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TORONTO - An Islamic bookstore in east Toronto is selling books that urge Muslims to usurp the Western world and install an Islamic State in its place. The books, written by deceased Islamic scholar Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi – are available at the Islamic Circle of North America bookstore in Scarborough. “Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation that rules it,” Maududi wrote in Jihad in Islam. “Islam requires the earth – not just a...

Miss Universe Canada Organizers Boot Transgender Contestant [Pic in URL] The organizers for Miss Universe Canada will not allow a transgender contestant to participate in the May pageant, saying that although she may feel like a woman, rules say she must be born a female, the Toronto Star reported. Denis Davila, the national director of the Miss Universe Canada franchise, told the Vancouver Sun that the contestant, Jenna Talackova, a native of Vancouver, British Columbia, wrote on her registration that she was born female. He suspected that she was born male and asked her about it earlier this month. She...

A Vancouver restaurant has come up with an interesting solution to the men-can’t-aim problem: Ban men from peeing standing up. Recently, my wife and I had brunch at the Edible Canada bistro on Granville Island. When I went to use the facilities, I was surprised to see just one unisex bathroom with about six private stalls and a communal sink area Even more surprising, though, was the sign above the toilet, showing a stick man tinkling into a toilet with a line through it. Yes, Edible Canada has banned men from peeing standing up

Your next-door neighbour is a nice guy — not quite a party animal, but knows how to have a good time. He smokes and drinks — vices you have indulged in from time to time. You get along famously and often enjoy each other’s company. Two years ago he had a small fire in his house, apparently he went to bed with a few too many drinks under his belt and his cigarette lit. Just this morning you saw his house was on fire. Your first concern was for him and his family. Your second concern might well have been...

OTTAWA - As "Solidarity forever!" rings out at union halls, most Canadians have refused to lock arms with organized labour in two recent strikes. A new Abacus Research poll for QMI Agency has found 60% of Canadians across the country say they supported this month's federal back-to-work legislation for Canada Post and Air Canada employees. Pollster David Coletto says he's rarely seen public opinion line up so strongly with a decision by the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. "When an issue hits people in how they live their lives, and whether they can travel, or whether they pay their...

Here’s some recent political history that’s relevant to the mess the federal Liberal party finds itself in today. In 1985, the Ontario Conservatives were in much the same boat as the Liberals are now, except their fall from grace was much faster. Like the Liberals federally until the 2006 election, the provincial Conservatives in 1985 saw themselves as the natural governing party of Ontario. But their 42-year political dynasty suddenly collapsed in that year’s vote, when the Conservatives under Frank Miller, who had just replaced Bill Davis as leader, finished barely ahead of David Peterson’s Liberals, 52 seats to 48....