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  • US Grabs 81-Year-Old’s Lipitor Sent Via Canada
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Grabs 81-Year-Old’s Lipitor Sent Via Canada The Capital Times Monday, February 07, 2005 Milwaukee(AP) - Charles Netzow is upset that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has confiscated a drug that was being mailed to him from a pharmacy in Canada to help keep his cholesterol under control. "I’m angry because it’s nonsense," the 81-year-old suburban Fox Point man told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel after receiving a notice from the FDA indicating that his 90 tablets of Lipitor were (…)

  • How Canada Stunned Bush. Iraq Stand Hard To Believe For US
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How Canada Stunned Bush Iraq Stand Hard To Believe For US Tim Harper February 09, 2005 WASHINGTON-Canada’s outgoing ambassador to Washington revealed for the first time yesterday the shock and disbelief in the Bush administration when prime minister Jean Chrétien kept Canadian troops out of Iraq.
    Michael Kergin said in an interview yesterday that administration insiders had all but ignored the diplomatic signals from Ottawa in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
    Despite all the signs (…)

  • Soldier Awarded Purple Heart Deserts To Canada
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Soldier Awarded Purple Heart Deserts To Canada Associated Press February 01, 2005 LEXINGTON, Ky. - Rather than face another tour of duty in Iraq, a Lexington soldier who won a Purple Heart after he was wounded by a roadside bomb has deserted to Canada. Darrell Anderson, 22, wounded in Iraq last April, was deeply disillusioned about the war, according to his mother, Anita Anderson. The possibility of another tour in Iraq this summer was something he couldn’t face, she told the Lexington (…)

  • Canada Moves To Counter US Privacy Threat
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Canada Moves To Counter US Privacy Threat Jim Bronskill January 30, 2005 OTTAWA (CP) - The government will revamp the wording of future federal contracts with the aim of countering US powers, granted under anti-terrorism laws, to tap into personal information about Canadians.
    The move is intended to prevent the US Federal Bureau of Investigation from seeing sensitive Canadian data the government supplies to American firms doing business with federal departments in Ottawa.
    The (…)

  • Bush Sparred With Canadians On Missile Defence In Tense Meeting, Says Report
    25 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Sparred With Canadians On Missile Defence In Tense Meeting, Says Report Canadian Press January 23, 2005 WASHINGTON (CP) - President George W. Bush tried to bully Canadian officials on missile defence during his visit last month by linking Canada’s participation to future protection from the U.S., the Washington Post reported Sunday.
    The newspaper quoted an unidentified Canadian official who was in the room as saying Bush waved off their attempts to explain how contentious the issue (…)

  • Canada, Here They Come...They Threatened To Run For The Border If Bush Was Re-Elected
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Canada, Here They Come...They Threatened To Run For The Border If Bush Was Re-Elected. But How Many Did? Andrew Buncombe 20 January 2005
    At their home in a comfortable, quiet Seattle suburb, Mike Teller and his partner Bob Vesely will not be cheering today. Indeed, while the celebratory thousands line the streets for the presidential inauguration 3,000 miles away in Washington DC, Teller and Vesely will think of their future and the greener pastures they believe await them. They’ll be (…)

  • Soldier Refuses to Return: At one checkpoint they killed 30+ civilians in 48hrs
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TORONTO, December 8 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Two US soldiers have applied for political asylum in Canada in protest at the atrocities committed by the US army in Iraq and Afghanistan, hoping to capitalize on the country’s opposition to US President George W Bush’s foreign policy.
    In graphic testimonies to a Canadian tribunal, former Marine Sergeant Jimmy Massey and fugitive paratrooper Jeremy Hinzman have argued that they could not tolerate killing innocent civilians in Iraq (…)

  • Eating Ballots Forbidden in Canada (Research Article)
    7 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is a summary of Canadian superiority in the elections arena or WHY CANADIANS DO NOT RIOT AFTER ELECTIONS "Technology and the Voting Process" (Elections Canada; June 15, 1998) http://www.elections.ca/loi/vot/... pages 6 and 40-43
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    THE INTEGRITY OF THE CANADIAN VOTING PROCESS "The integrity of the present [voting] system is something to which Canadians attach a HIGH VALUE. But the integrity of [their] electoral system also depends on what Canadians are prepared to accept as a (…)

  • Canadian Lawyers Charge Bush with Torture
    1 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    30 November 2004
    Today in Vancouver, Lawyers Against the War filed torture charges against George W. Bush under the Canadian Criminal Code.
    An information was accepted for filing today by the Provincial Court of British Columbia Vancouver Registry charging George Walker Bush with counselling, aiding and abetting the commission of torture by persons know and unknown being members of US Armed Forces against persons known and unknown being detainees at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay (…)

  • Pull Welcome Mat for ’War Criminal’ Bush?
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Vancouver legal experts join movement to rule the U.S. president a violator of Geneva and U.N. conventions.
    By Judith Ince
    TheTyee.ca When George W. Bush visits Canada this week, he’s sure to get an earful from demonstrators who see him more as a "war crimes president" than a "war president." While activists prepare to put down their unwelcome mats, lawyers have been sharpening arguments to hold the president accountable for his actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. But amid the flurry (…)