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Socialist Project (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The Canadian government's war effort in Afghanistan has been shaken by new accusations that Afghans detained by Canadian forces were tortured and abused. The charges were made by Richard Colvin, a highly placed diplomat in the Canadian embassy in Kabul during 2005-07, the years when Canada escalated its military role in Afghanistan.
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Guardian has a fascinating take on the rise of the Canadian tar sands, and the way they've hijacked power in Canada, preventing it from becoming a player in global climate change. The purpose of Canada's assault on the international talks is to protect this industry. This is not a poor nation. It does not depend for its economic survival on exploiting this resource. But the tar barons of...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TippingPoint, a leader in network security solutions and a division of 3Com, announced that Interior Health, a health authority established by the government of British Columbia, has selected the TippingPoint® Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to protect its systems from the latest security attacks. Interior Health selected TippingPoint for its Digital Vaccine®...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The Canadian government is defending its decision to hire a U.S. company to build the Canadian Olympic pavilion in downtown Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
In Canada, four Canadian Pacific Railway locomotives will test a B5 biodiesel blend this winter on services between Edmonton and Calgary. The Canadian government will spend $750,000 on the trial, which will run from November to March. The national government’s test comes as Canada begins preparation for a switch to B2-blended biodiesel in all transportation diesel...
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Filed under: Motorsports , Canada It's official, Formula 1 and Montreal are in love again. Bernie Ecclestone's supersonic price increases in 2008 drove the Canadian venue (and North America entirely) off the map in 2009. It was the first time in three decades that the F1 club didn't visit Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, and by the end of this summer, everyone was highly motivated to get it back....
SPEED (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Canadian government officials confirmed Friday that Formula One will return to Canada in 2010...
Human Rights Watch (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
(New York) - The Canadian government should carry out a full and public inquiry into the alleged torture of detainees whom Canadian forces transferred to Afghan government custody in 2006-07, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
IP Lab Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The Canadian government recently concluded a nation-wide consultation on copyright modernization.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
CANADIAN government officials were aware of abuse allegations in Afghan jails when the military handed detainees to them in 2006, a top diplomat has said.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
CANADIAN government officials were aware of abuse allegations in Afghan jails when the military handed detainees to them in 2006, a top diplomat has said.
It's Getting Hot In Here (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
“Lead, follow, or get out of the way!”, was what Power Shift Canada told the Canadian Government loud and clear on October 24th. Since then, youth across the country have been rallying, calling and dancing to demand that the Canadian government adopt Bill C-311 (the Climate Change Accountability act) which would mandate targets to cut [...]
Molly'sBlog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
CANADIAN POLITICS: DEMAND A TORTURE INQUIRY: The ongoing debate about whether Canadian troops have been deliberately handing over detainees for torture to the Afghan government and whether the Canadian government knew all about this continues in Parliament and the press. Molly has briefly commented on a this a couple of days ago. The following petition appeal is from...
Impolitical (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
A number of developments this morning that are not good for the Conservatives.... 1. There's a poll out indicating that Canadians are overwhelmingly buying Richard Colvin's side of the story: Canadians aren't buying the Harper government's assertion that there's no credible evidence Afghan detainees were tortured, a new poll suggests. Indeed, The Canadian Press...
A Free Man's Life (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Dear Prime Minister Harper, I am very concerned by the recent testimony of senior intelligence officer Richard Colvin. According to Mr. Colvin, who served in Afghanistan and is currently posted to Canada's embassy in Washington, the government received repeated warnings that people who were taken prisoner and transferred to Afghan authorities by Canadian troops were tortured by the Afghans....
