As Alberta tries to figure out a way through the oil price collapse, the topic of high wages keeps coming up. The average wage in Alberta is nearly 25 per cent higher than in the rest of the country, and economists, politicians and executives say tha ...

Researchers have found that two high-profile German football clubs were engaged in anabolic doping during the 1970s and 80s. Germany's World Cup winning coach Joachim Löw played for both sides at the time in question.

A new service in a Portuguese city not only provides commuters with free Internet connections but it also helps collect data that makes the municipality run more efficiently.

“I don't have one. They're kind of expensive to use,” John Sylvan told me frankly, of Keurig K-Cups, the single-serve brewing pods that have fundamentally changed the coffee experience in recent years. “Plus it’s not like drip coffee is tou ...

Back in 2007, when staff at the Calgary Sexual Health Centre realized that after thirty years in operation it offered no specific programs for young straight men, they commissioned a team of social workers from the University of Calgary to help them ...

Craig Hockenberry noticed something strange was happening to his website one morning last month: traffic had suddenly spiked to extremely high levels—equivalent to more than double the amount of data transmitted when Kim Kardashian’s naked photos wer ...

Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.

As language evolves, the powers that regulate language tend to shift. Just look at the Oxford English Dictionary, who added terms like “duck face,” “lolcat,” and “hawt” to their prestigious lexicon this past December. But how do these new, internet- ...

"Social connectedness helps people," says Facebook, "and that's what we do best."

Circle, Square, Triangle, and X. Sony was up to something when they made the PlayStation controller. They attempted to reach deep into the minds of humans and subtly instruct them in how to use their newfangled controller.

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore is a man accustomed to dealing with large numbers, but even he struggled to believe just how much his negotiating team had secured in the latest auction for the rights to broadcast his “product” in the ...

The Navajos have a rich, documented history of accepting and even honoring people that identified with different genders and sexual preferences. Their language has at least one term for tribe members that don’t fit traditional heterosexual roles: nád ...

The Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization were found liable on Monday by a jury in Manhattan for their role in knowingly supporting six terrorist attacks in Israel between 2002 and 2004 in which Americans were killed and inj ...

Swedish kids growing up in families that wash their dishes by hand are less likely to develop certain allergies than those in families with dishwashers, a study suggests. But there may be more to it.

At least it was consistent?

Imagine a habitable planet orbiting a distant star. You’re probably picturing a variation of Earth. Maybe it’s a little cloudier, or covered in oceans. That image may very well be completely off-base. There is good reason to think that the first pote ...

On the surface, the insistence of Obama and others that ‘this has nothing to do with Islam,’ would seem as odd as that of their critics, that it has everything to do with Islam

The owner of a B.C. wildlife shelter wants to use paintball guns to treat moose infested with ticks.

Iran on Thursday executed an Iranian Kurd arrested at the age of 17 for belonging to the rebel Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) and involvement in armed confrontations with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards despite calls for leniency.

Measles infected hundreds of children at a Philadelphia church whose members didn't believe in modern medicine. In a rare step, health officials moved to compel the families to vaccinate the kids.