Bitcoin Collides with Government Concerns

If Bitcoin is a bubble, as its critics contend, it is showing signs of deflating. A rapid succession of moves by governments around the world has cast doubts on the legitimacy of the virtual currency, and its price fell about 60 percent at one point on Wednesday morning from its high earlier this month. It recovered some as the day went on. The price volatility is underscoring Bitcoin’s sensitivity to decisions by government officials despite...

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Justin Trudeau won last Monday's four federal by-elections

Justin Trudeau emerged the big winner from Monday’s four federal by-elections. At first glance, the results simply preserved the status quo: the Conservatives held on to two longtime Tory bastions in Manitoba, while the Liberals retained two traditional Grit strongholds in Toronto and Montreal. Beneath the surface, however, the byelections have roiled Canada’s political waters, suggesting the Senate expenses scandal has badly hurt the Tory...

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Isabelle Peladeau dies in car accident

Isabelle Péladeau​  sister of Pierre Karl Péladeau and daughter of Pierre Péladeau​ ​ was killed in a road accident Saturday evening in the Laurentians when the vehicle she was travelling in plunged into a lake. The accident occurred in Saint-Hippolyte at about 5:30 p.m. when the driver was unable to stop the car on a slope due to the icy road, while trying to access a private entrance on 305th Avenue. The car...

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Gettysburg Address anniversary

In solemnity , thousands gathered on a central Pennysylvania battlefield park Tuesday to honor a speech given 150 years ago that President Abraham Lincoln predicted would not be long remembered. The inspirational and famously short Gettysburg Address was praised for reinvigorating national ideas freedom, liberty and justice amid a Civil War that had torn the country into pieces. “President Lincoln sought to heal a nation's wounds by defininf...

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Va. Sen. Creigh Deeds' Stabbing, Son's Death Eyed as Attempted Murder-Suicide

Police are investigating this morning's stabbing of a former Democratic nominee for governor of Virginia as "an attempted murder and suicide," they said this afternoon. Creigh Deeds is now in fair condition at a Virginia hospital after he was stabbed multiple times in his home. His son, Gus Deeds, 24, was pronounced dead at the scene from a gunshot injury, state police said. Police did not specifically name Gus Deeds as the perpetrator, but...

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Rob Ford should step aside

Conservative cabinet minister Jason Kenney had harsh words for Rob Ford on Tuesday, saying Toronto's mayor has brought dishonour to Canada's largest city and should step aside. While most federal Conservatives have stayed mum on the subject of Ford , Kenney told reporters . Kenney told reporters after question period on Tuesday that ' I think Mr. Ford has bought dishonour to public office and the office of mayor and...

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Rob Ford caught on video

Toronto mayor Rob Ford has beed caught on video in an impaired rent saying he is going to kill someone and 'rip his f---ing throat out.” Ford slurs his words as he staggers around an unknown dining room , apparently high, ranting gibberish and gesticulating wildly. “I'm gonna kill that f---ing guy. I'm telling you , it's first degree murder,” Ford rages as someone in the room secretly uses a cellphone to film the chief magistrate addled...

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Rob Ford rack scandal

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford finally admitted Tuesday he has used crack cocaine, five months after news reports surfaced that he was caught on video purportedly smoking from a crack pipe. Whether Ford had used the illegal drug was a key question in the video scandal surrounding the mayor of Canada's largest city. But numerous other questions remain unanswered, including:  On May 16, U.S. gossip website...

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Rob Ford wants free admission

I lived in Saskatchewan from 1985 to 1991, when the stench of Colin Thatcher was still thick in the air. Saskatchewan is a small province and Regina is a small town; every morning on my way to work I had to pass by the house where his wife used to live. I was working for the CBC then. Thatcher was doing everything in his power to get out in jail , and there were appeals and manoeuvres , and the dates of these things came and went , and...

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U.S. Government shutdown

The U.S. government could close its doors Tuesday if Congress can’t reach a deal on a temporary spending budget bill, and that would jeopardize the paycheques of more than 800,000 Americans, as well as the country’s economic recovery. It's political bickering between Democrats and Republicans in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, along with Republican in-fighting, that has brought the country to the brink of a shutdown yet...

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Ted Cruz deal

TedCruz says he wasn't elected to the Senate to stay quiet. And his refusal upon entering Congress to observe its protocol to sit back and learn like a freshman, as expected, rubbed some of his more senior colleagues the wrong way. And while he has angered much of his party over his crusade against President Barack Obama's health care law and the potential government shutdown it could cause, Cruz says he's standing for the same principles...

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Syria attack used Sarin gas

The Obama administration asserted Sunday for the first time that the Syrian government used the nerve gas sarin to kill more than 1,400 people in the world’s gravest chemical weapons attack in 25 years as the White House intensified pressure on a skeptical Congress to authorize punitive military strikes against Damascus. Secretary of State John F. Kerry said new laboratory tests showed traces of sarin, an extremely toxic nerve agent, in blood...

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Obama pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.

US President Barack Obama has paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr - 50 years after he made his I Have a Dream speech. The president addressed a crowd gathered in Washington DC for the 50th anniversary commemoration of the civil rights rally at which Martin Luther King Jr made his speech. "Because they marched, city councils changed and state legislatures changed and Congress changed, and yes, eventually the White House changed," said Mr...

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Teresa and Joe Guidance plead not guilty to federal fraud charges

RealityTV star Teresa Giudice and her hot-tempered hubby returned to court Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to federal fraud charges. Standing silently in the courtroom, Teresa and Joe let their lawyers do the talking for them. The stress appears to be getting to Teresa, who looked as if she hasn’t missed too many meals since being indicted last month. When their brief court appearance was over, “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” stars...

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Pamela Wallin's troubling expense

The independent audit of Senator Pamela Wallin's expenses has been referred to the RCMP by a Senate committee that is also imposing restrictions on her travel and asking her to repay more of her expenses. The internal economy committee met Tuesday morning on Parliament Hill and agreed to a set of recommendations in response to the Deloitte audit it received Monday. The audit assessed more than $500,000 worth of Wallin's travel claims and determined...

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Princess Diana was 'madly in love' with heart sergeon Hasnat Khan

Diana wanted to marry the doctor, with whom she had a two-year relationship, and secretly met his family in Pakistan to discuss the possibility of a union, according to Jemima. She is understood to have told two other friends that she wanted a daughter with the eminent surgeon. "Diana was madly in love with Hasnat Khan and wanted to marry him," Jemima told Vanity Fair. "Even if that meant living in Pakistan, and that’s one of the...

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Anthony Weiner's spokeswoman trashes intern Olivia Nuzzi in profanity-lanced rant

BarbaraMorgan, mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's communications director, said Wednesday she thought she was 'off the record' when she called Olivia Nuzzi, former intern for the campaign, a 'slutbag,' 't--t' and 'little c---.' Now she has a swear jar. AnthonyWeiner's communications director trashed a former campaign intern Tuesday in a shocking, profane rant published by a news blog. Barbara Morgan said Tuesday night that she thought...

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The Royal Baby was born and it's a boy!

Get ready for a 62-gun salute, watch the water in the fountains turn blue, let the fireworks and street parties commence: The royal baby has arrived, and it's a boy. PrinceWilliam and Duchess Kate's first baby, a future monarch, was born today at 4:24 pm local time in London's private wing of St. Mary'sHospital, the palace announced. The announcement said the baby weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces, and William was present for the birth. In a statement,...

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