Canadian Government

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• Tories work to undermine diplomat who blew whistle on torture

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  Defence Minister cites incredible holes in testimony by Richard Colvin alleging Canadian governments complicity in the abuse of Afghan detainees
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• Canada Wins: Facebook Implements New Privacy Policy

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  At the end of Octoboer, Facebook announced that it was revamping its privacy policy . read more
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• AP Source: GM to begin repaying aid by year-end (AP)

  
  Politics - Political News — Authority: 154
  WASHINGTON – General Motors Co . will begin paying back $6.7 billion in U.S. government loans by the end of 2009 and could pay off that full amount by 2011, four years ahead of schedule, according to a person familiar with the matter. The government debt represents about 13 percent of the $52 ...
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• What is Defence Research Establishment – Ottawa?

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 515
  And why are they visiting our site? 
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• Man arrested at B.C. border with terrorist resources

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  The Canadian Press VANCOUVER — SNIPPET: "Khaled Nawaya, a flight instructor, was arrested by Canada Border Services agents when they found $800,000 in gold coins and other currency in his car and pockets on Oct. 6, as he crossed into Surrey, B.C., near Vancouver." SNIPPET: "Hed been living in the U.S. since he was 17 ...
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• Thatcher has died message causes chaos: but it was a moggy, not Maggie (read it first)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  There will only ever be one Iron Lady, but confusion between Maggie and a moggy led to the Canadian Government preparing its condolences for the death of Baroness Thatcher. John Baird, the country’s Transport Minister, set the cat among the pigeons by sending a text message to a friend reading: “Thatcher has died.” ...
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• Fuck The Swine Flu

  
  Jean Shorts And Bagged Milk — Authority: 129
  Mmm, bacon!Theres been a lot of shit tossed the Flames (and now the Leafs and Canucks) way recently in the wake of their entire team, families, and farm team getting H1N1 vaccines in a cushy private clinic, while the rest of Canada has to stand out in the cold, waiting in line for hours. But I think people just need ...
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• Australia Saying Canada Is Taking In Asylum Seekers Aboard Oceanic Viking

  
  Crooked in Canada — Authority: 129
  So Canadian taxpayers, how many of you are aware that there is a rumor being floated here in Oz that says the Tamil refugees refusing to disembark from an  Australian Customs ship, will be resettled in Canada, some of them anyway. You hear about that, has the Harper government made any mention of that during ...
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• Extraordinary rendition case thrown out because it would endanger "state secrets"

  
  Corrente — Authority: 623
  Glenn Greenwald :
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• SNM applauds House action to build medical isotopes reactor in the US

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  Reston, Va. -- SNM applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its passage of H.R. 3276 -- the American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2009.
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• Our Cumbersome Constitution

  
  Blue Like You — Authority: 471
  Thought-provoking editorial in today’s National Post (The Liberals’ Rural Problem) and it comes hot on the heels of a tangentially-related column by L. Ian MacDonald detailing the health care problems unique to Canada due to the way powers are divided up between Ottawa and the provinces.By way of background, ...
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• Pomerleau To Build New Facility For C-130 Training

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 440
  The Canadian government has invested in several C-130J transports from Lockheed Martin . These are to improve their tactical and operational mobility. The aircraft are to be built in the United States but the contract has significant offset requirements so that Lockheed will have to spend money in Canada . ...
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• Asylum seekers’ success rate plunges under Tory government – Number of refugee claims approved drops 56 per cent amid immigration overhaul

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 131
  By Bill CurryOttawa — The number of refugees gaining asylum in Canada has dropped dramatically under the Conservatives as new figures reveal the impact of the government’s efforts to transform this country’s immigration system.New statistics ... Related Posts B Canada Calling – Russian Jews Look to Canada ...
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• OTTAWA CITIZEN EDITORIAL: The U.S. can do better

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 131
  The Ottawa CitizenAmericans viewed the attack of 9/11 as an act of war, and no fair-minded person should blame them for doing so. And because there has never been a war in which even the ... Related Posts B Torture stories win Ottawa book prize – Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of ...
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• Justice Guido Calabresi Dissents – Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arar

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 131
  By Scott Horton“When the history of this distinguished court is written, today’s majority decision will be viewed with dismay,” writes Guido Calabresi, the former Yale Law dean and a man widely viewed as the most ... Related Posts B No Justice for Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar U.S. watchdog ...
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• No Justice for Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 131
  Court Refuses to Hold U.S. Officials Accountable for Complicity in Torture Abroad CONTACT: press@ccrjustice.orgNovember 2, 2009, New York –  Today, a federal Court of Appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials for ... Related Posts B Maher Arar Saga Not Over Yet – American ...
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• Celebrities Ban Together to Save The Seals

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 627
  PETA just launched a celebrity filled campaign to stop the slaughter of seals in Canada. According to their website: “Each year, the Canadian government allows sealers to beat and skin hundreds of thousands of seals. Baby seals, some merely weeks old, have their skulls smashed in or are shot for their fur. Many of ...
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• Canadian Government in squabble over torture secrets

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 131
  By Jim Bronskill OTTAWA — A dispute rages over secret portions of an inquiry report on the overseas torture of three Canadians one year after release of the document, which criticizes the actions of security ... Related Posts B Canadian Government rejects apology for torture victims Ottawa denies ...
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• Canadian Government rejects apology for torture victims

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 131
  By JIM BRONSKILL OTTAWA – The federal government has rejected a call from MPs to compensate three Canadians tortured overseas.In a response issued late Monday, the government said it “would be inappropriate” to do so ... Related Posts B Ottawa denies responsibility for overseas torture – In newly filed ...
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