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'Canada's Economic Action Plan' signs painted in U.S.
A member of the B.C. legislature wants to know why the provincial government is paying a Washington state company to make road signs extolling Canadian stimulus spending.
The NDP's Katrine Conroy was so taken aback after seeing the signs in her Kootenay West riding she brought it up during question period in the legislature recently.
"They say 'Canada's Economic Action Plan'. Shouldn't it just be common sense that you'd spend the money bragging about this in B.C.," asked Conroy
Stop clawback of child benefits, P.E.I. urged
The P.E.I. government needs to stop clawing back the National Child Benefit from families on social assistance, the National Council of Welfare says.
'We do feel we reach a great many families through our programs.'— Bob Creed, provincial director of social programs
The council, an arms-length advisory group for the federal minister of human resources, notes P.E.I. is now in a minority among the provinces in clawing back the federal benefit. On the Island the money counts as income and is deducted from what a family receives from the province.
"That just traps people further into poverty," council chair John Rook told CBC News this week.
Harper promotes India trade
Prime Minister Stephen Harper pitched Canada as a potential sales partner to business leaders in India on Monday, the first day of his whirlwind three-day tour of the South Asian economic powerhouse.
Harper told an audience of Indian business investors at a hotel in Mumbai that the combined GDP of the two countries is on its way to $4 trillion, and yet two-way trade is just $5 billion.
That represents a lot of untapped business potential, he said.
Harper's efforts to strengthen economic ties with India are a recognition of India's rising importance as one of the world's fast-growing economies.
"The South Asian tiger has awoken and the world is standing in awe," he told the business leaders.
Tourism is one area of the Canadian economy Harper is hoping India can give a boost to, and on Monday he said the Canadian Tourism Commission would launch a campaign to attract more Indian travellers to Canada. To promote the campaign, Harper met with Indian Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, whom Harper announced would carry the Olympic relay torch in Toronto on Dec. 17.
On another area of economic interest, Canada's nuclear industry, the prime minister was scheduled to meet with Indian leaders in New Dehli on Tuesday for a round of talks on nuclear co-operation.
The two sides are expected to discuss a proposed civil nuclear agreement that would pave the way for Canada to sell nuclear technology to India. Nuclear trade between the two countries has been stalled since 1974, when India tested its first atomic weapon with the unauthorized help of Canadian nuclear technology.
Khadr to face U.S. military commission
A U.S. military commission will resume hearing the case against Omar Khadr, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday, the same day the Supreme Court of Canada heard a federal government appeal in his case.Khadr's civilian lawyer, Barry Coburn, said the U.S. government's decision to proceed with Khadr's case in a military commission was "devastating and shocking" and that he had expected more from the Obama administration.
"We thought that the incoming Obama administration signalled a new day with respect to these cases, a new respect for civil liberties, an abhorrence of torture, a respect for the time-honoured legal procedures and protections that are mandated by the constitution and enforced by the federal courts," he said.
( You thought wrong. Obama is no different. )
Toronto-born Khadr was captured by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was 15, and has been held at Guantanamo for seven years. The U.S. accuses him of throwing the grenade that killed Sgt. Christopher Speer, a medic with the U.S. army, but leaked documents have called into question the Pentagon's murder case against Khadr.
Rights breached, court rules
In a 2-1 judgment in August, the Federal Appeal Court agreed with a Federal Court judge's ruling that Khadr's rights under Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms — the rights to life, liberty and security of person — had been breached when Canadian officials interviewed him at the prison in Guantanamo in 2003 and shared the resulting information with U.S. authorities.
Street named for WW II spy hero
A Winnipeg street has been renamed for a local man who became a legendary Second World War spy known as Intrepid — an inspiration for the fictional spook James Bond.
Water Avenue, which links Main Street to the Provencher Bridge, was officially renamed William Stephenson Way on Sunday.
"Finally, there is some tangible recognition for him in a noteworthy place in Winnipeg," said Kristin Stefansson, a distant cousin of Stephenson.
"The fact it's going to be by the Human Rights Museum is another thing that I think is really important, because he did end up helping with causes of freedom around the world."
The renaming ceremony was held Sunday afternoon at the intersection of Water and Main. Deputy mayor Justin Swandel, who officiated the event, was joined by Stefansson as well as representatives from the Canadian Forces, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the U.S.
army and Winnipeg's Intrepid Society.
As a Canadian soldier, airman and spymaster, Stephenson became the senior representative of British intelligence for the Western Hemisphere during the Second World War.
The telegraphic address of his office was INTREPID, which was later popularized as his code name.
His organization's activities ranged from censoring transatlantic mail, breaking letter codes (which exposed at least one German spy in the United States), forging diplomatic documents, obtaining military codes, protecting against sabotage of Allied factories and training Allied agents, according to the Intrepid Society, a group dedicated to honouring and sustaining Stephenson's memory.
EU turns down Palestinian recognition plan
Elena Milashina
The danger in being a journalist in Russia today
Elena Milashina is a leading investigative journalist at Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's few remaining independent, outspoken newspapers.
A small, Moscow-based paper, Novaya Gazeta is famous for its alarming number of murdered journalists.
Over nine years, five people have been killed, among them the internationally recognized Anna Politkovskaya. She was gunned down in 2006 in the elevator in her apartment building while investigating atrocities committed in Chechnya by Russian forces.
More recently, in July of this year, another colleague, Natalya Estemirova, was abducted from her home in Grozny, Chechnya, and murdered.
She, too, was collecting information on extrajudicial executions and torture by pro-Russian forces in Chechnya.
Milashina, 32, has now taken up the work of Politkovskaya and Estemirova, venturing into the dangerous topic of Chechnya, Russia's separatist-minded republic.
She first joined the newspaper at 19 in 1996 during the heady days of press freedom under the late Boris Yeltsin.
Milashina was in Toronto last week where she was being honoured by Human Rights Watch as one of four recipients of the Alison Des Forges award for extraordinary activism.
While here, she spoke with CBC producer Jennifer Clibbon.
Right now we can't even criticize freedom of the press in Russia because we don't have it.
Most people in Russia get their information from television and it is totally controlled by the government.
This year, over the past ten months, six human rights activists, journalists and opposition politicians were murdered. They were all critics of the Russian government [and killed] for being brave enough to talk openly.
The Canadian and U.S. government can help us by opening their eyes to what's happening in Russia. Human rights abuses have increased this year. Many people have been killed and nobody is punished.
If you are brave enough to talk or write openly, you will be a target.
Afghanistan announces corruption crackdown
President Hamid Karzai has appointed many people to the panel who were involved in the recent election that has been accused of wide-spread corruption, including ballot box stuffing.
“So it really is something of an open question to see how uncorrupt a corruption panel could be when there are some of the people who are part of the government that is now considered to be corrupt,” CBC's James Murray said, reporting from Kandahar.
The announcement comes as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned on Sunday that Afghanistan won't get any more civilian aid from the United States unless it does more to tackle corruption and goes after those suspected of looting aid in the past.
( 'Civilian Aid'. Apparently weapons supply will be unaffected. Human suffering will not be alleviated. You'd think that was regarded as counterproductive ! )
Stephenson was also a radio pioneer who helped develop a way of transmitting photographs around the world. But it was his espionage work that garnered the most fame. Some suggest his covert operations in the Second World War were a decisive factor in the Allied victory.
Author Ian Fleming has credited Stephenson as being an inspiration for James Bond.
In an interview with the Times newspaper in 1962, Fleming said: "James Bond is a highly romanticized version of a true spy. The real thing is … William Stephenson."
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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