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SHAME! Canada to deport U.S. war deserter

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/…
ROBERT MATAS
From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail
July 14, 2008 at 9:48 PM EDT
VANCOUVER — U.S. army deserter Robin Long is slated to be deported back to his army base in Fort Knox, Ky., Tuesday, which would make him the first resister to the U.S. war effort in Iraq to be sent out of Canada.

Canada’s House backs war resisters

http://www.latimes.com/…
Lawmakers pass a motion urging the government to let U.S. military deserters stay. Dozens seek refugee status.
By Maggie Farley
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 4, 2008
OTTAWA — When U.S. soldier Corey Glass decided two years ago that he would rather be a criminal for fleeing the Iraq war than be a criminal by staying in it, [...]

A first: Canadian PM sues opposition

http://www.upi.com/…
Published: March 13, 2008 at 4:28 PM
OTTAWA, March 13 (UPI) — A sitting Canadian prime minister sued an opposition party for libel in Ottawa Thursday, the first such lawsuit in the country’s history.
Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the suit against the Liberals in Parliament Thursday afternoon, the Ottawa Citizen reported.
The suit seeks [...]

Tainted Evidence: Canada tosses CIA terror testimony obtained through waterboarding.

http://www.newsweek.com/…
Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Updated: 5:41 PM ET Mar 5, 2008
The Canadian government is no longer using evidence gained from CIA interrogations of a top Al Qaeda detainee who was waterboarded.

Privacy watchdog red flags secret RCMP databanks

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/…
OMAR EL AKKAD
Globe and Mail Update
February 13, 2008 at 5:54 PM EST
More than half the files on the RCMP’s secret data banks should not be there, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found.

Canada’s secret war in Iraq

http://commonground.ca/…
Richard Sanders
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! – Mark Twain
On March 25, 2003, during the “shock and awe” bombardment of Iraq, then US Ambassador Paul Cellucci admitted that “… ironically, Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel… will supply more support to [...]

Mythbusting Canadian Health Care — Part I

http://www.ourfuture.org/…
By Sara Robinson
February 4th, 2008 - 4:23pm ET
2008 is shaping up to be the election year that we finally get to have the Great American Healthcare Debate again. Harry and Louise are back with a vengeance. Conservatives are rumbling around the talk show circuit bellowing about the socialist threat to the (literal) American body politic. [...]

Ex-Mulroney chief of staff to tell MPs about cash

http://www.ctv.ca/…
The Canadian Press
Updated: Fri. Jan. 25 2008 2:30 PM ET
OTTAWA - A troubling new allegation about large amounts of cash arriving at 24 Sussex Drive when Brian Mulroney was prime minister will be aired at the Commons ethics committee.

Liberal Fascism: A correction, please

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/…
– by Dave
There’s a series of gross factual errors on page 6 of Liberal Fascism that I’ve been wanting to point out:

Canada, oh Canada…

http://www.atlargely.com/…
In the 24 hours since I checked the news, Canada put Israel on the torture watch list (or at least it recently became known to the public that they had) and then removed Israel from the torture watch list: