… but by my calculations Samhain begins on November 9^th this year.

Pritchard should have known better than to give the tape to the RCMP, hopefully others will learn from his mistake.

Really, we’ve seen and heard so much today about how caring, decisive, bold, innovative, and progressive, a Prime Minister Stephen Harper is that the only thing left to say is “Stephen Harper for God!!”

The aid worker compared what he saw in Canada with regions that had endured years of conflict. “In a natural disaster, hope is a vital thing. People lose family and possessions, but society is united with those who can help. What I felt in northern Canada was like Darfur. The reasons are different, but there is a hopelessness, a despair, a sense of despondency.”

We’re kind of antisocial socialists at the Bunker, and none of us particularly enjoy handing out carbos to kids. So we tend to turn off the lights on Hallowe’e'n, settle down with the mead and popcorn, and enjoy a dusk to dawn session of our favourite scary movies. Here they are.

A family values campaigner accused of taking pornographic photographs of himself has been dumped as a candidate for Australia’s November election by the Christian-values Family First Party.

In the wake of the killing of innocent people in Baghdad the US is looking to tighten rules for their mercenaries security contractors in Iraq, including getting the US military involved….

– or the media in general for that matter.

Canadian officials are taking the unprecedented step of asking a judge to install closed-circuit video cameras inside a terrorism suspect’s family home, arguing national security necessitates the scrutiny.

The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its investigation of last month’s deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians, The Associated Press has learned.

It’s depressing to see the Dalai Lama being used as a cudgel to beat China by politicians oblivious to his actual message.

Taxpayers left in the dark as internal watchdog sounds alarm on $7.3B in ‘high-risk’ contracts

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Anyone who remembers the lead up to the American invasion of Iraq can’t help but to see similarities with current rhetoric surrounding Iran - but Iran has something Iraq didn’t have, powerful friends.