Oh Canadian

The Obama administration will endorse a U.N. declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality that then-President George W. Bush had refused to sign, The Associated Press has learned.

Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.

"Swine flu parties" are gatherings during which people have close contact with a person who has novel H1N1 flu in order to become infected with the virus. The intent of these parties is for a person to become infected with what for many people has been a mild disease, in the hope of having natural immunity novel H1N1 flu virus that might circulate later and cause more severe disease.

LISBON, Portugal – Portugal's parliament passed a bill Friday that would make the predominantly Catholic nation the sixth in Europe to permit gay marriage.

Recent debate over whether raw milk is healthy or hazardous has been a lot like comparing apples and oranges, say advocates who argue how safe it is all depends on the size of the herd.
They say small, well-managed dairy farms are different from large-scale producers, and that the law as it stands doesn't fit the issue.

The latest twist on an old scam.

Over the weekend I received three identical e-mails that show the domain name appraisal scam is alive and well.

Sexually explicit photos of some of China's most famous female stars spread like a virus over the Internet, and now the man who took them says he wants to protect the innocence of those women - even if it means refusing to testify in court. Chinese film star Edison Chen told a Vancouver judge Monday he will not reveal anything of an intimate nature regarding any of the women in the photos.

A Canadian software developer convicted of involvement in a foiled fertilizer bomb plot in Britain has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in jail.Momin Khawaja was found guilty in October 2008 by a judge in Ontario. He was tried without a jury.

TMX Group denies claim. Win could affect thousands of other projects by Canadian companies."Financing being raised in Canada is traveling across borders to do harm," said lawyer Murray Klippenstein by phone from his office in Toronto. "We want to find out if our legal system can respond to this."