Contributor ReportsAmnesty wants inquiry on detainee issue
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Ottawa :: Canada | updated Tue Nov 24 09:02:04 -0800 2009 | political-news
A high-level bureaucrat who used to run the government's Afghanistan Task Force says he wants to appear as soon as Wednesday before a parliamentary committee looking into allegations that detainees were tortured in Afghan prisons. The number of people receiving...
'Exchange bandit' gets 6-year sentence
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Toronto :: Canada | updated Tue Nov 24 08:49:08 -0800 2009 | political-news
A wayward deer that wandered through downtown Toronto before stopping to rest near a busy intersection has snarled traffic and drawn curious onlookers in the morning rush hour. The Tamil organization that fought a bloody decades-long war with the Sri...
Two more Italian cafes firebombed in Montreal arson string
Source: Macleans
Montreal :: Canada | updated Mon Nov 23 15:37:17 -0800 2009 | political-news
Two more Italian cafes have been firebombed in Montreal, bringing the number of attacks in recent weeks to seven. Police say a Mafia turf war, an offensive by street gangs, or copycat arsonists could be behind the firebombings...Neither cafe suffered...
Scotiabank hints at housing bubble
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Quebec :: Canada | updated Tue Nov 24 10:52:18 -0800 2009 | political-news
A Bank of Nova Scotia report suggests Canadian real estate prices are overly inflated, but they're unlikely to correct themselves in the short term. The U.S. economy grew 2.8 per cent in the three months ending in September, the Commerce...
'What the hell is he thinking?'
Source: The Globe & Mail
Halifax :: Canada | updated Tue Nov 24 10:58:14 -0800 2009 | political-news
Within a matter of hours, Nova Scotia Tory MP Gerald Keddy had called unemployed Nova Scotians “ no-good bastards .” Then, a flurry of stories, including calls from his NDP colleague Peter Stoffer, who was on a Maritime radio show,...
$25B deficit no excuse to delay poverty plans, advocates say
Source: Toronto Star
Ottawa :: Canada | updated Tue Nov 24 09:49:10 -0800 2009 | political-news
Child poverty advocates say one in every nine children in Ontario currently lives in poverty and they're warning Premier Dalton McGuinty that a $25-billion deficit is no excuse for scaling back promises. Economist Armine Yalnizyan says it's time to do...
Boy, 14, arrested at school with gun
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Calgary :: Canada | updated Tue Nov 24 11:48:54 -0800 2009 | political-news
A teenager wanted in connection with a homemade bomb attack in Calgary was arrested Monday night as he stepped off a bus in Manitoba. Winnipeg police have released a sketch of a suspect wanted in a number of incidents in...
Jordan king dissolves parliament, calls election
Source: Reuters
Toronto :: Canada | updated Mon Nov 23 18:05:03 -0800 2009 | political-news
Jordan's King Abdullah has dissolved parliament halfway through its four-year term and called for early elections, state television reported Monday. The king issued a royal edict ordering the dissolution effective Tuesday of what is widely considered a rubber-stamp assembly composed...
Armed men snatch prisoner from hospital
Source: United Press International
Toronto :: Canada | updated Tue Nov 24 11:42:32 -0800 2009 | political-news
A daring armed break-out of a prisoner from a Hamilton, Ontario, hospital midday Tuesday triggered a manhunt for three armed and dangerous men. Fawad Nouri, 24, was being escorted by prison guards from the Hamilton General Hospital to a van...
Jury was 'totally misled' in Winnipeg man's drug murder trial: lawyer
Source: Macleans
Winnipeg :: Canada | updated Tue Nov 24 10:50:52 -0800 2009 | political-news
The lawyer for a Winnipeg man trying to be exonerated from murder says the jury that convicted him was "totally misled" by the prosecution. Frank Ostrowski is asking to be released on bail while the federal government reviews his conviction...
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