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ShareEx Prime Minister Harper must now call an election after he lost his job today. MP Harper must now see the Governor General on Saturday and Announce he lost and will call a new election on Saturday. Election is suspected to be in the next 60 daysIt’s official — the government has fallen from power, clearing the way for a spring election.The opposition Liberals, NDP and Bloc Québécois came together Friday afternoon...

By Reality Check Team on April 12, 2011 5:59 PMCategories: Leaders' debateDebate's on and we're off to our fact-checking pile of facts and figures. First up tonight was Conservative Leader Stephen Harper answering a question about corporate taxes and how he would justify them. Ready for the recession? It quickly turned into an attack by Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe, who charged that the Conservatives were unprepared for...

Inside The Budget Deal: Vulnerable Populations Targeted, But Family Planning SavedFirst 12-04-2011 11:44 AM EDT | Updated: 12-04-2011 12:00 AM EDTBut not the budget items that are off limits during elections...both democrats and republicans avoid the big three where the most money is wasted...WASHINGTON –- Congressional leaders unveiled their final budget deal early Tuesday, a $1.049 trillion spending plan that...

The big story of the week is the end of Glen Beck’s show on Fox News. Has he been cancelled? Is this a reaction to claims Beck’s show was too divisive? Had the sponsors pulled out? Well Beck claims he is ‘transitioning” off the air. His boss, Darth Vader made flesh, Roger Ailes has offered a helping hand: “Half of the headlines say he’s been canceled, The other half say he quit. We’re pretty happy with both of them.”Loyalty.For...

TrumpDonald Trump is potentially going to run for the Republican Nomination for President. Yep. Donald Trump. Host of the American version of “The Apprentice.” That’s the equivalent of Alan Sugar going for Prime Minister.I can see no reason why he wouldn’t be a great President. I mean he recently bankrupted his own casino company. A casino. His own casino. Only a very special person could do that.He also gets on with...

Independent.co.ukTrump trumped in 'birther' campaignWednesday, 30 March 2011The billionaire businessman Donald Trump, star of the US version of The Apprentice and aspiring Republican presidential candidate, may have put the brakes on his campaign before it even got off the ground.Interviewed on the Fox television network on Monday, Mr Trump appeared to throw in his lot with the "birthers" who question whether President...

Leo- Tuesday, April 5, 2011There is nothing to be gained by taking a pessimistic view of life at a time when the sky has so much to offer you. A successful outcome to a particularly difficult dilemma awaits you. Don’t take anything too seriously. The universe will soon deliver a run of positive news much to your joy. Proof is on the way.Richard Branson unveils deep-sea submarine plansREUTERSAPRIL 5, 2011 7:42 PMVirgin...

Back to A story of survival rises from the ruins of a fishing villageA story of survival rises from the ruins of a fishing villageMarch 15, 2011Bill SchillerA Japanese rescue team member walks through the completely leveled village of Saito in northeastern Japan Monday, March 14, 2011.David Guttenfelder/APTARO VILLAGE, JAPAN—The seawalls that buffer this once-bucolic fishing village from the ocean were supposed to keep...

HUFFINGTONPOST.COM - Unlike most of us, Irving Przyborski didn't wait until April 14 to fill out his taxes this year. He got around to it in mid-March -- a decision that turned out to be worth nine million dollars.Going through his tax documents, WBBM radio reports, Przyborski came across an old Illinois Lottery ticket from March of 2010. He had bought a number of tickets around that time, and went through most of them,...

hide «Colonel SandersCARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR4) The Colonel’s suburban bungalow: Colonel Harland Sanders wasn’t actually a Colonel. He wasn’t actually a Kentuckian either. But he was one of the most famous residents ever to move to Mississauga, living at 1337 Melton Dr. for several months a year from 1964 until his death in 1980. Sanders, who sold his American shares of the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise in 1964,...

Roger Ebert @ebertchicago, the esteemed movie critic of the Chicago Tribune and the famed Siskel and Ebert show, has discovered Twitter in a big way.A prolific journalist, Ebert has become an even more prolific tweeter who seemingly suffers from insomnia as do I.It’s not so much insomnia as a life long desire to watch late night movies like the Ninth Gate on television.“Prophesying the End of Days can make you money,...

Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D.Author, 'Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time'Five Things Everyone Should Know About The Bible, Believe It or NotThe Bible is a peculiar book, and it's hard to get straight information about it. If you're one of those people with a nagging feeling that you should know more about the Bible than you do -- or even if you can recite chapter and verse (but don't know...

Analysis: Let’s cool the political meltdown over nuclear power plantsBy Slate slate Mon Mar 14, 11:56 am ETBy William SaletanSlateLess than a year ago, a drilling rig exploded off the coast of the United States, killing 11 workers and pouring 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. No natural disaster caused this tragedy. It was entirely man-made. President Obama halted deep-water drilling but lifted the moratorium...

A co-host of two popular home improvement TV shows has been accused by Toronto Police of being a chiseler.Barrington Anthony Sayers, the featured carpenter on all 52 episodes of W Network’s series Me, My House and I, and co- host of The Unsellables show on HGTV, was arrested Saturday by officers from 53 Division.In a statement Monday, Toronto Police said an investigation was launched after a woman complained about incomplete...

© NBC UniversalOriginal Survivor winner Richard Hatch has been ordered back to prison to serve nine months behind bars.The reality star, who won the first season of the CBS series in 2000, was sentenced on Friday after failing to correct tax issues stemming back from money owed from both his prize fund and subsequent media appearances.According to The AP, Hatch currently owes $2 million in both taxes and penalties,...

TORONTO — Two suspects are in custody and one gold bar has been recovered but police in Toronto are still searching for 95 other gold bars allegedly bought in Montreal with a fraudulently obtained bank draft worth $1,895,751.Two people have been detained for trying to sell some of the bars in Toronto, but so far police have only recovered one 300-gram bar. Seventy-four others — from Australia's Perth Mint, with the...

Devastating earthquake, tsunami hit JapanBy the CNN Wire StaffTokyo (CNN) -- The most powerful earthquake to hit Japan in at least 100 years unleashed walls of water Friday that swept across rice fields, engulfing towns, dragging houses onto highways and tossing cars and boats like toys.Local media reported at least 50 deaths, with more casualties feared.And the 8.9-magnitude quake, which struck at 2:46 p.m. local time,...

HCG Worthless as Weight-Loss AidStephen Barrett, M.D.Human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) is a hormone found in the urine of pregnant women. More than 50 years ago, Dr. Albert T. Simeons, a British-born physician, contended that HCG injections would enable dieters to subsist comfortably on a 500-calorie-a-day diet. He claimed that HCG would mobilize stored fat; suppress appetite; and redistribute fat from the waist,...

A teenage boy had just passed his driving test and inquired of his father as to when they could discuss the boy's use of the car.His father said he'd make a deal:‘You bring your grades up from a C to a B average, study your Bible a little, and get your hair cut. Then we'll talk about the car.'The boy thought about that for a moment, decided he'd settle for the offer, and they agreed on it.After about six weeks his father...

Kieron Lang, CTV.ca News Updated: Sun. Mar. 6 2011 7:17 AM ETWatching events unfold in North Africa and the Middle East, you might think the uprisings there -- aimed at toppling corrupt regimes -- will peter out once democracy takes hold. But political prognosticator Gerald Celente says you're dead wrong.The founder and publisher of the New York -based Trends Journal believes that way of thinking is so misguided,...

CTV.newsIf you've spent any time online, you've probably seen them: the ads for diet products made with the trendy berry açai. But you may want to think twice about signing up for one of these diets.The consumer advocacy group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, is warning that not only are the diets questionable, many are offered through an online scam.There's no evidence whatsoever that diet pills made...