PM ignoring Khadr because he's 'brown-skinned': Elmasry
CBC, July 21, 2008.
The leader of one of Canada's largest Islamic groups accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday of being indifferent to Omar Khadr's plight because he's "brown-skinned" and a Muslim.
In an opinion piece released to the media, Mohamed Elmasry, national president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, wrote that Harper is "callously" unconcerned about the 21-year-old Khadr, who faces trial before a U.S. military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in October.
'It's impossible to conquer the Afghans'
by Paul Koring, Globe & Mail, July 12, 2008.
MOSCOW — Head bowed, exhausted, the statue of a young soldier back from Afghanistan's killing fields is flanked by long, grim, lists of his dead comrades. It's a cautionary monument for Western politicians and generals who boldly boast they will succeed where the Soviets failed.
In Russia, a country chock full of heroic memorials to enormous military sacrifice, the uniquely dejected pose of the helmetless Afghan combat veteran in the Ural city of Yekaterinburg is a sobering reminder that great powers have an unhappy history of overreaching and then being driven ignominiously from Afghanistan.
John Moore Struggling Against Racist Wrongful Conviction
BY MARIE LITALIEN, Northern Life, July 2008.
Almost a year after the Ontario Court of Appeal acquitted Steven
Truscott of the 1959 rape and murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper, the
Ontario government announced this week it will pay him $6.5 million for
the injustices he faced.
“$6.5 million still won’t be enough for what he lost, for what he’s up
against. There is not enough on this planet to give,” said John Moore, a
Greater Sudbury man on his own quest to have a conviction overturned.
“He (Truscott) was just a kid. That is a very heavy thing on a kid’s
head ... and he was innocent.”
Moore, originally from Serpent River, was convicted of second degree
murder by a law that was ruled as unconstitutional years later.
Apologies aren't enough: Group calls for justice, land claim settlements
By Angela Scappatura, The Sudbury Star
Indigenous and non-indigenous people gathered at Victoria Park to assert their support for the struggles of aboriginals in Canada on Saturday.
Heavy rain did not prevent more than a dozen people from attending the day-long event, which included a drumming workshop, personal stories and musical performances.
The event was organized by Sudbury Against War and Occupation and was designed to raise awareness of aboriginal issues.
Gary Kinsman is a member of Sudbury Against War and Occupation and said the inaugural event displays solidarity between both indigenous and non-indigenous people.
"I think it's important because what we're showing is that the government's apology around residential schools was not enough," he said while standing beneath a tarp protecting a barbeque and food from the rain.
A voice for missing women; Thursday ceremony spotlights hundreds of murdered natives
By Rachel Punch, The Sudbury Star
Savannah Trudeau often doesn't feel safe when she's alone and, as a young aboriginal woman, those feelings are justified.
Hundreds of First Nations women - including about 30 in Ontario - have been murdered or simply vanished in the last few decades.
Spy watchdog fingers CSIS on torture data
Wed, February 13, 2008
By JIM BRONSKILL, Canadian Press
OTTAWA -- An investigation by the watchdog over the Canadian Security Intelligence Service concludes the spy agency "uses information obtained by torture" -- perhaps its bluntest assessment of CSIS's intelligence-gathering practices to date.
Rally supports U.S. couple; Pair fled to Canada after man deserted rather than return to Iraq
By Rachel Punch, reposted from The Sudbury Star
About 20 people gathered at a rally in Sudbury on Saturday in an effort to help U.S. Iraq war resisters, like deserter Michael Espinal and his partner, Jennifer Harrison, stay in Canada. Espinal and Harrison, who is expecting a child in April, have been living in Sudbury since the fall, when the couple fled Florida so Espinal would not have to serve a second tour of duty in Iraq.
Marleau urged to reject security measure
By Laura Stradiotto, reposted from The Sudbury Star
Members and supporters of Sudbury Against War and Occupation are pressuring Sudbury MP Diane Marleau to vote against a bill they say is discriminatory.
Canada's military exports soar as numbers go unreported: CBC investigation
October 29, 2007. CBC News.
Canada's military exports have more than tripled over the past seven years, a CBC News investigation has learned.
Over the past seven years, Canada has exported $3.6 billion in military goods. Canada now exports more arms and military goods than it imports.
Group protests Canadian secret trials
Date Published | Oct. 22, 2007 | Northern Life
BY WENDY BIRD
A group of concerned Sudburians banded together on the weekend to demand an end to the so-called "national security certificate" process that allows the Canadian government “to indefinitely detain non-citizens in Canada with completely inadequate due process.”
'It's such a fundamental violation of rights'; Protest calls attention to secret trials under Canada's anti-terror law
by Sudbury Star staff, October 22, 2007.
If Canadians knew the details of how their government is using unconstitutional legislation to treat immigrants, they wouldn't stand for it, activists protested during the weekend in Sudbury and cities across the country.
Invisible Afghan Casualties
by Linda MacQuaig
It's often noted that each death of a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan erodes public support for the war. What is infrequently noted is the way, with each death, the Canadian media seems to ratchet up its support for the war.
Undercover cops tried to incite violence in Montebello
August 22, 2007, as reported by the CBC
Police disguised as masked demonstrators tried to incite violence at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que., on Monday protesters say, after footage of the incident was posted on YouTube Tuesday.
Gaza: chaos foretold
The fragmentation of the Palestinian national identity is rooted in the failure of Oslo and in Israel’s divide and rule tactics in the West Bank and Gaza.
By Ramzy Baroud
By Samantha Craggs
Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 10:00
The Intelligencer
NAPANEE — Not even the honour of Shawn Brant's mother could keep the Mohawk activist out of jail on new charges of mischief and breach of recognizance.
