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Carol Bertoria, Ph.D. Moral relativism is the view that ethical standards, morality, and positions of right or wrong are culturally based and therefore subject to a person's individual choice. We can all decide what is right for ourselves. You decide what's right for you, and I'll decide what's...

Just how and when do you step in to help your aging—and so independent—parents? BY DOUGLAS TODD My mother and stepfather were married for 30 years. They lived on a steep hillside on the North Shore of Vancouver, surrounded by evergreens and views of the Coast Mountains. When they retired, they...

Riot police on standby as OPP takes no "nonsense" stance at Ont. land occupation By Gregory Bonnell CALEDONIA, Ont. (CP) - Provincial police officers holding the middle ground in a standoff between aboriginals occupying a former housing development and non-aboriginal protesters turned their...

By Bruce Cheadle OTTAWA (CP) - Documents, please! That famous demand - traditionally spat in some clipped foreign accent to signal the dramatic turning point in an espionage thriller - takes on new meaning at a Canadian airport near you, starting Tuesday. That's the day every Canadian...

By Chris Morris OROMOCTO, N.B. (CP) - Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor and Canada's military leaders gave the latest wave of troops headed for Afghanistan an emotional send-off Friday. About 1,000 soldiers and their families gathered at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown for a patriotic pep rally...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's main opposition Liberal Party backed away on Thursday from its previous declaration that it was unlikely to support the minority Conservative government's federal budget. A defeat of the budget would trigger the second election in little more than a year, but Liberal...

METCHOSIN, B.C. (CP) - A young man waving a penis-shaped squirt gun was warned Friday not to enter a building where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was about to speak. A plainclothes member of Harper's security detail was overheard telling the youth it would not be advisable for him to enter...

(AP) GREELEY, Colo. Invoking Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Hankey from the television series "South Park," the lawyer for an ex-professor accused of leaving dog feces at a congresswoman's office said her client's actions qualify as protected speech under the First Amendment. Kathleen Ensz faces a...

Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent The Archbishop of Westminster has called upon Roman Catholics to practise fasting as a sign of solidarity with the world’s poor. Cardinal Cormac Murphy- O’Connor, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, is urging his flock to return...

By Dirk Meissner VICTORIA (CP) - The British Columbia government is trying to figure out which ministry should be handling the issue of whether to label genetically modified foods at a time when a Greenpeace poll suggests consumers in the province are worried about it. The poll conducted by...

By Mike Oliveira TORONTO (CP) - The Ontario government will spend $13 million to ensure 225 autistic children get the intensive but costly treatment they desperately need, but more than 1,000 others will be forced to continue waiting - and their ranks are growing, critics said Thursday...

Girl spent 22 hours a day in a room for almost 2 years By Jennifer K. Woldt of The Northwestern An Oshkosh couple is accused of locking their daughter up in a small room for nearly two years as punishment for behaving badly. The couple only allowed the 13-year-old girl to leave for...

By DALE WETZEL Associated Press Writer North Dakota's Legislature is encouraging disrespect for the law by making it illegal for a man and woman to live together without being married, a legislator says. If North Dakota prosecutors began enforcing the anti-cohabitation law, which provides a...

By Fiona James ANGRY homeowners called on the police yesterday to stop a house on their "lovely" estate being used to make porn films. They claim adult filmmaker James Edwards has shot sex movies in full view of his neighbours. They say women have exposed themselves on the drive of his...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Police are looking for suspects in the apparent sexual assault of a pit bull puppy in Newark. The Associated Humane Societies of Newark was notified at 7 a.m. Tuesday by the Newark Police Department that a pit bull puppy had been sodomized by a local resident. An...

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By Tim Dahlberg (AP) - The images are unsettling at best, upsetting at worst. The world, after all, remembers what he once was. Muhammad Ali trembles and has to be wheeled to a ringside spot to watch his daughter fight in New York. A frail Ali needs to be supported by basketball player Dwayne...

"Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light." Amos 5:18 -- Many televangelists and fundamentalists sects are voicing a cry that the end is near and they expect the return of Jesus Christ. In spite their dire warnings...

By Keith Leslie TORONTO (CP) - Canadian children are being exposed to far too much violence in music lyrics, video games and on television and need to be protected by laws similar to those that restrict the sale of tobacco to minors, a coalition of teachers and parents said Wednesday. The...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Bangor, in the eastern state of Maine, will become the first US city to enforce a ban on adults smoking in cars if children under the age of 18 are present. The city council approved the controversial measure in a 6-3 vote last month, drawing a mixed response from residents...