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Lawsuit: Audio depicts another police conspiracy to plant drug evidence A police car dash cam captured Santa Clara deputies plotting to plant drugs in a woman’s home after their first illegal search turned up nothing, the woman claims in court. Allison Ross, who was arrested after the second...

Pipeline push-back: What's behind the rising opposition to Canada's big oil pipelines High-stakes oil pipeline projects have taken a public lashing lately, whether in a plebiscite in British Columbia, more protests in Washington, D.C., or from a former U.S. president and several Nobel laureates...

Inconvenient truth: Keystone XL no longer crucial? To borrow a movie title and now oft-heard phrase, a Canadian currency analyst has what may be an inconvenient truth for TransCanada Corp.: Its controversial Keystone XL pipeline may no longer be as crucial as it once was. In a recent report...

US, China carbon talks 'most promising' in 20 years China and the US have begun an ambitious new phase of talks on curbing their carbon dioxide emissions that observers say is the most promising development in nearly 20 years of global climate change negotiations. A lack of co-ordination...

Online consultations ask feds to dump Economic Action Plan ads Canadians who offered advice online in the runup to the 2014 federal budget had a consistent message for the Conservative government: dump those Economic Action Plan ads. A so-called e-consultation organized by Finance Canada in...

40% Of US Workers Now Earn Less Than 1968 Minimum Wage Are American workers paid enough? That is a topic that is endlessly debated all across this great land of ours. Unfortunately, what pretty much everyone can agree on is that American workers are not making as much as they used to after...

From Northern Gateway to Keystone, the undefinable ‘social licence’ movement is in control of jobs and growth As Milton Friedman predicted, corporate social responsibility has failed and left business more vulnerable The Northern Gateway and Keystone pipelines keep getting hammered, the...

Rob Ford’s housing boss, Eugene Jones, out after scathing ombudsman report Eugene Jones’ controversy-filled tenure as Toronto’s housing boss is over after the Toronto Community Housing pushed him out their CEO after a scathing ombudsman’s report described a number of broken rules and an “abject...

Thousands block far-right march in Berlin Thousands of Berliners have blocked a group of right-wing extremists from staging a march through the German capital. Police say some 2,000 people stood in the way of the planned route of a demonstration organized Saturday by the far-right National...

BIOFUELS: Making jet fuel out of garbage -- a first Come 2017, British Airways could be able to fuel flights from London's City Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on trash. The airline has partnered with Washington, D.C.-based Solena Fuels to make 50,000 metric tons of...

McDonald's Canada CEO calls foreign worker controversy 'bull****' The CEO of McDonald's Canada has branded recent criticism of its use of temporary foreign workers "bull****" in a conference call to franchisees that was given to the CBC. His remarks from earlier this week came before federal...

Climate dollars and sense – preventing global warming is the cheap option The IPCC has now released all three of the reports that comprise its 2014 Fifth Assessment of climate science. The first report tackled the physical changes in the global climate, while the second addressed climate...

Canadian, U.S. housing markets defy expectations, price gap hits record The gap between the average price of a home in Canada and the United States widened to a record level in the first quarter of this year, contrary to what economists would have expected, according to Bank of Montreal’s chief...

Hamas-Fatah announce reconciliation Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have announced a reconciliation deal, saying they will seek to form a unity government in the coming weeks. It comes as the peace talks between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israel near collapse...

18 yr. old taken to hospital after party at PM's residence Medical authorities intervened at 24 Sussex Dr. over the weekend after a young party-goer suffered from severe intoxication. The Ottawa Paramedic Service confirmed that an 18-year-old girl was brought to hospital after suffering from...

The growing pandemic of political speak "Most academics … effortlessly dispense sludge," writes Steven Pinker, the Harvard University psychologist and writer. John Kerry, America's ever-more-pontifical secretary of state, recently began an answer about Middle East peace negotiations by...

Apple updates environmental progress, focuses on climate change, finite resources Just in time for Earth Day, Apple has updated its environmental site with the latest information about the many green initiatives it has put in place. Most prominently, the company has assembled a video, narrated...

Keystone XL Oil pipeline’s fate shifts from Washington to seven Nebraskan justices The focus of the Keystone XL debate has shifted from a fierce lobbying war in Washington to Lincoln, Nebraska, where the state Supreme Court has been asked to weigh a legal challenge to the pipeline. Keystone...

Does Rob Ford really call people back? - YouTube Rob Ford ‘didn’t call me back’: Olivia Chow attack ad takes aim at the core of mayor’s brand The Olivia Chow campaign wants Torontonians to know it’s not just reporters who have waited in futility by the phone for Mayor Rob Ford to return their...

China's air pollution leading to more erratic climate for US, say scientists China's air pollution could be intensifying storms over the Pacific Ocean and altering weather patterns in North America, according to scientists in the US. A team from Texas, California and Washington state has found...