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Easy win. Canada is launching an experiment that will give 4,000 people free money until 2020 Finland, The Netherlands, and San Francisco, California have already shown their interest in giving people a regular monthly allowance - a system known as basic income. Now Ontario, Canada, is...

The real president speaks. The retirement party is over: Obama is returning to public life WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s extended post-presidential vacation is about to end. After spending weeks in French Polynesia — including time on the yacht of movie mogul David Geffen along with Bruce...

Boom. Ontario to table first balanced budget since the recession on April 27 TORONTO -- Ontario's first balanced budget since the recession is set to be delivered April 27. Finance Minister Charles Sousa announced the date today in a speech to the Empire Club of Canada, saying that gives...

2013 is here. The Arctic is undergoing an astonishingly rapid transition as climate change overwhelms the region. New research sheds light on the latest example of the changes afoot, showing that parts of the Arctic Ocean are becoming more like the Atlantic. Warm waters are streaming into...

Boycott America? Any increase in global temperature greater than 2ºC, scientists agree, risks triggering feedback loops that cause much greater warming and could render large parts of the planet uninhabitable. For example, further warming would release large quantities of methane – a more...

Justin Trudeau takes questions—all of them Good for the prime minister for taking questions from every MP who had one in Question Period on Wednesday. He has proposed a single weekly PM’s Questions during which he’d be the only person to take questions from the Opposition. It’s modelled on the...

Operation Mussolini complete. Steve Bannon is off the National Security Council The realignment increases the influence of National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, whose public stances were sometimes at odds with those of Bannon. In addition to gaining greater control over the NSC, McMaster...

Their immigration policy is clearly propelling Sharia Law over there. Fears of a Putin crackdown after terror attack on St Petersburg metro So who is to blame? No one has said officially. The BBC's Frank Gardner says suspicions will centre around Chechen nationalists or an Islamic State...

No question Russia meddled in U.S. election, says Nikki Haley WASHINGTON – The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says there’s no question Russia was involved in the U.S. presidential election and that the actions of the Kremlin will be addressed after the investigations are completed. “We...

Stephen Harper Jumps Back Into Politics To Run For Tory Leader CALGARY - Former prime minister Stephen Harper has shocked the Canadian political world and announced he is seeking to lead the Conservative party again. In a press release early Saturday morning, Harper says that though he has...

Sean Hannity Is Still Upset Ted Koppel Said He Was ‘Bad for America’ The Fox News host Sean Hannity has been very upset. Mr. Hannity is often very upset, at things like the past friendships of President Barack Obama; the suspected political leanings of his former colleague Megyn Kelly; the...

Marco Rubio Says His Campaign Was a Target of Russian Cyberattacks WASHINGTON — Senator Marco Rubio said Thursday during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia that his own presidential campaign had been a target of apparent Russian cyberattacks, and a cybersecurity expert testified...

Cenovus shares fall in wake of $17.7B oilsands purchase Shares in Cenovus Energy were down 11 per cent shortly after markets opened Thursday following its announcement to acquire Canadian assets belonging to Houston-based ConocoPhillips. Under the $17.7 billion deal, the Calgary-based energy...

Canada > America As U.S. GDP growth estimates fall, Canada’s economy picks up steam After two years of underperforming the United States, is the Canadian economy about to outshine its southern neighbour? It's starting to look like it. Friday's release of gross domestic product for January...

The US Is Ceding the Energy Industry of the Future to China On Tuesday, President Trump pledged to end the “war on coal” by rolling back the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era federal policy that compels states to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. China responded Wednesday, reaffirming its...

Shots Fired After Woman Nearly Strikes Officers Near US Capitol U.S. Capitol Police fired shots at a woman driver during a confrontation near the Capitol Building Wednesday morning. Officials say that just before the clash, the woman fled from a traffic stop and nearly hit officers. The woman...

The Putin Exodus: The New Russian Brain Drain Since Vladimir Putin assumed his third term in office in May 2012, Russian emigration has surged to its highest levels since the 1990s. Unlike the 1990s where emigration was driven mostly by economic instability, the emigrants today are fleeing the...

The Republican Party Is Catastrophically Broken When the history of the fledgling, fumbling Trump presidency is written, the past week will go down as either the end of the beginning, or the beginning of the end. Trump’s disastrous week began with FBI director James Comey confirming that his...

NWO Globalist confirmed. Nigel Farage says he will emigrate if Brexit goes badly On Monday night on his regular radio show, the former Ukip leader, who has reportedly been waiting to be offered some sort of position in relation to President Donald Trump's administration for months, said he...