Posted on 26 February 2011. Tags: British Columbia Liberal Party, Christie Clarke, Liberal Party Leader, Premier of British Columbia
The British Columbia Liberal Party has chosen a new party leader today and in doing so have also chosen the next Premier of British Columbia, as Gordon Campbell steps down from the position. The front-runner, Christy Clark, the former deputy premier, has just won the vote by a margin of 52% to 48% for transportation [...]
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Posted on 26 February 2011. Tags: Canadian Diplomats, evacuation of Canadians, Leave Libya, out of Tripoli
Ottawa signaled its intention to cut ambassadorial relations with Libya last night when a group of 24 Canadians that included the ambassador and five other embassy officials left the North African nation under cover of stealth. The 24 Canadians were in a group of Australian diplomats and British citizens who boarded a C17 and taken [...]
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Posted on 25 February 2011. Tags: Kate Middleton, Prince William, St. Andrews University, William and Catherine
Great Britain’s Prince William and fiancée Kate Middleton, went back to school today when they returned to St. Andrews University in Fife Scotland, where their relationship took root. In the second official function as a couple, the royal pair returned to St. Andrews where William formally launched the occasion. William is the patron of the [...]
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Posted on 16 February 2011. Tags: Canadian Security Intelligence Service, cyber attack, cyber attack on the Canadian government., foreign hackers in China
At least two key Canadian Government departments have been forced off the Internet for the reason that foreign hackers in China have gained access to highly classified federal information in an unprecedented cyber attack on the Canadian government. The first indication of the attack was realized early in January, and federal counter-espionage agents were left [...]
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Posted on 14 February 2011. Tags: Altered CIDA Document, Bev Oda, Kairos, Minister of International Co-operation
On Monday, Bev Oda, the Minister of International Co-operation said to Parliament that it was her who instructed that a suggestion from her team be changed to reject financial support to a church-supported assistance faction. Oda was back-pedalling on earlier assertions where she said Kairos’s funding had been denied for the reason that the faction’s [...]
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Posted on 11 February 2011. Tags: al-Qaida, Guantanamo Bay prison, Khadr Requests Clemency, Omar Khadr
Canadian radical Omar Khadr, who is presently serving a sentence in the U.S. Naval Station detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, is requesting United States officials to give him leniency. If an American armed forces court allows his appeal, Khadr could be one step closer to returning to Canada. Dennis Edney, a lawyer in Edmonton who [...]
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Posted on 10 February 2011. Tags: Charles Smith, court in Ontario, Kenneth Wynne, Tammy Marquardt
An Ontario mother, convicted of murdering her child, has been released. Tammy Marquardt, 38, served fourteen years in detention for murdering your young child, when she learned that the top court in Ontario had squashed her conviction because she had been originally convicted based on faulty evidence provided by the disgraced then pathologist, Charles Smith. [...]
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Posted on 03 February 2011. Tags: Kristian Harpsviken, Liu Xiaobo, Norwegian Nobel Committee, WikiLeaks Receives Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
A politician in Norway has proposed WikiLeaks to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, stating Wednesday that its revelations of secret papers support world peace by forcing accountability on governments for their deeds. The Norwegian Nobel Committee keeps contenders top secret for fifty years, but members with recommendation privileges from time to time make [...]
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Posted on 02 February 2011. Tags: David Jacobson, Homeland Security, United States Ambassador, Visas For Canadians
David Jacobson, United States Ambassador, issued a statement on Wednesday to explain that the U.S. government is definitely not considering implementing visas for border crossings between Canada and the U.S. Jacobson says the teamwork between the United States and Canada over issues of border administration and security has been outstanding for years. The statement is [...]
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Posted on 01 February 2011. Tags: Dr. Charles Smith, Incompetent Pathologist Charles Smith, Jane Langford, Ontario's chief coroner
A punitive board in Toronto has stripped the medical licence of disgraced pathologist Dr. Charles Smith medical licence. The group in addition directed Smith to personally appear for an admonishing. Smith was not present at Tuesday’s enquiry but he pleaded no challenge to reprehensible behaviour and ineptitude by way of his lawyer. He accepted the [...]
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