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I suggest the World Bank take a 'flying ****" at a rolling dougnut. Since when do banks vote? (Reuters) - The World Bank will suggest a global levy (TAX) on jet and shipping fuel in recommendations to G20 governments later this year on raising climate finance, a senior official said on...

Prepare for More Money Printing: Analyst Investors should prepare themselves for a third round of quantitative easing, Simon Maughn, co-head of European equities at MF Global, told CNBC Wednesday. “The bond market is going in one direction which is up-falling yields which is telling you...

by James West on May 30, 2011 By James West MidasLetter.com May 30, 2011 As shares in uranium exploration companies continued to shed value, Japan’s nuclear nightmare is still getting worse. News this weekend that the hope of ‘stabilizing’ the leakage of radiation by steam into the atmospohere...

The US Department of Homeland Security has begun field testing new technology which it thinks can identify people who intend to commit a terrorist act, just by looking at them. According to the magazine Nature, which we get for the spot the Schroedinger's cat competition, the US spooks have...

Fifty-four per cent of the 2011 crop has been seeded, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture's Weekly Crop Report. The five year (2006-2010) average for this time of year is approximately 72 per cent seeded. Significant seeding progress was made in western and northern regions during the past...

An 18-year-old student who was seriously injured in an Ottawa high school autoshop explosion and lost his vital signs was later revived in hospital. Paramedics called to the school late Thursday morning had originally confirmed the male died at the shop at Ottawa's Mother Teresa Catholic High...

The Conservative government will use its majority in the House of Commons to end the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly on marketing wheat and barley, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Wednesday. The government will likely introduce legislation this fall, Ritz said, with the changes expected to...

China will expedite the delivery of 50 Chengdu/Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) JF-17 Thunder aircraft production kits to Pakistan, part of Islamabad's 150 firm orders for the single-engined fighter. The Pakistan air force has confirmed the expedited delivery but declined to comment on the...

I had to take a drive up to the Coteau along the way I saw 6 people kite surfing on a flooded farmfield at the city's edge. I have a feeling there will be pics on the paper in morning. I'll look for and hopefully post any photos. It looked like they were having a blast, it was very windy today...

Libyan rebels will meet senior White House officials in Washington Friday, seeking both cash and diplomatic legitimacy in their war to topple Muammar Gaddafi. The head of the rebel National Transitional Council's executive bureau, Mahmoud Jebril, will meet President Barack Obama's national...

I just watched a woman smoke her melon into a light standard....... Hahahahahaha

Although relieved with bin Laden's death, many Chinese are scared where Washington will focus its attention next. The United States' most vilified terrorist foe has been dead only a week but China is already haunted by the phantom of the next big US enemy. Almost simultaneously with the spread...

Every spring right before seeding fuel prices jump and there is a fresh new excuse. The winner this year is: Oil Prices Will Top Highs After Correction: Goldman Goldman Sachs, which in April predicted this week’s major correction in oil prices, said on Friday oil could surpass recent highs...

It's 100% true......

Pity Gilles Duceppe. The leader of the Bloc Québécois spent almost two selfless decades in Parliament being paid handsomely by the taxpayers of Canada to try and pry the country apart. And what is his thanks after he was defeated in his own riding on Monday and the Bloc was reduced to four...

(Reuters) - Tens of billions of dollars of Chinese investment could flood into the United States in the next decade, creating a multitude of American jobs if officials do not succumb to a political backlash and throw up barriers, according to a report released on Wednesday. The study forecast...

Holy ****! I own a lake! I wish I had my camera with me.

According to Radio One he was shot dead in a raid of a mansion outside of Islamisbad.

Saskatchewan has approved a $1.24-billion project to build one of the world’s first commercial-scale, clean-coal power plants, with plans to capture the carbon dioxide before it goes into the atmosphere and use it to recover more crude from nearby oil fields. Backed with $240-million from the...

Perusing through some materials at hand I came across some interesting tidbits. Just imagine the mayhem if Canadians had a clue...... 65. The following persons are not eligible to be a candidate: b) a person who is disentitled under paragraph 502(3)(a) while they are so disentitled; 502...