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Canadian woman, a former IDF soldier, joins Kurds fighting ISIS: report
‘I was with the guerrillas in the mountains for a few days and then I crossed the border,’ Gill Rosenberg said. ‘They are our brothers. They are good people’
- ‘Moderate’ Syrian rebels defecting to ISIS , blaming lack of U.S. support and weapons
- Canadian jets hit ISIS artillery position north of Baghdad
Jian Ghomeshi’s former CBC radio show, Q, gets new executive producer in wake of scandal
Jamie Purdon, who currently works with a non-profit organization, will start Monday as interim executive producer, replacing Arif Noorani, who asked to be reassigned
- Howard Levitt: Bungled Jian Ghomeshi investigation playing out at taxpayers’ expense
- Executive producer Arif Noorani quits Q to develop ‘new show for CBC radio’ in wake of Jian Ghomeshi scandal
U.S., China — world’s largest polluters — announce ambitious emissions reduction targets
The unexpected breakthrough reflected both nations' desire to display a united front on climate change, blunting arguments that they get serious
- Kelly McParland: Global warming fight is hindered by distrust, not denial
- The world needs to break its addiction to oil, coal and gas by end of this century: UN climate change report
‘Moderate’ Syrian rebels defecting to ISIS, blaming lack of U.S. support and weapons
One defector said he wasn’t an extremist, just practical. ‘[ISIS] is the only solution for us. If Obama had given support ... things would have been different’
- Violence, extortion and hypocrisy: ISIS commanders driven by business not religion, former bodyguard says
- In bid to counter ISIS rise, Jordan gives new marching orders to clerics: Preach moderate Islam — or else
Shuswap First Nation ousts $200,000-a-year chief, new leader promises financial reform, disclosure
Paul Sam's former wife, Alice, who also earned $200,000 tax-free in recent years, was also voted out. They, along with their son and grandson, made $4.1M in the past four years
- Life can still be hard on Shuswap Nation reserve despite $4.1M payday for chief and his family
- B.C. First Nations chief and family paid more than $4.1M over last four years
What Barack Obama’s call for Net neutrality means for Canadians
Obama’s call for new rules to ensure Net neutrality come as the FCC is in the process of examining how it will govern and maintain open Internet access in the future
- President Obama wants to turn the Internet into a utility to ensure equal access for everyone
- Netflix Inc and other major websites will display ‘spinning wheel of death’ Wednesday to protest U.S. net neutrality push
Winnipeg police look for possible link between sex assault on Rinelle Harper and killing of Tina Fontaine
Taken to hospital on Saturday in critical condition, Harper is now in stable condition. Fontaine's lifeless body was pulled from the Red River in August
- Teen girl pulls herself ashore in Winnipeg after she was assaulted and dumped into river
- PM rules out national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women after 15-year-old found dead
Rosetta comet landing live right now is the culmination of a decade of planning
'The lander successfully powered up, and preparations are now continuing as planned,' the agency said on its website
When is a bank robbery not a robbery? When the teller isn’t scared, judge rules
A man who gave a bank teller a note saying ‘This is a robbery,’ demanded and took money, and left the bank with it, has been cleared of a robbery charge
- Unarmed robber’s threat — ‘I have a gun’ — was in itself a violent act: Supreme Court of Canada ruling
For Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin awkward is the new normal as U.S., Russia relations chill
Picturesque Yanqi Lake, near Beijing, became the venue for an awkward pas de deux between two of the most powerful leaders in the world on Tuesday
- Video of Putin being friendly with China’s first lady gets pulled from Chinese media sites
- Matt Gurney: Putin’s dangerous brinksmanship puts the whole world at risk
Glenn Beck’s dramatic revelation: He’s been hiding a mysterious brain illness
'Most afternoons my hands would start to shake, or my hands and feet began to curl and eventually — if I didn't stop and rest, I began to curl into a fetal position'
Canadian jets hit ISIS artillery position north of Baghdad
The Department of National Defence says Canadian fighter jets have struck another blow against Islamic State targets in Iraq.
- ISIS commanders reign with brutal violence, extortion and hypocrisy: former bodyguard
- Two Canadian bases used in mission against ISIS renamed after Patrice Vincent and Nathan Cirillo
Video games are good for your brain, study claims, even first-person shooters
Whether playing video games has negative effects is something that has been debated for 30 years, but what ends up under-reported in mainstream media are the positive effects of gaming
- Can video games improve children’s health? Yes, expert says, but we’re still learning how to design them
- Video game violence linked to spike in children’s aggressiveness: study
Edmonton woman reflects on her secret life as a Second World War Enigma code cracking ‘Wren’
In 1944, Dorothy Lincoln stepped out of an insurance office and into a special place in Second World War history. She just couldn’t tell anyone about it
- Remembrance Day 2014: National War Memorial the focal point for poignant proceedings
- Rob Ford drops out of Remembrance Day ceremony due to poor health
Sorry Discovery Channel, a man getting eaten alive by an anaconda is an affront to science
“You have to go in head first” when getting eaten alive by an anaconda, according to the Discovery Channel's sneak peak of Eaten Alive, its newest affront to televised science.
Luka Magnotta lied about hooking up with Karla Homolka, he admitted to psychologist
Ultimately, Magnotta admitted it was a fabrication and called the rumour a terrible decision that had a negative impact on himself and his family
- Christie Blatchford: Decision on Luka Magnotta’s mental state rests on ‘voodoo science’
- Christie Blatchford: Luka Magnotta was schizophrenic during killing but ‘knew it was wrong,’ psychiatrist says
South African court issues gag order against puppet after singer accuses it of hate speech
The puppet launched a campaign against musician Steve Hofmeyr, after Hofmeyr accused the South African government of being 'victimizing' white people
Ontario guard tried to cover up shackled inmate’s brutal jail beating, court hears
Minutes after a guard repeatedly stomped on an inmate’s head as he lay face-down, cuffed and shackled, outside cell No. 11 at the Innes Road jail, guard Melissa Schell told an Ottawa court Monday, she got off the prisoner’s thighs, went for a smoke, then sat down and filed a deliberately...
- Chaplaincy program cuts make it harder to ‘turn’ radicalized prisoners, says imam who resigned in protest
- United Nations gang killer suing Canadian government for failing to protect him from jailhouse beating
Winnipeg woman calls alleged assault by police officer ‘traumatizing’
Lana Sinclair says the officer struck her with a baton before smashing her face against a table and on the floor after what she calls a misunderstanding
Teen girl pulls herself ashore in Winnipeg after she was assaulted and dumped into river
Police took the unusual step of identifying the victim — with her parents’ permission — as Rinelle Harper from the remote Manitoba reserve of God’s Lake Narrows
- PM rules out national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women after 15-year-old found dead
- ‘Society should be horrified': Fifteen-year-old aboriginal girl’s body found in Winnipeg river
Canadian Politics
‘Orgy of spending’ expected in lead up to federal election as political parties stockpile tens of millions
The Tories, NDP and Liberals have been barraging donors with fundraising emails in an effort to help fill the kitty for the campaign and the months...
Posted Toronto Political Panel: The idea of Doug Ford, Ontario PC leader, may be bonkers — but it’s still possible
Harper signs $2.5B deals with China, and raises human rights issues — signalling new era of cooperation
Posted Toronto
Terrifying hacksaw attack on woman strikes fear in West-end neighbourhood as suspect escapes
Police say a man grabbed the victim and held a metal hacksaw to her neck. He tried to drag her away. Reportedly telling her, ‘You are coming with...
Health
Forget IVF: Getting pregnant by accident, the old fashioned way, will remain the best practice
At first glance, there is something vaguely retro about the idea of IVF replacing sex as the predominant mode of procreation. It seems to belong to...
Moderate drinking has heart health benefits, but only for a small portion of the population, study says
How a SHPOS is born: What doctors call their very worst patients
Israel & Middle East
ISIS commanders reign with brutal violence, extortion and hypocrisy: former bodyguard
‘For Jamal, he doesn’t really care if the mission spreads Islam. All he cares about is becoming more powerful. Now, if a stronger organization...
Graphics
Graphic: Remembering 114,457 Canadians killed in military operations since First World War
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