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This week, MPs headed home for their summer vacations having changed not a single rule affecting their own expenses, and how they will blow through almost $450 million this year on everything from office supplies to martini dinners. More...

Canadian forecasters are warning warmer-than-average ocean waters and the lack of an El Nino warming of the central Pacific Ocean will contribute to an "active" hurricane season this year. More...

The mother of one of the two suspects accused of trying to carry out an al-Qaeda-supported plot to derail a Via Rail passenger train for almost a year doesn't believe the charges against her son, saying he is a "very good boy" and a genius who loves to study. More...

Mission, B.C. singer Carly Rae Jepsen is going home from the Junos with three of the five awards for which she was nominated, including album of the year. Justin Bieber took the Fan Choice award and Leonard Cohen was named artist of the year. More...

Conservative Sen. Pierre-Hughes Boisvenu says the Senate ethics officer told him last year he couldn't keep his girlfriend on his office payroll, but he did nothing about it for six months. More...

LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister George Osborne called on Wednesday for the Bank of England to do more to help spur the country's stagnant economy as he announced another cut to growth forecasts for this year and 2014. Osborne said the central bank's inflation target would remain at 2...

The number of homes sold across Canada decreased by almost 16 per cent in February compared to a year ago, even as the average sale price dipped by about one per cent to $368,895. More...

On Behave of all Staff we want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and...

A man takes his wife to the stock show. They start heading down the alley that had the bulls. They come up to the first bull and his sign stated: "This bull mated 50 times last year." The wife turns to her husband and says, "He mated 50 times in a year, you could learn from him." They...

Billy Bob and Lester were talking one afternoon when Billy Bob told Lester, "You know, I reckon I'm about ready for a vacation. Only this year I'm gonna do it a little different. The last few years, I took your suggestions as to where to go. Three years ago you said to go to Hawaii. I went...

AP - In an abrupt about-face, House GOP leaders announced Monday that they are willing to extend the two percentage point cut in the payroll tax through the end of the year and add the approximately $100 billion cost to the nation's $15 trillion-plus debt. More...

AP - The federal deficit was lower through the first four months of the budget year than the same period last year. Still, the deficit is expected to top $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row, putting more pressure on Congress and President Barack Obama in an election year. More...

A 47-year-old man was killed while working at the company's Coleman Mine in Levack, Ont., the third fatality at a Vale mine in less than a year. More...

When nano 2 went down last year it became a paper weight. Is it up and going again? If it is I need help getting it going again.

AP - It's been a year since that bloody Tucson morning — a year of reflecting on lives shattered, of struggling with flashbacks and nightmares, of replaying the what-ifs before the deadly rampage that shocked a nation. And in the middle of it: one woman, Gabrielle Giffords, forging one of the...

AP - Unemployment is higher than it's been going into any election year since World War II. More...

AP - Unemployment is higher than it's been going into any election year since World War II. More...

AP - The job market is looking a little brighter at the start of the new year. More...