Question: What do you call a government that
1. refuses to defend the constitutional rights of a Canadian, imprisoned as a child and tortured by the Americans in Guantanamo Bay and refuses to repatriate another Canadian trapped in a kafkaesque nightmare in Sudan
2. refuses to allow war resisters to remain in Canada, despite two resolutions passed [...]

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Last month, I posted an Al Jazeera video shot in the aftermath of the March 22nd dawn raid on the town of Kunduz, Afghanistan, by troops believed to be U.S. Special Forces that left five Afghan men dead. The townspeople claimed the men were unconnected to the insurgency and that some were killed as they [...]

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On the weekend the Winnipeg Free Press was defending the use of information obtained through torture. Today it is formenting fear of immigrants as a major source of communicable diseases.
The editorial is designed to inspire fear and loathing of immigrants. The first half focuses on the case of Johnson Aziga, an HIV-positive immigrant from Uganda [...]

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According to the RCMP:
“Crime against humanity”- means murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, persecution or any other inhumane act that is committed against any civilian population or any identifiable group of persons that constitutes a contravention of customary or conventional international law or is criminal according to the general principles of law.
As long as war crimes and [...]

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By condoning the use of information obtained through torture, the editorial board of the Winnipeg Free Press is digging its own grave.
In “Tortured Information” an editorial writer for the Winnipeg Free Press declares: “. . . as long as one does not promote or condone torture, it would be grossly irresponsible for any security service, [...]

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Human rights advocate, and author of Dark Days, Kerry Pither, reports that “CSIS continues to believe that information obtained under torture can be useful, and will use it in certain situations.” Commenting on testimony given at the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security by CSIS lawyer Geoffrey O’Brian on March 31, 2009, she [...]

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