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For first time, Rob Ford marks start of Pride week in Toronto
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford joined Premier Kathleen Wynne to mark the official start of Toronto’s Pride week Monday.For the first time since taking office, Mr. Ford helped to raise the rainbow flag at a lunchtime event at city hall and read the Pride week...
Alberta shelved major flood report for six years
From his farmhouse overlooking the Bow River, George Groeneveld watched the water rise foot by foot over just a couple of hours, the rushing water snapping decades-old cottonwood trees like matches.This was worse than he’d ever seen it, but he’d seen...
Quebec construction magnate faces 928 charges laid by Revenu Québec
The Quebec government has laid 928 charges against construction magnate Antonio Accurso and the firms that he used to administer, seeking fines of $8.5-million and jail terms over allegations of widespread tax fraud.Revenu Québec is going after Mr. A...
McGuinty lashes out at ‘partisan exercise’
Former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty lashed out at the committee investigating his government’s costly cancellation of two gas-fired power plants, arguing the whole thing is nothing more than a “partisan exercise” bent on “destroying” the Liberals....
French police investigating new details of SNC-Lavalin payments
The Montreal engineering giant SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is facing new allegations of corruption, which have surfaced in a French investigation into whether bribes were paid to clinch a project in Abu Dhabi.The embattled firm has a subsidiary in France,...
Ebay UK and USA boards.
Hi from the UK. We've lost our boards, I know it was very careless of us but all we're getting is a Liveworld page. There's no announcements anywhere so has anyone got any idea what's going on? Has ebay not changed over to Lithium quick enough, has l...
Please help me identify this necklace?
This is a friend's necklace, which I accidentally broke. Could anyone help me identify it, so that I can buy a new one? Thank you so much!
Bob Rae steps down.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/ALERT+Liberal+step+down/8547390/story.html You're 20 years too late Bob.Good riddance ya scumbag.
Dramatic helicopter images show flooded Siksika Nation
Dramatic helicopter images show flooded Siksika Nation http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/news-video/20130623theglobeandmaillehmannflyoversiksikaflood-720p3000kbpsmp4/article12775355/
Daddy Dalton is stepping down.
http://www.am980.ca/news/local/story.aspx?ID=1982686 Maybe he'll join his brother in federal politics so we can get rid of the lieberals altogether.
Grace Under Pressure - Southern Alberta Style
As you may, or may not, be aware, we in Southern Alberta are under something of a siege right now. I & my family are in Lethbridge & while it's bad enough here we have thus far seem to have been spared the brunt of the effects of the recent deluge th...
Charity chaired by London Mayor Joe Fontana pulls in $152M in gifts
The skyrocketing growth of a charity chaired by London’s mayor and run by his son is raising questions but Joe Fontana isn’t answering them — and neither is his son, president of Trinity Global Financial Foundation. In one year, Trinity Global more t...
Former San Diego mayor admits misusing charity to fund $1 billion gambling
Los Angeles (CNN) -- The first woman mayor of San Diego has acknowledged in court she misappropriated more than $2 million from her late husband's foundation to fund a casino gambling habit with which she allegedly won and lost $1 billion over nine y...
Jesse Jackson Jr., wife charged in federal cases
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was charged Friday with scheming to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses. His wife was charged with filing false income tax forms. Federal prosecutors filed a charge of conspiracy ...
Meteor Attacks
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/massive-meteorite-strikes-russia-leaving-hundreds-injured-135805861.html
RCMP officer and wife face multiple charges in child abuse investigation
An RCMP officer and his wife are facing multiple abuse and sex-related charges following a child abuse investigation in Ottawa that police say involves more than one victim. Police say the 41-year-old officer and 34-year-old wife are charged with sev...
'The end of the world?': terror over Russian meteor
“I was driving in the car across the square. Suddenly the square lit up with a bright, bright light, not a normal light,” said Chelyabinsk resident Vasily Rozhko. Witnesses of the falling meteor over the Russian Urals spoke of their shock and horror ...
‘I’m not middle class. I don’t pretend I am’: Justin Trudeau
‘I’m not middle class. I don’t pretend I am’: Justin Trudeau discloses $1.2M inheritance http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/13/im-not-middle-class-i-dont-pretend-i-am-justin-trudeau-discloses-1-2m-inheritance/
Brevity is Best
Interesting. George F. Will: A successful president who proved brevity is best By George F. Will, National Post February 14, 2013 – 9:13 am ET Before Ronald Reagan traveled the 16 blocks to the White House after his first inaugural address, the White...
What cruise lines don't want you to know
(CNN) -- A Carnival cruise ship was adrift 150 miles off the coast of Mexico after an engine room fire. Cruise passengers were complaining about the lack of air conditioning, hot cabins, cold food and toilets that wouldn't flush. As I watched the new...
‘Canada First’ military spending a surrender to bad policy
“We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, and which will not, through a whole range of economic development, regional development co...
Kerry's portfolio could grow with Heinz deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry's family financial portfolio could grow by hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result of the $23 billion megadeal between Nebraska billionaire Warren Buffett and a Brazil-owned investment firm to buy ...
Former Quebec viceroy says she 'can do no wrong' and demands fraud charges
QUEBEC CITY — Quebec's former lieutenant governor says that as the Queen's representative she "can do no wrong" and wants the Supreme Court of Canada to quash her upcoming fraud trial. Lise Thibault claims she's above the law and can't be charged for...
Canadians require international driver's license in Florida.
http://www.680news.com/2013/02/14/canadians-now-require-international-drivers-licence-in-florida/
LA cops stalked by suspect -- and a brutal past
There's a killer on the loose and Los Angeles is on edge -- again. This jaded city has witnessed every variety of killing, from Charles Manson and his helter-skelter spree to the Night Stalker's deadly nocturnal prowling and the random strikes of the...
Rubio missed the year of the woman
(CNN) -- You would think that in the shadow of a general election dubbed "Year of the Woman," the last thing any Republican in Washington would want to do is tick off women. And while the Violence Against Women Act passed in the Senate by a healthy b...
Taxpayers foot $110,054 bill for premiers conference swag
HALIFAX — Most Nova Scotians weren’t invited to the swanky party, but they paid for it. During last year’s premiers’ conference in Halifax, taxpayers coughed up $110,054.90 for a meeting steeped in swag. The bill included $1,653 for whiskey tumblers ...
PQ unwittingly votes against own budget-cut measure
QUEBEC CITY — Confusion reigned in the Parti Quebecois caucus this week when separatists mistakenly supported a motion denouncing their own decision to cut university funding by $250 million. In a moment of distraction, shortly after Question Period ...
Look Forward to Anger
This was posted by the late Christopher Hitchens back in 2007. He certainly knew how to turn a phrase, and employ words like a craftsman. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2007/06/look_forward_to_anger.html
