TEHRAN (Reuters) Iran began making higher-grade nuclear fuel on Tuesday, state television reported, and the Pentagon said the United States wanted a U.N. Security Council resolution on Iran within weeks over its nuclear program. The Islamic Republic, which denies its program has military aims, anno ...

In a decision dated January 27, 2010, the Ontario Energy Board ruled that Toronto Hydro breached the Electricity Act by refusing to connect hydro service to the bulk meters of new condominium projects unless all units in the condominium are individually smart-metered by Toronto Hydro and become ...

By Tobi Cohen, THE CANADIAN PRESS BELLEVILLE, Ont. – The Canadian military was rocked to its core Monday following the bombshell allegation that the colonel in command of the country’s largest air force base had killed two women and sexually assaulted two others. Col. Russell Willia ...

Michael Pelly in The Australian Legal Affairs on Friday took some comfort from England soccer (now former) captain John Terry's failure in court to stop publication of an affair with a team mate's ex, suggesting the decision of High Court Justice Tugendhat would have Australian media lawyers smiling ...

The important practical question following the death today of Congressman John Murtha is what happens to the House seat he held on behalf of the people of Pennsylvania’s 12th District. The good news, so far as I can tell from early reports, is that Ed Rendell won’t get to appoint an int ...

Anyone who has ever been hounded by a debt collector has probably fantasized about giving the collector a taste of his or her own medicine. That fantasy may be much easier to realize than most people imagine, as the story of a Dallas debtor shows. Background: Your Rights as a Consumer Laws are in pl ...

The debate over the safety of hydraulic fracturing continues. The Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based non-profit environmental advocacy organization, has issued a white paper, "Drilling Around the Law," calling for fracking to be regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act and to require ...

People trying to keep tabs on the legislative authority for suite submetering can’t even blink these days without the risk of being left in the dark!   On December 8, 2009, the Ontario Government tabled Bill 235, an Act to enact the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2009 and to a ...

COLTS SUFFER the Kiss Of Death? UPDATE: Reader Chris Martin writes: “Obama picked UNC to win the national title in basketball, and they did….so no, there’s no kiss of death…unless of course you’re a taxpayer making more than $250,000 a year…”

The Slate’s Chris Beam profiles the creator of the “demon sheep” ad here. The man to credit—or to blame—is Republican media consultant Fred Davis, the closest thing political advertising has to an auteur.