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Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy probe

WASHINGTON - The claims that a State Department official blew the investigation into a nuclear smuggling ring have been made by Sibel Edmonds, 38, a former Turkish language translator in the FBI’s Washington field office. (Sunday Times)  PREVIOUS:  FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft    For Sale: West's deadly nuclear secrets     Khan-duh fallout will expose Canada's nuclear facade

 

Spy scandal rocks Catholic church

WARSAW, Poland - Polish media welcomed on Monday the resignation of an archbishop who spied for communist-era police, but the affair has left Poland’s powerful Roman Catholic Church in a deep crisis.  (Reuters)  PREVIOUS:  Warsaw archbishop resigns amid scandal     Archbishop quits, admits spying

 

Deinstitutionalization deemed a failure

VANCOUVER - Hundreds of vulnerable people are clawing out a pitiable existence on our streets, in dumpsters, in filthy and dangerous skid-row hotels or in jails -- largely because of the misguided efforts of civil libertarians and "social-justice advocates" to keep them out of mental institutions.  But the mentally ill people who haunt our streets and cause us to turn away in embarrassment should actually serve as eye-opening proof of the failure of deinstitutionalization.  (Province)   PREVIOUS: Premier wants changes to the way care is provided  One-third of mentally ill patients readmitted

New act may scuttle the 'public' in public inquest

VANCOUVER - Those who stand to gain from the withholding of key info surrounding curious or peculiar deaths are likely to praise the changes to the way BC inquests are now being run.   But for citizens and the grieving families of the dead victims who ache for the truth, the search just got longer, tougher and more pricey.   (Vancouver Province)   MORE:  Victim's lawyer alleges cop 'coverup'

 

Our passport no shield

The lure of "home'' is powerful. But a Canadian passport is no guarantee that citizens won't come to grief when they venture into perilous realms.  This is self-evidently true for naturalized Canadians who have previously fled from those areas, precisely because they believed themselves at risk of persecution and prosecution.  (Toronto Star)  RELATED:    Alleged spy pleads for Ottawa's assistance   Egyptian denies spying

 

Former DuPont scientist pleads to corporate espionage

WILMINGTON - A former DuPont senior scientist has pleaded guilty to corporate espionage in U.S. District Court in Delaware, admitting to trying to steal $400 million worth of information.  Gary Min entered his guilty plea to stealing trade secrets in November, but it was not made public until this morning when U.S. Attorney Colm F. Connolly unsealed the case.  (News Journal)  PREVIOUS: Engineer accused of military-industrial espionage   Fed get convictions on economic espionage   Economic espionage hits SJ firm

 

   

Feds' computer system “next gun registry"?

Canadian taxpayers pumped $600 million into a technology system that makes their transactions with the federal government as secure and tamper-proof as Fort Knox. The problem is hardly anyone in government wants to use it.  (CanWest)

Secure Channel

The secure channel saga

AG 2006: Large Information Technology projects

PWGSC 2005-2006: Departmental performance report: Secure Channel

PWGSC: Secure Channel Project

Child welfare plan hits a snag

VICTORIA - Five years after it was announced, the BC government's plan to decentralize child welfare services across the province has hit another major snag.   (Victoria Times Colonist)

12 child deaths now part of probe

‘A stupid mistake’

Politics and nitwits

Advocate's cash request denied

Annual Review of the Budgets of the Independent Offices of the Legislative Assembly

BC Liberals go after children's rep 

Province blasted for inaction

What the Children's Ministry did with $560,000

Privacy chief to investigate report

4th straight year, BC has worst child-poverty rate

Not safe, not sound

Chief coroner: Province to blame

BC kids dying in accidents: coroner

Coroner investigates death

Coroners service probes death

Child protection system 'crisis-driven'

Inquest advice mired in red tape

Backroom deal leaves public swinging in the wind

Ministry under fire after sojourn

Death was homicide

Children's ministry drops ball

Minister of Children and Family Development

Our not so secret shame

Bickering by bureaucrats won't help families

Agendas start to diverge

10% of BC kids attempt suicide, experts say

Review of forgotten files finds 34 child slayings

3 children die in foster care

Why did my baby die in foster care?

NDP corners Coroner's defenders

Chaos left killer to care for other children

Sudden infant deaths linked to sleep habits

Infant deaths linked sleep practices   .pdf

Ministry kept aspects of child abuse report secret

2006 report identified problems

Clandestine battle waged for inquest

Foster child's mother wanted inquiry

Censored & uncensored documents   .pdf

Foster child complained about treatment in care

Child abuse cases still unresolved

Watchdog to probe deaths

Child's death a homicide

Couple sue over childbirth death

BC beefs up child welfare laws

BC Liberals accused of cover-up

Report on girl's death shows how system failed

No one will lose job, face discipline

Filthy home sparks foster care reforms in BC

Fewer autopsies, inquests after budget cuts

713 child deaths investigations halted

Gov't remiss in child death probes

BC forgotten children scandal grows

Corners reopen child death case

Judge's report slams child protection system

'Kith and kin' placement needs evaluating

BC Chief Coroner

BC Children and Youth review

BC Coroners Service child death review

BC native children dying at striking rate

Ministry breaks silence on slain tot

Ministry role in slain tot's life kept secret

Girl, 2, slain in Bella Bella

Inquest to be held into girl's death

     

Take action, don't run

EDMONTON - When 10-year-old Agnes Grandbois fled the Onion Lake Residential School in 1916, it was a red-coated Mountie on horseback who chased her down and brought her back.  Decades later, she taught her grandchildren to put on their shoes, even before brushing their teeth in the morning.  "It was so we could run," recalls her grandson Brian Grandbois, now 50. "When we're little kids on the reserve and we see a cop car, everybody runs.  "The RCMP are always associated with taking people away."  (Edmonton Journal)

Yellow Quill holds wake, meeting

Second toddler found dead

RCMP mulls charges in toddler deaths

Community reeling from girls' deaths

Frozen girls never had a chance

Aboriginal population   2006 census data

Another body found on reserve

Natives want children's remains returned

Hidden from history

Nunavut & Ottawa share land claim responsibility

Rethinking the Reserve

Lakota break away from US

Lakota people

The Lakota will never forget Wounded Knee 1890

Delegation withdraws from treaties with US 

Republic of Lakotah

Six Nations to issue building permits

Chief condemns 'violent actions of a few'

It's all about economics

RCMP give Sechelt band apology letter

Truth a casualty of confrontation

Fearful Mountie defends pepper-spraying

Big cities, big aboriginal population

Number of aboriginals in crowded dwellings drops

No charges sought for natives who ignore census

2007 BCSC 1700 Tsilhqot'in Nation v. BC   .pdf

 

Court rules Tsilhgot'in Nation proved title to land

Judgement presents challenge to BC forestry

Brant denied bail

Shawn Brant

Shawn Brant turns himself in

Ontario returning Ipperwash park to natives

Ipperwash inquiry faults police, Ont., Ottawa

Report: 'Settle land claims'

Ipperwash inquiry

Ipperwash Crisis 

1st Nations approve second treaty settlement

Chiefs not happy with $125M offer

Offer of $125M a 'slap in the face': Six Nations

$125M on table to end Caledonia dispute

Rail blockade ends

Sechelt band wants answers

Report bolsters aboriginals' resolve

1st Nations vote for self-government

Natives in no hurry

Court dismisses Metis land claim

Police end occupation

Charges laid against Caledonia protesters

Caledonia households get $430K in aid

Caledonia compensation offer insult, critics say

Caledonia tensions flare after judge halts talks

Barricade down, talks to resume

US agents swarmed in Caledonia dispute

Canadians wary of aboriginal 'entitlements'

Cree, Ottawa seal truce

Blockade organizer warns of 'escalating' actions

 

Native leaders meet to plan day of action

CN sues natives

Native protesters remove Ontario rail blockade

Protester faces $7.4M suit

Complaint filed against Fantino

OPP boss sent 'threatening' e-mails

Caledonia wake up call.com

OPP arrest protester for carrying Canadian flag

Six Nations protesters can continue occupation

$55M and counting

What to know cost of standoff?

Prepare to pay because Ontario doesn't know

Ontario wants Ottawa to pay

Caledonia rally fails to ignite

Heard and scene at Caledonia

Natives lift blockade

Natives and non-natives take to the streets

Power out, blockade comes down, goes back up

Native activists deny extortion attempt

Townsfolk lose their cool

Residents of Ont. town protest native roadblock

Caledonia offered cash relief

RCMP specialists at land dispute

OPP officers says there's now two-tier justice

Is organized crime fuelling the standoff?

Judge suspends Caledonia talks

$1,600 a day

Stewart gets paid $1300 a day

McGuinty says no to protesters settling in

Police contain Caledonia rally

 
     

The North American Army

WASHINGTON, DC/OTTAWA - With no warning, a significant military agreement was signed by the chief Armed Forces commanders of both the USA and Canada on Feb. 14.  The agreement allows the armed forces from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a domestic civil emergency.  (Canadian Free Press)

Summit ends

Leaders wrap up Montebello summit

National security at risk of becoming a threat

Controversy follows accord into Canada 

Canada, US, Mexico talks

Impacting unimpaired

SPP could dwarf NAFTA

No man's land of the 'North Americanist'

Candyman irked by regulatory jellybean counters

Harper could stop the North American Union

US concerned about 'NAFTA superhighway'

Officials held secretive meeting on integration

Security & prosperity partnership

Integrate this

North American Competitiveness Council

SPP

NAFTA

 
     

Spies pillage our economy

Canada, says Michel Juneau-Katsuya is becoming an increasingly popular destination for corporate and economic spies because of our lax laws and knowledge-based economy.   While CSIS is mandated to investigate economic espionage it is barred from investigating corporate espionage.   As a result, the 25 foreign governments involved in spying in Canada often only have to incorporate a business within Canada to become exempt from official investigation. (Sun Media)    

Pierre Blais is an ex-Solicitor General and an ex-President of the Queen's Privy Council which would seem to make this ruling more than unusual. – Chris

 

Suspected Russian spy deported to Moscow

'A gold mine' For Spy Agency

Paul William Hampel

Moscow unclear on identity of Russian spy

Sidewinder

Spy on the radar for awhile: Day

What was an Russian spy doing in Canada?

Cover blown on post-Cold War spy networks

Little to prevent forging documents

A sequel to an old cloak-and-dagger story

I spy... a Russian

Feds allege suspect is longtime Russian spy

 
     

Gulf states load up on weapons

ABU DHABI - Leaders of Sunni Arab states are embarking on a military spending spree in an attempt to contain the growing threat from Iran.  Alarmed by the progress of Iran's nuclear programme and the prospect of a military clash between its Shia regime and the United States, Gulf leaders intend to use billions of dollars of oil revenue to purchase a huge array of military hardware. (Telegraph UK)   MORE:  IDEX 2007  

Hush-hush money

CANBERRA - Once upon a time, it would have been a spycatcher's dream.  A desperate diplomat from a ruthless communist dictatorship knocks on the Federal Government's door, pleads for political asylum and promises to tell all about his country's massive spy network in Australia. (SHM)   PREVIOUS:  ASIO: 2005/06 the year in review   Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

 
     

Putin, the Kremlin power struggle and the $40B fortune