Sidney Hanson, 63, was sentenced Friday to 22 years in prison and ordered to pay $33 million in restitution to victims of the Ponzi scheme he pleaded guilty to running. Mecklenburg County Sheriff
Sidney Hanson, who was accused by the government of running a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that targeted the elderly, was sentenced Friday to 22...
Publicly-owned generating projects, like the 1,499 MW Adam Beck II station seen here, were the norm until recently. By 2020, private enterprise will account for more than one third of all generation in Canada.
Canadians tend to think of power generation as a public utility — a crucial piece of infrastructure that governments are duty-bound to...
In 1972 comedian George Carlin famously delineated the “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” All seven words dealt with bodily parts or functions at a time when such things were simply not mentioned in polite company. If anything, Carlin was understating the...
Are whites on the verge of becoming a minority of the American population? That's what some analysts of the 2010 Census results claim. Many go on, sometimes with relish, to say that this spells electoral doom for the Republican Party. I think the picture is more complicated than that. And that the demise of the Republican Party is no more...
More than 1,500 participants staged Toronto’s first “SlutWalk” Sunday to protest a police officer’s use of the word "slut" when warning that dressing provocatively sometimes encourages sexual assault.
A Toronto cop who warned women that dressing like sluts can attract sexual assault was reprimanded and underwent “further training,” Chief Bill...
