Montreal Impact Quarter Final Game Announced

Now the only things to take care of are getting the team ready to play in the middle of winter, making sure the stadium doesn't collapse and finding/applying a suitable pitch.  How many days til' the...

The Worst Retail Season in my Lifetime

Most of the people who work at NowPublic were born after 1970.  This means that for almost everyone in the office this year's holiday shopping season was the worst in their lifetime.   "The...

The world protests against Israel offensive in the Gaza Strip

People across the world protested today against Israel's airstrikes in Gaza, calling for an immediate end to the violence as Israeli troops have entered the Palestinian region. About 21,000 people rallied in Paris,...

Neo-capitalism, social control and Pyramid Power

I remember when this was all the rage in the 1980's. The government moved to outlaw this phenomena. Maybe because it exposed the system of control that all governments use to this day? When you have all of society arranged in pyramids, you just need to control the top of...

Government in Canada should buy out & not bail out U.S. carmakers

Branch plants of U.S. automakers are seeking Canadian taxpayers to bail them out. However, why should Canadians prop up U.S. automobile companies like GM, that destroyed their own zero-emission EV1 Electric Car, in order to appease Oil Industry interests? But, the Canadians...

2 homeless people die in Canada

More international coverage on the death of a homeless Vancouver woman.  " In Vancouver, the homeless woman burned to death Friday trying to stay warm after outreach workers failed in several attempts to get...

Harper Suspending Parliament: An Act Befitting Zimbabwe's Mugabe

The English Revolution was fought to establish the principle that Parliament is supreme. In Canada, we elect a Parliament, not a Prime Minister. The main check on the dictatorial powers of our Prime Minister is the supremacy of Parliament. If Parliament is not supreme,...

Canadian Author: Eugenics Drives Stephen Harper's Conservatives

Stéphane Dion, Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe reportedly signed the Agreement for a Coalition Government on 1 December 2008, in response to the Stephen Harper government's systematized negligence on taking...

Stephen Harper Incarnates Richard Nixon and Watergate in Canada

In the British Guardian newspaper, Dimitry Anastakis and Jeet Heer compared Stephen Harper to former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. The article titled "The Canadian Nixon" documents a Prime Minister who pursues an ego-driven agenda, bereft of ethics, and that is in...

Police Find Bullet Casings in Locked-Down Montreal University

Dozens of police officers and support units are combing the halls of the University of Quebec in Montreal, where witnesses apparently heard gunshots. Police inside one of the school's buildings found shell casings but so far have not found blood or any trace that it hit...

Greenpeace occupies AbitibiBowater headquarters

Greenpeace has taken their fight to protect Canadian forests directly to the headquarters of AbitibiBowater.   This is what the Greenpeace site says."Montréal, Canada — This morning, Greenpeace...

Canada's first sex-ed grad school opens at U of T

The University of Toronto will offer Canada's first grad program in sexual diversity studies this fall. Up until now, Canadian universities have only offered undergraduate programs in the discipline, but U of T...

First storm of season wallops Eastern Canada

In the words of our own Jordan Matthew Yerman, "looks like Canucks are getting caned by cascading crystals again.""The season's first storm has delayed flights, closed schools and sidelined drivers as the system...

Montreal, by Wikipedia

"Formerly the largest metropolis of Canada (a distinction acquired by Toronto in the mid-1970s), it is the second-largest French-speaking city in the Western world after Paris. As of the 2006 Canadian Census,...

100 Biggest Cities in the World

Measured by population. Tokyo comes out top. But news stories about Tokyo are not the most popular. At least not outside Japan.

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