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by NewsWithViews.com

Canadian Mounties smashed down the door of a North Vancouver, British Columbia, woman's home and injured her guest when she accidentally dialed the 9-1-1 emergency number instead of 4-1-1 for telephone information. When Marget Lieder of North Vancouver accidentally dialed 9-1-1, she says she just simply hung up and dialed 4-1-1. What followed was something out of a Stephen King's horror novel.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/news_worthy/news_worthy74.htm

Calgary Sun [Canada]

11/24/06

Innocent until proven guilty will no longer apply to people charged with serious gun crimes, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced yesterday. The Tory PM, flanked by Premier Dalton McGuinty and Toronto Mayor David Miller, said anyone charged with attempted murder, armed robbery, sexual assault with a weapon, kidnapping and extortion while using a gun will have to make the case for their freedom under proposed bail rules. The Criminal Code rules, as they exist now, force the Crown to offer up evidence on why the accused should not be granted bail. 'This is unacceptable,' Harper said. 'Our legislation will reverse the onus so that people charged with serious gun crimes will have to demonstrate to the courts why they should not stay in custody until their trial'...

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2006/11/24/2474003-sun.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

A court struck down sections of a Canadian anti-terrorism law Thursday, in a ruling that threw out warrants used to search the home of a reporter covering US efforts to secretly send a Canadian terror suspect to Syria for interrogation. In her ruling, Justice Lynn Ratushny said the provisions were vague and violated the constitutional rights to justice and freedom of the press.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102006F.shtml

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2006/09/26/01232.html


Informant: Amy Sasser

From ufpj-news

Canadian intelligence officials passed false warnings and bad information to American agents about a Muslim Canadian citizen, after which U.S. authorities secretly whisked him to Syria, where he was tortured, a judicial report found Monday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15021.htm



How Canada failed citizen Maher Arar

Mr. Arar, a Canadian citizen who was deported from the United States to Syria -- where he was tortured as a terrorist suspect -- has suffered "devastating" mental and economic consequences as a result of his ordeal, Mr. Justice Dennis O'Connor says in a report released yesterday.

http://tinyurl.com/fwpno


From Information Clearing House

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Canada Plans Official Torture Protest

A formal Canadian protest to Washington appeared to be planned on Tuesday as the result of an official inquiry into the US deportation in 2002 of a Canadian citizen to Syria, where he was subsequently tortured.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092006A.shtml

Poll reveals a hardening of opinions; many blame U.S. foreign policy for attacks.

http://tinyurl.com/gzez5


From Information Clearing House

A majority of Canadians believe U.S. foreign policy was one of the root causes that led to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and Quebecers are quicker to criticize the U.S. administration for its international actions than other Canadians, a recent poll suggests.

http://tinyurl.com/rcrdc


From Information Clearing House

PRIME Minister Stephen Harper is moving at warp speed to integrate Canada's security, defence and foreign policies with the U.S. and shred our competitive advantage over the U.S. in lumber and wheat.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/westview/story/3667863p-4240686c.html


From Information Clearing House