Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Wednesday condemned an opposition plan to gain power by ousting his government in a confidence vote, calling the effort undemocratic.
At this point in the game, I feel sorry for small C conservatives. Part of the problem for liberal voters in the last election was that we had a choice for whom we could vote...
The 2008 presidential Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, is projected to win at least 349 electoral votes, enough to clinch the Presidency of the United States. Obama is the first African American to be elected President in U.S. ...
Scientists of the British based Royal Society released a paper August 1, 2008 which studied Cretaceous era fossil finds found at the northern area of Devon Island in the 1980's.
According to the Associated Press (AP), 2008 United States Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has told lawmakers in New York that she is "open to being Obama's vice presidential candidate".
Apart from earning windfall profits the shareholders of Big Oil companies also want them to act in the best interest of the environment. With millions battling the rising oil prices ...
You might be tempted to have a go at your first online purchase. This may be because you have friends and relatives living abroad. Postage costs a lot and so it makes sense to purchase a gift from a shop close to its final destination.
When 29-year-old Vancouver resident Bouabal Bounthavorn answered the door at the Hotel Riu, a five-star hotel in Cabo San Lucas, he tussled with a lone gunman, who then fired three shots into his head ...
The last remaining members of the Russian doomsday group True Russian Orthodox Church emerged from a cave outside Penza Friday, after enduring the toxic stench of rotting corpses from two deceased members of their group
With oil prices flowing relentlessly upward--at least for the time being--and gasoline prices naturally, inevitably following suit, it should be clear to all educated adults.
A 39-year-old Austrian man walked into a police station today covered in blood and confessed to the extremely brutal axe murders of his wife, their 7-year-old daughter, his parents and his father-in-law.
Call it The Bold & the Beautiful. Today Blackberry holding company Research in Motion (RIM) announced the Blackberry Bold, its sleekest, strongest most Apple-esque smartphone ever.
Tuesday, voters in Indiana and North Carolina of the United States cast their votes in the tightly contested presidential primaries of the Democratic Party.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently announced on ABCs Good Morning America that if Iran mounted a nuclear attack against Israel we could totally obliterate Iran in retaliation.
The crisis of skyrocketing food prices is affecting all economic groups in every corner of the world. Every day, it seems, high-priced food sends another country lurching through some crisis: demonstrations, riots, rumors of hoarding, falling governments, even deaths.
SMS is a commonly used acronym for Short Message Service, also know as text messaging. With the evolution of mobile services, cell phones are increasinly being used for data transmission, including short text messages.
The timing of Russia's move this week to forge closer links with two Georgian separatist regions has raised more than a few eyebrows in Tbilisi and the West.
Pope Benedict XVI began his visit to the United States on Tuesday. In an unprecedented gesture, he was greeted by President George W. Bush, Laura Bush and their daughter, Jenna upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
Toronto Police have announced the results of a five-week undercover operation against drug traffickers that ended Monday in the city's Bloorcourt, Bloordale, Parkdale and Alexandra Park regions.
Musician Jeff Healey, 41, has died in Toronto from cancer, it was announced Sunday. Healey is internationally known for his 1988 album See the Light and for his appearance ...
The battle between the two high definition optical disc formats, Blu-ray and HD DVD has ended after sole HD DVD manufacturer Toshiba has announced it will no longer produce HD DVD players.
A day after declaring independence from Serbia, Kosovo is hoping for recognition from the global community, especially the European Union and the United States.
A firm in Oxford, United Kingdom has recently released plans for a hypersonic passenger airplane able to travel at speeds up to Mach 5 with a range of 20,000 km.
Voters went to the polls and to caucuses in 24 states Tuesday, providing both Democratic presidential candidates, New York Senator Hillary Clinton and Illinois Senator Barack Obama, with significant wins.
Nominees for the 2008 Juno Awards, Canada's primary music honours, were announced in Toronto on Tuesday. Celine Dion received nominations in six categories.
Today I nearly fell off my chair after visiting the federal Conservative website and reading a press release issued this week. The funniest part of the whole site (funny in a rather sad way) has to be the verbal diarrhea they espouse on regular basis.
A military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is hearing arguments today over the legality of trying Canadian Omar Khadr for alleged war crimes, given his status as a minor at the time of the incident.
Google has said on its blog that it finds Microsofts attempt to buy Yahoo "troubling," and that Google believes "this is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another."
United States software giant Microsoft has launched a bid to buy search giant Yahoo! for US$44 billion or US$31 a share, significantly above the stock's current price.
An unresponsive United States reconnaissance satellite is in an uncontrolled, decaying orbit and will re-enter Earth's atmosphere in late February or early March.
Australia will press on with plans to withdraw its troops from Iraq in June this year, although promises were made by the nation's foreign minister that relations with the United States will not be affected by the move.
On January 29, 2008, an asteroid that is between 500 and 2,000 feet in diameter will pass within 1.4 lunar distances (334,000 miles) of Earth according to NASA's Near Earth Object program (NEO).
The struggling Toronto Maple Leafs National Hockey League team is under new, interim management this week when Leafs General Manager John Ferguson, Jr. was replaced...
Astronomers say that in approximately 20 to 40 million years, a giant cloud of hydrogen gas known as Smith's Cloud, will slam into the Milky Way galaxy, giving way for the formation of countless stars ..