OTTAWA–A top-ranking RCMP officer has tearfully testified he was punished by his superiors in 2001 after denouncing as unethical the taking of free hockey tickets and rounds of golf from companies seeking contracts from the Mounties.
The testimony came yesterday during another dramatic day of hearings by the Commons public accounts committee, which also heard allegations [...]

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Attorney-General Wally Oppal said yesterday that he is puzzled by an appeal court decision to cut the nine-year manslaughter sentence handed to a native teenager for the gruesome death of a late-night gas station attendant.
In reducing the sentence by two years, the B.C. Court of Appeal cited the youth’s age, his troubled family background and [...]

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More than a year after their lives were thrown into turmoil by the native occupation of a housing development, 135 households in Caledonia will split $430,000 in aid from the province.
Municipal Affairs Minister John Gerretsen made the announcement yesterday, but the money falls short of the $2 million Haldimand County Mayor Marie Trainer has been [...]

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A national union is collecting names of past and present workers who may have been exposed to asbestos at the Halifax Shipyards, to ensure they are fairly compensated for any illnesses that can be linked to their time on the job.
For decades, asbestos was used on ships, primarily as insulation. The substance has been linked [...]

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A German Holocaust denier who regularly lavished praise on Adolf Hitler has been sentenced to five years in jail by a German court.
Ernst Zuendel was convicted of 14 counts of inciting racial hatred and for denying that the Nazis killed six million Jews during World War II.
He received the maximum sentence under German law which [...]

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A new type of search engine using facial recognition technology could soon be able to pinpoint images of a person among the billions of photos posted online—even if their name does not appear.
A Swedish company named Polar Rose plans to launch its service for facial searches tied to the photo-sharing site Flickr within a couple [...]

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A child can legally have three parents, Ontario’s highest court ruled in a landmark decision Tuesday.
In the so-called “two-mother” ruling, the Ontario Court of Appeal said the biological mother of a five-year-old boy and her same-sex partner can both be legally recognized as mothers of the child. The boy’s biological father is still recognized as [...]

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A small Christmas tree was ordered removed from a downtown Toronto courthouse by a Toronto Judge this week, who said a Christian symbol was not appropriate for non-Christians entering the building.
Justice Marion Cohen said non-Christians are “confronted” with the tree, which makes them feel “they are not part of this institution,” in a letter [...]

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[Will they ban abortion clubs?-ed]
Carleton University in Ottawa has become the second university in Canada to ban pro-life students from forming official campus clubs. A vote of the Carleton University Student Association (CUSA) late last night had 25 of the 32 members back the motion to ban the pro-life club Lifeline.
The motion read: [...]

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MORIAH, N.Y. — A Canadian trucker who admitted running down a deputy sheriff in northern New York last year has been sentenced to six months in jail.
Jacek Bujalski, 37, of Quebec pleaded guilty Oct. 3 to the misdemeanours of reckless driving and keeping a false logbook and the violations of driving on the shoulder of [...]

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It was a lonely time here in the capital for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada in the early days of the gay marriage debate in 2003.
Of the scattered conservative Christian groups opposed to extending marriage rights to same-sex couples, it was the only one with a full-time office in Ottawa to lobby politicians. “We were [...]

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Almost half of Canadians find anti-terrorism laws in the post-9/11 world intrusive, according to a new international Queen’s University survey.
Americans were even more concerned than Canadians about these new national security laws, with 57 per cent saying they were invading their privacy.

The Queen’s survey, published Monday, is believed to be the largest of its kind. [...]

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I interviewed Nick Griffin right after we came back from the pub, where we celebrated the his and Mark’s victory in court. The interview is quite short as Nick, his wife Jacky and their kids couldn’t wait to drive back to their home in wales.

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The outcome of the trail against the leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin, and his assistant, Mark Collett; was a great and maybe somewhat unexpected victory for free speech. The fact that the jury reached a not guilty verdict on all charges, for Nick Griffin and for Mark Collett, so quickly and unanimously can be [...]

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A looming court battle over Manitoba’s anti-smoking law will hinge on whether the province must treat white bar owners the same as their aboriginal counterparts, an issue that could have implications across the country.
The section of the law that exempted aboriginal reserves from the smoking ban was struck down in August by Justice Albert [...]

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[What about tourists too?-ed]
Immigrants should have the right to vote in municipal elections even if they haven’t yet become citizens, Mayor David Miller says.
“It’s time to allow landed immigrants to vote in municipal elections,” Miller told the Star’s editorial board in a question and answer session today.
“We allow people who don’t live in Toronto to [...]

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South Africa wants to know more about 137 South African women who attended last month’s AIDS conference in Toronto and have reportedly since claimed refugee status in Canada.
About 150 foreigners from various countries are believed to have stayed behind and filed refugee claims after attending the week-long event, which attracted more than 26,000 delegates from [...]

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[Must be very small web site as we all know blacks do not commit crime very much-ed]
Montreal police are investigating a website that lists the names, addresses and phone numbers of black people suspected of criminal behaviour.
Among the names on the site are those of the men charged in an alleged gang rape in north-end [...]

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Homosexual activists have denounced three Calgary based websites to the Alberta and Federal Human Rights Commissions, demanding that the sites which post information critical of homosexual behaviour be shut down.
Homosexual activists in Alberta have targeted these websites run by Craig Chandler, a Canadian conservative and talk-radio host. The sites contain postings of letters, calls for [...]

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After several failed attempts to set up shop in Canada, the Guardian Angels are trying once again — with dozens of volunteers set to begin walking Toronto’s streets within days.
Holly Weisflock is one of 75 people who will graduate in the city next week as members of the Guardian Angels — the controversial New York-based [...]

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