Today, a new website is launched publicising the struggle against human trafficking. Canada Fights Human Trafficking (CFHT) is a non-profit organisation seeking to raise Canadians’ awareness about modern-day slavery. The site contains a wealth of information.
The impact of trafficking on Canada is estimated at between $120 million to $400 million per year and [...]

Controversial Dalit activist Udit Raj points out that widespread persecution of Christians by Hindu extremists began around 1998, when the BJP came to power. Mr Raj argues that the real reason for hatred of Christians is not conversion, but the threat that Christianity presents to Hindu social beliefs and traditions.
What worries the Sangh Parivar [...]

News flash: Two Liberal MPs from Nova Scotia find something useful to do in Ottawa.
Call of duty: Nova Scotia MPs guide beaver to Ottawa River
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Mark Eyking and Rodger Cuzner, both Liberal MPs, were on their way to a shared apartment Wednesday night when they saw something standing on its hind legs in the middle of [...]

The police commissioner of Kano State, Nigeria, has been warned not to block enforcement of Sharia law, especially the provisions against consuming or distributing alcohol. Sheik Umar Sani Fagge, Commissioner of the Sharia Commission, said this in a recent speech.
Speaking in Kano, while delivering lecture on challenges of shariah implementation, Fagge said, ” the [...]

For many years, police in Germany have been searching for a female serial criminal. The woman’s DNA had shown up at 39 different crime scenes, including seven murders, committed over a period of fifteen years.
Her DNA was found over and over again: in bottles, tank lids, on bullets – and once even on a [...]

In March 2006, John Rooney called Jules Bertiboni in response to a newspaper ad for an apartment to rent. Mr Rooney subsequently claimed that Mr Bertiboni called him a “tapette” (”fag”) on the phone.
Rooney says he became depressed and withdrawn after the alleged incident and complained to the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal. Mr [...]

Twice in the past ten days, “clerical errors” led to the mistaken release of prisoners from custody.  One has since been apprehended, the other is still at large.  That brings to seven the total number of mistaken releases or prisoner escapes since Cecil Clarke became Nova Scotia’s Minister of Justice in October 2007.
Yesterday, Mr Clarke [...]