Tag Archives: Government of Canada

Human Rights Inferno In Canada

By Ismail Salami, Press TV In June 2008, Canada officially apologized for forcing 150,000 aboriginal children into ghastly residential schools where they were abused sexually, psychologically and physically. Residential schools were set up with the assumption that aboriginal culture failed … read more »

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Former Canadian cop sentenced to 10 years in U.S. teen sex case

PITTSBURGH, Pa. – A former Ottawa police officer who was caught in an online teen sex sting after expressing his desire in a fetish chat room to experience the “gift of a 14-year-old’s virginity” was sentenced Tuesday to 10 1/2 … read more »

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Canadians evacuated from Egypt

An Air Canada flight dispatched to evacuate Canadians out of Egypt has left Cairo and is bound for Frankfurt, airline officials say. The flight, carrying 206 passengers, was one of two planes scheduled to depart Monday. Some passengers at the … read more »

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If you were born in Canada, you’re lucky

Maybe if the Canadian immigration authorities in Ghana hadn’t been so encouraging, Jennifer Lannan wouldn’t have become pregnant. As it is, the Saltspring Island woman is seven months along and her Nigerian husband is in limbo. Their story is just … read more »

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Omar Khadr might be released in less than three years

WASHINGTON — A United States military commission at Guantánamo Bay has sentenced a former child soldier for Al Qaeda to 40 years in prison for war crimes — but he might be released in less than three years, the Defense … read more »

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Omar Khadr pleads guilty to war crimes

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – Years of political hand-wringing over Guantanamo Bay’s youngest and only remaining western inmate appeared close to an end Monday as Canada’s Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to war-crimes charges in the death of a U.S. special forces … read more »

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Khadr says he will give any book, movie profits to Ottawa

Image via Wikipedia Omar Khadr has told the United States he would give the Canadian government profits from book and movie deals based on any crimes he confesses when he appears before a U.S. military commission today, Postmedia News has … read more »

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