In a strange if not laughable ruling, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced Mar. 6 that certain Canadian porn channels are not Canadian enough. AOV, an adult movie company based out of Toronto, […]
Activists in Colorado are planning for a referendum this fall that would decide whether hydraulic tracking should be banned in Colorado cities. Fracking is a fairly new issue in Colorado. Other places in North America […]
Four men were publically whipped in an Islamic court in Northern Nigeria as punishment for being convicted of having gay sex. The men, aged 20 to 22, were sentenced and punished Mar. 6. The sentence […]
A 180-year-old hockey stick put up for sale on ebay Mar. 5 is already receiving bids of more than $25, 000. Owner Mark Presley of Berwick, Nova Scotia has allowed bidding until Mar. 15 and set […]
Canadian porn producers may have a reason to celebrate after the CRTC told a group of Canadian porn channels they are failing to meet Canadian content requirements. The CRTC says channels owned by Toronto-based Channel […]
ANALYSIS The scenario in Crimea has already happened in world history. March 1938. Austria. The events of those days will go down in history as the Anschluss of Austria– German for union or political annexation. […]
The Obama Administration has announced a set of regulatory changes to the health care law that would give consumers until 2015 to enrol in coverage. The rule changes were released jointly by the Department of Health […]
Thirty-four. That is how many hours Brian Sinclair sat in a hospital waiting room, alone until he died. This did not happen in a developing country where substandard medical care is a symptom of economic […]
William Langille, one of Canada’s top economics professors at the University of Toronto, has admitted that he doesn’t actually understand our economic system at all. “I don’t get it,” he admitted, while giving a lecture […]
For close to 600 years, a mysterious document has intrigued the world, but thanks to a UK professor the document may soon yield its secrets. Using some techniques employed to crack Egyptian hieroglyphs, linguistics professor […]
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