#1 — CBC | Feds deny responsibility in torture case
The federal government denies responsibility for the overseas imprisonment and torture of three Canadians, despite a commission of inquiry report that parcelled out blame to CSIS, the RCMP and Foreign Affairs.
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#2 — CBC | N.B. worker protest has Stelmach calling for calm
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach called for cooler heads to prevail Friday following protests by trade workers in New Brunswick against Albertans working on a natural gas construction project.
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#3 — CBC | Killer of Edmonton police officer gets freedom
The man convicted of manslaughter in the 1990 slaying of Edmonton police Const. Ezio Faraone was expected to get his freedom Friday, although corrections officials would not confirm whether he had been released from prison.
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#4 — CTV | Intensified search fails to find missing girl
As the sun set Friday evening, police and other searchers were no closer to finding a missing teenage girl despite having stepped up the search effort.
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#5 — CTV | Veteran political columnist Doug Fisher dead at 89
OTTAWA — Doug Fisher, a legendary political columnist and former member of Parliament, died Friday, a day shy of his 90th birthday.
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#6 — CTV | Liberal MP introduces war resisters bill
OTTAWA – A Liberal MP has introduced a private member’s bill aimed at letting American “war resisters” stay in Canada.
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#7 — NP | Harper government survives; no election
OTTAWA — The Harper government survived on Friday its first confidence test of the fall session — staving off the threat of an election — as the House of Commons passed a budget motion that ratified a popular home-renovation tax credit.
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#8 — OC | Sex abuse and silence exposed
Ottawa – Army staff and National Defence headquarters officials were told in 2007 that young boys had allegedly been sexually abused by Afghan security forces at a Canadian base in Afghanistan, but the concern at the time was that the incident might be reported in the news media, according to military records obtained by the Citizen.
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#9 — Star | Ontario fails to protect students from bogus colleges
John Ratiu paid $6,500 in tuition to learn the skills required for a job in the aesthetics industry.
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#10 — Star | Ground for concern
It will be the biggest radioactive waste cleanup in Canadian history.
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Re: Sex abuse and silence exposed -personally I backed, and to a large extent still do back, the Afghanistan mission, however the largeness of that extent is shrinking as I find it harder and harder to be on board with a mission that includes:
* shooting wounded prisoners and then trying to wash it off as ‘it was a mercy killing, we did the guy a favour, really….. its true‘
* covering up for our allies bum fu@king little boys because we’re afraid that our allies bum fu@king little boys might make the news
* propping up a national government empowered in a corrupt election because it suits our particular agenda
Re: Sex abuse and silence exposed: How quickly lefty cultural relativists drop their convictions about the value of the longstanding cultural traditions of certain ethnic groups when it no longer suits their purposes. Unfortunately, maintaining an “Ashna” or teenage male prostitute, usually about the age of 15 or 16, is an ancient ethnic custom in some Muslim countries such as Afghanistan where there are strict social taboos about single men mixing with women. Prostitution is legal here in Canada, and it should be noted that the Liberals had made it legal to have sex with boys and girls as young as 14 here as well, up until the Conservatives recently changed our Age of Consent laws. Why would our troops deem such unseemly activities particularly noteworthy in Afghanistan where they are an ancient ethnic custom, when lefties had made them legal here in Canada for such a long time?
Excellent point and question, Brian S. It proves outright the non-value our friends, the Liberals placed on our youth, the future of Canada. And Ignatieff this morning is complaining/WHINING about any promotional ads making “fools” of the opposition. Unfortunately, the oppo and former administrations, can be thought of as much worse than fools — I view them as the ‘harming agents’ of our children and that’s why we turf them at some point in the future. They’ve trifled with our children and we can plan for their demise at the polls being a big one. It’s doable. We should be satisfied with no less.
Ah Brian S….. why am I not surprised to find you engaged in the mental gymnastics required not only to defend the right of our allies to homosexually abuse young boys, but to blame it on the Liberals as well. What are your feelings on female circumcision in African countries…. that’s a long standing cultural tradition to, should Canadians turn a blind eye to that as well, is it also the fault of the great LIEbrel plot to destroy world morals?
In your rush to make this something that you seem to believe we should, ignore, or turn a blind eye to (or at the very least blame the Liberals for) you totally ignore the fact that it was “sexual abuse” that was reported and not “sex with male prostitutes” — or maybe you didn’t ignore it and it’s safe to say that the views of “the right” (why not use the phrase ‘eh, you seem to be good with the “leftists” generalization) are somewhat fluid in this respect…. depending of course on who is either doing the abusing or who is being abused.
I mean, Anna seems to agree with you, is this a general “rightist” trend?
I’d view that in terms of average citizens, it’d be a non-partisan alignment, stageleft. Now that’s not to confuse the adopted policies of the Liberal leadership with what its misinformed supporters hold as values. Liberal supporters are presently consistenly trashing their leadership right now. We can only hope they come on side, cultural sensitivities put aside.
Stageleft, I am not a cultural relativist, which means that I do not have to condone any of it without being a hypocrite, and I don’t. I am also not ignorant of the facts, so I know that how to deal with such unseemly cultural behaviors has been in question since before the Liberal government sent our troops to Kandahar. As the article states, no complaints are ever made, which is how our military knows it is prostitution, and also because the Afghan authorities have informed our military that these are cultural practices and have asked to be allowed to deal with them in their own way. Such cultural practices only became abuse when those such as yourself, and the lefty who wrote this article, decided they could be used to undermine our war effort.
Our troops are in Afghanistan to perform specific functions, which are, provide security, train Afghan nationals to fight, and help to rebuild infrastructure. They are not there to shape Afghanistan’s completely foreign cultural and political landscape to meet with ever changing liberal standards. Since this is a UN sanctioned mission, such cultural and political issues are up to the UN to sort out with Afghanistan’s government, and not for our overworked troops to deal with. However, don’t hold your breath waiting for the UN to stop propping up corrupt governments who condone the unseemly cultural practices of Muslims or anyone else.
@Anna Keightley: Do you really believe that is an “average” Canadian view that the sexual abuse of the young is fluid depending on who is doing the abusing and who is being abused?
Not (apparently) being “average” I find myself at a bit of a disadvantage here, possibly you could enlighten me as to whose abuse it is acceptable to turn a blind eye to and which abused youth can be acceptably ignored?
The obvious answer is that the abuse of any child anywhere is unacceptable. Did you know, stageleft, that one African international has outlawed female circumcision? Statements can be issued from the affected governments. Yes, “average, regular old Canadian citizens” of whatever political persuasion/stripe find common ground here.
Towards greater efficiencies, we all can get there faster, sooner. Red letter my comment okay by me, huh. Sometimes impatience with obvious answers is appropriate. We all keep debating the same issues redux just for the sake of wagging the tongues. Does that make sense? The short answer is “no.”
In point of fact, ADSCAM and our SCC’s decision sanctioning orgy house participation by 14 year olds, clinched my attention to the political debate. Well, granted some enterprises move the economy forward, which ones? We can’t say these are legitimate businesses in the true sense, now can we?