Despite all the hype and massive media attention surrounding the US Vice Presidential Debate, when voting with their remote controls, Canadians overwhelmingly chose to watch the 2008 Federal Leaders Debate.

Greg LeNoir's wife describes him as a "Dr. Doolittle" so it was no surprise to her that when their pup Jake got bit and dragged under water by a shark in the local marina that her husband dove after the shark and saved the dog.

In 2003, when Stephen Harper was Leader of the Opposition, he gave a speech in the House of Commons advocating that Canada get involved in the war in Iraq. Today, Bob Rae, the Liberal Foreign Affairs Critic, accused Harper of plagiarism.

Beginning today, Canadians can register their home or mobile phone numbers on a national do-not-call registry. There are, of course, exceptions but you can also do something about those.

It would appear that the financial package is not going to pass. CNN and MSNBC are both reporting that the House vote is going to fail. At just after 2:05 pm EST, it is being confirmed that the House has voted down the bailout.

Saying that the then 17-year-old accused was an "eager acolyte" of the alleged leader of the terror cell, Justice John Sproat found the now 20-year-old guilty of participating in a homegrown terror cell.

The day after sending cheques in to the IRS for taxes that he failed to report, the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charles Rangel (D) makes assertions to a reporter, not once or twice, but three times, that Sarah Palin is "disabled".

As the price of crude oil drops, the price at the pumps keeps on going up and up. In my mind, it has become official: We are being totally ripped off and I want to know what are you going to do about it.

In an attempt to reduce their operating costs, Google is considering using off-shore data centers that would run off wave energy.

In the wake of today's cover in US Weekly about Republican Vice Presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, there are reports of a rising backlash against the celebrity weekly magazine and that thousands of readers are canceling their subscription.

The day after Sarah Palin's rousing speech to the RNC, American feminist icon, Gloria Steinem [in what appears to be a direct appeal to those suffering from post-DNC PUMA syndrome] advises them as to where they should mark their ballot this November.

Excerpts from the remarks to be made by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Vice Presidential nominee to the 2008 Republican National Convention, were posted by the Drudge Report tonight and it looks like 'dems some fightin words!

Sparking what is sure to be a completely massive media and lightbulb frenzy, it is being reported that Levi Johnston, the boy who has been identified as Bristol Palin's intended and presumptive father of her child, is en route to Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Yesterday, Anderson Cooper was a busy, busy boy, dodging flying debris in the Lower Ninth Ward and interviewing Barack Obama on a variety of issues, including the experience comparison between himself and presumptive Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin.

Recent history suggests that candidates received a small upward bounce in their polling numbers after announcing their choice for VP. However, after announcing that he had selected Joe Biden as his number two, Obama seems to be bucking the trend.

Taking a page from President George W. Bush and the Republican Party, the Democratic National Committee, at their convention in Denver, Colorado, have embraced God in all His glory by having a choir belt out a gospel song to open up their 2008 convention.

Both John McCain and Barack Obama are proving true to their word that they can reach across that big partisan divide and appeal to to those on the other side of the aisle. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Obamacans versus McCainocrats.

PETA once again is in the news, not for "saving" animals, but because it decided to run an ad comparing the recent horrific beheading of a 22-year-old Canadian on a Greyhound bus to the slaughter of animals for human consumption.

Russian news agencies are reporting today that the Nobel laureate and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn has died today. He was 89 years of age.

In August 2006, Danieal Kelly died; the coroner says she weighed 42-pounds, the normal weight for a five year old. However, Danieal was a 14-year-old who suffered from cerebral palsy and she was allegedly starved to death by her mother.