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Students rally for Olympics in Canada
PRESSTV Sun, 04 May 2008 10:08:10 GMT
More than 1,000 international students have gathered in Ottawa, Canada to participate in the Beijing-Vancouver Olympics Run.
3 dead, 1 missing in Canada seal hunt
PRESSTV Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:31:38 GMT
Three sealers are reported dead and one is missing in a vessel overturn in the icy North Atlantic sparking concerns about sealers' safety.
4 missing in Canada vessel overturn
PRESSTV Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:07:33 GMT
Rescue teams are looking for four men missing after their fishing vessel overturned about 70 kilometers north of Cape Breton, Canada.
Plane crash kills 5 in Western Canada
PRESSTV Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:11:27 GMT
A small plane crash has killed all five people aboard in remote eastern Alberta in Western Canada, including four men and one woman.
McCain: renegotiating NAFTA is wrong
PRESSTV Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:33:40 GMT
US Republican hopeful John McCain says that renegotiating the NAFTA agreement would jeopardize crucial military support from Canada.
Canada, US ink emergency troop sharing
PRESSTV Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:03:35 GMT
The US and Canada have signed an agreement which allows each nation to send troops across each other's borders in emergency situations.
Canada court denies foreign spy warrant
PRESSTV Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:10:41 GMT
Canada's Federal Court has refused to issue a warrant for overseas electronic intercepts against nine Canadians and a foreigner.
Canada's divisive Afghan debate
PRESSTV Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:40:15 GMT
An independent report on the future of Canadian troops in Afghanistan has sparked fierce debates over the controversial issue in Canada.
Amnesty slams Canada torture stance relating to Israel and the United States - “When it comes to an issue like torture, the government's main concern should not be embarrassing allies”
PRESSTV Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:28:15
Amnesty International Canada says it has proof of prisoner abuse in the US and Zionist jails and is disappointed by the FM's statement.

“When it comes to an issue like torture, the government's main concern should not be embarrassing allies,” Alex Neve, the group's secretary general, told Reuters.

Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier had earlier said he had ordered Canada's 'closest allies' namely Israel and the United States to be removed from a document which lists states where prisoners risk being tortured.

Under 'definition of torture,' the document lists US interrogation techniques such as forced nudity, isolation, sleep deprivation and blindfolding prisoners.

It also mentions the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where a Canadian national, Omar Khadr, is being held for killing a US soldier in Afghanistan in 2002.
Canada's NDP leader: Afghan panel has US bias - "panel members harbor a strongly pro-American point of view"
PRESSTV Mon, 14 Jan 2008
Canada's New Democratic Party leader says a federal panel looking at the future of Canada's Afghan mission has a "pro-American" bias.

Jack Layton said Sunday that the panel is unlikely to consider options other than the current combat mission.

Layton, who has called for the immediate withdrawal of Canadians troops from Afghanistan, said he has no plans to make a submission to the panel, which is due to report by month's end.

"We think that NATO approach that is being taken is wrong, that the search-and-destroy warfare that's being conducted is wrong," Layton said.

Layton said panel members harbor a "strongly pro-American point of view."
Underwater earthquakes occur off Canada's Pacific coast
XINHUANET Sun, 06 Jan 2008
A series of underwater earthquakes occurred off the coast of Canada's British Columbia province Saturday, with the strongest registering a magnitude of 6.7 on the open-ended Richter scale, according to the local media.
Fifth of Canadians immigrants
BBC Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:42:24 GMT
New Canadian census data shows that 20% of the population was born abroad, a ratio second only to Australia.
Gilad Sharon sued for fraud in Canada real estate deal
HAARETZ Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:22:15 GMT
Gilad Sharon, son of former prime minister Ariel Sharon, has been named in a lawsuit alleging that he fraudulently received $1.8 million two years ago from profits on a real estate deal in Canada, through two entities he controlled - Sycamore Ranch Ltd. and Lerner Manor Trusteeships. ...
Canada's government survives vote
BBC Tue, 23 Oct 07 06:58:22 BST
Canada's minority Conservative government survives a confidence vote over its policy agenda.
Canadian vessels assert Arctic claim
BBC Tue, 16 Oct 07 17:52:01 BST
Amid rising tension over territorial control in the Arctic region, a Canadian research mission completes a 600-mile journey through the famous Northwest Passage.
FBI Puts Antiwar Protesters on Criminal Database; Canada Uses It To Ban Protesters From Entry
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Two well-respected US peace activists, CODEPINK and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin and retired Colonel and diplomat Ann Wright, were denied entry into Canada On October third. The two women were headed to Toronto to discuss peace and security issues at the invitation of the Toronto Stop the War Coalition. At the Buffalo-Niagara Falls Bridge they were detained, questioned and denied entry.

"In my case, the border guard pulled up a file showing that I had been arrested at the US Mission to the UN where, on International Women's Day, a group of us had tried to deliver a peace petition signed by 152,000 women around the world," says Benjamin. "For this, the Canadians labeled me a criminal and refused to allow me in the country."

"The FBI's placing of peace activists on an international criminal database is blatant political intimidation of US citizens opposed to Bush administration policies," says Colonel Wright, who was also Deputy US Ambassador in four countries. "The Canadian government should certainly not accept this FBI database as the criteria for entering the country." Both Wright and Benjamin plan to request their files from the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act and demand that arrests for peaceful, non-violent actions be expunged from international records. "It's outrageous that Canada is turning away peacemakers protesting a war that does not have the support of either US or Canadian citizens," says Benjamin.

"In the past, Canada has always welcomed peace activists with open arms. This new policy, obviously a creature of the Bush administration, is shocking and we in the US and Canada must insist that it be overturned. Four members of the Canadian Parliament--Peggy Nash, Libby Davies, Paul Dewar and Peter Julian-- expressed outrage that the peace activists were barred from Canada and vow to change this policy.
'Corrie' canceled in Canada. Play, about the 23-year-old American activist who died under the wheels of an Israeli bulldozer.
VARIETY Fri, 05 Oct 2007
It's curtains for "My Name Is Rachel Corrie" in Canada.

CanStage, the country's largest not-for-profit theater, has reversed its earlier decision and opted not to present the show as part of its 2007-08 season.

Play, about the 23-year-old American activist who died under the wheels of an Israeli bulldozer in 2003, was originally produced at London's Royal Court Theater in 2005.
Canada scraps anti-terrorism laws
ALJAZEERA Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:28:39 AM
Parliament rejects national security argument to extend controversial legislation.
Robert Fisk: How racism has invaded Canada
INDEPENDENT 10 June 2006
This has been a good week to be in Canada - or an awful week, depending on your point of view - to understand just how irretrievably biased and potentially racist the Canadian press has become. For,...
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Stop SPP Protest - Union Leader stops provocateurs
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Peaceful protesters stop police provocateurs from starting a riot at the Stop the SPP protests in Montebello Quebec. CEP President Dave Coles confronts men with rocks and...

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