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WINNIPEG - The biological mother of a two-year-old boy who was killed while in the care of Manitoba's child welfare system is planning to join a class-action lawsuit accusing the provincial government of systemic abuse of children in care. (Winnipeg Free Press)

Probe launched

VICTORIA - The provincial ombudsman has launched a sweeping investigation of problems with seniors' care in BC after receiving an influx of complaints in recent weeks. Kim Carter said her office handled more than 50 complaints since late June, when she issued a news release reminding people to bring their concerns about long-term care to her. (Victoria Times Colonist) RELATED: Staff risk firing for 'hoarding' diapers 'Silver tsunami' Home and Community Care Services Meeting Needs and Preparing for the Future .pdf

Movement to lower US drinking age

College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus. The movement called the Amethyst Initiative began quietly recruiting presidents more than a year ago to provoke national debate about the drinking age. (AP)

New act may scuttle the 'public'

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'

Why did 90 children die?

TORONTO - Ninety children known to Ontario's child welfare system died in 2007, according to the latest report from the chief coroner's office – a number the province's new child advocate says is shocking and should trouble us all. (Toronto Star) REPORT: Annual 2007-2008 Report .pdf 90 dead children Minister stands by child-welfare system

When can someone be declared dead

NEW YORK - A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead? (AP) PREVIOUS: Governments set up organ donation system Canadian Blood Services

Home ownership at record levels

OTTAWA - Nearly 70% of Canadian households owned their residence in 2006, the highest level since 1971, according to Statistics Canada. In 2007, average household spending on monthly mortgage payments had hit 37% of after-tax income - up from 32% in 2006.(CTV) REPORT: Canadian homeownership and shelter cost BC spends highest proportion of income on shelter : Personal bankruptcies highest in 4 years UK ‘rout’ as house prices fall

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. (Toronto Star) RELATED: Alleged spy pleads for Ottawa's assistance Egyptian denies spying

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)

Federal contract causing major battle

Ottawa's new $1B boondoggle

Secure Channel

The secure channel saga

AG 2006: Large Information Technology projects

PWGSC 2005-2006: Departmental performance report: Secure Channel

PWGSC: Secure Channel Project

Refugees go home

OTTAWA - A secret government survey reveals the majority of successful Tamil refugees travel back to Sri Lanka, raising questions about the legitimacy of their refugee status. (QMI)

Tamil Tigers allegedly on migrant ship

Redefining refugees

Voyage of a Tamil ghost ship

Canada missed chances to stop ship

Tab could hit millions

Canadian Tamil Congress

Migrants in good shape

Easiest mark in the world'

Ship just the beginning

Politics decides who is a refugee

Failure

Taking advantage of a nation of immigrants

Captain linked to Tigers

Vessel a small cost of doing business

Smugglers owed

Boat migrant wanted

Ship belongs to Tamil Tigers

Boat migrants could file refugee bids

Ship seized

Vessel seized

Deal on asylum seekers

People smuggler crewed Tamil boat

10 years later: Smuggled migrant tells his story

Not a pretty picture

TORONTO - The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is painting a portrait of Canadians' attitudes towards mental health, and the picture is not pretty. The CMA's eighth annual National Report Card on Health Care, a national survey released on Monday, suggests that 46% of Canadians think people use the term mental illness as an excuse for bad behaviour. (CP)

Facilities 'inadequate'

Mental illness used as an excuse

Bed shortage

BC's system fares poorly

Hospital mental health services 2005-2006

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)

New facility aims to fill gap

'Go ahead, they won't do anything'

Shelter promised after cops' report

Mentally ill overwhelming police: Report

Police report tells shocking stories

Police becoming de facto mental health workers

Policing and the mentally ill

Mental illness a crisis with no end in sight

Don't give passes to mental patients, inquiry told

Doctor says suicide couldn't have been prevented

Premier wants changes

One-third of mentally ill patients readmitted

US sanctions entities

WASHINGTON - The State Department Monday unveiled sanctions against 13 people and three firms implicated in the nuclear proliferation network set up by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. "The Department of State announced that sanctions will be imposed on 13 individuals and three private companies for their involvement in the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network," it said in a statement. (AFP)

Abdul Qadeer Khan

Rogue scientist released

North Korea and weapons of mass destruction

Blueprint found on smugglers' computers

Khan-duh fallout

Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy probe

FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft

For Sale: West's deadly nuclear secrets

Premier's office broke the law

VICTORIA - Premier Gordon Campbell’s office broke the law by refusing to release cabinet materials to child watchdog Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a BC Supreme Court judge ruled. (Victoria Times Colonist)

BC watchdog sues BC government

Watchdog files court action against government

Bad week for democracy in BC

Safety demand

Foster child's death a homicide

Police to investigate death as homicide

Foster child dies

Child welfare system in crisis, still

BC's shame

Advocate rips ‘top quality public service’

Children ill-served by bureaucratic infighting

1/3 of kids in government care end up in prison

Daycares lost track of children

Why aren't inspection records public?

Child deaths still an issue

BC isn't keeping children safe

Gov't slammed over child deaths

BC child welfare system failed

MB child welfare head suspended

Children Services slammed

Infant mortality rate

Indigenous children’s health report

10 deaths in Ministry care to be probed

Minister admits error in censoring report

Judge: Province failed in duty

Agency tight-lipped on child deaths

'Suspicious' baby death

Baby death under review

Girls in care selling sex

Another report slams BC child care

Public still in the dark

Child welfare plan hits a snag

Study contradicts government welfare claims

Living on welfare in BC

Coroner investigates death

Coroners service probes death

Child protection system 'crisis-driven'

Inquest advice mired in red tape

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond Report

Thousands of serious incidents

Ministry under fire after sojourn

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

Sudden infant deaths linked to sleep habits

Backroom deal leaves public swinging in the wind

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

Management of Aboriginal Child Protection Services .pdf

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

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

Censored & uncensored documents .pdf

Chaos left killer to care for other children

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

Children stuck in the system: Part 5

The three little girls don't understand why they are being sent home; they think they already are home. (Saskatoon Star Phoenix)

Part 1 Part 2

Part 3 Part 4

Tour highlighted 'difficulties'

HAMILTON - OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino paid an informal visit in early 2007 to the native occupied land in Caledonia formerly known as the Douglas Creek Estates. Ontario's top cop climbed into a truck with a couple of First Nations men and drove around the perimeter of the 28-hectare tract that is now called Kanonhstaton. (Hamilton Spectator)

Charges dropped

Julian Fantino Chief facing prosecution

Fantino vows pushback

Top cop must face allegations

Bitter ground

Why do we accept native violence

Plaintiff's gun story under fire

'Lawless oasis'

Family lived 'terrified existence'

OPP, Province not liable

First Nations fraud case

NORTH BATTLEFORD - About 12 members of the Mosquito First Nation attended provincial court Wednesday to see their chief, Clarence Stone, and four other elected officials make first appearances on charges of fraud and theft from the band's Treaty Land Entitlement (TLE) trust fund. (Saskatoon Star Phoenix)

First Nation has been good for us

Peguis First Nation

Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Chief defends salary Pay & perks

Board dissolved FNUC

Board dissolved senior management on leave

Aboriginal policy gets dose of common sense

AFN chief must reform organization

First Nations Chief

National Chief important to all

5 modest proposals

Guilty plea to vote buying

$21M fishery settlement

Hagwilget Village

TB 185 times higher for Inuit

Following the money

Eviction notices

Mohawk Council Blood quantum

Federal legislation to unlock development

Fed's bill falls short of expectations

First Nations threaten action

BC signs deal with 6 coastal First Nations

Native children flooding into aid societies

Counting cost

Judge approves class-action suit

Settlement gives hope to others

Lawsuit settled

Caledonia family, OPP reach deal

Moving never an option

No choice OPP abandoned me

Cat-and-mouse

Report warned of potential violence

Action promised

Women keep disappearing

Sisters in Spirit

Only hope remains

Dying for attention

Native governance needs reforms

Combating fake Métis ID cards

Suicides turn focus north

Bands lose royalties suit

2009 SCC 9

Point of view

Fantino & Brant wiretap transcripts

Chairman quits

Ontario judge gives nod to unapproved wiretaps

Journey for truth hindered by egos

Harry LaForme Phil Fontaine

Head of commission steps down

Bitter finger pointing

1 year for voter fraud

Minister forces vote

Algonquins of Barriere Lake

Barriere Lake solidarity

TB explodes on northern reserves

The vanished

Face off on St. Lawrence

Cigarette trade hit by border dispute

Tobacco barons charged in US

Grand River Enterprises

Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP)

Assembly of First Nations (AFN)

Shawn Atleo

Stressed-out border guards

Council signs new low-level bridge agreements

Police dismantle native protest

Leaders condemn bridge protest

Protesters block bridge

New Truth & Reconciliation Commission

Truth and Reconciliation Commission

OPP almost moved in on 2007 blockades

Bands’ lawyer wants to take case to UN

Dirty deeds on reserve

Former agency boss charged with fraud

Conditional sentence

Pipeline protest

Loan blacklist targets reserves

'Grave consequences'

Mohawks, gangs & tobacco

Mohawk firms seek talks

Contraband smokes cost Quebec

'Contraband tobacco' a taxing issue

1994 Sin-tax failure

Native leader warns of confrontations over tobacco

RCMP sounds alarm over illegal smokes

Flagging postal codes not discriminatory

First Nations left off jury lists

Cash fight splits first nation

Native agency hailed

Treaty process flawed

Flawed process for BC treaty negotiations

Harper apologizes for residential school abuse

Opportunists seek share of victims' money

Legal fees huge issues

Roadblocks coming down

OPP’s Fantino urges calm

Taxes are fueling Organized Crime

Natives doubtful of report

Another body found on reserve

Battle heats up

Natives want children's remains returned

Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Are reconciliation and 'truth' compatible?

Protesters vow to carry on

Brantford turns to courts for help

Premier tells municipalities to ignore Six Nations development fee

Suckered by politicians & lawyers

Time to move on

Air evacuation of Northern Ontario reserves

The sad story of Kashechewan

Take action, don't run

Aboriginal population 2006 census data

Number of aboriginals in crowded dwellings drops

Hidden from history

Nunavut & Ottawa share land claim responsibility

Rethinking the Reserve

Lakota break away from US

Lakota people

Delegation withdraws from treaties with US

Republic of Lakotah

It's all about economics

Fearful Mountie defends pepper-spraying

Six Nations to issue building permits

Chief condemns 'violent actions of a few'

RCMP give Sechelt band apology letter

Truth a casualty of confrontation

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

No charges sought for natives who ignore census

Court rules Tsilhgot'in Nation proved title to land

Judgement presents challenge to BC forestry

Brant denied bail

Shawn Brant

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

Re-opening NAFTA would benefit Canada

Oil gives Canada power

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

Bulgaria's 'Overgas', a Russian spy in Canada

Trading pipe dreams

TI: Bulgaria anti-corruption efforts

Gazprom RosUkrEnergo

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

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: Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

Billions paid on political favours

LONDON - Roman Abramovich has admitted agreeing to pay billions of dollars for political favours and protection fees to get his hands on the former Soviet Union's mineral wealth. The puzzle of how the penniless street trader rose to amass an £11.4 billion fortune is explained for the first time in his own words in court papers. (Times online)

Putin, the power struggle and the $40B fortune

Dmitry Medvedev

'Neither free nor fair'

Russia goes to the polls under orders

Debunking the myth

Kremlin planning to rig election

Putin's nuclear threat to the West

Putin will accept PM job

Student sectioned for anti-Putin activities

Putin critic sent to mental hospital

Opposition activist put in mental ward

Odihr West 'embraces sham democracies'

Democracy charade undermines rights

Russia suspends arms treaty

Conventional Forces in Europe

Russia parliament votes to suspend arms treaty

Assassination attempts on Putin

Vladimir Putin

Gates Counters Putin’s Words on US Power

Putin hits at US for triggering arms race

Putin arrives in Saudi Arabia on Mideast trip

Putin in lucrative Middle East arena

Suspicions still swirling about Russian bombs

Gazprom City

Killing the messenger

Dead journalist's last story

MOSCOW - A critic of Vladimir Putin who died mysteriously last week was preparing to write a story claiming the Kremlin was secretly providing Syria with missile systems. If Ivan Safronov story had proved correct, it could have deeply embarrassed the Russian President, who had personally assured Israel and the US that the arms deal had been scrapped. (SMH)

Are Putin's agents behind shooting?

Putin's power play

Russian expert shot near DC home

Anti-Putin protesters clubbed by police

Driver & paparazzi to blame

LONDON - The deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed, were caused by the "grossly negligent driving" by both her chauffeur, Henri Paul, and the paparazzi pursuing them, a jury concluded. (Times online)

Coroner names liars in Diana inquest

Inquest into the death of the Princess of Wales

Paparazzi & Paul to blame

Diana inquiry

Princess Diana

Why are we so hooked on conspiracies?

Diana death a 'tragic accident'

The Lord Stevens report in full

Diana: no murder plot

The first response to the Stevens inquiry

Memorial draws thousands

KIMBERLEY, B.C. - At an emotional memorial service in this mountain community that has buried so many miners, more than 2,000 townsfolk and emergency service workers gathered to remember the four latest victims of the former Sullivan mine. (Calgary Herald)

Memorial service for emergency service workers

How four lives ended at this remote shed

Rescuers followed crew into fatal trap

Four dead in Sullivan mine mystery

Tragic end of mine rescue

BC mining accident

Top ten junk science stories of the past decade

JunkScience.com celebrated its 10th anniversary on April 1, 2006. To mark the event, this column spotlights 10 big junk science stories of the last 10 years. In no particular order, they are: (Fox)

2007's most dubious research

News of the weird 2007

Wikipedia 2006

Junk science moments for 2006

The next big thing in 2007, and beyond

Arctic development agency

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has unveiled a new and long-awaited northern development agency, which he announced on the first full day of his latest Arctic tour. (CTV)

Canada in show of strength

Operation Nanook 09

Canada must fight for its northern rights

Canada's Northern Strategy

Geopolitics of the far north

Canada will defend Arctic

Reporting requirements tightened

200-mile Arctic territorial limit

Arctic treasure

Arctic hunt turns up Franklin expedition relics

Arctic G5 vow

Danish's scoffs at efforts to claim Arctic

Military bases signal new Cold War

Race for Arctic seabed is on

PM starts fight for North

Canada to invest money, personnel in North

Arctic boundaries .pdf

Polar posturing

Promises aren't enough

Ottawa eyes Arctic co-operation with Danes

Diplomatic thaw at hand over Arctic

Who is winning the Arctic game of Monopoly?

Russia aims to assert control over Arctic

Research back Canada's Arctic claim

Arctic border hot spots

Bureaucracy threatens Canada's polar research

Northwest Passage gets political name change

Canadian Rangers

Canadian Rangers Project

Harper to create new Northern Parks

Laying claim to Canada's 'internal' waters

Inukshuk standing on guard

Canada flexes its muscles over arctic wastes

Canada sends navy to Arctic north

Wikipedia: Hans Island

Denmark calls for talks on Arctic island dispute

Disputing boundaries

Russia launches bid for Arctic mineral riches

Russian sub plants flag under North Pole

Arctic

Mountain Pine beetle in BC

Pine beetle runs out of food

Arsenic in BC forests

Pine beetle moves south in BC

Battling the bug: Alberta's beetle war

Forestry in fight for its life

Battle of beetles

Beetles change the rules

Ambrose ambushed at UN meeting

Oilsands tapping Canada's freshwater supply dry

WWF stand on BC forest’s

Secret deal leaves out victims

VICTORIA - The provincial government has apparently reached a deal that will see it compensated for leaky schools built at the same time as thousands of leaky condos. But how much, who paid, what will happen to the money - that's all secret. Of some 160,000 condos built between 1985 and 2000 almost half leaked. The total cost to consumers will be between $1.5B and $2B. It's certainly the largest scam or fraud or failure or whatever you want to call it in BC history. (Victoria Times Colonist)

Suspicious timing

End of aid 'devastating' to owners

BC's Leaky condo program killed

Spike in suicide calls related to economy

Carbon tax government cuts off leaky condo loans

Leaky condo crisis far from over

Leaky schools join leaky condo crisis

Tories pushed over leaky condos

$29M condo project facing $40M repair bill

Tories cancel review of CMHC's role

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.

BC MP loses bid to get condo information

Feds tried to hide complicity in leaky condo crisis

2009 report card released

The report card is a snapshot of 16 Canadian communities - including four in British Columbia, three in Alberta, seven in Ontario and two in the Atlantic provinces - intended to measure local quality of life and to make recommendations to improve it. (CanWest)

Vital Signs Canada 2009

Vital Signs local reports

Violent crime in 15-year decline

Communities vulnerable

An index of community vulnerability

World's getting older, faster as birth rates decline

Boomtowns and busts around BC

The changing face of Canada

Canada's population as of July 1, 2006

Census numbers flawed, Yukon say

Canada goes suburban

Canadian census sees cities surging

Spaceship Canada

Norway 'the best place to live'

HDI rankings 2009 #4 Canada

Youth facing worst job market in decades

Toronto 'seriously unaffordable'

Average age at death rising in Canada

World population ageing 2007

Allophones on the rise

2006 Census: Language

Lord to review government language policies

2006 Census: Immigration and citizenship

2006 Census: Mobility and migration

2006 Census trends Immigration surge

Adults flocking to cities in North

Census of Canada

Portrait of the Canadian Population in 2006

Boomers turn Canada grey

Greying boomers steamroll into golden years

Cut taxes to avoid boomer bust

'Calredmonton' is ready to take on the country

Secret release and privacy rules

CALGARY - Elvir Pobric, a convicted double murderer and Bosnian fugitive - whose secret release from custody in Calgary has sparked national controversy - insists he's no menace to his adopted homeland. (Calgary Herald)

Killer's release sparks concern

Killer freed

Welcome to Canada: An appointed immigration official will be making the rules

Secret hearing defies common sense: Minister

Killer's secret hearing

Interpreter with Serbian name irks Bosnian killer

Killer traced to Grimsby

Murderer on the run

Aim to speed up refugee system

OTTAWA - The federal government announced sweeping changes to Canada's refugee system aimed at removing failed claimants more quickly in order, it said, to provide faster protection to those who need it. (CanWest)

Let them in, they may have a lawyer

Rules for immigration consultants

Foreigners behind scam

'Ghost' immigration consultants

CSIC RCMP investigating

Crackdown on consultants who counsel fraud

Suspected case of citizenship fraud

Palestine House

’They want some certainty’

Gangster re-emerges

Radical Somali-Canadians potential threat

Bogus asylum seekers and people smugglers

Tamils ride their luck

Ship belongs to Tamil Tigers

Migrant wanted

Ship seized

US 'to quiz Sri Lanka army chief'

Tamil Tigers Canadian Tamil Congress

Immigration fraudsters battle detection

Immigration consultant fraud

Migrants ordered released

More migrants to be released

'I feel great'

$800K in gold = 'stereotyping'

Flight instructor released

Man arrested at border with 'terrorist resources'

$1M seized at border

US deserter wins court victory

Lesbian US deserter's case must be reviewed

List of resisters who were deported from Canada

Canada and Iraq War Resisters

Gangster ordered out

Thousands of deported foreigners remain

Only about 42,000 missing

Canada's broken refugee system will be fixed

Human mobility and development

Canada seen as global leader

Effects of Mass Immigration

Residency faked

People smugglers are watching Canada

Tamil Tigers look to regroup in Canada

Terrorists on ship

Migrant security concerns

'Students' scamming their way in

Ottawa curbs bids for asylum via the US

Exit strategy

Diplomatic storm erupts

Mexicans, Czechs now need visas

Canada toughens its visa demands

EU pressures Canada to scrap Czech visa

Citizenship and immigration Canada

Dual citizen suing Canada for $27M

Abousfian Abdelrazik

Dual citizen

Case highlights what's wrong

Seeking sanctuary

House arrest shows Canada is committed

Threat of deportation after applying for residency

'Dysfunctional' US border

Improving the US-Canadian border

Citizenship Act amendments

Citizenship law kicks in

Waking up Canadian

New citizenship rules

Clash over increase in refugee claims

Refugees abuse system

11th hour bid to remain

Bid rejected

Arrest of twice deported man

Mexican asylum seekers rise

Creating an illegal workforce

Estimated 2.8M Canadian live abroad

Canada's secret province .pdf

Canada a top destination

Did you pay too much for your visa?

Canada not keeping track of illegal migrants

Deserter to be deported

20 years after deportation

First to be deported

Conflicting rulings muddle fate of war deserters

US deserter loses court fight

Canada is wrong not to give asylum

41,000 rejects lost in our midst

'Rent-a-guest'

'Lost Canadians'

Alleged attacker had been ordered deported

Gang member to be deported

Violent offender deported

'Baby touristing' on rise in Quebec

Deported refugee leaves Canada

Failed refugee claimant heading home

Resister deported

Jeremy Hinzman

Fraud artist kept scams going

Somali refugee will remain in custody

Rapist faces custody hearing

Criminal makes mockery of refugee system

850,000 want to come to Canada

Canada among top nations in immigration study

Migrant integration policy index

Most want limits on demands of immigrants

What's all the fuss?

Canadians have misgivings about dual citizenship

Asylum seekers rush the border

Immigrant help centre probed by police

Refugee claims disputed

Few arrivals seeking legal advice

Violent sex felon avoiding deportation

Job program fuels fraud fears

Provincial Nominee Program

Phoney nannies

'Phantom' residents to lose status

Afghan officers seek refugee status

RCMP arrests 40 in border operation

Quebecers on minorities: Be just like us

It's racism - in any language

Quebec politicians tackle immigrants' rights

May 2008 - Immigration and Security .pdf

Mexican migrants flood Windsor

Windsor braces for refugee tide

Illegal migrants lured to Canada

Immigration out-paces British exodus

Tiny minority voiced slurs, report finds

War brides' children may not be citizens

Auditor General 2003 Report

Government to capture biometric data

The committee's interim report

Analysts guess: 3M dual citizenship

Dual citizenships under review

Evacuees who may pose security risk denied

'Abuse' of Lebanon contracts

Province to pay tab for asylum-seekers

Asylum levels 2008 .pdf

Commissioner challenges code authors

Part 1: Generation accommodation

Part 2: Religion

Part 3: Identities

Part 4: Mainstream blind to integration efforts

Part 5: Melting pot wins out

Three models of diversity: a primer

War of words about "nous" is getting uglier

Ottawa to fix citizenship snafu for military kids

Feet washing and video games

Canadians who aren't

Thousands stripped of citizenship

Canadian in passport only

Lost Canadians

Welcome to Canada's two-tier citizenship

Fraudster hitched a ride with Harper

Why 40,000 Canadians are in Lebanon

Dual citizenship? Blame Ottawa

'Non-flammable'

Convenient Canadians

Since when has 'fast exit' been a right?

MPs squabble over cost of saving dual citizens

Canadian by choice

Forces children face citizenship obstacles

Why dual citizens should be forced to choose

Canadian evacuation from Lebanon cost $85M

Australian Parliament approves citizenship laws

The real question: Is Canada a nation?

'Today we march, tomorrow we vote'

1,023 foreign criminals escape deportation

Deportee free on bail

Send Singh home

Claimant arrested in hospital

Paralysed man ducks deportation

Accused Basque terrorist files refugee claim

Alleged Basque terrorist kept in jail

2nd Basque militant arrested in Quebec

Judge wants review of file

Medical board denies blocking foreign physicians

PM says foreign skills not a fed issue

Immigrants drown in red tape

Illegal immigrants 'not hunted'

Deport orders facing review

Illegal border-crossers rarely prosecuted

No, you can't have your name back

Deportation of Hungarian Roma tainted

Refugee warnings ignored

RCMP provides haven for human-trafficking

Canadians conned by Colombians

Border states grapple with alien criminals

Price of Cheap Labor

LA emergency rooms full of illegal immigrants

Illegal alien influx may compromise security

Undocumented immigrants rise to near 11M

Red tape for regulated credentials

Immigrants fuel population rise

Immigrants account for growth

Swiss Asylum, immigration laws ratified

BBC Indepth: Destination UK

Characteristics of undocumented population

Canada becoming a haven for terrorists

Three ways to fight terrorism

Criminal immigrants

He looks too 'aloof' in photographs

'Sex for visas' claims to be investigated

Migration is 'good for everybody'

10,000 illegal Koreans in Canada

CBC Indepth: The Church as Sanctuary

Loophole at the Border

Transportation Security Administration

Making Canada safe: National Security Policy

US Boosts Port Security

US Agents Face Violence at the Border

Busted budgets on the border

Smugglers carry people with links to terror

New immigrant selection process urged

Immigration and the Welfare State in Canada

Korean family loses refugee fight

Study: Immigrants who leave Canada

UK: 250,000 people avoid deportation

Airport syndicate sending illegals to Canada

Citizen Hamdi

Canadian border security needs boosting

US-Canada border continues to be weak link

New security policy to prevent terror attacks

Immigration Minister struggles for credibility

Double Standard at Canada Immigration

The feds facilitate organized port crime

Is there a legitimate role for ports policing

The RCMP sets up office in Canadian ports

Of criminals and CEO's

The difference between bold, creative visionaries and deluded psychopaths is not as big as it used to be. (Newsweek) RELATED: Company Chairman, and candidate for the Couch Is your boss a 'corporate psycho'? What is a Psychopath? Robert Hare's website Tapping into the brains behind human behaviour Incompetent don't know they are incompetent

Brain scans may soon be used as lie detectors

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Picture this: Your boss is threatening to fire you because he thinks you stole company property. He doesn't believe your denials. Your lawyer suggests you deny it one more time - in a brain scanner that will show you're telling the truth. (AP)

Damsels in distress

If you’re missing, it helps to be young, white and female. (MSNBC)

Cell Phone Gun Information

If you get asked to test your cell phone at the airport, this is the reason. Because cell phone guns have been discovered. Beneath the digital phone face is a .22 caliber handgun capable of firing four rounds in rapid succession using the standard telephone keypad.

Young population prone to conflict

While it is not clear exactly how population age contributes to strife, research by Population Action International suggests that it is no simple coincidence that 80 per cent of the civil conflicts that broke out in the 1970s, '80s and '90s occurred in countries where at least 60 per cent of the population was under 30, and almost nine out of 10 such youthful countries had autocratic rulers or weak democracies. (New York Times)

China: Too many men

Overabundance of Rogue Males

How did 100M women disappear?

Desperate mothers

Assam's missing women

Disarming the children

Child soldiers in the Drug Wars

Wars 'robbing youths of school'

Effects of armed conflict on children

Angry young men with nothing to do

Troubling questions

Missing Women: Age & Disease .pdf