Provides the latest RSS feeds for North America News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Canada Standard.com http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/cat/58652c42d9c6e2f4/ en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 05:05:08 -0400 Mon, 20 May 2013 05:05:08 -0400 30 Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence and her brother Blaine Lawrence are reportedly being stalked by a Canadian named Han Cong Zhao. Han, 23, was said to be remanded on bail after Judge Annette Karem at Kentucky court here heard he sent Blaine 200 messages and a threatening voicemail. "You got me really upset, when I am upset, wait and see what happens," thesun.co.uk quoted Han as saying. Karem ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626011/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:30:02 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626011/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Jose Antonio Meade visited his Brazilian counterpart, Antonio Patriota, with whom he agreed to promote a series of business meetings to boost bilateral trade. Meade told a press conference that, on the topic of trade, "right now that is Mexico's goal", but that at present there is no intention to negotiate free-trade agreements with Brazil. "There's a mutual ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214624563/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:20:01 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214624563/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto inaugurated a 1.6-billion-peso ($130-million) expansion of a Nestle instant coffee factory in the central city of Toluca. The project has boosted the plant's productive capacity by 30 percent, making it the world's biggest facility of its kind, Nestle Mexico CEO Marcelo Melchior said during Friday's ceremony. The factory, which covers a 14-hectare area, will ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214624455/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 01:40:01 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214624455/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Internal Affairs Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday left for the United States to participate in the Indo-US Homeland Security dialogue. At the plenary session of the dialogue in Washington Shinde will interact with US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on issues including threats from terror groups like LeT and al-Qaeda, illicit financing and transnational crimes. Both side ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214615340/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 11:30:01 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214615340/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Pakistan's outgoing ambassador to the US, Sherry Rehman, has said that Pakistan and the United States should acknowledge each other's roles in the good work they do, adding that the two countries have improved their ties considerably from a low-point in 2011. Rehman, who was addressing a gathering of senior American officials and Pakistani-Americans, added that Washington should end drone ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214613152/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:40:03 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214613152/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Michelle Obama made light of the failures that her husband, Barack, faced in his life. The First Lady said at the graduation ceremony for Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School that when something doesn't go a person's way, they just have to adjust. The 49-year-old said that a person has to dig deep and work like crazy. She asserted that talk show host Oprah Winfrey was demoted ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214612781/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 05:40:02 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214612781/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 WASHINGTON -; The scandals dogging President Barack Obama are a political gift to Republicans. But it's unclear how Republicans can best capitalize on Democrats' woes, legislatively or ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626266/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:58:57 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626266/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 North America's diverse climate, geography and wildlife are the subject of an impressive new series on the Discovery Channel. It is narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor and spans the continent from the Canadian Rockies to the jungles of ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626093/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:52:59 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626093/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned Sunday. Malloy used dire language to describe traffic troubles for the work week ahead in an area that even in normal times is a pain for motorists. And the governor warned that the ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626269/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:52:38 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626269/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 MBTA Police Officer Richard Donahue smiles with his wife, Kim, during an interview at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston's Charlestown section, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Donahue almost lost his life after being shot during the crossfire with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in Watertown, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626268/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:52:38 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626268/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc's board has approved a deal to buy blogging and social networking site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, the Wall Street Journal cited people familiar with the matter as saying on Sunday. Such an acquisition would be Marissa Mayer's largest deal since taking the helm of the once-iconic Internet company in July 2012. Yahoo is keen on fast-growing Tumblr ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626270/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:52:37 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626270/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Barack Obama 's hosting of Myanmar's leader Monday highlights the administration's loyalty to governments that "embrace reform," the White House said. ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626271/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:31:02 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626271/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Two graduate business students who were injured in the Boston Marathon bombings have recovered enough to receive their diplomas in Monday's ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625492/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:06:01 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625492/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 In this Friday, May 17, 2013, photo, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin is interviewed in her federal court chambers, in New York. Scheindlin is the federal judge presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department. (AP Photo/Richard ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625061/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:06:00 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625061/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME -- In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is shown. Police said Rebello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625493/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:05:59 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625493/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 ILE - In this Oct. 6, 2010 file photo, people on a tour of Plum Island, N.Y., off the coast of Long Island, watch seals relaxing on the rocky shore. Selling an island where scientists have experimented with infectious animal diseases since the dawn of the Cold War was going to be difficult enough. But it now appears any prospective buyer won't be able to do much with Plum Island anyway. As ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625494/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:05:58 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625494/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 : Not one second about the IRS scandal in the entire show. GMA just went off the air and managed to avoid mentioning the dreaded I-word. The second half-hour featured two more Powerball segments, and features on Beyonce's possible pregnancy, Bieber's monkey, and a kangaroo. IRS scandal? What IRS scandal? ABC couldn't find a second for it. --------------------- Bianna ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625497/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:05:38 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625497/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 The Borowitz Report )—President Obama used his weekly radio address on Saturday to reassure the American people that he has ';played no role whatsoever'; in the U.S. government over the past four years. ';Right now, many of you are angry at the government, and no one is angrier than I am,'; he said. ';Quite frankly, I am glad that I have had no involvement in such ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625496/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:05:38 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625496/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 reported two weeks ago, CBS’s Bob Schieffer is fed up with the White House’s talking points concerning what happened at our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last September. His impatience continued on ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625495/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:05:38 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625495/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mexico's most active volcano Popocatepetl Sunday registered 24 low-intensity eruptions and glowing rocks were seen on the rim of the crater, official sources said. The National Disaster Prevention Center (Cenapred) said on its website that the volcano, located to the south of Mexico City, caused a series of strong tremors starting from 2:37 am local time (0837 GMT) until almost 7 am (1300 ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625498/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:59:09 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625498/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 View Photo Associated Press/The Connecticut Post,Brian A. Pounds - A derailed Metro-North rail car is hoisted back on to the tracks in Bridgeport. Conn. on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Crews will spend days rebuilding ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625099/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:52:50 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625099/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Graduates of Morehouse College in Atlanta take pictures as President Barack Obama arrives on stage for the graduation ceremony Sunday. Obama told the graduates to "keep setting an example of what it means to be a man." IPTC: Members of the graduating class of 2013 take pictures as U.S. President Barack Obama arrives on stage for the graduation ceremony at Morehouse College in Atlanta, ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625500/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:35:32 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625500/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 With her increasingly severe looks and drawn face, Hillary Clinton is fading fast from public eye. Few people think she will have it in her to run for the White House in 2016 when she will be 69, an age at which even Ronald Reagan's stamina for the job was questioned. Clinton's best chance was in 2012, when Barack Obama beat her to the nomination. Still, working on Abraham ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625501/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:45 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625501/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday in the presidential debate accused his Republican rival Mitt Romney of playing politics on the Benghazi consulate attacks and death of the U.S. ambassador, saying such conduct is ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625504/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:44 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625504/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 U.S. President Barack Obama came out fighting on Tuesday in his second debate against Mitt Romney, branding the Republican challenger a tool of the rich and the oil industry. "Governor Romney says he has a five-point plan. He doesn't have a five-point plan. He has a one-point plan, and that is to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules," Obama said. ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625503/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:44 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625503/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Hurricane Paul weakened on its way toward northwest Mexico, but still posed a risk to seafaring vessels, weather services said Tuesday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Paul, currently a category 2 storm, was about 210 km from coast of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur with the decreasing wind speed of 175 km per hour (kph) and moving north-northeast at 32 kph. ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625502/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:44 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625502/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney shooks hands on Tuesday at the start of their second televised national debate ahead of the November 6 ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625506/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:43 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625506/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 U.S. President Barack Obama said in the second presidential debate on Tuesday that he is "ultimately responsible" for what happened in the attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya last month. "I'm the president and I'm always responsible," Obama said in the high-stake debate with his Republican rival Mitt Romney. The aggressive Obama also assailed ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625505/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:43 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625505/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney leads President Barack Obama by four percentage points among likely voters in top swing states, thanks to a surge in support by women voters, finds a latest poll on Tuesday. As the two candidates heading into the second debate Tuesday night in New York, the USA Today/Gallup Poll shows that Romney is leading Obama 50 percent to 46 percent in 12 ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625508/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:41 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625508/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 U.S. President Barack Obama Aloha Bobblehead Dolls are displayed for sale in the Waikiki Beach area of Honolulu, Hawaii, December 27, 2009. REUTERS/Larry ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625507/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:41 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625507/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Two law enforcement officers in Michelle Obama's motorcade were injured on Monday when their motorcycles hit each other as they were escorting the first lady in Delaware, Ohio. Both were taken to the hospital for treatment but were not seriously hurt, according to the Delaware County Sheriff's Office. The officers were part of a motorcade en route to the airport from Delaware, where ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625509/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:39 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625509/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney were immersed in intense debate preparations on Sunday for the upcoming second presidential debate as their campaigns entered into the home stretch. Obama hunkered down with his campaign advisers in Virginia while Romney went back from campaign events to his Boston home. Stakes have been raised ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625511/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:38 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625511/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Losing ground to Republican Mitt Romney on a host of issues, President Barack Obama faces a serious challenge to put his re-election bid back on track when the two men face off on Tuesday in their second debate. Obama's passive performance in their first debate two weeks ago and Romney's subsequent surge have raised expectations for a more fiery encounter at New York's Hofstra ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625510/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:38 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625510/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Denver police say someone has fired a shot through the window of President Barack Obama's Denver campaign office. Police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez says people were inside the office when the shooting happened Friday afternoon, but no one was injured. A large panel of glass was left shattered at the office on West Ninth Avenue near Acoma Street. Lopez says investigators are looking at ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625512/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:35 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625512/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 A former Canadian Navy intelligence officer who pleaded guilty of espionage on Wednesday was selling secrets to the Russians for about $3,000 a month. Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle showed no emotion as he acknowledged to a Nova Scotia provincial court judge that he understood the consequences of entering guilty pleas to three charges and was voluntarily giving up his right to a trial. Federal ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625513/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:34 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625513/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden defended the way that President Barack Obama was handling the Iranian nuclear stalemate on Thursday. In the vice-presidential debate in Danville, Kentucky, Biden argued that Mitt Romney was offering an Iran policy which was not so different from that of Obama. He also stressed that if deemed necessary, the U.S. military was ready to ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625515/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:33 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625515/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 The U.S. Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday demanding an investigation into online campaign contributions to president Obama's reelection campaign. "[T]he President's campaign committee does not use the industry standard practices to guard against receiving fraudulent or excessive contributions via ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625514/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:32 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625514/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is "fired up" about his upcoming debate with Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama said on Thursday. Campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that Biden "is pretty fired up and ready to go this evening for the debate." She said that at the debate, Biden's "number-one goal ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625516/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:31 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625516/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 A school in the U.S. state of New Mexico was put on a two-hour delay on Thursday morning after someone called in a bomb threat, local media reported. Students who were at the Albuquerque Academy, a day school for grades 6 through 12, for before-school activities were evacuated and all entrances to the school were closed, according to a report by local TV channel KOB. Police responded to a call ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625517/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:30 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625517/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Appearing on a radio show on Wednesday morning US President Barack Obama said he thought he was "too polite" during last week's debate with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. I think it's fair to say I was just too polite," the president said when asked about his first debate performance during an interview on the Tom Joyner radio show. "The good news is, ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625519/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:28 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625519/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 The top White House anti-terror official John Brennan pressed Libyan President Mohammed Megaryef on Wednesday to hunt down those guilty of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. The White House said Brennan addressed "specific additional steps Libya can take to better assist the US in ensuring that the perpetrators are brought to justice," during talks with top officials in ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625518/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:28 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625518/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 U.S. first lady Michelle Obama attends a running campaign for her husband, President Barack Obama in Loudoun County, Virginia, Oct. 9, 2012. U.S. Republican challenger Mitt Romney, largely viewed as the winner of the first U.S. presidential debate last week, is evenly split with Democratic incumbent Barack Obama in voters' support, according to the post-debate Gallup polls released on ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625520/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:26 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625520/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Unknown men in Mexico have stolen the body of the leader of a drug cartel "Zetas" Heriberto Lazcano from a funeral home. A few hours earlier he had been killed in a shootout with the military. The authorities believed Lazcano one of the most dangerous criminals in the country. The drug cartel "Los Zetas" is the most powerful criminal organization in Mexico. Many of the ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625522/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:25 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625522/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- When former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger talks about China, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama ought to listen, and "so should the rest of us," a veteran U.S. journalist said on Tuesday. Walter Pincus, who has been reporting intelligence, defense and foreign policy for the Washington Post for decades, made the ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625521/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:25 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625521/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Republican challenger Mitt Romney edged U.S. President Barack Obama among "likely voters" while Obama maintained a marginal lead among registered voters, less than a month ahead of November showdown, according to Gallup' s first national survey on likely voters released Tuesday. The Gallup's first "likely voters" survey, conducted from Oct. 2-8, found Romney held a ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625524/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:24 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625524/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- President Barack Obama Tuesday assailed a tax plan proposed by Republican challenger Mitt Romney as "salesmanship" in the crucial swing state of Ohio. On a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio, Obama jabbed that Romney said it was fair that he paid a lower tax rate than a teacher or auto worker who makes 50,000 U.S. dollars. "That is not leadership -- ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625523/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:24 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625523/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Similarities outweigh differences when comparing the foreign policies of U.S. President Barack Obama with Republican candidate Mitt Romney, according to the latest research paper from Australian thinktank the Lowy Institute. "Each candidate is doing his best to emphasise his difference from the other. But the similarities in their foreign policies are more striking than the differences. ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625526/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:22 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625526/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Police and forensics members work at the site where a couple was killed inside their car, in Tlalmanalco, State of Mexico, Mexico, on Oct. 8, 2012. According to local authorities, the couple identified as Dolores Cazales and Emanuel Cabrera, who were passing in their car on Vargas street nearby municipal market, in the place were found about 40 bullet shells from R-15 assault rifles. ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625525/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:22 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625525/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 In the first national poll to be conducted entirely after the opening presidential debate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romneynow leads President Barack Obama by 4 points. The poll, conducted by Pew Research Center from Thursday through Sunday and released on Monday, shows Romney leading Obama among likely voters nationwide, 49 percent to 45 percent. That's a stark contrast from ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625527/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:21 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625527/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Republican challenger Mitt Romney, largely viewed as the winner of the first U.S. presidential debate last week, is now evenly split with Democratic incumbent Barack Obama in voters' support, according to the post-debate Gallup polls released on Monday. The Gallup daily tracking poll was conducted from Oct. 4 to 6 and had a 3-point margin of error. It showed ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625529/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:20 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625529/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 White House hopeful Mitt Romney on Monday delivered a scathing attack on America's failure to lead the world at a time of upheaval, in particular in the Middle East, under the stewardship of President Barack Obama. The Republican presidential nominee was seen trying to draw a sharp contrast with the incumbent just as there are only 29 days left before the November 6 election. In a speech ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625528/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:20 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214625528/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 The former White House insiders, including long-time Obama adviser David Axelrod, say Obama needs to make his case anew for the government's role in expanding education and innovation and to give, as Obama put it in one of his early seminal speeches, ';every American a fighting chance in the 21st ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214624632/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:09:02 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214624632/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City is still rumbling. Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center says seismic activity shook the area early on Sunday. And the 5,450-meter mountain also emitted gas, ash and glowing-hot rocks.The snow-capped volcano has been erupting periodically since 1994 and eruptions began strengthening about two weeks ago.Mexican authorities raised the alert ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214624633/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 01:56:57 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214624633/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Apart from the relative success of Tesla Motors Inc in putting nearly 10,000 of its pricey luxury electric cars on the road, the electric vehicle sector has been among the biggest duds in clean ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214624484/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 01:51:07 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214624484/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Obama Sunday told a Democratic National Committee event in Atlanta politics are to blame for the difficulty in getting anything done in Washington. "We've got good, common-sense solutions that we can implement right now. The bad news is, is that there's a shortage of common sense in Washington," Obama told supporters at ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214624635/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 01:44:59 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214624635/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Appearing Sunday on the ABC News public affairs program "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor and publisher of the ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623998/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 01:25:18 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623998/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Canada say. Sen Mike Duffy, a former journalist, resigned from the Conservative caucus on Thursday two days after revelations about the cheque ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623834/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 01:22:14 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623834/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 By President Obama's own actions, he is arrogantly ambitious but sadly incompetent. He has corrupted the foundations of our republic and for that he gets a failing ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623999/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:53:10 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623999/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 A lot of what’s known about carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be traced back to a chemist named Charles David Keeling, who, in 1958, persuaded the U.S. Weather Bureau to install a set of monitoring devices at its Mauna Loa observatory, on the island of Hawaii. By the nineteen-fifties, it was well understood that, thanks to the burning of fossil fuels, humans were adding vast amounts of ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623420/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:27:25 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623420/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4  Several police departments across the country said they were not disturbed by the news of the LX4000 polygraph because they had not noticed inaccurate measurements. In South Florida, the use of the LX4000 is ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623421/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:26:35 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623421/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Tampa .The mystery winner overcame odds of about one in 175 million to select the winning numbers. They can either claim a one-off payout of $300m, or receive the whole prize in annual instalments over 30 years.The world's largest jackpot was a $656m Mega Millions jackpot in March ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623423/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:24:44 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623423/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Philip Sherwell New York - 20 May 2013 AMERICA'S east coast is bracing itself for "Swarmageddon" as hordes of flying insects emerge from ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623422/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:24:44 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623422/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Obama administration.The collective weight of this scandalabra threatens to derail the president's ambitious legislative agenda, dragging him to premature lame-duck status. But however fervently Obama's critics might wish it, the trio of affairs does not represent outright criminality, nor promise to prompt a constitutional crisis.In fact, the ritualistic invocation has the opposite ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623424/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:24:43 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623424/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head by an officer who had responded to a report of an intruder at her New York house, police said yesterday.Intruder Dalton Smith pointed a gun at the officer while holding the 21-year-old in a ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623426/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:24:42 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623426/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to go after his political enemies.Regardless of when the president first learned of the investigations, the longtime Obama confidante said the president wanted to ensure such activities were not repeated."The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed to ensure it never happens again," Mr Pfeiffer ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623425/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:24:42 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623425/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Obama’s address to Morehouse College, a historically black school, was filled with personal and reflective remarks, and urged the new graduates to resist the temptation to make excuses, and to seize responsibility and help those left ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623427/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:21:34 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623427/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 United Airlines is getting its 787s back in the air. The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines. The incidents included an emergency landing of one plane, and a fire on another. The incidents never caused any serious injuries. But the January grounding embarrassed Boeing, which makes the ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623584/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:18:10 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623584/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Emerging from a dramatic week that has seen him lose two senators and his chief of staff, Stephen Harper will focus now on calming down his anxious caucus and righting a listing Conservative ship. Tory MPs have been hearing from upset constituents about the Senate expenses controversy that has become one of the most serious challenges for the prime minister’s ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623428/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:12:12 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623428/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during the Morehouse College 129th Commencement ceremony, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. Morehouse is the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni. It is Obama's second graduation speech of the ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623429/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:05:36 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623429/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday discussed the protracted conflict in Syria and agreed to have a summit in Russia in September. In a phone conversation, the two leaders discussed the situation in Syria, where the conflict has entered its third year and killed more than 70,000 people, the White House said in a statement. Obama underscored his ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623413/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 23:55:27 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623413/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 WASHINGTON, April 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx as the new transportation secretary. Foxx, who will succeed Ray LaHood, is the first African American named to serve in Obama's second-term cabinet. This is seen as a move in part to diversify the president's top advisers. Obama's pick highlighted Foxx's efforts to ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623341/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 23:55:27 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623341/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 While Americans have gradually come to realize that the Internal Revenue Service was used as a partisan tool to attack the Tea Party movement over two election cycles, it is increasingly clear this scandal may become the biggest of the three scandals that rocked the Obama administration last week. The ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622847/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 23:40:28 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622847/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 President Barack Obama on Sunday stressed the importance of personal responsibility and "what it means to be a man" in his commencement address at historically-black Morehouse College in ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622848/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 23:24:31 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622848/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Season pass holders (rear left) Evan White, 37, a steamfitter, Heather White, 33, an educational assistant, with (front left) Danny White, 3, and Jack White, 6, from Newmarket, pose for a portrait at Canada's Wonderland amusement park in Vaughan, Ont., May 11, 2013.(Philip Cheung For The Globe and ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622385/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:46:08 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622385/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 President Barack Obama on Sunday stressed the importance of personal responsibility and "what it means to be a man" in his commencement address at historically-black Morehouse College in ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622386/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:41:27 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622386/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 A 13-person commission is taking a year to analyze the ethical issues of whether children can participate in research to determine safe dosage levels of an anthrax ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622405/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:41:15 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622405/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Montreal-based Duplication – formerly Analogue Media Technology – received its first order for 10 cassettes in 1989. Nowadays, cassettes account for a quarter of its business, which involves producing merchandise on behalf of bands. It began making cassettes and vinyl records for band, then CDs and DVDs, then Blu-ray, and now cassettes are back as a focus. "We've ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622321/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:40:56 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622321/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 National Weather Service described the tornado as "large, violent and extremely dangerous" and said it was moving north east at 30 mph.The tornadoes are part of a large storm system moving through the Plains and upper ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622358/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:39:07 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622358/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Asia's long road to the FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015™ commences on Tuesday, with a record 16 sides featuring in the preliminaries for next March's 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup in Japan, which serves as the qualifier for the global ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622387/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:37:43 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622387/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 President Barack Obama delivered the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution in Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia., on ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622388/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:35:13 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622388/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Roseline Filion of Laval, Que., won the bronze medal in the women's 10-metre tower Sunday to conclude the fifth stop on FINA diving World Series in Guadalajara, Mexico. It was a nice comeback for Filion after a self-described disappointing performance earlier this month at the Canada Cup FINA Grand Prix in Gatineau, Que. Huixia Liu of China took the gold with 401.05 points, her compatriot ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622389/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:29:44 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622389/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 An online petition supported by prominent Canadian artists, authors and celebrities proposes renaming Vicotira Day to give Canadians a chance to honour both the Crown and the indigenous peoples of Canada. (Tom Hanson/Canadian ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622391/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:29:43 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622391/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Police searching a farm belonging to Dellen Millard, charged with forcible confinement and theft over $5,000 in connection with the disappearance of Tim Bosma, are trying to determine if remains found on his property could be human. ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622390/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:29:43 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622390/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 According to investigators, Marcos Arenas, 15, was walking down a street with an iPad on Thursday when a passenger got out of a vehicle and tried to steal the device from ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622500/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:20:51 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622500/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corridor scurrying for shelter. The tornadoes that touched down in Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa were part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. At least four ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622407/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:19:03 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622407/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 U.S. President Barack Obama (L) waves to the press during his meeting with Myanmar's President Thein Sein in Yangon, November 19, 2012.(Photo:Agencies) U.S. President Barack Obama will walk a fine line between fostering a U.S. ally and trying to defend human rights when the president of Myanmar becomes the first head of his country to visit the White House in 47 years on Monday. Rights ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622392/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:08:53 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214622392/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 US President Barack Obama will this week reveal his plans for unmanned drones and Guantanamo Bay, the White House says. During a speech on Thursday at the National Defense University in Washington, the president will discuss "our broad counter-terrorism policy, including our military, diplomatic, intelligence and legal efforts," a White House official told AFP. "He will review ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621864/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:51:58 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621864/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 People survey damage from a tornado that hit Edmond, Okla., on Sunday, May 19, 2013. A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged roofs and structures near Oklahoma City and kicked up debris in Wichita, ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621789/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:47:31 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621789/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 J.J. Abrams' space epic sequel "Star Trek Into Darkness" opened to a 70.56-million-US-dollar three-day weekend, elbowing "Iron Man 3" out of the top place in the box office derby in North America.The debut is less than the 75.2 million dollar opening that director/producer Abrams' "Star Trek" debuted to four years ago, but strong enough to dethrone ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621765/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:45:07 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621765/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 The Obama administration has set in motion 6 criminal prosecutions related to information leaking, more than any previous administration. NBC's Michael Isikoff ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621865/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:38:40 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621865/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 The National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg is working with a sample of the new coronavirus that's causing clusters of infections abroad -- but can't share the material with other researchers across the country despite the public health urgency. It was a Dutch lab that sent a Saudi sample of the virus to Winnipeg, where scientists are looking ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621866/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:37:08 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621866/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 METRO VANCOUVER -- The family of a Coquitlam man who went missing in Mexico is desperately seeking information about what they now believe is a ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621867/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:37:04 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621867/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 (23 mins ago) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff stepped down yesterday over an expenses scandal that also forced the resignation of a conservative senator. Nigel Wright announced his resignation in a statement following revelations that he gave a US$90,000 gift to a senator to help repay improper housing expenses. The senator, Mike Duffy, resigned last week. Wright, ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621868/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:34:35 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621868/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 The mostly media driven scandal talk involving President Obama has so far stirred barely a yawn among the public. There are good reasons. The four alleged scandals, Benghazi, the IRS, the AP leaks, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius supposed shakedown of corporations to help implement the health care act don't come close to passing the smell test for a public fogging ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621869/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:30:04 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621869/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 To the Editor: ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626267/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:23:04 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214626267/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 WASHINGTON ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623365/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:21:43 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214623365/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Murray Gillespie, a waterfowl biologist with Enviorment Canada and the Canadian Wildlife Service and his summer student Michele Chupik survey duck populations on a wetland east of Calgary on May 11, 2013. (Chris Bolin for The Globe and ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621281/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:02:14 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621281/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 The uproar over the federal government's temporary foreign worker program exposed a disturbing workplace undercurrent.Too many employers would rather import workers than train their own.Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce economist Benjamin Tal says he often talks to chief executive officers about the skills dilemma. And what he hears are sentiments such as: "I'm not in the business ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621282/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:02:09 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621282/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 A trifecta of domestic headaches confronts President Obama these days. They’ve shaken his self-confidence, thrown his second-term agenda off track, and given Republicans seemingly endless opportunities to hammer him.And yet a fourth headache looms not at home; but abroad, a migraine really, potentially more painful than the ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621271/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:59:11 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621271/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 (MENAFN) In order to lessen the US presence in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama lowered his funding request for the war in the country and other operations abroad to USD79.4 billion, reported Reuters.The new funding is 10 percent lower than the original request of USD88.5 billion to finance overseas contingency operations in fiscal 2014, which will start on October 1.According to National ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621284/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:57:15 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621284/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 United States Two FBI agents from the elite Hostage Rescue Team have been killed in a training accident.The Federal Bureau of Investigation says they died off a beach in Virginia.US media reports say the accident involved a ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621552/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:50:38 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621552/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 United States The hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay has passed the 100-day mark, with a lawyer for a dozen of the prisoners voicing concerns they will die in detention.The US military has confirmed that 103 of the camp's 166 inmates are now refusing food, and 30 of them are being ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621285/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:50:36 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621285/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 At his commencement address at Morehouse College, President Barack Obama tied Dr. Martin Luther King's journey to his own struggles, NBC's Lester Holt ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621286/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:48:05 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621286/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 "No Drama Obama is immersed in drama so over the top it could have been scripted by Shonda Rhimes and Karl Rove . . . The one-time messiah seems like a sad sack, trying to bounce back from a blistering array of sins that are not even his fault. He went to Baltimore on Friday to talk about jobs. But no one was listening." Photograph: Kristoffer Tripplaar-Pool/Getty ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621248/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:47:48 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621248/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 When listening to music, human brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make people feel, U.S. researchers say. Vision scientist Stephen Palmer of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues found people in both the United States and Mexico linked the same pieces of classical orchestral music with the same colors suggesting humans share a common ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621205/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:46:07 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621205/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Neil Reynolds made a career out of steering Canadian newspapers along uncharted courses, looking for stories with scant regard for the safe or predictable. He wanted storytelling, and got it, by letting reporters off the leash with a rare degree of freedom. Reynolds died of cancer in Ottawa on Sunday at the age of 72. Born in Kingston, Ont., Reynolds was a high-school dropout who became city ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621287/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:43:49 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621287/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 More than a week after the death of British sailor Andrew Simpson in a training accident, none of the four ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621283/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:23:54 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214621283/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620690/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:05:38 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620690/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 CARACAS - Venezuela on Sunday made a rare diplomatic overture to the United States, suggesting it could be time for better ties."We are going to remain open to normalizing relations with the United States," Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said on Televen television Sunday."The first thing would be to resume diplomatic representation at the highest level," he said.The ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620524/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:00:14 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620524/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 An unforgettable scene in the kids movie Madagascar 2 has King Julian, "Lord of the Lemurs," reclining with his friends at the luxury end of a rickety old plane watching newsreels of aircraft crashes while the penguins dubiously take the controls.When Melman, the giraffe, walks to the front and pokes his head through the curtain dividing 'cattle class' from the elites, Julian ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620674/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 19:58:51 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620674/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr., president of Morehouse College, and new Morehouse graduate Leland Shelton, share their reactions to President Obama's commencement address there with MSNBC's Craig ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620675/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 19:56:17 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620675/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Mayor Rob Ford leaves his home Friday, May 17, 2013, amid allegations there is a video showing him smoking crack cocaine. (CRAIG ROBERTSON/QMI ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620554/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 19:54:58 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620554/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 The Harper government is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars advertising a program that does not yet exist. Prime-time ads began airing this week during NHL playoff games – currently the priciest advertising real estate on the dial _ that tout a new federal Canada Jobs Grant for training workers. The trouble is, the freshly announced program is at present little more than a concept ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620676/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 19:51:45 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620676/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620993/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 19:43:05 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620993/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 (CBS News) Fielding controversies ranging from the attack last Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya to the targeting scandal at the Internal Revenue Service, President Obama is cultivating "a culture of cover-ups and intimidation," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Sunday on "Face the Nation." "It seems to be the answer of the administration, whenever they're caught doing ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620156/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:56:54 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620156/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is warning commuters that a traffic mess awaits them in southwest Connecticut for as long as a week until service is restored to Metro-North following a derailment that injured scores of ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620279/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:56:44 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620279/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 May 19, 2013 6:23pm ATLANTA — President Obama said today he remains optimistic about the prospects for his second term agenda despite what he called a ';shortage of common sense'; in the nation’s capital. ';We’ve got good, common-sense solutions that we can implement right now.  The bad news is, is that there’s a shortage of common sense in ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620157/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:56:15 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620157/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 National Defense University in Washington, the president will discuss "our broad counter-terrorism policy, including our military, diplomatic, intelligence and legal efforts," a White House official said. "He will review the state of the threats we face, particularly ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620144/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:48:58 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620144/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 US President Barack Obama will this week reveal his plans for unmanned drones and Guantanamo Bay, the White House says. During a speech on Thursday at the National Defense University in Washington, the president will discuss "our broad counter-terrorism policy, including our military, diplomatic, intelligence and legal efforts," a White House official told AFP. "He will review the ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620155/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:32:13 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214620155/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 A tornado from a large storm system moving cross the south has struck a Georgia town 60 miles north of Atlanta, according to CNN. A least one death has been reported in the state. High winds also are raking Tennessee, where a man died after a tree fell into his home, according to ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619601/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:27:23 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619601/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Two more bodies were found Sunday near a sunken lobster boat that went down after hitting a sandbar in rough water. Three crewmen were missing after the boat hit a sandbar about 5:30 a.m. Saturday and took on water. Hours later, the body of a 23-year-old man was recovered on the shoreline near where the boat sank. A 35-year-old man and a 32-year-old man remained missing but were located about ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619594/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:16:50 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619594/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 President Obama lamented a "shortage of common sense in Washington" during a speech at a Democratic fundraiser on Sunday afternoon, telling the group of donors in attendance that the "sky is the limit" for America - if only Washington could get its act in order. Mr. Obama arrived at the fundraiser after delivering a commencement speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619595/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:08:59 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619595/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 MANILA, Philippines--Splash Corp., a listed personal care products manufacturer, said buyers in North America snapped up its Barrio Fiesta-branded condiments business although overall food sales still ended with modest gains. In a statement, Splash said first-quarter sales of the Barrio Fiesta condiments brand grew 1 percent to P22.37 million. Overall food sales, which included Moondish Foods ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619513/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:07:08 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619513/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Police shot a teenager and arrested another suspect while investigating a car theft inside a rental car return area at Jacksonville International Airport in ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619124/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:37:59 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619124/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 WASHINGTON – A top White House adviser staked out a defiant defense Sunday on a series of scandals that have hit the Obama administration, going so far as to say it was an "irrelevant" fact where the president was the night of the Benghazi terror attacks  and again using the term to describe the IRS scandal. The senior aide also said the Obama administration wouldn't ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619111/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:21:18 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619111/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 (CBS News) "Partisan fishing expeditions" - like the amplifying clamor around news that the Internal Revenue Service targeted for excessive review conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status - White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday on "Face the Nation," won't "distract" President Obama from doing his job. Pfieffer did admit, however, the the ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619112/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:19:35 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619112/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News, Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press, discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Pruitt says DoJ's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional", ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619388/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:18:11 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214619388/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Armando Morales can be a dangerous man, whichever side he’s on. Once Morales handled illicit business for the Fresno, Calif., Bulldogs street gang. Then his compelling testimony against a former cellmate secured the conviction of the man accused of killing Chandra Levy. Now the former gang-enforcer-turned-prison-snitch is back in the hot seat. What happens next might turn the Levy murder ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618631/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:48:51 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618631/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Republican Strategist Chip Saltsman and MSNBC contributor Jimmy Williams join MSNBC's Alex Witt for Sunday's Strategy Talk. Williams comments on President Obama's very personal Morehouse College graduation address and the progress of the president's second term agenda. Saltsman talks about the significance of White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer's appearance on all of ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618617/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:39:57 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618617/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 View Photo Associated Press - In this May 16, 2013, photo, Abdulah Salim, Jr. hold the photograph of his father Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins who was a prominent Charlotte civil rights leader, in Silver Spring, Md. In the ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618518/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:39:54 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618518/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said the Obama administration wouldn't cooperate in "partisan fishing expeditions" over targeting of tea-party groups by tax officials, raising the prospect of future battles with lawmakers over their ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618618/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:32:33 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618618/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 President Barack Obama told students at Morehouse College: 'My whole life, I've tried to be what my father wasn't for my mother and me.' Photograph: Erik S ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618510/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:31:53 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618510/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 There are at least 26,121 people who went missing in the past six years in Mexico, according to President Enrique Pea Nieto's government, and now they are going to do something about it. Mexico's government says it will create a special investigative unit to search for the missing, heeding a request by relatives of the disappeared who have been on a hunger strike for nine ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618619/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:31:52 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618619/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 WASHINGTON – A top White House adviser staked out a defiant defense Sunday on a series of scandals that have hit the Obama administration, going so far as to say it was an "irrelevant fact" where the president was the night of the Benghazi terror attacks and saying the Obama administration wouldn't cooperate in "partisan fishing expeditions" over IRS officials ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618620/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:31:44 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618620/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 As a young man, "Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down," said President Obama during a commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, "but one of the things you've learned over the last four years is that there's no longer any room for ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618621/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:30:17 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618621/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News White House senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer appears on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Pfeiffer was scheduled to appear on five Sunday news shows Sunday, where he stated no senior officials were involved in the decision to give tea party groups extra scrutiny by the ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618622/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:28:55 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618622/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One hundred and forty years ago this month, a German immigrant named Levi Strauss patented the first pair of jeans ever made. During the California gold rush, Strauss traveled across the country to set up a West Coast branch of his family's dry ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618193/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:59:45 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618193/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Metro-North employees work at the site of Friday's train derailment in Bridgeport. Conn. on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Crews will spend days rebuilding 2,000 feet of track, overhead wires and signals following the collision between two trains Friday evening that injured 72 people, Metro-North President Howard Permut said Sunday. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post,Brian A. Pounds ) MANDATORY ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618207/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:59:04 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618207/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee event at the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618194/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:59:02 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618194/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano has been shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume is thinning and is no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618208/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:58:59 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618208/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 US President BarackObama, in a rousing speech to graduating college students on Sunday, touted his second term agenda, steering clear of scandals that have engulfed the White House in recent ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618077/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:53:32 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618077/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 White House in recent days. After wavering initially, the US president has launched an all-out offensive to contain fallout from the trio of controversies. Senior Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer, doing the rounds of weekly television talk shows, went into damage control mode on the scandals, including one related to alleged abuses by the ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618195/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:51:18 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618195/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Canadians soldiers load baggage at Kandahar airbase in 2011. Hundreds of shipping containers filled with military supplies remain stranded in Afghanistan. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618157/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:48:04 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618157/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 : "Ray is really good, and trusted. He's quiet and handles lots of tough issues. And yes, he stays out of the limelight." -- Jason Lietaer, former head of the Conservative Resource ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618196/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:48:01 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618196/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 U.S. President Barack Obama adjusts his tie before receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the graduation ceremony of the class of 2013 at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia May 19, ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618198/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:43:38 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618198/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of the country's biggest bank, faces a key test this week: His shareholders are voting on whether to let him keep both jobs. It's been just more than a year since his bank, JPMorgan Chase, revealed a surprise trading loss that tarnished its usually stellar reputation in Washington and on Wall Street, and what a difference it has made. Shareholder groups ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618213/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:38:01 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618213/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) ATLANTA — President Obama said today that he is motivated by the knowledge that ';but for the grace of God … I might have been in prison,'; in a commencement address at historically black Morehouse College, where he spoke frankly about race and young men’s responsibilities to 500 male graduates. In his second commencement address of ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618201/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:37:49 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618201/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., delivers remarks during the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., March 15, 2013. UPI/Kevin ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618203/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:33:29 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618203/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Barack Obama is cultivating "a culture of cover-ups and intimidation" regarding recent political scandals. Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation," Senate Minority ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618202/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:33:29 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214618202/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 President Barack Obama and White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer, right, react to a reporter's question as they leave the Treasury Department in Washington, Jan. 16, ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617635/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:13:44 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617635/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Yahoo Inc.'s board has approved a deal to acquire blogging startup Tumblr, people familiar with the matter said Sunday. Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the company, one of the people said. Tumblr would continue to operate largely as an independent business, the people said. It wasn't immediately clear whether Tumblr's board had also approved the deal. Spokesmen ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617656/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:02:50 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617656/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Wall Street residents that has earned it a nickname as the hedge fund capital of the country. Now the tony town will be known for something else: as the location of America's most expensive home for sale. Asking an astounding $190 million, Copper Beech Farm has come to market as one of Greenwich's last 'Great Estates,' a designation assigned by ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617657/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:02:48 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617657/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (bottom row, center) stands next to Leonard Abess jr (L), Dina Leach (2nd L), Ty'Sheoma Bethea (3rd L), a student from Dillon, SC; Richard G. DeCoatsworth (2nd R), a police officer from Philadelphia, PA; and Jill Biden (R), wife of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden as President Barack Obama gives his primetime address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617658/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:54 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617658/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Thankfully only the later part of that plot seems to have inspired Obama. The New York Times' Peter Baker reported last week that Obama had spoken "longingly of 'going Bulworth'" and telling it like it is.As Baker's story and other Obama moments have proven, it's not the only Hollywood plot available to those in the West ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617529/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:55:58 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617529/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 A group of certain Canadian actors, writers and politicians is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change the name of Victoria Day. The group -- which includes author Margaret Atwood, Green Party leader Elizabeth May, and actor Gordon Pinsent -- has signed an online petition to rename this Monday's public holiday "Victoria and First Peoples Day." Peter Keleghan, an actor ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617687/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:55:14 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617687/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Area near Ware creek in Kananaskis Country. Photo courtesy Mike Koppang CALGARY -- Six lost hikers were rescued Sunday morning after a short stroll turned into an overnight stay in the Kananaskis Country wilderness. The group of friends from Black Diamond, Alta., were random camping along the Gorge Creek Trail and decided to go for a short walk about 11 a.m. Saturday, Kananaskis public safety ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617659/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:54:57 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617659/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Martin Luther King Jr. , on Sunday to tell graduates, 50 years after Dr. King's landmark ';I Have a Dream'; speech in Washington, that "laws, hearts and minds have been changed to the point where someone who looks like you can serve as president of the United States." Wearing an academic robe in maroon and black, Mr. Obama paid tribute to Morehouse as the place where Dr. ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617661/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:50:18 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617661/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 A senior White House adviser mounted a combative defense on Sunday against Republican lawmakers’ accusations of mismanagement, saying that the criticisms of President Obama’s actions and governing style were "offensive" and "absurd." The remarks came from Dan Pfeiffer, a member of the president's inner circle, as he made appearances on all five major network ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617660/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:50:15 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617660/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 The heck with Harvard, says New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.  Most high school grads should learn a trade  . . .  like plumbing. Bloomberg -- he of the no-oversized sodas -- is now reportedly dispensing career advice via his weekly radio show.  "The people who are going to have the biggest problem are college graduates who aren't rocket scientists, if you ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617662/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:48:38 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617662/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Congress is a dog that won't go for a walk. We can tug at its leash as hard as we want, but it sits in the middle of the sidewalk, barking a defiant "no." It's not a purposeful no. It's just a refusal for the sake of it, couched in principle. Then along comes America's most ambitious politician. No, it's not Paul Ryan or ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617556/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:47:25 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617556/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 President Obama on Sunday urged the graduates of historically black Morehouse College not to rely on "excuses" and to take responsibility for more than just themselves. "One of the things you’ve learned over the last four years is there’s no longer any room for excuses," he told the Atlanta college’s 500 male graduates, in a rare speech on what he sees as ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617161/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:16:02 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617161/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday the public’s trust in President Barack Obama is "being eroded" in the wake of the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. "Two things really concern me: One, you think of a manager, a leader, when something like that happens, you call people in, you sit them down and you let them know that you intend to find ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617162/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:15:59 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617162/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 May 19 - Following are the top 10 movies at North American box offices for the three-day weekend starting May 17, led by "Star Trek Into Darkness" at No. 1, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters. 1 (*) Star Trek Into Darkness.............$ 70.6 million 2 (1) Iron Man 3..........................$ 35.2 million 3 (2) The Great Gatsby....................$ 23.4 million ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617570/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:12:51 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617570/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Obama speaks in Baltimore, May 17, 2013. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) President Barack Obama took a break from the trifecta of controversies--IRS, Benghazi, Deptartment of Justice--swirling around the White House on Sunday to deliver the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution in Atlanta. "What I ask of you today is the same thing I ask of every ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617018/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:04:28 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617018/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Paul Henderson, flanked by IIHF president Rene Fasel, left, and 1972 Soviet Union team goalkeeper Vladislav Tretiak, is inducted at the IIHF Hall of Fame at the world hockey championship in Stockholm Sweden, Sunday. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617163/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:03:11 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617163/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Thousands of people witness a spectacular fireworks show to cap off the 11th annual Rotary Victoria Day Fireworks and Family Night on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at Del Crary Park in Peterborough, Ont. (Clifford Skarstedt/QMI AGENCY) A group of prominent Canadians is asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change the name of Canada’s national Victoria Day holiday to Victoria and First Peoples ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617165/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:03:04 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617165/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 The survey of 923 adults by CNN and the ORC International polling organization found that 45 per cent of respondents disapprove of Mr Obama's job performance.In early April, the same poll gave the president a 51 per cent approval rating, showing that Mr Obama is holding steady despite a brutal week in which the White House attempted to control damage from three simultaneous scandals which ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617119/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 13:57:53 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617119/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Dan Pfeiffer said it is a "cardinal rule when you know a situations like these, not for just for this White House but for all White Houses ... you do not interfere in an independent investigation and you do not do anything to give off the appearance of interference in an independent investigation." A Department of the Treasury inspector general's report found employees at an IRS ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617177/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 13:48:59 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214617177/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 ATLANTA - President Barack Obama is telling graduates of Morehouse College to take the power of their example - as black men graduating from college - and use it to improve people's lives.He's asking those headed to law school to think about defending the poor, and those destined for medical school to consider treating people in communities without access to health care.And he asked ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214616618/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 13:23:46 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214616618/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 President Barack Obama's approval rating doesn't seem to have taken a hit from the trifecta of scandals confronting his administration, according to a new ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214616619/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 13:19:52 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214616619/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Two Canadian soldiers walk into the Christmas Day sunset at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan on Friday, Dec. 25, 2009. (Colin Perkel / THE CANADIAN ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214616519/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 13:18:09 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214616519/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 President Obama may have suffered one of the worst weeks of his presidency, but so far it seems the public isn’t letting the controversies that have engulfed the White House affect their view of the president. At the same time, ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214616620/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 13:14:23 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214616620/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 PHOENIX (AP) -- A police officer who was conducting a DUI stop on a vehicle in west Phoenix died after another vehicle struck him and then fled the ... http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214616830/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4 Sun, 19 May 2013 13:09:18 -0400 http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/214616830/scat/58652c42d9c6e2f4