Reported Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Way Up…A new government report showing huge increases in the incidences of domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault over a two-year period in the United States deserves immediate attention from lawmakers and the incoming administration, Human Rights Watch said today. The statistics show a 42-percent increase in reported domestic [...]

RCMP study: Canada’s largest airports overrun with gangs and smugglers…A new RCMP study finds Canada’s airports are being overrun by organized crime, with Vancouver International among the hardest hit. Hundreds of workers have been accused of smuggling drugs and people over …
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1. Targeted L.A. restaurant donates to group challenging Prop. 8…
El Coyote Mexican Cafe came under fire after a manager gave $100 to the campaign to ban same-sex marriage. Employees make an online donation of $500 to an advocacy group challenging the ban.
2. El Coyote: Anger, Tears–and Maybe Hope?…
But protesters, the majority of whom were El [...]

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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.