The Middlesex-London Health Unit in London, Ontario, has a new program, a cartoon game, to educate Canadian youth about the perils of sexually transmitted infections.
The cartoon treads onto ground that is more graphic than would be expected from a government health agency. A warning on the webpage instructs the viewer that the site is meant [...]

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It was supposed to be humor poked at Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s reluctance to go to the Copenhagen climate conference. The opposition Liberal Party invited its supporters to Photoshop Harper’s image anywhere but Copenhagen.
Although the altered photos were supposed to be reviewed before posting, one particularly galling one slipped past the reviewers.
The doctored photo [...]

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What nation stands as one of the biggest impediments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions?
Surprisingly, that is Canada.
Under Conservative Prime Minister Steven Harper, Canada has abandoned the limits that it agreed to under the Kyoto Protocol.
It was supposed to cut greenhouse gases 6% by 2012. So far, those emissions have risen 26%.
Harper’s response?
“This country is headed [...]

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I’m glad I don’t live in Toronto. You probably are too.
Toronto has turned its parks into temporary dumpsites because of a strike by city workers. Toronto has designated 181 sites, many of them parks, as temporary areas to stash the trash.
The neighborhoods aren’t amused.
Now that the piles of trash are growing high, flies are coming [...]

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Canadian Transportation Minister John Baird was caught discussing a proposal for federal funds from Toronto in an unguarded moment.
Did I say discussing?
I mean cursing.
Baird accidentally walked into a media room at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities convention.
Toronto had made an application requesting stimulus funds for 204 new streetcars. Apparently, its one page request was the [...]

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A British Columbia New Democratic Party Candidate ended his candidacy after two racy images of him on Facebook became public.
Ray Lam said in a statement:      
“I regret this material and the associated comments that have now become public.”
“I do not want this to be a distraction in the election campaign and have advised the party that I am [...]

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A Canadian neo-Nazi group, the Aryan Guard, marched through Calgary Saturday. About 400 counter-protesters met the 60 marchers, bringing traffic to a standstill. Several fist fights broke out. Projectiles were hurled and two people sustained minor head injuries.
The Aryan Guard has been recruiting heavily in the past years, often luring Calgary’s youth with white power [...]

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At first Toronto City Hall figured there had to be a simple solution. Now, six months later with a 40-member task force, five subcommittees and $50,000 in consultant fees, there still is no solution to empty coffee cups.
The first solution involved banning coffee cups with plastic lids and giving 20-cent discounts for customers bringing their [...]

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L’Indépendante, a new beer in Quebec, is not bouncing off the shelves. “Separatist” beer hit the market in October with the intent to raise money for the separatist cause in the province.
A group of 22 investors contributed $22,000 to the idea with hopes of selling 100,000 bottles a month. In October, they sold a disappointing 38,000.
“People [...]

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For whatever it is worth, coffee drinkers at a coffee shop in Montreal overwhelmingly support Barack Obama. The owner of the coffee shop had two tip cups by the cash register with a picture of each candidate on the cups. Over 94% of the tips went into the Obama cup. However, this poll might be [...]

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