Canadian taxpayers are paying the wages of two nannies hired to care for the children of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, after he said repeatedly during the election campaign that wealthy families like his should be paying for childcare themselves.
Posted: | 10:32 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207945 |
Rating: | 20795 |
Poster: | andyt |
Dozens of vehicles, including trucks, combines and tractors lined Alberta's Highway 2 Monday afternoon in the latest protest of the NDP government's Bill 6.
Posted: | 5:30 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207736 |
Rating: | 20774 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
A Liberal majority government in Newfoundland and Labrador has been projected by CBC News, as ballots are being counted in the 20th general provincial election.
Posted: | 4:48 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207413 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Delwin |
Beijing suffered its worst air pollution of the year on Monday, with monitoring sites throughout the city reporting extremely hazardous levels of pollutants.
Posted: | 2:02 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207795 |
Rating: | 20780 |
Poster: | ShepherdsDog |
The federal government will go ahead with a $700-million plan to retrofit an interim navy supply ship at Montreal's Davie Shipyard. The deal was put in jeopardy two weeks ago when the Liberals put the deal on hold for 60 days while they re-examined the in
Posted: | 12:53 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207945 |
Rating: | 20795 |
Poster: | ShepherdsDog |
Lokmat, a leading regional daily, published an article entitled Isis "cha paisa" (Isis's money) accompanied by a cartoon. The caricature showed an illustration of various currency symbols falling into a piggy bank.
Posted: | 12:46 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207406 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
RIOTING migrants STONED officials and police attempting to erect a security fence on the Greek-Macedonian border yesterday, leaving 40 people injured.
Posted: | 12:39 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207530 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
As Delhi rushes to boost its coal generation to satisfy rocketing energy demands, John Kerry's decision to single out India as a challenge provokes fury fury
Posted: | 11:49 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207394 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Pope Francis visited a mosque in a Muslim neighborhood of the Central African Republic's capital that has been a flashpoint for violent clashes.
Posted: | 7:06 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207895 |
Rating: | 20790 |
Poster: | QBall |
Posted: | 7:59 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207587 |
Rating: | 20759 |
Poster: | andyt |
A soon-to-be Canadian plans to formally recant the mandatory oath to the Queen right after he becomes a citizen today.
Posted: | 7:58 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207636 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | andyt |
Posted: | 6:40 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207463 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Canada's second-biggest bank is being criticized for part of its Visa cardholder agreement that allows TD Canada Trust to access and collect information on all of its customers' online activities, even those that aren't banking-related.
Posted: | 6:36 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207557 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and her Albertan counterpart Rachel Notley are the latest politicians to wade into Grey Cup bets ahead of tomorrow's championship football game in Winnipeg.
Posted: | 3:28 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207400 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
One of the myths about carbon pricing that politicians like to tell us is that it pits the government against big polluters on behalf of the public.
Posted: | 3:23 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207388 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Two women who accuse female Oxford University student of sexual violence have claimed she "tried to paint herself as the victim" to gain sympathy.
Posted: | 10:40 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207737 |
Rating: | 20774 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
AIRLINE officials have launched an investigation after Arabic graffiti was found daubed on planes in France.
Posted: | 10:39 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207525 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
ANTARCTIC temperatures have cooled over the past six years, according to US space agency NASA.
Posted: | 9:53 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207710 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
France has put 24 green activists under house arrest ahead of the United Nations climate talks, using emergency laws put in place following the Paris shootings, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Saturday.
Posted: | 9:49 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207419 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 9:30 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207383 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Demand for meat is growing worldwide, but it's coming at a cost to the environment
Posted: | 9:23 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207473 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A SMALL Swedish village has descended into open warfare after furious locals clashed with migrants in a chilling warning of the dangers associated with mass migration.
Posted: | 9:21 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207452 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Police involved in a major operation to tackle an ongoing feud which saw two teenagers' skulls being stolen from a grave have found two sub-machine guns and ...
Posted: | 9:18 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207237 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
ELEUTHERA, BAHAMAS: Standing atop a 60-foot cliff overlooking the Atlantic, James Hansen - the retired NASA scientist sometimes dubbed the "father of global warming" - examines two small rocks through a magnifying glass.
Posted: | 9:08 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207374 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Youssif Zaghwani Omar, 53, was arrested in Columbia, Missouri on Wednesday for allegedly dragging a 14-year-old relative out of her school because she wasn't wearing a hijab.
Posted: | 9:06 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207739 |
Rating: | 20774 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Voters in Britain's referendum need to understand that the European Union was about building a federal superstate from day one
Posted: | 9:05 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207341 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Six years of crippling financial austerity have forced local women back into a prostitution where they now offer some of the lowest prices on the Continent
Posted: | 8:57 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207727 |
Rating: | 20773 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 7:40 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207388 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | andyt |
Maurice Strong, whose work helped lead to the landmark climate summit that begins in Paris on Monday, has died at 86, the head of the UN's environmental agency said Saturday.
Posted: | 2:25 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207492 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Researchers say they are seeing growing numbers of humpback whales in B.C. waters.
Posted: | 6:01 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207408 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 5:57 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207485 |
Rating: | 20749 |
Poster: | Hyack |
An earthquake registering at magnitude 3.6 shook the area near Cornwall, Ont. and western Quebec just after midnight Saturday morning.
Posted: | 4:46 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207475 |
Rating: | 20748 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Quinn van Gylswyk kicked the game-winning field goal with no time remaining as the UBC Thunderbirds defeated the University of Montreal Carabins 26-23 to win the Vanier Cup.
Posted: | 4:00 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207421 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The new drone video shot by an Arctic adventure tour guide gives viewers a rare bird's eye view of beluga whales in Nunavut's Cunningham Inlet.
Posted: | 3:28 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207413 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A professor from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is in the Mackenzie Delta again this winter, looking skyward. Wayne Horowitz has been visiting the region since 2012 as part of his research comparing Gwich'in oral traditions to the night sky.
Posted: | 3:26 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207344 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The face of Oksana Bobrovskaya, 30, who was in Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party, was ripped off in the blast in Siberia's largest city, Novosibirsk.
Posted: | 1:25 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207659 |
Rating: | 20766 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The strange clip emerged on LiveLeak and shows the three vehicles being pulled into the air before one rolls onto its side in the city of Xingtai, central China.
Posted: | 1:24 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207831 |
Rating: | 20783 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:56 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207359 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Premier Christy Clark has said she will bill British Columbia as an environmental leader at the world climate change summit in Paris. But her own government-commissioned report concludes the province will miss its legislated greenhouse gas reduction targe
Posted: | 12:45 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207332 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Chrissy Turner is only in Grade 3 and she is now fighting a rare form of breast cancer.
Posted: | 12:44 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207319 |
Rating: | 20732 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A Siberian tiger at a park in Russia has been forced to sleep on the roof of its enclosure after it was kicked out by the goat it was supposed to have eaten.
Posted: | 12:27 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207832 |
Rating: | 20785 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Thanks to a little help from social media, and possibly a pinch of Christmas magic, a 10-year-old boy who forgot to put a return address on his letter to Santa Claus will finally get a letter back.
Posted: | 12:22 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207379 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
President Erdogan's planes have aimed their missiles almost exclusively at the one army which poses a real threat to ISIS - the Kurdish PKK forces inside Syria, writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH.
Posted: | 12:20 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206178 |
Rating: | 20618 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:15 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 208065 |
Rating: | 20807 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
It has this week been revealed that the tumble dryer could be a lethal fire hazard. Homeowners reveal their horror stories of discovering that their tumble dryers had caught alight.
Posted: | 12:14 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207673 |
Rating: | 20767 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Most people in the English-speaking parts of the world missed Putin's speech at the Valdai conference in Sochi a few days ago, and, chances are, those of you who have heard of the speech didn't get a chance to read it, and missed its importance. In this
Posted: | 11:29 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207963 |
Rating: | 20796 |
Poster: | Winnipegger |
It's not every day that you get to take a picture with a bald eagle, but two brothers in Sudbury did just that after rescuing the bird from a hunting trap. Now, their efforts are being applauded by a local bird expert.
Posted: | 2:42 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207395 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 2:31 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207239 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A random test has found a low-risk strain of avian flu in a duck shot by hunters. Experts say it poses no risk to humans, but farmers warned to take extra precautions.
Posted: | 2:28 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207293 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A giant art installation made of four shipping containers shaped into the letter W is set to officially open on Saturday on the banks of the Fraser River in New Westminster, B.C.
Posted: | 12:13 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207709 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | Hyack |
It is safe to predict that when 20,000 world leaders, officials, green activists and hangers-on convene in Paris next week for the 21st United Nations climate conference, one person you will not see much quotedis Professor Judith Curry. This is a pity.
Posted: | 12:46 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207502 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he supports France's proposal to shut down the Turkish-Syrian border as a way to fight Islamic State fighters in Syria.
Posted: | 11:22 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207274 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The aunt of a Syrian boy whose lifeless body was photographed on a Turkish beach says she hopes her brother's family will be in Canada by Christmas.
Posted: | 11:20 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207441 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Canada will provide $2.65 billion over five years to help developing countries deal with climate change, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday at the Commonwealth summit in Malta.
Posted: | 11:19 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207434 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Christiane Ebrahimian, who was sacked from a hospital in Nanterre for refusing to take off her headscarf, lost her appeal at the European Court of Human Rights today
Posted: | 11:18 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207155 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
There were plenty of lines to stand in, bargains to be had and people to shove/wrestle/punch out at Black Friday events this year, although the Canadian experience was much more calm, when compared to the frenzies in the U.S.
Posted: | 11:16 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207068 |
Rating: | 20707 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Colorado Springs police responded to a Planned Parenthood clinic Friday morning after reports of an active shooter. Tweets from the Colorado Springs Police Department's public information officer indicate the reports are coming
Posted: | 11:13 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207347 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | Delwin |
Food-focused company J&D's specializes in bacon products and has launched a new range of bacon-scented lingerie, which is emblazoned with the cheeky slogan: 'Stop and smell the...'
Posted: | 11:10 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207231 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A Dutch high court on Thursday upheld a government policy of withholding food and shelter to rejected asylum-seekers who refuse to be repatriated, giving legal backing to one of Europe's toughest immigration policies.
Posted: | 9:51 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207128 |
Rating: | 20713 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Hawaii is a small target in the massive Pacific Ocean, but scientists are nevertheless impressed that the islands escaped a record-breaking cyclone season unscathed. To illustrate just how lucky the Aloha State has been, the National Weather Service r
Posted: | 9:48 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207140 |
Rating: | 20714 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Canada's human smuggling law is "over-broad" as it's applied to people seeking asylum in Canada, including B.C.'s MV Sun Sea case, the Supreme Court of Canada decides.
Posted: | 8:06 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207267 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Italian police in the northern port city of Trieste seize nearly 800 shotguns en route from Turkey to Belgium.
Posted: | 7:01 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207326 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Leaked internal Alberta government documents cast doubt on the findings of an ethics investigation that cleared former premier Alison Redford of conflict-of-interest allegations.
Posted: | 6:55 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207189 |
Rating: | 20719 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The economics of free trade in dairy sounds good for Canadian consumers. But experience in other countries shows that a well-run supply management system may be better than the pure market alternative.
Posted: | 6:54 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207108 |
Rating: | 20711 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A Muslim group in Peterborough, Ont., will kneel and pray today at a local synagogue, where they will be welcomed after their own mosque was damaged in an arson attack earlier this month that police are investigating as a hate crime.
Posted: | 6:51 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207371 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A teenage refugee from South Sudan is suing the Children's Ministry in British Columbia over allegations he was held in solitary confinement for four months.
Posted: | 5:12 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207399 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Freakinoldguy |
Hurricane Sandra has strengthened to a powerful Category 4 storm in the eastern Pacific off Mexico's coast.
Posted: | 8:43 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207326 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:53 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207445 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | andyt |
RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson says the police force needs warrantless access to Internet subscriber information to keep pace with child predators and other online criminals.
Posted: | 6:30 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207219 |
Rating: | 20722 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Smashing! The Large Hadron Collider just shattered a new record | We will soon be exploring matter at an even earlier stage of our universe.
Posted: | 6:09 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207458 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:32 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207404 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 7:31 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 208027 |
Rating: | 20803 |
Poster: | Hyack |
There are now clear numbers on how many Syrian refugees will be settled in B.C. by the end of the year, and they're much lower than initially discussed.
Posted: | 7:22 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207028 |
Rating: | 20703 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Buy-Low Foods has become the first major grocer in North America to stop selling "red-listed" seafood, says sustainable seafood program SeaChoice.
Posted: | 7:17 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207283 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Researchers from the University of Alberta are responsible for fitting a polar bear with a radio collar that appears to have injured the animal, an Environment Canada scientist says.
Posted: | 5:52 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207295 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Mr Osborne will buy a new multi-billion pound arsenal of weapons including 42 new F35 jets
Posted: | 3:33 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207430 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Queen Elizabeth warmly receives Justin Trudeau in Buckingham Palace
Posted: | 1:17 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207358 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Miu was bought by his owner Tran Thi Nga in Nam Dimh, Vietnam 10 years ago as a normal sized kitchen but saw his weight balloon after he showed an astonishing ability for eating.
Posted: | 12:18 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207604 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Newly-obtained footage reveals hundreds of metres of underground tunnels used by Islamic State militants to hide from coalition air strikes while nearby lies what is thought to be a Yazidi mass grave
Posted: | 12:06 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207410 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Critics have wondered why the colleges are commemorating 'an era of history steeped in racism'
Posted: | 11:56 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207346 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A recent suicide bombing in southern Syria shows the rivalry between Al Qaeda and ISIS is more than just a contest to see who can kill the most infidels -- the groups are using classic terror techniques on each other.
Posted: | 11:42 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207140 |
Rating: | 20714 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Thou shalt heed the wise advice offered here
Posted: | 11:54 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207307 |
Rating: | 20732 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
When it comes to addressing climate change, former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty and current Premier Kathleen Wynne deserve credit for one significant thing.
Posted: | 11:40 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207266 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Former hostage Matthew Schrier worries about a Canadian in his early 20s who converted to Islam in his late teens, a man he has never met.
Posted: | 11:11 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207152 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Robocalls from illegal telemarketing operations are more than just annoying, they're often scams that bilk Canadians out of tens of millions of dollars every year. Consumer advocates say phone companies could use "spam filters for the phone" to prevent th
Posted: | 11:10 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207166 |
Rating: | 20717 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A lot of the talk around fighting climate change is focused on big business and the auto industry. But what about meat? The livestock sector generates nearly 15 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, according to a 2013 report by the United
Posted: | 10:53 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207233 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
One of the biggest studies to examine how climate change became controversial points to the unified dialogue coming out of the hundreds of individuals and organizations funded by energy heavyweights Exxon Mobil Corp. and the Koch brothers.
Posted: | 10:51 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207093 |
Rating: | 20709 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Men are adding glitter to their beards just in time for the holidays!
Posted: | 9:10 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207287 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | Tyler_1 |
Under new rules imposed by the local government, Muslim women will be banned from wearing the burqa in shops, restaurants or public buildings in the Italian speaking canton of Ticino.
Posted: | 1:14 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207307 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The Anonymous group is trying to impede the terror group's social media activism by infiltrating its propaganda feeds and misdirecting followers to Astley's hit song in the age-old Rickroll prank.
Posted: | 12:54 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 208243 |
Rating: | 20824 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times last year was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, hours before the city released a video of the killing that many people fear could spark unrest.
Posted: | 12:53 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207145 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Samra Kesinovic, 17, who fled Austria in April 2014 along with her friend Sabina Selimovic is believed to have been beaten to death by ISIS terrorists having tried to sneak out of Raqqa.
Posted: | 12:52 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207261 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A wailing newborn baby was found with his umbilical cord attached inside a nativity scene at a Queens church, police say.
Posted: | 12:50 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207311 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Channel 4's documentary about British female Islamic State supporters proves that our capital is no longer a byword for tolerance and diversity
Posted: | 12:32 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207248 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:26 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207395 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Blue Origin, the private space firm owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, has just dropped a huge gauntlet in the race to develop a reusable rocket. It just launched it...
Posted: | 12:25 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207133 |
Rating: | 20713 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Five people shot near Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis. Injured are hospitalized after gunfire erupts near Black Lives Matter camp.
Posted: | 12:16 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207092 |
Rating: | 20709 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Arab News, an English-language daily, is a leading source of commentaries and news on Saudi Arabia, sports, business, Islam, lifestyle and more.
Posted: | 12:14 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207167 |
Rating: | 20717 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 10:27 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207185 |
Rating: | 20719 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
Posted: | 8:18 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207143 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | Robair |
Canadians' views on what to do about climate change vary from one region of the country to another, an important consideration as the premiers of Manitoba and Saskatchewan face re-election in five months' time.
Posted: | 8:07 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207382 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | andyt |
Transport Canada has halted all operations of Amphibus-Lady Dive Inc., the Ottawa company that ran the Lady Duck. But amphibious tour boats elsewhere in the country are not affected by the Transport Canada decision.
Posted: | 7:59 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207123 |
Rating: | 20712 |
Poster: | andyt |
Crimea is relying on emergency generators to meet its basic power needs after power lines were blown up, with pro-Ukraine activists preventing repairs
Posted: | 7:44 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207055 |
Rating: | 20706 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
THE ADE 651 IS A SMALL, HANDHELD WAND with a plastic grip and a swiveling antenna, designed by a British company named ATSC for the ostensible purpose of finding hidden explosives. I saw one of these devices firsthand last year while driving up to a secur
Posted: | 6:00 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207211 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Friends of Palestinian Ashraf Fayadh believe he is being punished for posting video showing religious police lashing a man in public
Posted: | 12:33 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207130 |
Rating: | 20713 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
About 66% of Canadians make too little to qualify for the Liberal's proposed 'middle income' tax cut, while the country's top earners get stuck with a whopping hike to pay for it
Posted: | 12:27 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207150 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:25 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207654 |
Rating: | 20765 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Soldiers and military personnel at a Kingston, Ont. base are being asked to clear their barracks to make room for an early wave of Syrian refugees arriving in just over a week, CTV News has learned.
Posted: | 12:22 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207346 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Throwing up trade barriers and charging Ontarians more for electricity could have economically devastating effects
Posted: | 12:19 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207175 |
Rating: | 20718 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A prosecutor Monday urged a jury to convict two men accused in a fatal attack on a Vancouver teen involving a samurai sword and a golf club.
Posted: | 12:13 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207063 |
Rating: | 20706 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
In undercover footage of a meeting in London three ISIS supporters are heard glorifying jihadis and telling young Muslim women that Britain is waging war against them and they should join ISIS.
Posted: | 12:12 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207431 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
"Refugee movements are not the cause of terrorism," says Antonio Guterres, the outgoing UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Posted: | 5:16 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207503 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | andyt |
A Palestinian fatally stabbed an Israeli soldier at a West Bank gas station Monday before he was killed by security forces as part of a new wave of attacks on the eve of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to the region to try and calm two months o
Posted: | 4:03 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207175 |
Rating: | 20718 |
Poster: | ShepherdsDog |
Posted: | 2:23 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207365 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 2:19 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207194 |
Rating: | 20719 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Charged with 15 offences including assault, forcible confinement, uttering threats to police, possession of weapons, and possession for the purpose of trafficking is Saleh Mohammed, 22, of Surrey.
Posted: | 2:17 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207281 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Liu was the winning bidder for Amedeo Modigliani's "Reclining Nude" at a Christie's auction this month -- offering $170.4 million -- and when the sale closes he'll be putting it on his American Express card.
Posted: | 1:55 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207120 |
Rating: | 20712 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Exclusive: Having survived more than four years of civil war in Syria by keeping their faith secret, the Halabis escape with help of smugglers
Posted: | 1:54 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207137 |
Rating: | 20714 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
It will be easier for the Liberals to run on their plan of deficits if they can credibly claim they inherited one from the Conservatives. They can't.
Posted: | 1:45 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207542 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The latest issue of Dabiq, a magazine published by the Islamic State, is again calling for attacks on Canada.
Posted: | 1:38 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207364 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The revelations come as it emerged that hate crime against Muslims in the UK has rocketed by 300 per cent in the wake of the Paris terror attacks, with women being the main targets.
Posted: | 1:33 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207285 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 1:27 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207175 |
Rating: | 20718 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Impoverished migrant workers in Thailand are sold or lured by false promises and forced to catch and process fish that ends up in global food giant Nestle SA's supply chains.
Posted: | 12:12 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Economics |
Hits: | 207285 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Xiao Yun had been missing since 2005 and her family presumed she was dead. But she had been living in different Internet cafes in a nearby city since she left her home in the eastern Chinese city of Hengdian at age 14 after a heated argument with her m
Posted: | 10:31 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207335 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Shaida Bandali also sentenced to two years of probation after selling thousands of maternity patient records to RESP firms.
Posted: | 10:29 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207263 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | shockedcanadian |
Most of Crimea's two million people have been hit by the power cut. There are also some water shortages. Anti-Russian activists were blamed for the cut. Russian forces annexed Crimea in March 2014, during Ukraine's crisis. Public transport is still
Posted: | 8:53 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207071 |
Rating: | 20707 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |