Archive for the ‘Canada’ Category
May 19th, 2009 | Comments Off
RCMP last week arrested Savita Singh, a 43-year-old Guyanese woman, together with three Ontario residents, on charges of conspiracy to violate immigration laws by smuggling two Guyanese into the United States. Four years ago, she was convicted in a US court on similar charges. The Canadian charges are similar to trouble Singh faced in Maine [...]
Tags: Guyana, Human trafficking
Posted in Canada, Latin America & Caribbean, Law Crime and Legal Issues, Life Issues | Comments Off
Hasibullah Sadiqi is on trial in Ottawa for shooting to death his sister and her fiancé in 2006. His defence seeks to establish offended honour as a mitigating factor in a murder case. The Crown contends there will be evidence that the slaying was an honour killing rooted in anger over their engagement, while Sadiqi’s [...]
Tags: Barbarism, Hasibullah Sidiqi, Honour crime, Ontario, Sharia
Posted in Canada, Law Crime and Legal Issues | 1 Comment »
May 8th, 2009 | Comments Off
The Salvation Army in Canada produced this video to raise awareness about sex trafficking. It is anticipated that the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics will increase demand for the services of prostitutes and, therewith, demand for human trafficking victims—i.e., sex slaves. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsG0C17eq4A[/youtube] Salvation Army is sponsoring a night of art and performance to fight modern-day slavery [...]
Tags: Human trafficking, Salvation Army
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May 8th, 2009 | Comments Off
Campaign signs for Kerry Morash are going up all across the riding of Queens in southern Nova Scotia. The problem is that the signs say Mr Morash is the candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party—and that’s not true. The PCs haven’t nominated anyone yet. The signs ask people to elect Mr. Morash and say in [...]
Tags: Chutzpah, Conservative Party, Kerry Morash, Nova Scotia
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May 8th, 2009 | Comments Off
Last month, someone from the Nova Scotia Liberal Party sent topless photos of actress and NDP candidate Lenore Zann to CBC reporter Paul Withers. The photos showed Ms Zann’s appearance in a shower scene on the lesbian television show The L Word. A brouhaha promptly erupted with the NDP in high dudgeon accusing the Liberals [...]
Tags: Dale Palmeter, Lenore Zann, Liberal Party, NDP, Nova Scotia
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May 8th, 2009 | Comments Off
The Nova Scotia election campaign is barely two days old, but already voters are knee-deep in political claptrap. The feeble health-care proposal from provincial NDP leader Darrel Dexter takes the cake—so far. Mr Dexter has a series of brainstorms to alleviate recurrent closures of emergency rooms at Nova Scotia hospitals: Hire an “expert” advisor/co-ordinator to [...]
Tags: Chutzpah, Folly, Health and medical, Nova Scotia
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May 1st, 2009 | Comments Off
A few hours ago this comment was left at my recent post, “Swine flu hits Windsor, Nova Scotia”, by someone who gave the name “ryan gilby”: I THINK THIS IS HORRIBLE!! im infected to but no one knows Just hilarious. StatCounter provides more information on the joker’s identity. (Click on image below for larger view.) [...]
Tags: Blogging, Chutzpah, King's-Edgehill School, Nova Scotia, Swine flu
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Edward G. Hollett has the details. Effective March 1, 2009, Warren Kinsella is a registered lobbyist with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador as part of a nation-wide effect to spark up some kind of law suit against Big Tobacco. Danny Williams must be desperate.
Tags: Danny Williams, Newfoundland and Labrador, Warren Kinsella
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government | 2 Comments »
Scott Brison (at right), Liberal MP for Kings-Hants, has sent out a pamphlet with a few questions for the voters. At least, that’s what I’m told. He’s my MP, but I haven’t received one yet. Why do I have to find out about this from Kitchener-Waterloo resident Steve Janke? Scott Brison has sent out [...]
Tags: Liberal Party, Scott Brison
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government | 2 Comments »
April 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Atlantic Baptist University, the only English-language university in Moncton, New Brunswick, has been the subject of a long-running debate in the pages of the Moncton Times & Transcript. ABU has been accused of violating Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the provincial Human Rights Act because it refuses to hire homosexuals. In his latest [...]
Tags: Atlantic Baptist University, Civil liberties, Education, New Brunswick
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government | 1 Comment »
April 29th, 2009 | Comments Off
The federal government is giving the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs $100,000 to educate and raise awareness about human trafficking. According to the Winnipeg Free Press report, this is the first money Ottawa has ever spent on the problem. It is the first time Ottawa has spent anything to combat human trafficking, a growing problem in [...]
Tags: Aboriginal issues, Human trafficking, Manitoba
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April 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Jason Kenney is one of the few members of the Harper government who does the right thing, political correctness be damned. The current guidebook for Canadian newcomers includes two pages on environmental stewardship and barely a mention of the Canadian military — and that has Jason Kenney hopping mad. Kenney, the Conservative minister of citizenship [...]
Tags: Jason Kenney, Political correctness, Recycling
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government | 1 Comment »
I bet it’s coming in through Nova Scotia. Napolitano: Talibans Smuggling Swine Flu Through Canada on Stolen Cruise Ships Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano urged that we take action in order to stop “Talibans from smuggling swine-flu tainted bunnies through Canada on stolen cruise ships.” The announcement came at a press conference Napolitano called for [...]
Tags: Folly, Janet Napolitano, Swine flu, US politics
Posted in Canada, In a Jocular Vein, United States | 2 Comments »
April 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment
As far as the federal government is concerned, Canada Day is just another opportunity to curry favour with Quebec. Naturally, the feds are incredulous that someone thinks there’s anything wrong with that. Quebec is entitled to its entitlements. The Harper government was criticized yesterday over its spending for Canada Day celebrations, but it argued that [...]
Tags: Conservative Party, Government finance, Hypocrisy, Quebec
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government | 1 Comment »
Three of the four students at King’s-Edgehill School, Windsor, Nova Scotia, with confirmed cases of swine flu have now recovered and are out of quarantine. Joe Seagram, headmaster of King’s Edgehill private school in Windsor, provided the update Monday, a day after the four cases were confirmed. Seagram said some parents were keeping their children [...]
Tags: Health and medical, King's-Edgehill School, Nova Scotia, Swine flu, Windsor
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