto the only Canadian city on Amazon HQ2 shortlist; maintains position as ‘centre of the universe’ When tech giant Amazon announced last year it wants to build a huge second headquarters, after the first in Seattle, it did more than kick off a continental bidding war...

Is having a Minister of Health just too much work for them? UK appoints 'Minister for Loneliness' LONDON: Since Britain voted to leave the European Union more than a year ago, Europeans have mockingly said that the decision will result in an isolated, lonely island nation. But Britain, in...

Ottawa's new carbon pricing plan will reward clean companies Environment Canada is launching public consultations this winter to get feedback to draft legislation The federal government added more meat to the bones of its core environmental policy Monday by releasing draft legislation on how...

Wonder why he's putin this off? Steve Bannon refuses to comply with U.S. House subpoena U.S. President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon declined on Tuesday to comply with a subpoena ordering him to answer questions from a U.S. House intelligence panel about his time at the...

Fellow Conservatives: We Dumped Racist Lynn Beyak, Kellie Leitch Must Be Next Recently, federal Conservative party leader Andrew Scheer booted controversial senator Lynn Beyak from the party caucus for refusing to take down racist comments on her (publicly funded) website. This was an...

UN calls Donald Trump's comments 'racist' Donald Trump's reported remark branding Haiti, El Salvador and unspecified African nations as "s***hole countries" has been branded racist by a UN human rights official. "If confirmed these are shocking and shameful comments from the President of the...

And Donald Trump is pretty dumb. Condoleezza Rice: Kim Jong Un is 'actually pretty clever' (CNN)Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she thinks North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is "turning out, much more so than I thought, to be actually pretty clever." Rice, who served under...

Mark Wahlberg donates $1.5M to Time's Up Mark Wahlberg says he's donating $1.5 million US to Time's Up after controversy erupted over the pay he received for re-shooting scenes in the film All The Money In The World. Two reports said Wahlberg was paid significantly more than co-star Michelle...

..with a pornstar that he paid $130K to keep her mouth shut. Porn Star: Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels Invited Me to Their Hotel Room ‘I ended up with Donald in his hotel room. Picture him chasing me around his hotel room in his tighty-whities,’ Stormy Daniels told fellow porn star Alana...

The central paradox of the modern American economy, as identified by Richard Easterlin (1964, 2016), is this: income per person has increased roughly three times since 1960, but measured happiness has not risen. The situation has gotten worse in recent years: per capita GDP is still rising, but...

Must be that chill effect. Donald Trump says US could 'go back' into Paris climate agreement President Donald Trump has said that the US could "go back" into the Paris climate deal - having withdrawn America from the global accord last year. "We could conceivably go back in ... I feel...

The little guy gets to speak directly with the PM. Too bad Trump doesn't have the balls to do something like this. I guess he's just too busy enjoying the swamp. :) Trudeau defends Khadr payment, pot legalization and role of ethics commissioner in N.S. town hall Prime Minister Justin...

Conservatives and free speech lol Sen. Lynn Beyak defends racist letters as ‘free speech,’ attacks Andrew Scheer for ouster Sen. Lynn Beyak, who was ousted from the Conservative caucus last week over racist letters she posted to her parliamentary website, is doubling down in defence of her...

Oh well I miss the good old days of Harper and Duffy. Ethics commissioner clears Morneau on sale of shares in 2015 In one of her final moves as Canada's ethics and conflict of interest commissioner, Mary Dawson found that Bill Morneau and a family member didn't benefit from insider...

Canada adds 79,000 jobs in December, pushing jobless rate to lowest level since 1976 Canada added 79,000 jobs last month, blowing past expectations and pushing the jobless rate to its lowest level since 1976. The jobless rate was pushed down two-tenths of a percentage point to 5.7 per cent...

Channelling populism. Tim Hortons controversy shows Canadians are 'addicted to a low-wage economy,' says author Controversy over the heirs of the Tim Hortons empire cutting worker benefits at their smalltown Ontario franchise is bad for the entire Tim Hortons brand, says writer Douglas...