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Hackers have managed to take control of a car and crash it into a ditch while sitting on their sofa about 15 kilometres away. In the first such breach of its kind, security experts caused the engine to cut out and applied the brakes on a Jeep Cherokee, sending it into a spin. The U.S...

“It took until about 1800 or 1825 to put the first billion people on the planet. We added the most recent billion in 12 or 13 years. We anticipate two billion more by 2050.” That’s Joel Cohen, head of the Laboratory of Populations at Rockefeller University in New York. He spoke February...

Questions are being raised about the RCMP’s decision to use new recruits as guinea pigs in a study evaluating the effects of different concentrations of pepper spray. The National Post learned about the experiment after receiving an anonymous email expressing concerns that cadets at the...

A few simple and honest questions (nothing tricky) that kind of perplex me that I'd love to see answered by the 'climate change is a hoax' crowd. Let's see if we can stay on topic for just a bit. This isn't a debate about whether climate change is real or a conspiracy, this is a discussion on...

The population of Muslims in Canada has been doubling in Canada every decade since the 1960s. Mostly through immigration but a growing number of births and conversions are helping to propel Canada on a trajectory that would see Muslims reach 50%+1 of the population somewhere around 2050. A long...

Pope Francis described the pursuit of money as “the dung of the devil” and offered a heartfelt apology for what the Catholic Church did to the native peoples of South America during a visit to Bolivia Friday. On the second stage of the three-country tour of his home continent, the...

The news that broadcasters Peter Mansbridge, Lisa LaFlamme and Lloyd Robertson are no longer honorary patrons of the Never Forgotten National Memorial Foundation (NFNMF) — that’s the outfit hoping to build a 24-metre colossus of “Mother Canada” in Cape Breton Highlands National Park...

A 14-year-old girl is dead after a shooting a west Toronto apartment complex on Thursday. The teen was shot with an “illegal, prohibited semi-automatic handgun” while visiting at a house in the complex, Det. Rich Petrie told a news conference Thursday. Asked whether the shooting could have...

Marina Banister is chair of the Edmonton Youth Council's sustainability committee, which initiated the effort to get the youth council to only cater vegan meals for themselves. They now want Edmonton City Council to follow suit, a motion that is up for debate. A debate over vegetarian food is...

I do not believe. A few reasons are: It is pretty clear when you take a serious look at the enormity and complexity of the universe that humanity and Earth are insignificant and that no God created it for us. With every decade our knowledge grows of our own solar system and it is harder and...

This is not a debate about whether four is a number or if gophers exist. Climate change is a scientific fact only challenged by the odd wingnut and given that there is more scientific consensus that climate change is occurring now than there is over whether smoking cigarettes can lead to lung...

Ghomeshi has not only withdrawn his $55-million lawsuit against the employers who fired him last month, but will also pay them $18,000 in legal costs.......................... Jian Ghomeshi drops lawsuit, agrees to pay CBC legal fees | MANDEL | Toronto & G Anyone still holding to this mess...

OTTAWA -- A suggestion that white and non-black protesters limit their visibility and "stand behind black folks" at protests Tuesday in Ottawa and Toronto against the fatal shooting of a black teen in Ferguson, Mo., has sparked a heated debate on social media....... Read more: Organizers of...

I use clip converter to convert youtube movies and such onto the kids playbooks for when we travel and they have to sit for long periods. we are leaving in a few days for a three week trip and in the middle of converting videos the site was hijacked by someone bemoaning the Palestinian cause...

Of all the transhumanist technologies coming in the near future, one stands out that both fascinates and perplexes people. It's called ectogenesis: raising a fetus outside the human body in an artificial womb. It has the possibility to change one of the most fundamental acts that most...

The province, sooner rather than later, will roll out a consultation with Albertans on whether you want the Progressive Conservative government to move ahead with toll roads...

When Gabe Deem was eight years old growing up in small-town Texas, he found a copy of a Playboy magazine and decided naked ladies were the best thing ever. Then, when he was 12, his family got high-speed Internet. Suddenly the naked ladies he craved weren’t just intermittently available...

Several former Canadian soldiers plan to join Kurds to combat Islamic State militants in coming weeks, Canadian media reported on Friday, bolstering the ranks of foreigners fighting alongside the group. Canadian vets plan to join Kurdish fight against Islamic State | Reuters I am opposed...

Toronto police are searching for at least two suspects after a brazen shooting at a packed downtown restaurant killed one man and sent two women to hospital........................... Triple shooting at Toronto restaurant leaves one dead two wounded | News1130 Jamaican or Somalian? Other...

The perpetrators of Arab/Muslim terrorism, and Palestinian terrorism in particular, are never lone wolves, as they are sometimes described. They are the byproducts of a centuries-old intolerant ideology, supported by educational and religious indoctrination and incitement, operating...