Ontarians favour the right of students to form gay-straight alliance clubs in Catholic schools by a margin of almost two to one, a new poll suggests.

The federal government’s months-long cost-cutting spree targeting unnecessary wallet stuffers has claimed the life of yet a third victim: the SIN card.

It took more than six hours for ORNGE to figure out if land or air ambulance would pick up a critically ill Barry’s Bay woman, her fam…

Koch Facts.png Authored by Connor Gibson, cross-posted with permission from PolluterWatch.org For those who missed the deep investigative piece published by InsideClimate News last week documenting a half-century of Koch Industries involvement in t…

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Authored by Connor Gibson, cross-posted with permission from PolluterWatch.org

For those who missed the deep investigative piece published by InsideClimate News last week docume…

His Google searches and downloads–however sick–were not the point

Guilty of curiosity

There’s an interesting glimpse into how the Conservatives get around that pesky no-corporate donations rule. While it could be a co-incidence that people swept up in an investigation into crooked building shenanigans in Quebec just happen to be large Conservative Party donors, the cynic in me wonders why someone would pick $666.66 as a donation [...]

New rules only trickling out but critics warn changes to EI and foreign worker program will cause friction among workers.
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Donovan Bailey, once the fastest man on the planet, has been charged with having a blood-alcohol level of more than 80 milligrams while …

The B.C. hang glider pilot accused of swallowing a memory card has apologized for his “panicked” actions in the traumatic moments after his passenger fell to her death.

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Bureaucrats and politicos need each other to produce smart politics and wise public policy. David Lindsay reincarnated himself to make i…

I’ll repeat it one more time! God Almighty folks, I never thought I’d see the day! Canada appears to be sliding into another round of unity woes — divided this time over economics and ideology between the New Democrats of Thomas Mulcair and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. ———————————————————- Photograph by: REUTERS/Chris Wattie , National [...]

Police say that, since January, eight people have been pricked by syringes placed inside pant pockets — mostly in stores in one of Sherbrooke’s big shopping centres.

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Thank you for resigning from your position as Quebec Education Minister and giving up politics Monday. Your decision makes the Quebec government just a little bit less corrupt, and, perhaps, just a little more efficient. And to Jean Charest, I sa…

Education Minister Line Beauchamp says she is not resigning because of the vandalism and pressure related to the student strike.
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A Tory scheme to revive the party’s doomed privatization of electricity utilities a decade ago is being panned before it’s e…

Just like Dalton McGuinty promised, a money-back guarantee to GO Transit riders will kick in this fall. If a train is more than 15 minut…

Tous les jours, j’apprends le triste sort de nombreux collégiens québécois qui sont de plus en plus découragés, atterrés et désespérés. Ils sont les vraies victimes de la grève étudiante qui perdure et qui afflige moins du quart des collè…

Public money set aside for Canada’s economic recovery has ended up in the hands of companies and individuals accused of taking part in an elaborate collusion scheme in Quebec.
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