Despite five consecutive dismal seasons the Toronto Raptors have gone up in value according to an evaluation put out by Forbes Magazine. The team has become the NBA’s 18th most valuable franchise worth $520 million, […]
Nova Scotia’s auditor general announced Jan. 23 that the province’s net debt is the second highest in Canada. Jacques Lapointe reported that over the past ten years, the total net debt has increased by $1.6 […]
With only two weeks to go before the Sochi Olympic Games, fears of potential terrorist attacks are mounting. Reports of potential threats have been surfacing all week. IOC calls threats “fake” Italian, Hungarian, German, British, […]
More than 550 taxi cab owners and drivers gathered at City Hall council chambers today to voice their concerns over a proposed report that would likely lead to an increase in taxi fares. The key […]
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau says Canada can learn from the legalization of marijuana in some US states. This announcement doesn’t come as a surprise after Trudeau admitted last summer that he has smoked marijuana since […]
As the world prepares for the 2014 Games in Sochi, a study from the University of Waterloo and Austria’s MCI Management Centre is warning of trouble ahead for the Winter Olympics. The study predicts that […]
During his meeting with the King of Jordan Jan 23rd, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged $105 million to help the country deal with the Syrian crisis. CBC reports the money will be going to Jordan […]
Twenty-one people have been reported dead and 28 others injured after a passenger bus lost control and drove off a snow-covered highway in central Turkey Thursday morning. Gov. Orhan Duzgun’s twitter account reports that the […]
Five policeman are dead after a daytime assault against a security checkpoint in south-central Egypt. Masked gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a group of officers as they passed by the checkpoint in the el-Wassta district […]
The government of South Sudan and representatives of rebel forces in the country signed a ceasefire agreement January 23rd in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The agreement stipulates fighting will end within 24 hours. Over the last […]
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