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How the mighty have fallen! David Soknacki blasts Rob Ford over ‘bad math’ as he warns Scarborough subways will push city’s debt to $7B Toronto’s debt will double in eight years if Mayor Rob Ford fulfills his promise to turn current light rail lines into subways, David Soknacki, the mayoral...

Disclaimer: I do not endorse or deny the following. Climate change brings more crime: study A new study broadens a notion held by the earliest criminologists: Periods of higher temperatures—on an hour-by-hour or week-to-week basis—are likely to produce more crime. The study by Matthew...

Oilsands study confirms tailings found in groundwater, river New federal research has confirmed that water from vast oilsands tailings ponds is leaching into groundwater and seeping into the Athabasca River. Previous studies using models have estimated the leakage at 6.5 million litres a day...

Are these guys ****ing sinister or what?? Bill would end Elections Canada vote drives Among the controversial proposals in the Conservative government's proposed Fair Elections Act is one to eliminate Elections Canada campaigns encouraging Canadians to vote - no matter who for. Pierre...

Keystone XL access through Nebraska shut down by judge The hurdles standing before the Keystone XL pipeline project grew ever taller Wednesday as a Nebraska court dealt the long-delayed project another significant setback. A district judge ripped up a state law that might have been used to...

Europe and U.S. Threaten Sanctions Over Kiev Bloodshed BRUSSELS — Expressing alarm at the lethal escalation of political violence in Ukraine, the European Union and the United States scrambled for a quick response Wednesday, threatening punitive sanctions against senior figures in the Ukrainian...

Twitter account parodying Rob Ford suspended Did Mayor Rob Ford order a Twitter account parodying him suspended? That's what some Twitter users are claiming on Wednesday, as Richard Feren's Twitter satire persona @TOMayorFrod was suddenly suspended from the social media service...

Catholic Church withholding millions from victims Court documents obtained by CBC News allege that the Catholic Church is withholding millions from former students of Indian residential schools. The church was part of the Indian residential school settlement reached in 2006. While the...

Johnny's been hitting all the right notes these days! John Kerry blasts climate change deniers, 'shoddy scientists' Climate change may be the world's "most fearsome" weapon of mass destruction and urgent action is needed to combat it, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday...

Santa’s revenge: new evidence supports link between climate change, severe weather Scientists call it Santa’s revenge. It’s the theory that persistent weather patterns at the mid-latitudes – like this winter’s tediously long-lasting polar vortex or California’s severe drought – are a direct...

A Hunk Of Planet Dissolves Before Our Eyes It begins with a growl. Then there's a crack — a slurpy, sucky, crunchy noise. A guy is on the phone, and his pal interrupts him and says, "It's starting, Adam, I think. Adam? It's starting ..." The two are up on a bluff, overlooking a giant ice field...

Maps show expected redistribution of global species due to climate change As climate change unfolds over the next century, plants and animals will need to adapt or shift locations to follow their ideal climate. A new study provides an innovative global map of where species are likely to succeed...

Kerry tells N Korea to get "real" SEOUL: US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday welcomed new high-level talks between North and South Korea, while warning Pyongyang against trying to derail an upcoming South Korea-US military exercise. Kerry, in Seoul to discuss North Korea's nuclear...

Our Conservative finance minister is a socialist? Flaherty comes out against Harper’s tax cut promise OTTAWA—Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has come out strongly against one of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s key tax cut promises. Coming a day after the federal budget, Flaherty’s questioning...

Scientists link Britain’s extreme weather to climate change LONDON—Britain’s weather service says it sees the tentacles of climate change in a spate of storms and floods battering the country, but has stopped short of saying warming directly caused the extreme storms. The latest round of bad...

Consumer debt snowballs to $1.4T Canadians' consumer debt load continued to snowball last year, rising nine per cent to $1.422 trillion, according to a new survey from the credit rating agency Equifax Canada. Total consumer debt increased by 4.5 per cent between the third and fourth quarters...

Alberta premier apologizes for cost of Mandela trip, but won't repay $45K CALGARY -- Alberta's premier apologized Monday for the $45,000 it cost to go to Nelson Mandela's funeral in South Africa, but said she is not willing to repay the money. Alison Redford says the amount caught her off...

Google Earth now shows CLIMATE CHANGE: Regional temperatures since 1850 added to the mapping service The UN claims climate change is ‘almost definitely’ caused by humans, and now Google Earth users can see the impact they are supposed to have made to temperature changes in their local area...

Canadian study finds flu vaccine working well against H1N1 Canadian researchers today released a preliminary estimate that this year's influenza vaccine reduces the risk of infection from the 2009 pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) virus by 74%—apparent good news in a season when that strain is by far the...

Scathing UN report demands Vatican action on abuse The United Nations has demanded the Vatican "immediately remove" all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers and turn them over to civil authorities, in an unprecedented and scathing report. The UN watchdog for children's rights said...