By Andy Worthington, Counterpunch Magazine, Jan. 19/20, 2008
How humiliating.
The story begins with the shameful case of Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian who was kidnapped by US agents as he changed planes in New York in 2002, and rendered to Syria, where he was tortured for a year on behalf of the Americans before being released. [...]

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Above Photo: Sgt Frank Hudec, Photographer, Canadian Forces Reserves Combat Camera Team
Above: Afghan children look on while Canadian soldiers patrol a village near Kabul.
Below: one of the thousands of victims of NATO operations.

The Manley commission is expected to release its report next week on Canada’s military future in Afghanistan. Parliament may vote as early as [...]

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The Pinky Show is a damned cute, hand-drawn educational TV show that focuses on information and ideas that have been misrepresented, distorted, suppressed, ignored, or otherwise excluded from mainstream discussion. The main character of the show, a cat named Pinky, presents and analyzes the material in an informal, easy-to-understand way.
Are these shows for children? They [...]

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Is Canada joining the Surveillance Societies of the world? Not yet, perhaps, but we are on the way.
Each year since 1997, the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center and the UK-based Privacy International have conducted a comprehensive survey of global privacy. The Privacy & Human Rights Report surveys developments in 70 countries, assessing the state of [...]

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