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OTTAWA - A new report says cancer and heart disease were responsible for just over half of Canada's 238,617 deaths in 2008. (CP) REPORT: Leading causes of death, 2008 Table 1.1 Homicides in Canada Table 1A

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. (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)

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

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

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. (Vancouver Province) MORE: Victim's lawyer alleges cop 'coverup'

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

Large Information Technology projects

PWGSC 2005-2006: Departmental performance report: Secure Channel

PWGSC: Secure Channel Project

Failure of management

OTTAWA - The federal government has spent more than $50M to address the growing problem of mentally ill offenders, but the money is "compromised" because there is no plan on how to spend it, suggests a new report released by Canada's prison watchdog.

Under warrant

New facility aims to fill gap

'Go ahead, they won't do anything'

Jailing mentally ill

Deinstitutionalization deemed a failure

Premier wants changes

Mentally ill patients readmitted

Force ‘mentally ill’ into shelters

Mental health services 2005-2006

Mentally ill offenders failed

Prisons 'hospitals by default'

Deranged sniper set free

Shelter promised after cops' report

Policing and the mentally ill

Mentally ill overwhelming police: Report

Police report tells shocking stories

Police mental health workers

Policing and the mentally ill

Crisis with no end in sight

Don't give passes to mental patients

Suicide couldn't have been prevented

Not a pretty picture

Facilities 'inadequate'

Mental illness used as an excuse

Bed shortage

BC's system fares poorly

Border deal

WASHINGTON - Canada and the US unveiled plans for an unprecedented joint approach to border protection aimed at developing common practices to screen travellers and cargo. (PostMedia)

What the border deal means for you

New realities for Canadians

Deal brings home the peameal

Border Action Plan

Faces behind the border plan

Surprise

The average Canadian family spent close to half its income on taxes last year - more than it paid for food, shelter and clothing combined, according to a new study from conservative think-tank the Fraser Institute. In 2010, a family with an average income of $72,393 spent 41.3% of its income on taxes. Spending on food, clothing and shelter added up to 34% of the family income, the study found. (QMI)

Canadian consumer tax index 2011

Cut the family's top budget item: tax

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)

Canadian homeownership cost

BC proportion of income on shelter

Personal bankruptcies

Lower living standard in retirement

Canada needs more taxes

US sanctions entities

WASHINGTON - The State Department unveiled sanctions against 13 people and three firms implicated in the nuclear proliferation network set up by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. (AFP)

Abdul Qadeer Khan

Rogue scientist released

North Korea and weapons of mass destruction

Blueprint found on computers

Khan-duh fallout

Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy probe

FBI denies file

West's deadly nuclear secrets

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)

90 dead children

Minister stands by system

System failed

Public guardian warning

Public Guardian and Trustee

Watchdog issues subpoena

Watchdog heard from the media

Girl left with corpse

Girl tried to help dead mother

Bad week for democracy in BC

Safety demand

Bureaucrats bad at their job

Premier's office broke the law

BC watchdog sues BC government

Watchdog files court action

Poor job on background checks

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 censoring report

Judge: Province failed in duty

Agency tight-lipped on child deaths

'Suspicious' baby death

Isolated and invisible .pdf

Annual 2007-2008 Report .pdf

Foster child's death a homicide

Police to investigate death

Foster child dies

Child welfare system in crisis, still

BC's shame

Advocate rips ‘public service’

Children ill-served by infighting

Kids 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

Ministry under fire after sojourn

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 claims

Living on welfare in BC

Coroner investigates death

Child protection system 'crisis-driven'

Inquest advice mired in red tape

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond Report

Thousands of serious incidents

Kids at risk

Fragile lives, fragmented systems .pdf

No shortcuts to safety .pdf

12 child deaths now part of probe

‘A stupid mistake’

Politics and nitwits

Advocate's cash request denied

Annual Review of the Budgets

BC Liberals go after children's rep

Province blasted for inaction

What the Children's Ministry did

Privacy chief to investigate report

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

Backroom deal

Death was homicide

Children's ministry drops ball

Children & Family Development

Our not so secret shame

Bickering by bureaucrats won't help

Agendas start to diverge

10% of BC kids attempt suicide

Review of forgotten files

3 children die in foster care

Why did my baby die in foster care?

NDP corners Coroner's defenders

Aboriginal Child Protection .pdf

Infant deaths sleep practices .pdf

Ministry child abuse report secret

2006 report identified problems

Clandestine battle waged for inquest

Foster child's mother wanted inquiry

Foster child complained

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

No one will lose job, face discipline

Foster care reforms in BC

Censored & uncensored .pdf

Chaos left killer to care for children

Fewer autopsies, inquests after 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 system

'Kith and kin' needs evaluating

BC Chief Coroner

BC Children and Youth review

Coroners Service child death review

BC native children dying at striking rate

Ministry breaks silence on slain tot

Ministry role 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

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 becoming a threat

Controversy follows accord

Canada, US, Mexico talks

Re-opening NAFTA

Oil gives Canada power

Impacting unimpaired

SPP could dwarf NAFTA

'North Americanist'

Regulatory jellybean counters

Harper could stop the North American Union

'NAFTA superhighway'

Officials held secretive meeting

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

Russian spy in Canada

Trading pipe dreams

TI: Bulgaria anti-corruption efforts

Gazprom RosUkrEnergo

Suspected Russian spy deported

'A gold mine' For Spy Agency

Paul William Hampel

Moscow unclear on identity

Sidewinder

Spy on the radar for awhile: Day

What was an Russian spy doing

Cover blown on spy networks

Sequel to old cloak-and-dagger story

I spy... a Russian

Feds allege suspect is 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

Death raises questions

OTTAWA - As the big yellow Cormorant rescue helicopter swooped in for landing, residents of the remote Arctic village of Igloolik were overjoyed knowing that two local hunters were onboard, safe after being plucked from icy, storm-tossed waters. (Toronto Star)

Soldier dies

Rescue death

Soldier dies in rescue mission

Arctic vessels must register

NORDREG

Canada in show of strength

Operation Nanook 09

Canada must fight for its north

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 relics

Arctic G5 vow

Danish's scoffs at Arctic claim

Military bases signal new Cold War

Race for Arctic seabed is on

PM starts fight for North

Canada to invest in North

Arctic boundaries .pdf

Arctic development agency

China in the Arctic

Arctic Council

Russia beefs up Arctic presence

Warning over Arctic agenda

Major Canadian Arctic operation

Arctic shipping routes opening up

Polar posturing

Promises aren't enough

Ottawa eyes Arctic co-operation

Diplomatic thaw at hand over Arctic

Who is winning the Arctic game

Russia aims to control Arctic

Research back Canada's Arctic claim

Arctic border hot spots

Bureaucracy threatens polar research

Northwest Passage gets name change

Canadian Rangers

Canadian Rangers Project

Harper to create new Northern Parks

Laying claim to 'internal' waters

Inukshuk standing on guard

Canada flexes its muscles over arctic

Canada sends navy to Arctic north

Wikipedia: Hans Island

Denmark calls for talks on Arctic island

Disputing boundaries

Russia launches bid for Arctic riches

Russian sub plants flag

Arctic

Front lines of northern strategy .pdf

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

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 related to economy

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 facing $40M repair bill

Tories cancel review of CMHC's role

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.

BC MP loses bid to get information

Complicity in leaky condo crisis

Pobric deported

CALGARY - A convicted killer living as a fugitive in Calgary has been deported back to Bosnia. Elvir Pobric was removed from Canada according to Canada Border Services Agency. (Calgary Herald)

Secret release and privacy rules

Killer's release sparks concern

Killer's secret hearing

Interpreter with Serbian name irks Bosnian killer

Killer traced to Grimsby

Murderer on the run

Another publication ban

Canada letting war criminals off

CBSA finally names wanted

Wanted by the CBSA

CBSA

32 more

Canada to oust foreign criminals

Welcome to Canada, enjoy your stay

Facial recognition software

Media may be used to nab criminals

Killer freed

Welcome to Canada

Secret hearing defies common sense

Border staff leaked memo

VANCOUVER - A Canada Border Services Agency investigation late last year found that 19 employees violated internal policies by distributing "confidential and sensitive" information about the bizarre case of a young Asian man who impersonated an elderly Caucasian on a flight from Hong Kong to Vancouver, documents obtained under access to information show. (Vancouver Sun)

Employees disciplined

Identity still uncertain

8 arrested

Raids lead to arrests

Refugee plot suspects arrested

Lawyer wants ban

Chinese media worry

There's no disguising this

Disguise fools security

Disguised man

Disguise probe

Admiration and concern

Marriage fraud

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has also begun a probe of possible organized criminal involvement in arranging marriages of convenience to attain status in Canada. (CBC)

Faking it

Adopt Canadian values

Millionaires want to come

Waiting list 1 million long

Hot commodity

Annual report 2009-2010

Canadian passport

Sponsors must repay money

2011 SCC 30

Revamp immigration

Invisible price tag of immigration

Reduce the welfare state

Asylum-seeker numbers fall

RCMP review immigration cases

Feds to revoke citizenships

Crack down on fleeing diplomats

Criminal convictions wanted

On the smugglers' trail Part 2

Part 3 Part 4

Ottawa to clamp down on 'trampolining'

Citizenship operational guideline

2009 refugees and stateless persons

List of countries by population

List of countries by GDP (PPP)

Refugee acceptance rates by country

Criminals escaping deportation

Immigration fraudsters battle detection

Immigration consultant fraud

Immigration scam

SISO closes door again

Illegal work experience doesn't count

Working illegally

Immigration employee arrested

Refugee claims

Marriages of convenience

Human smuggling bill endorsements

Aim to speed up refugee system

Foreigners behind scam '

Ghost' immigration consultants

Blue Blindfold UK Blue blindfold

Feds mulling new measures

Tamils want evidence

Whither the Sun Sea captain?

Politics decides who is a refugee

Migrants ordered released

More migrants to be released

'I feel great'

$800K in gold = 'stereotyping'

Flight instructor released

Man arrested at border

$1M seized at border

US deserter wins court victory

Let them in, they may have a lawyer

Rules for immigration consultants

Espionage behind break-in

Ottawa warned of Tamil influx

Human smuggling targeted

Tamil smugglers preparing

Immigration welfare state .pdf

Failure

Taking advantage of a nation

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

Smuggled migrant tells his story

Refugees go home

Rethink approach to migrant ships

Human smuggling glimpse

Potential security risk

Canada accepts the most

Waiting for a ship

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

Refugee Chain migration

Ship brought terrorists

CSIC RCMP investigating

Crackdown on consultants

Suspected case of citizenship fraud

Palestine House

’They want some certainty’

Gangster re-emerges

Somali-Canadians potential threat

Bogus asylum seekers

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

Lesbian US deserter's case

List of resisters who were deported

Canada and Iraq War Resisters

Gangster ordered out

Thousands of deported remain

Only about 42,000 missing

Canada's broken refugee system

Human mobility and development

Canada seen as global leader

Effects of Mass Immigration

Residency faked

People smugglers are watching

Tamil Tigers look to regroup

Terrorists on ship

Migrant security concerns

'Students' scamming their way in

Ottawa curbs bids asylum via the US

Exit strategy

Diplomatic storm erupts

Mexicans, Czechs now need visas

Canada toughens its visa demands

EU pressures Canada to scrap visa

Citizenship and immigration Canada

Dual citizen suing Canada for $27M

Abousfian Abdelrazik

Dual citizen

Case highlights what's wrong

Seeking sanctuary

House arrest Canada is committed

Threat of deportation

'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?

Not keeping track of illegal migrants

Deserter to be deported

20 years after deportation

First to be deported

Conflicting rulings

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 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

Mockery of refugee system

850,000 want to come to Canada

Canada among top nations

Migrant integration policy index

Limits on demands of immigrants

What's all the fuss?

Misgivings about dual citizenship

Asylum seekers rush the border

Immigrant 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 Be just like us

It's racism - in any language

Quebec tackle immigrants' rights

May 2008 - Immigration .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

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

'Abuse' of Lebanon contracts

Province to pay tab for asylum-seekers

Asylum levels 2008 .pdf

Commissioner challenges code

Part 1: Generation accommodation

Part 2: Religion

Part 3: Identities

Part 4: Mainstream blind to efforts

Part 5: Melting pot wins out

Three models of diversity: a primer

War of words about "nous"

Ottawa to fix citizenship snafu

Feet washing and video games

Canadians who aren't

Thousands stripped of citizenship

Canadian in passport only

Lost Canadians

Welcome to two-tier citizenship

Fraudster hitched a ride with Harper

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 dual citizens

Canadian by choice

Forces children face citizenship

Dual citizens should choose

Canadian evacuation from Lebanon

Australian approves citizenship laws

The real question: Is Canada a nation?

'Today we march, tomorrow we vote'

Foreign criminals escape deportation

Of criminals and CEO's

The difference between bold, creative visionaries and deluded psychopaths is not as big as it used to be. (Newsweek)

Candidate for the Couch

Is your boss a 'corporate psycho'?

What is a Psychopath?

Robert Hare's website

Tapping into the brains

Incompetent don't know they are

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.

India's census

India's population has grown by 181M people over the past decade to 1.21B, according to the 2011 census. India is on course to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2030, but its growth rate is falling, figures show. China has 1.3B people. Statistics show fewer girls than boys are being born or surviving. According to the 2011 census, 914 girls were born for every 1,000 boys under the age of six, compared with 927 for every 1,000 boys in the 2001 census. (BBC)

Aborted female fetuses increases

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