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Adil Charkaoui sues feds for $24.5 million
Montreal Gazette
MONTREAL — Adil Charkaoui, the Moroccan-born Montrealer detained for almost two years under a security certificate without charge or trial, is suing the federal government for $24.5 million.
Charkaoui spent years under strict bail conditions until he was finally cleared in September.
His case sparked outrage, as have those of others held under the certificates, which [...]
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Dubai
Interpol joined an international task force investigating the Dubai assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The international policing organization also said it was convinced of the broad, international scope of the crime.
The notices, short of international arrest warrants but a request to Interpol members to detain the named people for extradition, bring to 27 the [...]
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Palin jumps border for Canadian health care
There is so much that’s phony about this woman that this really doesn’t come as a surprise to me. Irony doesn’t even begin to touch upon it. She’s a flat out hypocrite, a liar, as dishonest as the day is long. That a bunch of right wing Canadians are hanging on this twits every word [...]
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US: Torture
A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for the alleged torture by U.S. forces of two Americans who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm.
U.S. District Judge Wayne R. Andersen’s ruling did not say the two contractors had proven any of their claims. But [...]
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Canada
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has changed his mind on the national anthem.
It’s just fine the way it is.
Two days after Harper, in the speech from the throne, said his government would review the wording of the English version of O Canada, with an eye toward making it “gender neutral,” the idea was abruptly shelved.
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Police Call Off Search For Nuclear Scientist Who Vanished Mysteriously
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Lachlan Cranswick, an Australian nuclear scientist who worked at a research facility in the small Ontario town of Deep River, vanished under extremely mysterious circumstances a month ago. Now authorities have given up on the strange, tragic search for him.
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Chile
Rescuers searched for survivors Sunday a day after one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history rocked Chile, killing more than 700 people while leaving untold numbers missing and 2 million displaced, wounded or otherwise affected.
The death toll jumped Sunday to 708, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said, nearly doubling as rescue crews reached remote and [...]
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Pacific Region
Tsunami warning cancelled: Expert says Hawaii ‘dodged a bullet’
Initial predictions may have overestimated tsunami size
Experts say tsunami becoming more powerful as it hits
Chile
Chileans fearful of aftershocks camped outside on Sunday as rescuers battled to find survivors of a huge earthquake that shattered roads and airports and triggered a tsunami across the Pacific.
One of the [...]
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Sudden disappearance of Deep River scientist mystifies colleagues
The Canadian Press
TORONTO – There are still no leads in the case of an eastern Ontario scientist who disappeared without a trace last month, leaving his colleagues mystified.
Lachlan Cranswick hasn’t been seen since Jan. 18, when he left work at the National Research Council’s Canadian Neutron Beam Centre in Chalk River, northwest of Ottawa.
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