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- Former Vancouver teacher convicted on 5 sex-related counts
  Posted by Shemuses from CBC
  A former Vancouver high school teacher has been convicted of five sex-related charges in the 1970s and '80s, when he ran an elite school outdoor program for students.
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- Battered B.C. begins to clean up
  Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
  There was no power, no gas, no way to withdraw money from a bank and the local supermarket was forced to use pen, paper and a battery-operated calculator to tally up customers' bills yesterday in the Vancouver Island community of Sooke.
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- Conrad "Che" Black's optimism
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Conrad Black, self-proclaimed freedom fighter, was in fine form the other night when he made an appearance at the Empire Club of Canada in downtown Toronto. Determined to get hios citizenship back, he declares Canada is going to be the next power and says he is very confident that he’ll be acquitted of plundering millions of dollars from his old company Hollinger.
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- Canada troops battle 10-ft Afghan marijuana plants
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters UK
  Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet high marijuana plants. General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defence staff, said on Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana. One soldier told him later: "Sir, three years ago before I joined the army, I never thought I'd say 'That damn marijuana'."
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- The needle and the damage undone
  Posted by Billbar from Salon
  Three years ago, Vancouver opened a bold new front in the eternal war on drugs. In a downtown neighborhood notorious for street addicts, healthcare workers began welcoming clients into a new "safe injection site," a legal facility for users of illegal narcotics such as heroin and cocaine. The Insite program has saved hundreds of lives. It has wiped away much of the drug use in the surrounding streets, while increasing the number of addicts seeking treatment and rehabilitation. Some local conservatives, once fierce opponents of the injection site, are now backing it. And supporters believe the site's success will prove a beachhead for a less punitive and more humane war on drugs extending across Canada -- and even to drug-troubled cities south of the Canadian border.
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- CBC chairman quits after controversial interview
  Posted by Billbar from Canada
  Guy Fournier raised eyebrows recently with an article in the popular magazine Sept Jours in which he suggested that bestiality was accepted in Lebanon as long as it was with a female animal. Fournier subsequently apologized for the comments, saying he had been mistaken. Fournier once again raised eyebrows when a lengthy interview he granted to a Toronto community radio station, CHOQ-FM, last May came to light in which he extolled the pleasures of defecating. ''The most extraordinary thing is that, in the end, as you grow older, you continue to go poop once a day if you are in good health, while it is not easy to make love every day. So finally, the pleasure is longer lasting and more frequent than the other.'' 'I think he was the victim of his own turpitude,'' Liberal MP Denis Coderre said. ''He flushed himself.''
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- Canadians Fault U.S. for Its Role in Torture Case
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  A government commission on Monday exonerated a Canadian computer engineer of any ties to terrorism and issued a scathing report that faulted Canada and the United States for his deportation four years ago to Syria, where he was imprisoned and tortured. The report on the engineer, Maher Arar, said American officials had apparently acted on inaccurate information from Canadian investigators and then misled Canadian authorities about their plans for Mr. Arar before transporting him to Syria.
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Shemuses comments on:
Barenaked Ladies singer faces drug charge in N.Y.

wow. the police look into the house, see them using drugs and arrest them. them there is hard core drug enforcement policy. i feel a lot safer knowing that Steven is locked up and in the criminal justice system.

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10:15 pm 7/15/08
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
The Culture of Meat

A humanity that would domesticate is not healthy. Exploitation and slavery come to mind, as well as torture. Given all the information available about the harms of animal products on the human body I am flabbergasted that people accept this ‘meat washing’.

incorrect overdose of simple proteins

no animal that eats meat naturally has to cook it

intestine inflammation

reduced energy and fatigue

Maybe because I have never eaten it and observed the effects on others that I take this no intentional harm abuse or consumption of life stance. good book: Eternal Treblinka

Maybe because i have never eaten it and observed the effects on others that i take this no intentioal harm abuse or consumption of life stance. good book: Eternal Triblinka

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9:44 am 7/09/08
Shemuses comments on:
Outrage brews as Ottawa set to honour Morgentaler

there are several differences between a medical doctor who has not broken the law and a convicted pedophile serial killer. suggesting said convicted felon be freed?
many canadians, the majority in fact are proud that our country enables women access to essential healthcare. these services save lives, often lives of the most vulnerable women in our society. there is a viable and empathetic middle way that combines health care, education, abstinence, birth control, and abortion. we need to look beyond our idealogy and meet the real needs of families in our communities.

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10:52 pm 7/06/08
Dmegivern comments on:
Harper's apology to First Nations puts pressure on Bush

About time!

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11:53 am 7/02/08
frankson comments on:
Outrage brews as Ottawa set to honour Morgentaler

....... a sad day for Canada.
why don’t we free Cliff Olson and add him to the list !?
No difference.

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7:11 am 7/02/08
mozellagi2000 comments on:
Will Canada Last?

Sorry.. FOURTH

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9:29 am 6/30/08
mozellagi2000 comments on:
Will Canada Last?

Jeff, Jeff, Jeff,
First of all have you ever been to Madrid or London. Al Qaida will kill any Jew, Christian or Hindu they run across and then reload. A border is not a good defense system for terrorism. Second, the war and the value of the dollar have weakened us. It is just peculiar that it wasn’t Jimmy Carter who did it to us this time. Third of all the US owns the Stanley Cup (ever been to Detroit ?). Forth where is Robert Rubin when we need him most !

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8:58 am 6/30/08

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Jodie lives, plays, and blogs in Vancouver, BC. Her day job at ONE/Northwest puts her talents to work supporting social change strategies for greening our world.
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