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After storming Africa, resource-hungry China Monday made a big opening into the Latin American mineral market by inking a USD 1-billion deal with Canadian copper major Quadra Mining Ltd for a stake in its copper operations in Chile.

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Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral.

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by Kevin Howley

...According to a new study published by Global Research, a Canadian-based independent research organization, news reports that bring up troubling questions about the official story surrounding the events of Sept. 11, 2001, are gaining traction in the international press.

Significantly, these news narratives no longer frame the 911 Truth movement as so much conspiracy theory. Rather, independent, commercial and public service news organizations the world over are giving serious consideration to allegations that challenge the veracity of the official story that emerged in the days and weeks following the 911 attacks.

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Entire February 2010 Issue of the American Behavioral Scientist Devoted to State Crimes Against Democracy

Terror attacks top last 15 years' online news searches

Prof. Kevin Howley Notes "Changing Journalistic Attitudes" Toward 9/11 Questions

9/11 comes down to one thing--do you want more information or not? ABN

by Edward C. Corrigan / March 1st, 2010

There is a controversy raging in North America over Israeli Apartheid Week (March 1-7 2010).1 A resolution was passed in the Ontario Provincial Parliament which was unanimously supported (only 30 MPPs voted) and declared the comparison of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to apartheid as “odious.” To quote an article in the Toronto Star Canada’s largest circulation paper.

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In the almost 40 years since the first shelter for battered women opened its doors, we have made noticeable progress in dealing with and denouncing domestic violence.

Nevertheless, much still needs to be done and the biggest challenge, in my view, is what to do about men.

Not men as perpetrators — there we seem to have a handle on things. Rather, I'm talking about the hundred thousand or so confirmed male victims who are, often violently, abused by their female partners every year.

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Even the longest voyage begins with a single step, and for Canadian filmmaker Neil Diamond that single step might just have been over the threshold of his local video store.

"About six years ago," the Cree filmmaker says, "I rented some westerns and (after watching them all) I thought: 'Wouldn't it be fun to do a documentary for APTN titled I'm Not Indian, But I Play One on TV?

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Jesus or Prometheus? ABN

Vancouver may be the world's most livable city, at least according to one survey, but many of its residents are upset by what they see as an assault on civil liberties intended to silence critics of the Olympic Games.

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Ever notice that "conservatives" support "free markets" because the market decides best, but they oppose free speech because the government knows best? Of course, they are not real conservatives--they are authoritarians and the markets are not really free, they are rigged to benefit the authoritarians. Why is Canada sinking so low? Why do Canadians allow it? Why are you such a bunch of babies that you cannot even look at a few signs with dissenting opinions? ABN

Is it not time for MRI brain scans to be done on cops as a condition for hiring? And after having been hired, should not the scans be repeated every two years or so? BTW, can you guys in Canada post this video or does it constitute hate speech under your ridiculous new law? ABN

Honourary degree for Dalai Lama last fall precedes removal from education ministry's list of recommended universities

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The best way to answer this is to have all Canadian and US universities offer him an honorary degree. ABN

Animal rights group scoffs at MP's 'chest-beating'

A protest pie thrown at the federal fisheries minister should make Ottawa look into whether an animal-rights group should be labelled "terrorist," says an MP from Newfoundland and Labrador.

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By Judy Lightfoot

One of the six realms in the Buddhist Wheel of Life is the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, in which people try to fulfill their yearnings or relieve their pain in ways that only deepen their misery. In his book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Dr. Gabor Maté leads us through this dark territory, beginning with stories about the many individuals he has treated at his clinic for street addicts in Vancouver, BC.

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Good article, well-worth reading. ABN

Winston Blackmore, the leader of a polygamous community in southeastern British Columbia who has admitted to having multiple wives, is suing the provincial government for violating his rights when he was charged last year.

Mr. Blackmore and James Oler, both leaders of separate factions in Bountiful, B.C., were arrested in January 2009 and each charged with practising polygamy, two decades after police first starting looking into the community near the United States border.

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by Prof David Ray Griffin
January 12, 2010

...Conclusion

Although this essay has focused on details, often minute, in merely one aspect of the official account of 9/11, the implications are enormous. Without the widespread assumption that the 9/11 attacks had been planned and carried out by al-Qaeda, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would not have been possible. With regard to the war in Afghanistan in particular, Michel Chossudovsky has recently emphasized the fact that NATO’s decision to support this US-led war was based on a briefing by Frank Taylor of the US State Department, in which he provided what was called conclusive evidence of al-Qaeda’s responsibility for the attacks.121 Although the contents of Taylor’s briefing have never been made public, the main evidence provided to the general public has consisted of the hijack-describing phone calls reportedly received from passengers and flight attendants aboard the airliners. But when subjected to a detailed analysis, these alleged phone calls, far from supporting the war-justifying story, lead to a very different conclusion: that these alleged calls were faked. This analysis thereby suggests that the entire 9/11 story used to justify the US-led wars is a lie.

If asked which part of the official story can be most definitively shown to be false, I would speak not of the alleged phone calls but of the destruction of the World Trade Center, the official account of which says that the Twin Towers and WTC 7 came down without the aid of pre-set explosives. Given the fact that this theory involves massive violations of basic laws of physics, the evidence against it is so strong as to be properly called proof – as I have recently emphasized in a book-length critique of the official report on WTC 7 in particular.122

Nevertheless, the importance of the evidence against the official account provided by analyzing the alleged phone calls should not be minimized. If the official story is false, then we should expect every major dimension of it to be false – which, as I have emphasized in another recent book, can be seen to be the case.123 It is this cumulative argument that provides the strongest disproof of the official, war-justifying account of 9/11. The evidence that the alleged phone calls from the airliners were faked is an important part of this cumulative argument.124

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CALGARY – Top Imams affiliated with the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada have issued a fatwa calling those terrorists who attack the United States and Canada “evil.”

The Fatwa is the most important condemnation of terrorists who try to hurt people living in Canada. Extremists have been told that any attack on the U.S. or on Canada will be construed as an attack on 10 million Muslims who live in these two countries.

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(NaturalNews) After getting shut down while trying to share his miracle cure of hemp oil with THC for cancer and to impress public officials in Nova Scotia to legalize it, Rick Simpson went public internationally. He posted his rather well done home grown YouTube documentary "Running From the Cure".

The documentary ends with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruling that stopped the Maccan community's use of the cannabis oil that cures even cancer. The incredibly useful hemp plant is so maligned by greedy vested interests that growing hemp, even without THC, is commonly outlawed.

Nevertheless, Rick Simpson's THC hemp oil cancer cure has fueled a groundswell of support to legalize the hardy hemp for mankind's benefit.

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The government of Canada has used strong-arm tactics to shut down two parody websites criticizing Canada's poor environmental policy, taking down 4500 other websites in the process.

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Inventor Le Trung spent Christmas Day with the most important woman in his life - his robot Aiko. The science genius enjoyed a festive dinner with his mum, dad and his £30,000 fembot which he designed and built by hand.

Le, 34, from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, even bought gifts for his dream girl, who is so lifelike she speaks fluent English and Japanese, helped cook the turkey and hang up decorations.

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Please do not skip this. This is one of the best 9/11 talks ever. Highly recommended. Alternate links: Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUISz8Uwh6A Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY9IlDDpvzc Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Bte5ULPD8 Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCzHeCCDp74&feature=related ABN

..."We have de-funded organizations, most recently, like KAIROS who are taking a leadership role in the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign" against Israel, he told the Global Forum for combatting anti-Semitism.

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If you buy into the Many Worlds Intepretation of quantum physics, there must be a parallel universe in which I crossed the US/Canada border without incident last Tuesday. In some other dimension, I was not waved over by a cluster of border guards who swarmed my car like army ants for no apparent reason; or perhaps they did, and I simply kept my eyes downcast and refrained from asking questions.

Along some other timeline, I did not get out of the car to ask what was going on. I did not repeat that question when refused an answer and told to get back into the vehicle. In that other timeline I was not punched in the face, pepper-sprayed, shit-kicked, handcuffed, thrown wet and half-naked into a holding cell for three fucking hours, thrown into an even colder jail cell overnight, arraigned, and charged with assaulting a federal officer, all without access to legal representation (although they did try to get me to waive my Miranda rights. Twice.). Nor was I finally dumped across the border in shirtsleeves: computer seized, flash drive confiscated, even my fucking paper notepad withheld until they could find someone among their number literate enough to distinguish between handwritten notes on story ideas and, I suppose, nefarious terrorist plots. I was not left without my jacket in the face of Ontario’s first winter storm, after all buses and intercity shuttles had shut down for the night.

In some other universe I am warm and content and not looking at spending two years in jail for the crime of having been punched in the face.

But that is not this universe.

Stay tuned.
This entry was written by Peter Watts , posted on Friday December 11 2009at 10:12 am

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Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border

An early morning fire that damaged a Buddhist temple used by Toronto's Sri Lankan community for the second time in six months has been classified as an arson.

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A Thursday night fire at a Buddhist temple in east end Toronto frequented by people of Sri Lankan origin was deliberately set, police say.

Someone used what appears to be gasoline to start the blaze at the rear of the Maha Vihara Buddhist Meditation Centre on Kingston Road, Toronto police said.

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MONTAGUE — The days of Irish and rock music have been replaced with flutes and shawms and the aroma of spilled beer and stale cigarettes has given way to the faint hint of incense.

The original pub, where the likes of Ryan’s Fancy and the Irish Rovers once played, is now the prayer hall and the old restaurant with the fine view of the Montague River is now the dining hall for about 50 to 75 monks.
The former Lobster Shanty restaurant and motel is now the Great Enlightenment Buddhist Academy and the new religious retreat threw open the doors here recently and invited the public to visit.

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..."The most common forms of torture were beatings, whippings with power cables and the use of electricity," he said.

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A Canadian teenager has been rescued from an ice floe drifting in the Arctic sea, where he was reportedly stranded with two polar bears.

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The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia

...Routine infant male circumcision performed on a healthy infant is now considered a non-therapeutic and medically unnecessary intervention.

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Khenmo Drolma, abbess of the Vajra Dakini Nunnery, will be in North Bay this week for presentations at Nipissing University and Emmanuel United Church.

...Her first presentation is Wednesday at the university from 7 to 9 p.m. in room H104. She will also hold a day-long workshop on compassion and mindfulness Saturday at Emmanuel United Church from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

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A Canadian citizen who was wrongly identified as a terrorist suspect and reportedly tortured in a Syrian prison for nearly a year after US authorities sent him there has lost his bid to sue the US government.

In a 7 to 4 decision, judges on the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian engineer, cannot sue the Justice Department because the lawsuit would “offend the separation of powers and inhibit this country's foreign policy,” the judges stated.

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So they get the wrong man, send him abroad to be tortured, and when he seeks redress he is "offending the separation of powers"? Is that twisted, kinky, tortuous, or torturous reasoning? ABN

A 19-year-old folk singer who died after being mauled by coyotes on Cape Breton Island had just earned the right to drive and was starting a concert tour of the east coast, her manager says.

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