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Slain
RCMP officer’s dog Danny to be teamed with new handler
THE
CANADIAN PRESS
Published
June 11, 2014 - 4:42pm
Last
Updated June 12, 2014 - 7:56am
MONCTON,
N.B. — Danny, the RCMP police dog whose partner was killed in last week’s
shooting rampage in New Brunswick, will eventually be teamed up with another
handler.
The
Mounties say once a new partner is chosen, Danny will spend time bonding with
that officer before returning to his alma mater, the RCMP Police Dog Service Training
Centre in Innisfail, Alta., for a three-week test.
The
RCMP say they’ve received many inquiries from the media and members of the
public about Danny’s future following the death of Const. Dave Ross.
Ross
and his two of his colleagues, constables Fabrice Gevaudan and Douglas Larche,
were shot dead in north-end Moncton on June 4.
A
Canadian Press photo of Danny standing on his hind legs and sniffing Ross’s
Stetson during Tuesday’s funeral procession has been shared on Twitter dozens
of times.
The
RCMP say Danny and Ross were on the job together for less than a year before
the shootings.
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- THE ARCTIC IS CANADA'S LAND- FIRST PEOPLES 10,000 YEARS
Atlas
shows traditional Inuit trail network
By
Bob Weber — CP — Jun 12 2014Share on twitterShare on google_plusone_shareShare
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The
Canadian Arctic is often called the trackless tundra. New research proves it is
anything but.
Fraser
Taylor of Carleton University is a co-author of a new atlas that documents
hundreds of traditional Inuit place names and thousands of kilometres of routes
through the sea ice, coastlines and vast expanses of the Canadian North from
Lake Winnipeg to the tip of Ellesmere Island.
The
atlas, released this week after more than 15 years of work, combines interviews
with dozens of elders as well as explorer and trader accounts to trace the
trails, some hundreds of years old and many still in regular use.
The
result, says Taylor, redefines our understanding of Inuit culture and firms up
a plank in Canada's case for sovereignty over the Northwest Passage.
"Inuit
occupancy and Inuit use of those sea routes is a clear example of 'use it or
lose it,' " said Taylor, referring to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's
working definition of Arctic sovereignty.
"We
show that this is very much Canadian territory, both in land terms and in sea
terms."
The
atlas is a joint project of Carleton's Cartographic Research Centre, the Marine
Affairs Program at Halifax's Dalhousie University, and the geography department
at Cambridge University.
Researchers
spent weeks and months in Arctic communities, earning over the course of years
the trust of local elders. In some cases, communities came to them asking for
help in documenting local knowledge.
"We
start from a philosophy of building from the bottom up, not from the top
down," Taylor said.
"We're
not outside researchers coming in to exploit the Inuit. We literally and
metaphorically give voice to local people."
Each
trail and place name, said Taylor, represents a story.
"The
journey is a story of what happened, who you met, who you saw, what kinds of
things happened to you on that route. And every story is different, even though
they're moving along the same route.
"These
geo-narratives are vitally important in understanding the richness of that
journey."
The
extent of the web of routes and the depth of those combined stories present a
very different view of traditional Inuit culture, Taylor said.
"It
should change the idea of the Inuit of an isolated group of people living in
small hamlets by the side of the frozen sea into a thriving community which has
moved and evolved and interacted over the course of time. It's confirming what
the Inuit have been telling us for generations and we haven't really listened."
The
trails were used for trading, following game, and just keeping in touch, Taylor
said.
"You
name it, they're exchanging it — material goods, stories, myths."
The
atlas, released Wednesday, is already getting rave reviews from aboriginals and
academics alike.
"The
importance of doing the work that you have done is monumental is so many
ways," Inupiat whaler and archeologist Qaiyaan Harcharek from Barrow,
Alaska, wrote to Taylor.
The
atlas focuses on the eastern Arctic. Taylor said more research is needed in
Arctic Quebec, Labrador and the far west.
In
some areas, Inuit place names extend from the land onto the sea ice, research
that could bolster Canada's claims to the Northwest Passage.
The
International Court of Justice has ruled that indigenous people do have some
legal rights over areas they traditionally occupy.
"Canada
would have to persuade other states or an international court or tribunal that
sea ice can be subject to occupancy and appropriation like land,"
international law expert Michael Byers has written.
Taylor
said the atlas does just that.
"This
occupancy is not only recent, it's been going on for generations. And it
extends much further than we previously thought.
"(Inuit)
discovered the Northwest Passage before we even thought of it."
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STEPHENSON:
Salute to three fallen heroes and to the city of Moncton
MARILLA
STEPHENSON
Published
June 10, 2014 - 7:14pm
Last
Updated June 11, 2014 - 8:54am
RCMP
officers carry a casket at the regimental funeral for three Mounties who were
killed in Moncton last week. The service was held at the Moncton Coliseum.
(ANDREW VAUGHAN / The Canadian Press)
.
Through
a sea of red serge and an ocean of tears, Canadians marked a day of profound
sadness as tribute was paid to three fallen officers of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police.
The
massive regimental funeral at the Moncton Coliseum for the three constables
murdered last week drew more than 7,000 police officers from across the
continent. Hundreds of citizens gathered at 10 other sites across Moncton where
the service was broadcast.
It
was a somber affair, marked by grief and sadness. But there were moments of
hope and humour in the three individual services for Const. Doug Larche, Const.
Dave Ross and Const. Fabrice Gevaudan, and wonderful tributes to three lives
cut short but lived exceptionally well.
The
funeral certainly captured not only the committed service the three officers
gave to the federal police force but also offered personal glimpses of their
lives as husbands, fathers and friends.
“We
will always remember these heroes,” RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson told the
mourners. “They sacrificed their lives so that others can be safe.”
Devotion
to their families and service to their communities was a recurring theme. All
three men were lauded as heroes for their commitments to the safety of the
people in their care — never more so than on the day they died.
The
three constables from the Codiac detachment of the RCMP were killed Wednesday
night after reports of an armed man roaming the streets. Two other officers
were wounded in the shootings, leading to a manhunt that involved 300 police
officers and had the city in lockdown for 30 hours.
Early
Friday, Justin Bourque was arrested and charged that afternoon with three
counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder.
Prime
Minister Stephen Harper, in a strong speech that captured the mixed sentiments
of the day, said it was “a time of searing grief” for the community and the
country.
“Together
we struggle for answers. We ask, ‘What in God’s name happened here, and why?’
We may never know.
“When
we search for reason and meaning in actions so intrinsically vile and
senseless, we search in unlikely places.”
Larche’s
eulogy was delivered by his brother, Daniel, a master seaman in the Armed
Forces.
“Doug
was many things to many people,” said Daniel Larche, “and to those who knew
him, he was exactly who you needed him to be, precisely when you needed him to
be that way.
“He
was selfless in every aspect of his life, and he always put others before
himself, even in death.”
Adrian
Van Der Ploeg of Centreville is the brother-in-law of Ross.
Van
Der Ploeg described how Ross was constantly on the lookout during his off-duty
hours for people in need of assistance. He recounted a long trip to Ross’s
hometown in Victoriaville, Que., during a snowstorm, when the constable stopped
to check on the travellers in every car sidelined on the highway. The trip
would normally take eight hours, “but in a snowstorm with Dave, this journey
could take all week.”
Geoffrey
McLatchie, spiritual adviser to Gevaudan, said the officer lived “a
heart-centred life, a life where love is the main ingredient.”
McLatchie
said Gevaudan, a member of the detachment’s diving unit, explained that diving
needed a special concentration.
“He
told me it was vital to focus in on the ‘now’ and not to get distracted from
the task at hand. Fabrice totally understood living in the now because he did
that in every aspect of his life.”
Moncton
is a city that will be transformed by tragedy, yet again, in the wake of the
RCMP murders. They occurred four decades after two Moncton police officers were
murdered, and brought back painful memories for many.
But
the city also rallied to fight back against this senseless tragedy,
demonstrating for all Canadians how respect should be paid to those who protect
them.
Harper
put it very well when he commended Monctonians not only for their determined
response in the face of the shootings but also for their tremendous show of
respect for the RCMP.
“The
murder of those sworn to uphold the law, those who don their uniforms day in
and day out to keep us safe, is an attack not only on them but upon all of us …
upon our very society itself,” said the prime minister.
The
funeral service brings to an end a tragic week in Moncton’s history. But
through all the tears and sadness, Monctonians should be tremendously proud of
how they have stood together, united, through this time of heart-wrenching
grief.
comment:
RESPECT!
COMMENT:
Bear • 2 hours ago
I
believe that good can come from bad things happening. We take our police
officers for granted. They are constantly bashed as being "Power
Hungry" or abusive. Are their bad cops? Of course there are. There are bad
people in every profession from ditch diggers to Doctors. However at the end of
the day these officers put their lives on the line to protect us. The same
people who ridicule police officers would be the first to call them screaming
for help when they are being threatened. These men gave their lives without a
thought as to the danger. Constable Ross was enjoying a BBQ at home with his
family when he got the call and rushed out. They have all left behind friends
and family. The next time you want to cop bash I suggest that you look back at
this horrific event and remember their sacrifices. R.I.P.
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Blatchford:
Deaths in the police family — and in ours
For
45 minutes, the people of Moncton applauded the police before funerals of
Mounties Dave Ross, Doug Larche and Fabrice Gevaudan
By
Christie Blatchford, Postmedia News
MONCTON,
N.B. — That’s the deal, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper put it in fierce
remarks at the regimental funeral for three Mounties slain last week in the
line of duty.
“That
is the understanding between us: their service, and our support.”
With
those last few words did he capture the essence of one of the world’s great
democratic bargains — the people allow police officers to carry firearms and
even to use lethal force to protect them, so long as they do it lawfully, and
in exchange, the people agree to have the officers’ backs.
If
it works imperfectly, it works pretty damn well most of the time, but rarely
has the bargain been so tested at both ends as it has been the past six days in
this city of about 70,000.
And
rarely has it ended like it did here Tuesday, with thousands of police from
across Canada and the United States — at least 1,300 of them Mounties in red
serge and Stetsons — marching in honour of their fallen comrades, while lining
the road on both sides were citizens, the majority of them wearing red too.
Later,
when the Mounties — and officers from dozens of towns and cities — entered the
Moncton Coliseum for the service, the people got to their feet and clapped.
They stayed that way for at least 45 minutes, the soft clapping lasting until
the last of the visiting officers found their seats.
Last
Wednesday evening, the three RCMP officers — constables Doug Larche, Dave Ross
and Fabrice Gevaudan, respectively 40, 32 and 45 — were gunned down after
responding to 911 calls from the public about a heavily-armed man dressed in
camouflage, walking brazenly in a residential area in the city’s north end.
Arrested at gunpoint by an Emergency Response Team in the wee hours of Friday,
but not until area residents had been under lockdown for 30 hours, was Justin
Christien Bourque.
The
24-year-old was later charged with three counts of first-degree murder, and two
of attempted murder in the wounding of constables Eric Dubois and Darlene
Goguen, both of whom are expected to recover fully.
Bourque’s
name wasn’t mentioned once in the two-hour service, echoing the sentiments of
many here that publicity given to one alleged mass shooter may help spawn the
next.
“I
do not say his name,” Lee Gervasi, who watched the solemn funeral processional
of along Millennium Boulevard, said firmly. She was there with her 21-year-old
son Corbin and a colleague from the call centre where she works, all of them
wearing red.
Gervasi
said if she’s reading a newspaper about the shooting and sees Bourque’s name,
or is talking about the events of that night, she refers to him as “it.’’
The
funeral mixed Mountie regimental tradition — pipers, a stirring call to “To
your colleagues, salute!” as three flag-draped caskets were carried in and from
Assistant RCMP Commissioner Roger Brown, a choked and teary sendoff to the
three men, “To your post, dismissed!” — with warm personal stories and a modern
melange of religions and spirituality.
Within
the service-for-three, there was one conventional funeral (for Larche, which
featured cursory remarks from a chaplain, a furious, brilliant eulogy from his
older brother, Daniel, and a Reba McEntire song); one deeply religious one (for
Ross, which had three pastors speaking for the 32-year-old who met his wife
Rachael in a Bible study class); and one New
Age-y-service-cum-smudging-ceremony (for Gevaudan, whose spiritual adviser
waxed eloquent about the “heart-centred” man who had moved from “the Earth
plane to the spirit plane”).
The
three men, all from the RCMP’s Codiac detachment headquartered in downtown
Moncton, were clearly dramatically different. As a thoughtful colleague
remarked, “They didn’t have a lot in common, did they, yet they worked for a
common good.”
Assistant
Commissioner Brown, the CO for the RCMP in New Brunswick, put it another way:
Having devoted their lives to something larger than themselves, their lives
were so much richer.
Ross,
one of two dog handlers at the Codiac detachment, raced from his home in such
haste on the night of the shootings that he left the barbecue lid up and his
garage door open. He loved animals, and one of the first questions he asked his
wife-to-be when they met was, “Do you like dogs?”
In
a eulogy written by his wife and read by her brother, Adrian VanderPloeg, Ross
was called joyous, “an honest and happy man.” Apparently, he had a personal
rule about never passing someone who might be in trouble, and admirable as that
might be, VanderPloeg said, on one occasion it meant that a normal eight-hour
drive in a snowstorm went on for an eternity, with the young officer stopping
to check in with the occupants of every vehicle they passed.
Larche,
said his brother Daniel, a master seaman in the Royal Canadian Navy, was always
“exactly who you needed him to be, precisely when you needed him to be that
way.” It must be a Larche family definition: Their father, Dan, is a retired
Mountie himself. That Wednesday, when Larche was needed by the citizens of his
city and his colleagues, he was working plainclothes, but heard the call and
ran to danger.
As
for Gevaudan, he came to Canada as an immigrant from France and found a
country, a woman, Angela, and her little girl to love. From his diving — he was
an RCMP diver — he took the lesson that “it’s vital to focus on the now and not
get distracted,” his adviser Geoffrey McLatchie said.
The
coliseum is Moncton’s hockey rink, where the Wildcats play, and the doors are
posted with signs warning, “No airhorns permitted.” On Tuesday there was
everything but — the pipes, the violin, a choir, a piano and song. There was a
lament and the Last Post. There were bereaved little Larche girls, clutching
Mountie dolls, and somewhere, a baby wailing; there almost always is at a
funeral.
There
was even a dog, Ross’s glorious, tail-up German shepherd, Danny. With a new
handler, he marched behind his master’s hearse, stood by his casket at the
front of the big rink, and waited with the honour guard for the final goodbye.
Sgt.
Eric Bunday came from Hillsboro Police Department, a small force just west of
Portland, Oregon. In 2011, he lost his mentor, Ralph Painter, in the line of
duty. Painter was chief of the tiny Rainier, Oregon, force at the time. In a
struggle, a suspect disarmed him and shot him with his own gun.
As
it happens, Bunday had just taken over as the line-of-duty-death co-ordinator
for the state. His first death was that of Painter, his great friend. “I carry
it with me every day,” he said.
He
paid his way across the continent to Moncton.
These
were police deaths, after all; deaths in his family, but also in ours.
Postmedia
News
cblatchford@postmedia.com
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Moncton
service honours RCMP officers killed in shooting spree
COMMENT:
Paulie
It's
unfortunate that narrow minded ill informed people like you exist. Luckily you
live in a country with freedom of speech which allows you to form, hold, and
share whatever beliefs you hold (regardless of whether they are extremely
misguided and show your lack of understanding what leadership is and how to
exhibit it). Did Justin Trudeau need to be there? No, but he showed up. And no
one seems to be hurling any stones in his direction. Harper didn't try and
claim to have been friends with the officers (like some people seem to be
trying to do), he didn't try and highlight any gun control legislation the
Conservatives are involved with, there was no angle whatsoever. He expressed
the outrage we all should be feeling about this senseless act. He wasn't a conservative
yesterday, he was the elected leader of Canada (regardless of whether YOU voted
for him or not, though evidently enough people did vote for him and he's the
Prime Minister). For him to clear his schedule and show up to speak as
eloquently as he did helped emphasize that this was a significant event, and
that we should never become so complacent that this type of an incident become
normal or routine in Canada. Vote as you see fit, but perhaps next time you
might think before making such an ill advised statement.
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This
may be hard for Canadians to understand, but Stephen Harper has become a guru
of sorts.
He
has always had an air of mystery, to be sure. But here at home, even the
average Conservative has ceased to believe that it shrouds a preternatural
strategic genius.
From
afar, apparently, he looks quite different. Nearly nine years in office have
given him a shimmering glow to conservatives around the world; this week,
Australia’s newly-minted conservative prime minister, Tony Abbott, came to bask
in it.
Abbott
has called Harper an “exemplar” and a “beacon for centre-right parties around
the world”.
There
was a time when Harper sat at the feet of an earlier Australian prime minister,
John Howard. Many of the Conservative party’s tactics under Harper — including
its narrowly-aimed tax cuts designed to pry middle-class and working-class
Canadians from the Liberal party — were borrowed from Howard. Harper was even
caught plagiarizing a speech from Howard — word-for word, in some passages.
So
who, then, is Tony Abbott, who now looks to Stephen Harper for wisdom?
The
man is no dummy. He is a Rhodes scholar and studied for the Catholic priesthood
for a time. He still has an almost Chrétien-like propensity for verbal gaffes —
referring briefly to “Canadia” before correcting himself when he landed in
Ottawa this week.
More
important is how deeply conservative he is.
Just
a few years ago, he remarked that the “idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right
to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand —
I think they both need to be moderated.”
He
famously denounced the carbon tax imposed by his Labor predecessor Julia
Gillard in front of signs with slogans such as “Ditch the Bitch”.
Abbott
is joining Harper in forming a cabal of nations trying to slow efforts to
contain emissions. As chairman of the G-20 meeting slated for November in
Brisbane, Abbott is resolute in keeping climate change off the agenda.
Which
brings us to the true matter of concern for Canadians. More than anything,
Abbott admires Harper because he sees him as a world leader in the fight
against doing anything meaningful to contain global warming.
Like
Harper, at one time Abbott was close to being an outright climate change
denier. “The argument (behind climate change) is absolute crap,” he once
remarked.
Nowadays,
Abbott, like Harper, could best be described as a “skeptic”. He acknowledges
that climate change is occurring but doubts the role that carbon emissions play
in it. He got into a scrap with a UN climate change official and Australia’s
own Climate Council over the possible link between climate change and his
country’s unusually severe wildfires last October.
(Abbott
took a page out of Harper’s book by abolishing the state-funded Climate
Council, whose mission is to provide independent scientific information; it has
carried on with private funding.)
Like
Canada, whose economic dependence on dirty tar sands oil has grown under
Harper, Australia has an emissions problem. In fact, Abbott seems bent on
increasing the growth of his country’s coal industry, which is closely linked
to China’s economic expansion.
That’s
why Abbott is joining Harper in forming a cabal of nations trying to slow
efforts to contain emissions. He is trying to repeal the carbon tax imposed by
Gillard. And he has been an outspoken critic of President Obama’s recent
climate-change initiative.
As
chairman of the G-20 meeting slated for November in Brisbane, Abbott is
resolute in keeping climate change off the agenda.
After
meeting with Abbott, Harper remarked: “No matter what they say, no country is
going to take actions that are going to deliberately destroy jobs and growth in
their country.”
In
other words, anyone saying they will take real measures to combat climate
change is a hypocrite. No wonder Abbott admires Harper so.
I
hesitate to finish with a cheap shot. But in this context, I can’t resist
repeating one of Abbott’s most famous verbal gaffes.
“No
one,” he once said, “however smart, however well educated, however experienced,
is the suppository of all wisdom.”
Deep
thoughts for would-be gurus.
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Paul Adams on Twitter @padams29
Paul
Adams is associate professor of journalism at Carleton and has taught political
science at the University of Manitoba. He is a veteran of the CBC, the Globe
and Mail and EKOS Research. His book Power Trap explores the dilemma of
Canada’s opposition parties.
The
views, opinions and positions expressed by all iPolitics columnists and
contributors are the author’s alone. They do not inherently or expressly
reflect the views, opinions and/or positions of iPolitics.
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Media
Advisory - Minister of Justice to Speak at National Human Rights Conference
Canada
NewsWire
OTTAWA,
June 9, 2014
OTTAWA,
June 9, 2014 /CNW/ - The Hon. Peter
MacKay, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, will address the
country's leading human rights conference on the morning of Thursday, June 12.
Entitled
CASHRA 2014 - Accommodation Works! - Toward a more Inclusive Society, the
conference begins on June 11 with a keynote address from Canadian athlete and
human rights champion Mark Tewksbury.
CASHRA
2014 - Accommodation Works! - Toward a more Inclusive Society brings together
human rights commissions from across the country, as well as employers, civil
society organizations and others interested in contemporary human rights
issues.
The
event will feature thought-provoking discussion on key human rights issues, as
well as latest developments in international, federal and provincial human
rights law.
Media
wishing to cover this or any other portion of the event are advised to register
in advance by calling 613-943-9118, by emailing communications@chrc-ccdp.gc.ca,
or by self-identifying on arrival at the registration desk.
Where: Victoria Room, John G. Diefenbaker Building,
111 Sussex Dr., Ottawa
What:
Minister of Justice addresses national human rights conference
When:
Thursday, June 12, 11:45 AM EDT
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For
many years, we were the only Allied nation in the world without a Holocaust
monument in the capital. This sorry state of affairs was particularly peculiar,
given the number of Holocaust survivors in the country – after the war, Canada
took in the most survivors worldwide outside of Israel.
Government
has finally righted a historical wrong Monday, June 9, 2014
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Prostitution
bill responds to harm of sex trade, Harper says
Mark Kennedy More from Mark Kennedy
Published
on: June 9, 2014Last Updated: June 9, 2014 4:26 PM EDT
Prime
Minister Stephen Harper defended his government’s proposed prostitution
legislation on Monday, saying it responds to a “fundamental truth” that the sex
trade is “bad” for women and Canadian society.
Harper
told a news conference that the bill, unveiled last week while he was in
Europe, is reflective of what Canadians want.
“We
have consulted very widely on the legislation that is before Parliament,” said
the prime minister. “I think the evidence is that it’s very widely supported by
Canadians. In particular, as you know, we will continue to clearly criminalize
the activities of pimps and johns.”
Harper
was asked why he believes decriminalizing or legalizing prostitution is the
wrong approach for Canada. He said the legalization of such activities “is
unacceptable to Canadians and unacceptable to our government.
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Munsch
books translated into Mi'kmaq
Munsch
books translated into Mi'kmaq
Updated
on June 09, 2014 - SYDNEY — Emily Bernard believes getting children to speak
and read in Mi’kmaq at an early age will translate into them being confident
speakers of the language when they are older.
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Report:
Sex crimes increased at US colleges, universities even as overall crime
declined
00:03
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universities went up in the last decade even as overall campus crime decreased,
according to an Education Department survey that also suggests high schools are
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GOD
STEPPING UP 4 AFGHAN PEOPLES 5 militants blown up by own explosives in Helmand
Khaama
Press 08:12 Sun, 08 Jun 2014
5
militants blown up by own explosives in Helmand
Khaama
Press 08:12 Sun, 08 Jun 2014
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The
ISI’s Great Game in Afghanistan
Irrespective
of the election outcome, Pakistan will remain deeply involved in Afghanistan.
By
Omer Aziz
June
08, 2014
On
the evening of March 20, two teenagers entered the buffet area of the luxurious
Serena Hotel in Kabul. The well-guarded establishment was a popular meeting
place for politicians, diplomats, and journalists; a kind of refuge away from
the danger constantly present in Kabul. Like the many guests assembled at the
Serena this night, the two young men told security officials that they were
visiting the hotel for dinner to celebrate the Afghan New Year. As guests
filled their plates and live music echoed throughout the hall, the men entered
the dining area and began wildly shooting, killing nine people before being
killed by security. Among the dead were the noted Afghan journalist Sardar
Ahmad, who was killed with this wife and two daughters, and Luis Maria Darte, a
longtime Paraguyan diplomat and election observer.
Two
days later, Afghan President Hamid Karzai released a statement saying the
terrorist attack had been conducted “by an intelligence service outside this
country.” Which entity did he have in mind? If there was any doubt, Karzai
quickly put it to rest the following week in an interview he gave with an
Indian television channel, when he said that terrorism was “nurtured” and
“supported” in Pakistan, where the militants had their “ideological roots.”
For
four decades, Pakistan’s spy-generals have played Afghanistan like a powerful
chip in a consequential game of poker. They know the important local militants,
have open channels to their favorite groups, and regularly play various groups
against the Western coalition. The twin justifications for the aggressive
intervention in Afghan affairs are India and American withdrawal. Since
Pakistan’s humiliating dissection at Indian and nascent Bangladeshi hands in
1971, Islamabad’s doctrine vis-à-vis Afghanistan has been known as strategic
depth. For the ISI, Afghanistan is to be a safety net should the delusional
prediction that India will invade a weaker Pakistan actually come true.
A
widespread view in Pakistan’s elite circles is that the U.S. will soon withdraw
and leave the Afghan problem at Pakistan’s doorstep. I have been hearing a
variant of this view for five years now. With U.S. President Barack Obama’s
decision to leave 9,800 troops in Afghanistan through the end of 2014 and
potentially leave zero troops after two years, it is apparent now that this
view has not been unfounded. But Pakistan has wanted a vacuum in Afghanistan
all along. A despoiled, anarchic vestige of a state to its east means that
Pakistan can virtually control the territory, as it did through its various
puppets in the 1980s and 1990s.
During
the Soviet-Afghan War – during which American arms were shipped into
Afghanistan through the ISI – Pakistani spymasters channeled funds and arms
into the hands of their favorite militant groups, often the most retrogressive
and extremist of the Mujahedeen. Leaders of some of these groups studied in
Pakistani madrassas, a wellspring of indoctrination and militant thinking. By
one estimate, the number of madrassas in Pakistan feeding the jihadists surged
from 900 in 1971 to 32,000 in 1988. The ISI’s strategy at the time – and which
remains its strategy today – can be summed up by what Pakistani dictator Zia
ul-Haq told one of his generals: “Afghanistan must be made to boil at the right
temperature.”
In
the intervening period, Afghanistan has done more than boil. It has been flayed
and seared by selfish American short-termism and poisonous, neocolonial
Pakistani long-termism. As is well known, the Afghan Taliban were themselves a
creation of the ISI, and a de facto proxy by the time they took over Kabul in 1996.
In 1999, Benazir Bhutto’s minister of interior, Nasrullah Babar admitted it
quite explicitly, pronouncing, “We created the Taliban.”
Today,
the “Talban” are a hodgepodge of militant outfits, though the central
leadership of the Afghan Taliban is thought to be in Quetta, Pakistan. For the
ISI, there may be a chickens coming home to roost moment, as Pakistan faces a
brutal insurgency within its own borders that has adopted the Taliban name but
is in many ways far more rejectionist and hostile to the governing authorities.
To give just one example, the Afghan Taliban support polio vaccination while
the Pakistani Taliban vow to kill anyone offering such treatments. The ISI’s
game of prolonging the post-9/11 insurgency in Afghanistan long enough for the tired
American leviathan to pack up and go home – and for Pakistan to move in more
forcefully – is the direct cause of this terrorist surge, which has taken over
50,000 lives. There are now three separate but interrelated insurgencies eating
at the Pakistani state like overfed parasites: the sectarian Sunni jihad
against Pakistan’s Shia population, the Balochi insurgency, and the gangsterism
and religious extremism destroying Karachi. When exporting militancy is a
state’s central foreign policy tool, it does not take long for the pawns to
turn their guns on their masters.
According
to a number of reports, the ISI – sometimes called a state within a state –
operates a highly secretive, off-the-record “S Wing” that is used to support
the various militant groups that have been central to Pakistani foreign policy.
A report leaked in 2006 by the British Defense Ministry stated, “Indirectly
Pakistan (through the ISI) has been supporting terrorism and extremism.” The
report went so far as to link the ISI to the 2005 London bombings, in addition
to the various insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan. A 2012 NATO study based on
27,000 interrogations of 4,000 captured Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters concluded
that the ISI provided safe havens to the Taliban, monitored their movements,
manipulated their fighters, and arrested those thought uncooperative.
Behind
all this lies India, which had been an ardent supporter of the Northern
Alliance and today has an active presence in Afghanistan. The threat of Indian
encirclement of Pakistan via Afghanistan seems widely overblown. There are
fewer than 3,600 Indians in Afghanistan – most of them businessmen – and just
10 Indian diplomatic officers. While there is considerable evidence of Indian
support of Balochi separatists, the paranoid ISI view of India in Afghanistan
ignores New Delhi’s vested interest in a stable and prosperous Afghanistan. It
also ignores the centuries-old history between India and Afghanistan, and the
erstwhile Indo-Afghan frontier. Afghanistan has received more than a billion
dollars of Indian aid and, in 2009, celebrated the completion of the
Zaranj-Delaram road, giving it better access to Iran. There is also the
much-discussed animosity towards Pakistan by Karzai and by Pashtuns in general,
who consider Islamabad an aggressive, prevaricating, double-dealing regime.
The
unfortunate but crystalline reality of Afghanistan’s future is that it hinges
on the decisions made by Pakistani generals and whether their actions will be
checked by a Coalition response. This is not to suggest that Afghanistan’s
future is lost. To recapitulate some recent victories: 7 million Afghans turned
out to vote on April 5, thirty-five percent of them women. The Afghan election
went forward despite threats from the Taliban and accusations of fraud. Voters
jubilantly participated in the electoral process, thwarting attempts by
militant groups who have violently opposed elections.
Regardless
of who wins, however, Pakistan will be deeply involved in the internal workings
of Afghanistan. It will be up to neighboring states and whatever remnant of the
international community that is still engaged to ensure that over a decade of
conflict and reconstruction does not conclude with a de facto takeover of
Afghanistan by its neighbor across the Durand Line.
Omer
Aziz is a writer and journalist from Toronto. In 2012-2013, he was a
Commonwealth and Pitt Scholar of International Relations at Cambridge
University. He has written for The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Salon,
the Woodrow Wilson Center, and other outlets. He tweets @omeraziz12.
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OBAMA
HAS BETRAYED OUR DEAD AND WOUNDED NATO SONS AND DAUGHTERS FIGHTING 4 BASIC
FREEDOMS4 AFGHANS- and has betrayed our world- 5 taliban leaders of Guantanamo
Bay??? We will remember
With
Taliban swap, Afghans wonder: Is the West abandoning us?
OMAR
SAMAD
Special
to The Globe and Mail
Last
updated Monday, Jun. 09 2014, 6:00 AM EDT
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Attack
on Abdullah: Kabul hints at Pakistan link
KABUL:
Afghanistan on Sunday accused ‘foreign intelligence services’ of being behind
an attack targeting presidential front-runner Abdullah Abdullah that killed 12
people, in a veiled reference to Pakistan.
Abdullah
survived the assassination attempt on Friday when two blasts hit his campaign
motorcade in Kabul.
“Initial
investigations indicate foreign intelligence services were involved in this
incident through Lashkar-e-Taiba in an organised manner, and the terrorists
were aiming to disrupt the election in Afghanistan,” Afghanistan’s National
Security Council, which is chaired by President Hamid Karzai, said in a
statement.
The
attempt to assassinate Abdullah triggered strong international condemnation,
including from the United States and the UN Security Council.
Afghanistan
is in the middle of elections to choose a successor to Karzai. Abdullah fell
short of the 50 per cent threshold needed for an outright victory in the April
first round and will face former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani in the
run-off.
The
NSC statement said Friday’s attack on Abdullah was ‘the worst incident during
election campaign’.
Published
in The Express Tribune, June 9th, 2014.
comment;From
many days i was thinking that why karzai is not linking this attack to pakistan
and finally it happened.
comment:
any
doubts?
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CLIMATE
CHANGE...
TONY
Abbott says any future global agreement on climate change won’t include carbon
pricing.
Tony
Abbott finds climate comfort in Canada
Jun
9 2014 — The Australian
TONY
Abbott says any future global agreement on climate change won’t include carbon
pricing. Mr Abbott is the first Australian prime minister to visit Canada since
John Howard in 2006, who arrived just months after Stephen Harper’s
conservative government was elected. Speaking ahead of his meeting with the
Canadian leader, Mr Abbott said the re-elected […]
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Canada
stands alone in its tough approach to bully Russia
By
Matthew Fisher, Postmedia NewsJune 8, 2014
The
policy decided upon at an emergency G-7 summit in Holland two months ago was
that the West would ratchet up its sanctions against Russia if it did not leave
Crimea. But there was no mention of this at a second G-7 summit in Belgium last
week. Such timidity has made Putin understand that he can do as he wishes about
Ukraine.
Gen.
Lucius Clay, who was the U.S. military governor in Occupied Germany after the
Second World War, had this this to say about how to deal with the Kremlin over
Cold War dramas such as the Berlin Airlift.
“The
Russians understand only one thing and that is force,” Clay said.
That
does not mean war over Ukraine, but standing up to Russia in every other way,
so that it stops threatening to grab even more of Ukraine. Only Harper and
perhaps Obama seem to understand this. Europeans know better than anyone where
appeasement can lead, but refuse to do their part.
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Israel,
Palestine accept Pope’s Vatican invite
Patriarch
opens Rome peace prayers with Psalm 8 and Isaiah
(AGI)
Vatican, June 8 - The Israeli and Palestinian presidents met Pope Francis at
the Vatican on Sunday to pray together for peace in the Middle East
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BEAUTIFUL GAME- FIFA- SHOULD NEV-A STOMP
ON INDIGINEOUS (FIRST) PEOPLES-makes the world feel guilty
As
World Cup nears, poverty in Brazil troubles many
iNDIGINEOUS (1ST)PEOPLES deserve better- As World Cup
nears,poverty in Brazil troubles many http://articles.philly.com/2014-05-28/news/50125509_1_fifa-world-cup-ronaldinho-brasilia
AND....
world's
broken heart- FIFA over Food in Brazil 4 Indigenous (First) Peoples... how can
we watch?
Brazilian
Anti-Fifa Street Art Expresses Outrage Over World Cup
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Pope
Francis, Abbas, Peres and Bartholomew on same bus
(AGI)
Vatican City, June 8 -
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Abu
Mazen and Shimon Peres exchange hugs at the Vatican
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Patriarch
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FRANCE
MADE THE WORLD SO PROUD- AND SO DID CANADA’S CBC- u honoured us all... thank u.
THE
GREATEST SPEECH EVER GIVEN...... FRANCE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF
FRANCE- FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
Commemoration
of the Normandy landings – Speech by M. François Hollande, President of the
Republic (excerpts)
Caen,
6 June 2012
(…)
I
wanted to be in Caen today, at this Memorial Centre, on this anniversary of 6
June 1944.
This
is my first visit as President of the Republic, at what is a symbolic moment
for the nation: the first step which led to the liberation of our territory.
That was 68 years ago.
It
was a spring day.
Like
today, it was a morning of calm after the storm and rain.
155,000
men embarked from the other side of the Channel, from England. They were defending
freedom to the point of being prepared to make the supreme, most precious
sacrifice: that of their young lives.
I
am thinking of each of those men today. Each one who, in the barges approaching
the coast, took with him in his heart what he cherished, his hopes and his
fears. All those men who, above all, laid down their short lives in battle.
I
am also thinking of the French people, who had been expecting them for such a
long time. For four years they suffered the burden of humiliation and pain
under the Occupation.
Dawn
on 6 June 1944 wasn’t like others. It heralded the end of a night which had
lasted 1,500 days. The night of occupation.
That
morning, 722 warships and 4,266 transport vessels advanced towards the beaches.
They had been preceded by parachutists who, courageously, had begun preparing
the work of organizing the landings. They were the army of peace. That army was
going to triumph through its skill, its bravery, its tenacity and also its
cunning, which consisted in making the Germans believe that the landings were
planned for somewhere other than Normandy.
So
on the evening of 6 June 1944, our country, France, ceased to be wholly
occupied. The troops of freedom set foot on our territory’s soil. They mapped
out the way. They created hope. Charles de Gaulle was able to declare: “The sun
of our greatness is shining forth once again”.
I
want, here, to express again today, 68 years later, France’s gratitude to those
who made that liberation possible.
Those
men came from 12 countries.
From
the United States, which sacrificed such a large number of its children –
soldiers, parachutists, sailors, airmen, who lost their lives in the woodland
and copses of our Normandy. France owes them a great deal. She knows this. She
will not forget. And I mean never.
But
there weren’t just Americans. There were also Canadians, Belgians, Dutch,
Czechs, Poles, Danes, Norwegians, Australians, Luxembourgers, New Zealanders
and Greeks, who had come to give up their lives for our own freedom.
I
pay tribute to Britain, who was alone against barbarism for so long and who
“never surrendered”. For four years, London was the capital of free Europe. And
one man, Winston Churchill, held firm so that we too could be ready to fight
along with General de Gaulle and the Resistance.
I
also pay tribute to the Russians, who – on the other side of the European
continent, to the east – were fighting with all their might to thwart
Hitlerism. Let us pay our respects to the memory of the 21 million Russians –
and I mean 21 million! – who died in a ruthless war against Nazi Germany.
And
I pay tribute to the France who saved France – I’m talking about the Free
French Forces, the ones who held their heads up high, raised the flag and
liberated our own soil.
At
this moment, my thoughts go to the Kieffer commandos, who landed in Normandy on
6 June. My thoughts also go to the Resistance. Those men and women who couldn’t
imagine any solution, any way out, any path other than fighting for their
country’s honour. (…)
So
it was the Normandy landings that enabled victory and made peace possible.
In
remembering all those soldiers and all those civilians who died, I want to
address the youngest among you; many of them have come here, and I thank them
today. I would like – and this is the message of today, 6 June 2012 – I would
like this remembrance, which we celebrate, to be not only loyalty to the
veterans, to past generations, but an act of clear-sightedness in relation to
the danger threatening us, of stringency in relation to public morality and
human dignity, and of awareness that we haven’t finished the noble battle, the
great battle for humanity.
I
would also like today, 6 June, to be a moment of transmission.
If
we were ever, one day, to forget the heroes of the landings, of the Battle of
Normandy, then we would be forgetting why we are alive. (…)
Remembrance
depends on our collective ability to rise above ourselves and thus turn memory
into history.
Remembrance
must be able to outlive the witnesses of events themselves and continue to find
words when the survivors’ voices have fallen silent. This is the challenge for
the coming generation: preservation, continuity and transmission.
Remembrance
is also places. And on behalf of the state, I fully support the initiative
taken by the Basse-Normandie region to have the D-Day landing sites included on
the list of World Heritage sites.
Remembrance
is dates – so many steps in the march of time – and rituals that must be
respected. That is why I am very committed to anniversaries – of events,
tragedies, but also of glorious deeds: the anniversary of the allied landings.
I want 6 June each year in our country to be an important moment of national
cohesion and international solidarity. And I would like us to begin preparing
now – as the Memorial Centre has started doing – for the ceremonies of 6 June
2014. It will be the 70th anniversary; it will be an opportunity for us to come
together in Normandy alongside the representatives of all the peoples who
fought here. So I’ll be inviting all the heads of state and government of the
nations whose children died here to take part in the ceremonies of 6 June 2014.
Remembrance
is teaching. And once again, I appreciate the responsibility of teachers, who
must explain, make people understand, support young minds and tell them that
barbarism was possible in the 20th century and may return in the 21st. We have
traces of it; we have signs of it. Those teachers must clarify the meaning of
history, set moral bearings for generations that may at times lose them, and
enable people to recognize the failings of all civilizations, which can destroy
themselves when they are no longer faithful to values and principles. (…)
Finally,
my last message: remembrance is also knowing where Europe comes from and where
it must go.
This
region, Normandy, is covered with the graves of all Europe’s children. I’m
thinking of the British cemeteries in Banneville and Bayeux, not far from
Colleville-sur-Mer, where the American brothers-in-arms lie. But I’m also
thinking of the German cemetery of La Cambe. All those young Europeans were the
victims of barbarity, that of Nazism. All the European children of those who
did not die must be capable, 68 years on, of creating a Europe of peace,
solidarity and progress.
Only
the emergence of a common European conscience will protect us against the
return of hatred in the form of nationalism, extremism and populism. So we must
be the equals of those who have gone before us in the European battle.
I
have only one wish to express here, and I address it once again, as Head of
State, to young people, who must be the great priority of the five-year term
that is just beginning. You, the young people of France, who have never known
anything other than democracy and peace: be the equals of those who had the
determination to save peace and preserve democracy.
For
remembrance is peace. Peace, yes, but not at the cost of renunciation, not at
the cost of compromise, not at the cost of abdication – no. Peace as the
culmination of a battle, of a harsh and bitter struggle. But also of a
liberation. To want peace is to fight injustice, ignominy, racism, and
anti-Semitism, which is still being expressed here.
This
is how we shall give remembrance a future.
Remembrance
is not a feeling, an attitude, a state of mind: it is a job, it is a policy,
and I am now its guarantor.
You
see, dear friends, I have come to speak to you as much about yesterday as about
today and perhaps even about tomorrow.
What
happened here on 6 June 1944 was a clarion call. And we hear it still, that
clarion call. The clarion call of men and women who wanted to fight for pride,
their nation’s pride no doubt, but also, most certainly, for the human
conscience; who wanted to fight for their freedom but equally for that of
humanity; who wanted to fight for peace: today’s peace but also tomorrow’s.
In
expressing our gratitude to those combatants of 6 June 1944, we have come to
remember a glorious past, but above all we are here to pledge solemnly to be
worthy of them. (…)./.
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Video
Mackenzie
King's D-Day address
CBC
News Posted: Jun 06, 2014 7:52 AM ET| Last Updated: Jun 06, 2014 11:32 AM ET
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CANADA
PRIME MINISTER- STEPHEN HARPER- (made us
Canadians so proud-Laureen beautifully dressed- just beautiful)
Statement
by the Prime Minister of Canada in Normandy, France
June
6, 2014
Ottawa,
Ontario
Prime
Minister Stephen Harper today delivered the following remarks at a Bi-National
Ceremony of Remembrance marking the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of
Normandy in France:
"Your
Royal Highness, Major-General Rohmer, and Veterans, distinguished guests,
ladies and gentlemen, students.
"Good
afternoon and welcome to JunoBeach.
"It's
an honour for me to be here with you today, for the 70th anniversary of D-Day,
and surrounded by Canadian youth and in the presence of our distinguished
Veterans.
"The
anniversary we are marking is nothing short of a turning point in history.
"We
are commemorating a day whose successful end foreshadowed the ultimate
conclusion of a long and bloody war, and the triumph of the values for which
Canada stands.
"Freedom.
"Democracy.
"Justice.
"All
the things, in fact, that our enemies despised and had extinguished from every
part of the continent they had conquered.
"Few
events in modern history have been as documented as what was experienced here
that day by Canadians and their French, British and American Allies.
"To
truly understand how great was the Canadian achievement was a lifetime ago, we
should remember the obstacles our troops faced.
"Poor
weather had rendered ineffective the elaborate, pre-invasion naval and air
bombardment intended to subdue the Nazi defences.
"So,
instead of landing amid smoking ruins and dazed defenders, the soldiers had no
choice but to charge well-fortified guns and their fully alerted crews through
the smoke, through the minefields, through the barbed wire, through the
obstacles on the beaches, always under accurate and deafening mortar fire, and
into the teeth of machine guns; the same kind of machine guns that had caused
the slaughter of their father's generation, during the First World War.
"Only
having run this deadly gauntlet could the survivors destroy the enemy strong
points, and even then, only through savage hand-to-hand combat against some of
the toughest soldiers in the world.
"That
is how they took this beach.
"And
here are some of the men who took it.
"The
losses were crushing.
"In
the sky and on the beach, and on the ground where the First Canadian
Parachutists Battalion had landed, over four hundred Canadians made the
ultimate sacrifice - and the main landing had yet to come.
"I
should note in passing that yesterday, this famous assault of the 1st Canadian
Parachute Battalion was successfully re-enacted.
"Now
despite the fearful carnage, by the middle of the day the Royal Regina Rifles,
the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, The North Shore Regiment, Le Régiment de la
Chaudière, the Queen's Own Rifles, Canadian Scottish and other Canadian units,
had punched through Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall and secured their first
objectives.
"Canadians
were now to fight in Europe until Europe was free of fascism.
"And
fight they did.
"Such
was the nature of the Canadian Army, such was their intensely aggressive
fighting spirit, that during the Battle of Normandy that followed D-Day, they
would suffer, Canadians would suffer, the most casualties of any division in
the wider British Army Group.
"To
keep advancing while their comrades were falling left and right took remarkable
courage.
"There
are no words to describe such courage.
"Words
fail me.
"As
a Canadian, reflecting on this achievement I can feel, we can feel, only two
emotions that are usually not reckoned together: fierce pride and the deepest
humility.
"In
this great achievement, the Canadian Army depended heavily on the Royal
Canadian Air Force and the Royal Canadian Navy.
"Every
RCAF squadron based in Great Britain played a part in the invasion.
"Canadian
fighter aircraft quickly took control of the airspace above the beachhead.
"And
it was ships of the Royal Canadian Navy that carried and protected the assault
force as it crossed the Channel.
"The
Canadian ships then let loose a hail of bullets on the enemy defence lines to
provide cover to the fourteen thousand Canadians who landed on JunoBeach that
day.
"Who
were these men?
"What
kept them going?
"Why
did they do what they did?
"They
came from all walks of life, from every part of our great country.
"They
were young, some still in their teens.
"And,
as their British hosts found, they were boisterous and enthusiastic.
"But,
they were united in a common cause.
"They
wanted to see Europe free.
"They
believed that people everywhere had the right to liberty, to live free of the
crushing oppression of totalitarian regimes.
"And
they believed this so deeply that, as the weeks went by, more than five
thousand would die to make it so.
"The
Veterans of D-Day are the embodiment of the values of our country.
"For
we are a peaceful country.
"We
have never been driven by any dream of conquest, nor any blind hatred.
"Then
as now, Canadians understood why peacemakers are said to be blessed.
"But
the men who landed here a lifetime ago also understood that a curse rests upon
the person who, reluctant to fight for good, denies the very existence of evil.
"Peace
has no merit if the cost is oppression.
"So
they took up arms, these and a million other Canadians - men and women - who
put on the uniform and beat their ploughshares into swords.
"It
is the Canadian way to stand with like-minded allies for what is good, right
and just.
"A
month ago I had the privilege to welcome Canadians to Parliament Hill for
aNational Day of Honour.
"This
ceremony commemorated the end of our mission to aid the population of
Afghanistan, a mission that had lasted thirteen years.
"Today,
we stand where Canadians bled on D-Day.
"And
later this summer, we will observe the centennial of the beginning of the First
World War.
"Through
these and other momentous events, from Vimy Ridge and JunoBeach, to Kapyong and
Operation Medusa, there runs a red and white thread of constant resolve.
"When
the world cries for help, Canadians answer the call.
"To
our Veterans who are here today: Gentlemen, you have travelled a long way to be
close once more to fallen comrades.
"What
you did here will never be forgotten.
"And
I know I speak for all Canadians when I say sincerely and heartfelt the only
thing I can say for this and for the seventy years of peace that followed,
'thank you.'
"To
the young people here today, I say this: In not so many years, the duty of
remembrance will belong to your generation, and yours alone.
"Do
not forget.
"In
that regard, the work done at CentreDufferinDistrictHigh School, many of whose
students are here today, along with many others, is a model of its kind.
"Centre
Dufferin has been active in fundraising for the Juno Beach Centre just behind
me, and in personally researching the lives of Veterans.
"I
congratulate the staff at Centre Dufferin for this tremendously valuable work.
"Ladies
and gentlemen as General Rohmer mentioned, much has changed in our country,
much has changed in the world since June 6, 1944.
"But
you will find that courage is still courage.
"Honour
is still honour.
"And
the freedom, democracy and justice for which these Veterans fought are still
Canada's birthright.
"It
is their legacy to you.
"Cherish
it.
"Let
us remember those who fell here.
"And
may we live as bravely as they died."
________________________________________
Yogi
Berra, D-Day vet, honored on 70th anniversary
By
WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press | June 6, 2014 | Updated: June 6, 2014 6:43pm
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Regimental
Funeral for Fallen RCMP Members, Moncton, N.B.
2014/6/7
An
RCMP regimental funeral will be held in Moncton on Tuesday, June 10, 2014
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much
loved EuroNews
NEWSBlog
D-Day
70th anniversary as it happened
05/06
17:31 CET
Some
900 of the last surviving veterans of World War II have joined 20 world leaders
in northern France to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
A
series of commemorative events took place across Normandy to honour the
thousands of people that lost their lives in what proved to be the beginning of
the end of the world’s bloodiest ever conflict.
The
day’s solemn proceedings were attended by thousands of visitors, including
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, US President Barack Obama and Russian President
Vladimir Putin, who set aside diplomatic tensions to take part in the
remembrance.
From
Juno, Gold, Sword, Utah and Omaha beaches, follow euronews’ live blog below for
our online coverage of events from the coast of Normandy. You can watch our
live televised coverage of the international ceremony in the Youtube player at
the bottom of this page.
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OUTSIDE
THE VETS- THE BRVEST MAN AT THE COMMEMORATIVE D-DAY IN FRANCE CEREMONY
Visit
to France. 70th anniversary of the allied forces’ D-Day landing in Normandy
June
5 – 6, 2014
Paris,
Deauville, Ouistreham
In
Paris, Vladimir Putin held talks with President of France François Hollande.
The President of Russia also met with Prime Minister of Great Britain David
Cameron. On the second day of the visit, in Deauville, the Russian President
met with Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel. Then at Ouistreham,
Vladimir Putin attended celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the allied
forces’ D-Day landing in Normandy. Also, the President of Russia had a meeting
with Russian veterans – participants in World War II. During the events in
Normandy, Vladimir Putin also spoke to the heads of a number of foreign states.
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Yogi
Berra, D-Day vet, honored on 70th anniversary
By
WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press | June 6, 2014 | Updated: June 6, 2014 6:43pm
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Statement
by the Prime Minister of Canada in Normandy, France
June
6, 2014
Ottawa,
Ontario
Prime
Minister Stephen Harper today delivered the following remarks at a Bi-National
Ceremony of Remembrance marking the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of
Normandy in France:
"Your
Royal Highness, Major-General Rohmer, and Veterans, distinguished guests,
ladies and gentlemen, students.
"Good
afternoon and welcome to JunoBeach.
"It's
an honour for me to be here with you today, for the 70th anniversary of D-Day,
and surrounded by Canadian youth and in the presence of our distinguished
Veterans.
"The
anniversary we are marking is nothing short of a turning point in history.
"We
are commemorating a day whose successful end foreshadowed the ultimate
conclusion of a long and bloody war, and the triumph of the values for which
Canada stands.
"Freedom.
"Democracy.
"Justice.
"All
the things, in fact, that our enemies despised and had extinguished from every
part of the continent they had conquered.
"Few
events in modern history have been as documented as what was experienced here
that day by Canadians and their French, British and American Allies.
"To
truly understand how great was the Canadian achievement was a lifetime ago, we
should remember the obstacles our troops faced.
"Poor
weather had rendered ineffective the elaborate, pre-invasion naval and air
bombardment intended to subdue the Nazi defences.
"So,
instead of landing amid smoking ruins and dazed defenders, the soldiers had no
choice but to charge well-fortified guns and their fully alerted crews through
the smoke, through the minefields, through the barbed wire, through the
obstacles on the beaches, always under accurate and deafening mortar fire, and
into the teeth of machine guns; the same kind of machine guns that had caused
the slaughter of their father's generation, during the First World War.
"Only
having run this deadly gauntlet could the survivors destroy the enemy strong
points, and even then, only through savage hand-to-hand combat against some of
the toughest soldiers in the world.
"That
is how they took this beach.
"And
here are some of the men who took it.
"The
losses were crushing.
"In
the sky and on the beach, and on the ground where the First Canadian
Parachutists Battalion had landed, over four hundred Canadians made the
ultimate sacrifice - and the main landing had yet to come.
"I
should note in passing that yesterday, this famous assault of the 1st Canadian
Parachute Battalion was successfully re-enacted.
"Now
despite the fearful carnage, by the middle of the day the Royal Regina Rifles,
the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, The North Shore Regiment, Le Régiment de la
Chaudière, the Queen's Own Rifles, Canadian Scottish and other Canadian units,
had punched through Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall and secured their first
objectives.
"Canadians
were now to fight in Europe until Europe was free of fascism.
"And
fight they did.
"Such
was the nature of the Canadian Army, such was their intensely aggressive
fighting spirit, that during the Battle of Normandy that followed D-Day, they
would suffer, Canadians would suffer, the most casualties of any division in
the wider British Army Group.
"To
keep advancing while their comrades were falling left and right took remarkable
courage.
"There
are no words to describe such courage.
"Words
fail me.
"As
a Canadian, reflecting on this achievement I can feel, we can feel, only two
emotions that are usually not reckoned together: fierce pride and the deepest
humility.
"In
this great achievement, the Canadian Army depended heavily on the Royal
Canadian Air Force and the Royal Canadian Navy.
"Every
RCAF squadron based in Great Britain played a part in the invasion.
"Canadian
fighter aircraft quickly took control of the airspace above the beachhead.
"And
it was ships of the Royal Canadian Navy that carried and protected the assault
force as it crossed the Channel.
"The
Canadian ships then let loose a hail of bullets on the enemy defence lines to
provide cover to the fourteen thousand Canadians who landed on JunoBeach that
day.
"Who
were these men?
"What
kept them going?
"Why
did they do what they did?
"They
came from all walks of life, from every part of our great country.
"They
were young, some still in their teens.
"And,
as their British hosts found, they were boisterous and enthusiastic.
"But,
they were united in a common cause.
"They
wanted to see Europe free.
"They
believed that people everywhere had the right to liberty, to live free of the
crushing oppression of totalitarian regimes.
"And
they believed this so deeply that, as the weeks went by, more than five
thousand would die to make it so.
"The
Veterans of D-Day are the embodiment of the values of our country.
"For
we are a peaceful country.
"We
have never been driven by any dream of conquest, nor any blind hatred.
"Then
as now, Canadians understood why peacemakers are said to be blessed.
"But
the men who landed here a lifetime ago also understood that a curse rests upon
the person who, reluctant to fight for good, denies the very existence of evil.
"Peace
has no merit if the cost is oppression.
"So
they took up arms, these and a million other Canadians - men and women - who
put on the uniform and beat their ploughshares into swords.
"It
is the Canadian way to stand with like-minded allies for what is good, right
and just.
"A
month ago I had the privilege to welcome Canadians to Parliament Hill for
aNational Day of Honour.
"This
ceremony commemorated the end of our mission to aid the population of
Afghanistan, a mission that had lasted thirteen years.
"Today,
we stand where Canadians bled on D-Day.
"And
later this summer, we will observe the centennial of the beginning of the First
World War.
"Through
these and other momentous events, from Vimy Ridge and JunoBeach, to Kapyong and
Operation Medusa, there runs a red and white thread of constant resolve.
"When
the world cries for help, Canadians answer the call.
"To
our Veterans who are here today: Gentlemen, you have travelled a long way to be
close once more to fallen comrades.
"What
you did here will never be forgotten.
"And
I know I speak for all Canadians when I say sincerely and heartfelt the only
thing I can say for this and for the seventy years of peace that followed,
'thank you.'
"To
the young people here today, I say this: In not so many years, the duty of
remembrance will belong to your generation, and yours alone.
"Do
not forget.
"In
that regard, the work done at CentreDufferinDistrictHigh School, many of whose
students are here today, along with many others, is a model of its kind.
"Centre
Dufferin has been active in fundraising for the Juno Beach Centre just behind
me, and in personally researching the lives of Veterans.
"I
congratulate the staff at Centre Dufferin for this tremendously valuable work.
"Ladies
and gentlemen as General Rohmer mentioned, much has changed in our country,
much has changed in the world since June 6, 1944.
"But
you will find that courage is still courage.
"Honour
is still honour.
"And
the freedom, democracy and justice for which these Veterans fought are still
Canada's birthright.
"It
is their legacy to you.
"Cherish
it.
"Let
us remember those who fell here.
"And
may we live as bravely as they died."
________________________________________
Commemoration
of the Normandy landings – Speech by M. François Hollande, President of the
Republic (excerpts)
Caen,
6 June 2012
(…)
I
wanted to be in Caen today, at this Memorial Centre, on this anniversary of 6
June 1944.
This
is my first visit as President of the Republic, at what is a symbolic moment
for the nation: the first step which led to the liberation of our territory.
That was 68 years ago.
It
was a spring day.
Like
today, it was a morning of calm after the storm and rain.
155,000
men embarked from the other side of the Channel, from England. They were
defending freedom to the point of being prepared to make the supreme, most
precious sacrifice: that of their young lives.
I
am thinking of each of those men today. Each one who, in the barges approaching
the coast, took with him in his heart what he cherished, his hopes and his
fears. All those men who, above all, laid down their short lives in battle.
I
am also thinking of the French people, who had been expecting them for such a
long time. For four years they suffered the burden of humiliation and pain
under the Occupation.
Dawn
on 6 June 1944 wasn’t like others. It heralded the end of a night which had
lasted 1,500 days. The night of occupation.
That
morning, 722 warships and 4,266 transport vessels advanced towards the beaches.
They had been preceded by parachutists who, courageously, had begun preparing
the work of organizing the landings. They were the army of peace. That army was
going to triumph through its skill, its bravery, its tenacity and also its
cunning, which consisted in making the Germans believe that the landings were
planned for somewhere other than Normandy.
So
on the evening of 6 June 1944, our country, France, ceased to be wholly
occupied. The troops of freedom set foot on our territory’s soil. They mapped
out the way. They created hope. Charles de Gaulle was able to declare: “The sun
of our greatness is shining forth once again”.
I
want, here, to express again today, 68 years later, France’s gratitude to those
who made that liberation possible.
Those
men came from 12 countries.
From
the United States, which sacrificed such a large number of its children –
soldiers, parachutists, sailors, airmen, who lost their lives in the woodland
and copses of our Normandy. France owes them a great deal. She knows this. She
will not forget. And I mean never.
But
there weren’t just Americans. There were also Canadians, Belgians, Dutch,
Czechs, Poles, Danes, Norwegians, Australians, Luxembourgers, New Zealanders
and Greeks, who had come to give up their lives for our own freedom.
I
pay tribute to Britain, who was alone against barbarism for so long and who
“never surrendered”. For four years, London was the capital of free Europe. And
one man, Winston Churchill, held firm so that we too could be ready to fight
along with General de Gaulle and the Resistance.
I
also pay tribute to the Russians, who – on the other side of the European
continent, to the east – were fighting with all their might to thwart
Hitlerism. Let us pay our respects to the memory of the 21 million Russians –
and I mean 21 million! – who died in a ruthless war against Nazi Germany.
And
I pay tribute to the France who saved France – I’m talking about the Free
French Forces, the ones who held their heads up high, raised the flag and
liberated our own soil.
At
this moment, my thoughts go to the Kieffer commandos, who landed in Normandy on
6 June. My thoughts also go to the Resistance. Those men and women who couldn’t
imagine any solution, any way out, any path other than fighting for their
country’s honour. (…)
So
it was the Normandy landings that enabled victory and made peace possible.
In
remembering all those soldiers and all those civilians who died, I want to
address the youngest among you; many of them have come here, and I thank them
today. I would like – and this is the message of today, 6 June 2012 – I would
like this remembrance, which we celebrate, to be not only loyalty to the
veterans, to past generations, but an act of clear-sightedness in relation to
the danger threatening us, of stringency in relation to public morality and
human dignity, and of awareness that we haven’t finished the noble battle, the
great battle for humanity.
I
would also like today, 6 June, to be a moment of transmission.
If
we were ever, one day, to forget the heroes of the landings, of the Battle of
Normandy, then we would be forgetting why we are alive. (…)
Remembrance
depends on our collective ability to rise above ourselves and thus turn memory
into history.
Remembrance
must be able to outlive the witnesses of events themselves and continue to find
words when the survivors’ voices have fallen silent. This is the challenge for
the coming generation: preservation, continuity and transmission.
Remembrance
is also places. And on behalf of the state, I fully support the initiative
taken by the Basse-Normandie region to have the D-Day landing sites included on
the list of World Heritage sites.
Remembrance
is dates – so many steps in the march of time – and rituals that must be
respected. That is why I am very committed to anniversaries – of events,
tragedies, but also of glorious deeds: the anniversary of the allied landings.
I want 6 June each year in our country to be an important moment of national
cohesion and international solidarity. And I would like us to begin preparing
now – as the Memorial Centre has started doing – for the ceremonies of 6 June
2014. It will be the 70th anniversary; it will be an opportunity for us to come
together in Normandy alongside the representatives of all the peoples who
fought here. So I’ll be inviting all the heads of state and government of the
nations whose children died here to take part in the ceremonies of 6 June 2014.
Remembrance
is teaching. And once again, I appreciate the responsibility of teachers, who
must explain, make people understand, support young minds and tell them that
barbarism was possible in the 20th century and may return in the 21st. We have
traces of it; we have signs of it. Those teachers must clarify the meaning of
history, set moral bearings for generations that may at times lose them, and
enable people to recognize the failings of all civilizations, which can destroy
themselves when they are no longer faithful to values and principles. (…)
Finally,
my last message: remembrance is also knowing where Europe comes from and where
it must go.
This
region, Normandy, is covered with the graves of all Europe’s children. I’m
thinking of the British cemeteries in Banneville and Bayeux, not far from
Colleville-sur-Mer, where the American brothers-in-arms lie. But I’m also
thinking of the German cemetery of La Cambe. All those young Europeans were the
victims of barbarity, that of Nazism. All the European children of those who
did not die must be capable, 68 years on, of creating a Europe of peace,
solidarity and progress.
Only
the emergence of a common European conscience will protect us against the
return of hatred in the form of nationalism, extremism and populism. So we must
be the equals of those who have gone before us in the European battle.
I
have only one wish to express here, and I address it once again, as Head of
State, to young people, who must be the great priority of the five-year term
that is just beginning. You, the young people of France, who have never known
anything other than democracy and peace: be the equals of those who had the
determination to save peace and preserve democracy.
For
remembrance is peace. Peace, yes, but not at the cost of renunciation, not at
the cost of compromise, not at the cost of abdication – no. Peace as the
culmination of a battle, of a harsh and bitter struggle. But also of a
liberation. To want peace is to fight injustice, ignominy, racism, and
anti-Semitism, which is still being expressed here.
This
is how we shall give remembrance a future.
Remembrance
is not a feeling, an attitude, a state of mind: it is a job, it is a policy,
and I am now its guarantor.
You
see, dear friends, I have come to speak to you as much about yesterday as about
today and perhaps even about tomorrow.
What
happened here on 6 June 1944 was a clarion call. And we hear it still, that
clarion call. The clarion call of men and women who wanted to fight for pride,
their nation’s pride no doubt, but also, most certainly, for the human
conscience; who wanted to fight for their freedom but equally for that of
humanity; who wanted to fight for peace: today’s peace but also tomorrow’s.
In
expressing our gratitude to those combatants of 6 June 1944, we have come to
remember a glorious past, but above all we are here to pledge solemnly to be
worthy of them. (…)./.
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HIP HOP ART EXHIBIT OPENING IN VANCOUVER
by
REMY SCALZA in EVENTS on June 8, 2014
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Martinuk:
Revulsion of selling human flesh upheld by new law
By
Susan Martinuk, Calgary Herald June 6, 2014
Somewhere
between world leaders jetting to D-Day celebrations and a lunatic going on a
shooting spree in Moncton, Justice Minister Peter MacKay released his
government?s proposed legislation to govern prostitution. Obviously, proper
media coverage and discussion was instantly dwarfed by more pressing matters.
The
proposed laws are grounded on the known fact that most sex workers are not
there by choice and by the principle that society has an obligation to protect
both its members and its communities. This is reflected in the title of Bill
C-36, The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act.
The
laws target those who purchase sexual services with fines and jail sentences.
Punishments are particularly stiff if they involve a prostitute under the age
of 18. Advertising sexual services is also prohibited, as is the selling of
services in a public place where children may be present. It criminalizes those
who benefit financially from exploiting prostitutes and provides $20 million to
fund programs that help sex workers to get out of the sex trade.
The
proposed laws are a response to the December 2013 Supreme Court of Canada
ruling that essentially struck down the nation’s prostitution laws. The legal
challenge was initiated by three current/former sex workers who claimed that
the law failed to provide for the safety and security of sex workers, and was
therefore a violation of their Charter rights.
The
Court agreed. Apparently it is the duty of the state to protect those who
conduct illegal business in the shady part of town with unscrupulous — and
perhaps even dangerous — clients.
If
so, how are we going to do it? This is the crux of the prostitution issue, the
point at which both sides in the debate agree — and disagree.
Everyone
agrees that street prostitution is a risky business and everyone says they want
to protect them from violence and get them off the street. This is where the
agreement ends.
Those
who wish to decriminalize prostitution and legalize brothels and the public
sale of sex claim this is the only way to protect prostitutes in a post-Robert
Pickton world. For some, it truly is an issue of safety. For others, it’s
individual liberty and the notion that we should all have the right to buy or
sell sex as we please (the ol’ ‘state has no place in the bedrooms of the
nation’ argument).
But
many who support legalization have a vested interest in ramping up the sex
trade. They want to get the women off the street and into a brothel where they
will still be sex slaves, but safer sex slaves.
For
example, Terri-Jean Bedford, one of the three sex workers who launched the
legal challenge, is the former owner/operator of a ‘bawdy house’ that was shut
down after a police raid. She has fought for the right to sell sexual services
ever since. So it’s somewhat disingenuous for her to claim her goal is to
protect street workers when she has — and wants to again — operate a brothel
that makes money by selling their bodies.
MacKay’s
proposal to target those who would gain financially by selling others for
sexual acts would obviously interfere with Bedford’s grand plans.
On
the other side of the debate, is a desire to protect these women by getting
them out of a dangerous, unhealthy trade, off drugs if necessary and give them
training and skills to function in mainstream society. For those purposes, the
proposed bill offers $20 million.
We
all agree that the laws should protect vulnerable prostitutes. But that isn’t
enough. They should also reflect the principles that are foundational to a
civilized society — that prostitutes are human beings who should not be bought
or sold, and Canadian laws should not in any way enable those who oppress them
and strip them of their dignity.
Susan
Martinuk is a Western Canada-based writer. Her column runs every Friday.
COMMENTS:
Felicity
Maera-Wallace · Woodbourne, New Zealand
Actually,
Bedford is a sex worker who wants other sex workers to be able to do their job
in a legal and safe environment. Like NZ, where sex work is decriminalised and
we have one of the best sex work environments in the world.
Georgia
Thain
This
bill puts women who want to be sex workers (there are a lot) in danger by
pushing their work underground. The only way to help women who do not wish to
be part of the sex trade is to legalize prostitution and start removing the
stigma from workers - at least that way women can be open about either being a
sex worker and enjoying their work, or being a sex worker and wishing to leave
the industry.
You're
statement that most women involved in the sex trade do not want to be there is
both naive and incorrect.
AND..
Call
prostitution what it is — sexual abuse
By
Tasha Kheiriddin | Jun 5, 2014 8:59 pm | 10 comments
Sex
work. That’s what prostitution is called now in polite circles. It sounds less
degrading, more like an acceptable answer to the classic Toronto party
icebreaker: “So what do you do?” “Sex work”. “Oh, that’s nice. Good for you.
Aren’t these canapés divine?”
Except
there’s nothing divine about “sex work”. No one has a career conversation with
their kids that starts out: “Gosh, Dad and I would really love it if you became
a prostitute.” It’s not an activity most people suggest to a significant other:
“Honey, if only you’d take up hooking, or hire a prostitute on a regular basis,
I’d feel so much better about our relationship.”
Most
prostitutes do what they do as a last resort, something they fall into due to
external influences like sexual abuse, drug dependency, pimping or human
trafficking. Most prostitutes do not present like dominatrix Terri-Jean
Bedford, cheerfully whipping her way to the Supreme Court. They face
exploitation, physical and sexual abuse — even death — on a regular basis.
Prostitution is not a safe life, nor a desirable one.
Consequently,
most public discussion around prostitution has focused on protecting those who
practice it. In December 2013, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court judgment
striking down Canada’s prostitution laws, based chiefly on safeguarding
prostitutes’ charter rights to safety and security of the person.
But
this conversation tends to minimize the impact of prostitution on other
individuals and the community at large. What about the families of johns torn
apart when their activities are uncovered? The homeowners whose neighbourhoods
are devalued when their street turns into a stroll? The parents whose kids
can’t play in the park because it has turned into a meat market? The young
girls who are propositioned as they walk home from school? What about their
rights?
Prostitution
is an activity with far more negative than positive consequences for society
writ large. And that is why the Conservatives’ new prostitution bill strikes
the right balance between protecting prostitutes, punishing those who exploit
them and upholding the well-being of all those affected by the practice of the
world’s oldest “profession”.
Sexual violence represents a more personal
form of attack. It crosses the boundary between the physical and the emotional.
It represents a violation of spirit, not just flesh.
The
most important feature of the new bill is that it would criminalize the
purchase of sex, while not punishing the seller. At first blush, this is a
paradox. But it is grounded in the recognition that most of these transactions
are not actually voluntary.
The
power imbalance between seller and purchaser in the so-called ‘sex trade’ has
few parallels anywhere else in commerce. The shopowner selling oranges on the
street corner is usually not desperate to feed a drug habit, or terrified of a
pimp beating her to a pulp. The same cannot be said of the prostitute who
agrees to get into a car with a john. This transforms the “transaction” into a
form of abuse.
The
act of selling sex is a selling of the self, in the most intimate way possible.
A parallel can be drawn with the way the law differentiates between crimes
involving sex and those which do not, between sexual assault and simple
assault. Sexual violence represents a more personal form of attack. It crosses
the boundary between the physical and the emotional. It represents a violation
of spirit, not just flesh.
Critics
may dismiss these as moral judgements. But morality sits at the root of much of
our law. Morality is not the same as religion — it isn’t just the Ten
Commandments telling us not to kill or steal. Moral standards allow citizens to
live in harmony together. Some moral prohibitions are absolute (murder), others
less so (high school dress codes). Some evolve together: Greater respect for
human rights begat greater respect for particular rights, such as those of
women, gays and lesbians, and visible minorities.
Over
time, some changes in morality are positive, others not. So what of
prostitution? Should we remove all legal prohibition in the name of lessing its
stigma and protecting prostitutes, or of some type of moral evolution?
The
answer is no. Throughout history, prostitution has carried a stigma for a
reason. It is not a “profession” like any other. It goes to the heart of gender
relations, the couple, the family, and the community. And it demands a balance
between the rights of everyone it affects — not just those who sell sex, and
certainly not those who buy it.
Going
to the local brothel for a quickie should not be the same as going to Loblaw’s
to pick up a litre of milk. And if the Conservatives’ law is challenged in
court, so be it. Some standards are worth the fight.
Tasha
Kheiriddin is a political writer and broadcaster who frequently comments in
both English and French. In her student days, Tasha was active in youth
politics in her hometown of Montreal, eventually serving as national policy
director and then president of the Progressive Conservative Youth Federation of
Canada. After practising law and a stint in the government of Mike Harris,
Tasha became the Ontario director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and
co-wrote the 2005 bestseller, Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a
Conservative Revolution. Tasha moved back to Montreal in 2006 and served as
vice-president of the Montreal Economic Institute, and later director for
Quebec of the Fraser Institute, while also lecturing on conservative politics
at McGill University. Tasha now lives in Whitby, Ontario with her daughter
Zara, born in 2009.
The
views, opinions and positions expressed by all iPolitics columnists and
contributors are the author’s alone. They do not inherently or expressly
reflect the views, opinions and/or positions of iPolitics.
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New Prostitution Bill Protects the Dignity of Women and Youth
Posted:
06/06/2014 5:13 pm
For
over a century, the violence and exploitation of women and youth in
prostitution has been ignored. The historical approach to prostitution in
Canada has never recognized the harms of prostitution, but focused only on
hiding it from public view by incorporating offences based on the nuisance of
prostitution in the Criminal Code. Regarded as public nuisances, prostituted
individuals were arrested and criminalized at much higher rates than the men
creating the demand for commercial sex.
This
profoundly misguided approach to prostitution and treatment of prostitutes
changed on June 4, 2014, with the introduction of Bill C-36, the Protection of
Communities and Exploited Persons Act. Through this Bill, the Government of
Canada has made a strong statement that it views prostitution as harmful to
women and vulnerable populations and will crack down on johns and pimps.
This
shift in the approach to prostitution is clearly evident in the Preamble of
Bill C-36 which states: 'Parliament of Canada recognizes the social harm caused
by the objectification of the human body and the commodification of sexual
activity.'
The
Preamble also highlights the goals of the new legislation to:
•Protect
human dignity and the equality of all Canadians by discouraging prostitution,
which has a disproportionate impact on women and children
•Denounce
and prohibit the purchase of sexual services because it creates a demand for
prostitution
•Encourage
those who engage in prostitution to report incidents of violence and to leave
prostitution.
Another
indicator of this fundamental paradigm shift is the location of the new
offences in the Criminal Code. Previously, all prostitution related offences were
located in Part VII of the Criminal Code -- Disorderly Houses, Gaming and
Betting. The new offences targeting the purchasers of sexual services and pimps
will be located in Part VIII of the Criminal Code -- Offences Against the
Person and Reputation. This is a distinct acknowledgement that the act of
buying sexual services is an offence against another individual. Research shows
that buying sexual services is most often carried out on individuals who have
no real freedom. It is an offence against the most vulnerable individuals in
our society who are enslaved by a violent pimp, poverty or drug addiction.
It
is for this reason that this new approach will be supported by $20 million in
new funding, including support for grassroots organizations that help
individuals exit prostitution. It is essential that with new legislation, we
are providing support to organizations that help women escape prostitution from
all circumstances. As a nation, we must ensure dignity and equality are upheld
for all, especially for those who are most vulnerable to abuse and
exploitation.
Bill
C-36 is a significant leap forward for Canada. Survivors and frontline
organizations have already expressed their appreciation of this new approach.
A
woman whose daughter has been trafficked shared her thoughts with me on the new
legislation:
"At
the age of 16, my daughter's bright future was taken from her and she was
introduced to this world of prostitution by her trafficker. Victims of forced
prostitution deserve our protection, these are young girls who have been lured
into a world of disbelief and are unable to get out - they continue and become
adult prostitutes. Women working in the sex trade need protection, not
prosecution. I am grateful the federal government has introduced legislation
that targets the pimps and johns and not the victims."
Trisha Baptie, a survivor of sex trafficking
who was first prostituted at the age of 13 wrote:
"It
was never the laws that beat, raped and killed me and my friends -- it was men.
It was never the location that was unsafe, it was the man we were in that
location with that made it unsafe. So we applaud laws that stand up and
criminalize this behaviour. Buying sex is not a human right yet prostitution
requires the denial of woman's basic human rights to keep funneling women into
prostitution."
Similarly, the Servants Anonymous Society of
Calgary (SAS), a long-term, recovery-based organization stated:
"We
are happy to see formal recognition of the inherent violence of prostitution.
Many of the women and girls who come to SAS were first exploited as children.
They have experienced the violence and trauma of the sex trade first hand. We
are pleased that the intent of this legislation is to create more options for
exploited people."
K. Brian McConaghy, Founder of Ratanak
International says:
"One
of the key indicators of a mature democracy is its ability to look past the
superficial and move to create legislation that protects the most vulnerable
and abused irrespective of their circumstances or standing in society. In
creating legislation that recognizes those victimized by prostitution, Canada
has moved to protect those 'untouchables' who are frequently not recognized as
victims by virtue of their appearance. This, in conjunction with a concerted
effort to prosecute those who would seek to victimize them, is both honourable
and appropriate. The Canadian Government is to be commended for introducing legislation
that represents both an informed and compassionate position on this complex
issue. Canadians should be proud."
[free-them],
a Canadian anti-human trafficking awareness organization wrote:
"Today
is a historic day for Canada. With the introduction of this new legislation,
Canada is firmly telling pimps/traffickers and johns that we will not tolerate
our women and children to be bought and sold like commodities, and the abuse
and exploitation needs to end. Further, this is the first time in Canadian
history that victims of human trafficking and young girls that want help to
escape the sex trade will have legislation that is on their side to help
support their exit and enable their freedom. I am proud of the Harper
Government for their diligence and efforts to ensure that we implement the best
legislation that will help to protect, rescue and restore victims of Human
Trafficking and prosecute the exploiters and crack down on the purchasers of
sex who by their demand keep these girls enslaved."
Hope
For The Sold's co-founders, Jay and Michelle Brock, wrote:
"For
far too long, Canadians have been given one of two extreme options when it
comes to prostitution -- prohibition or decriminalization. Now we've been given
a third way, a creative approach that seeks to protect our most vulnerable
individuals while holding to account those who exploit that vulnerability.
Despite the controversy and complexity of this issue, we applaud Minister
MacKay on his courageous first step of introducing legislation that recognizes
the need for reducing demand for paid sex. If this bill becomes law and is
properly carried out, we believe it has great potential to prevent sex
trafficking, promote gender equality, and uphold human worth."
There
is much work that remains to be done to end violence and inequality against
women. However I am encouraged that Canada's Justice Minister, the Hon. Peter
MacKay, has taken a bold step forward with Bill C-36. By making prostitution
illegal for the first time in Canadian history, the impact of the new
prohibitions will be borne by those who purchase sex and persons who exploit
others through prostitution rather than vulnerable individuals.
comment:
This
law actually reflects an important point made in the original decision to
strike down the old one. That the sex workers who would benefit from the
previous provisions being struck down were a small minority who had the most
control over their situation. For the 95% the decison was bad news that
provided further protection to the pimps, traffickers and Johns who exploit
them every single day. This policy actually creates options for women to escape
this life - options many did not have before entering the sex trade; options
that don't exist in jurisdictions (e.g. Germany) where it's just another
business. Liberalization helps the people who already have the most power -
that's what the data has shown around the world. That's also why some of the
most pro-women countries in the world have taken this route - they have
actually learned from experiences of the Netherlands and Germany.
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- Afghanistan
Mysterious
Militants Kill Taliban Commanders
Afghan
election front-runner Abdullah escapes blast
AFP
Kabul,
June 06, 2014
Afghan
presidential front-runner Abdullah Abdullah said he had escaped an
assassination attempt on Friday when an explosion hit his campaign motorcade in
Kabul just days ahead of a hotly contested run-off election.
"A
few minutes ago, when we left a campaign rally our convoy was hit by a
mine," Abdullah told another election rally in quotes broadcast on Afghan
television. He added that some of his guards were mildly wounded, while he was
unhurt.
The
blast site was cordoned off by security officials as ambulances rushed to the
scene and took the wounded to hospital, making their way through a sandstorm
that hit the capital, television footage showed.
The
assassination attempt on Abdullah came ahead of the second-round presidential
election on June 14, which Taliban insurgents have threatened to disrupt.
No
one has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.
Afghanistan
is in the middle of elections to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai,
who has ruled since the fall of the 1996-2001 Taliban regime.
Abdullah
fell short of the 50 percent threshold needed for an outright victory in the
April first round and will face former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani in the
run-off.
"We
condemn the attack on respected presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah
Abdullah," Ghani said on Twitter.
"This
is the act of the enemies of Afghanistan to disrupt the democratic process in
the country."
President
Barack Obama recently outlined the US strategy to end America's longest war,
saying that the 32,000-strong US deployment in Afghanistan would be scaled back
to around 9,800 by the start of 2015.
Those
forces would be halved by the end of 2015 before eventually being reduced to a
normal embassy presence with a security assistance component by the end of
2016.
But
the drawdown relies on Afghanistan signing a long-delayed Bilateral Security
Agreement laying out the terms of the US military presence in the country after
this year.
The
outgoing Karzai refuses to sign the pact, but both Afghan presidential
candidates have vowed to sign it if elected.
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VIDEO
World
leaders and veterans have gathered by the beaches of Normandy under clear blue
skies to mark the 70th anniversary of World War Two’s D-Day landings –
history’s largest amphibious assault on June 6, 1944, when 160,000 US, British
and Canadian troops waded ashore to confront Nazi Germany’s forces, hastening
its defeat
THX
EURONEWS AND GREAT VIDEO - also
D-Day:
‘We are all 70’
06/06
20:49 CET
World
leaders and veterans have gathered by the beaches of Normandy under clear blue
skies to mark the 70th anniversary of World War Two’s D-Day landings –
history’s largest amphibious assault on June 6, 1944, when 160,000 US, British
and Canadian troops waded ashore to confront Nazi Germany’s forces, hastening
its defeat.
Euronews
correspondent Laurence Alexandrowicz was in Normandy for the anniversary.
Olivier
Péguy, euronews:
“It
is a major date in history: June 6, 1944; 70 years ago: the allied D-Day
landings in Normandy, marked by many commemorative ceremonies. Laurence
Alexandrowicz, You are our special correspondent in Normandy, at Ouistreham to
be precise. Tell us how the whole region has been decked out for the occasion.”
Laurence
Alexandrowicz, euronews, Ouistreham :
“Yes,
Olivier, the region is decorated with the colours of D-Day everywhere – on the
houses, on the town halls, with American, British and Canadian flags depending
on the beaches where the Allies landed. There are also posters with this
slogan: “We are all 70” and we met an American tourist who told us that she was
deeply touched by this expression.
“The
museums are packed. There are lots of tourists. The restaurants and the hotels
were fully booked months ago. And for days now you have been able to see on the
streets, on all the roads in Normandy, military vehicles from that time: jeeps
driven by people dressed in period costume. There are enthusiasts from across
the world; from France, lots from Belgium – and from Britain too. There are
even Russians who have come in jeeps from Moscow.”
euronews:
“Laurence,
you have also been meeting veterans. There are many of them – Americans,
British, Canadians. They are all over 80 years old. What does it mean to them
to be there?”
Laurence
Alexandrowicz, euronews, Ouistreham:
“This ceremony is exceptional because it is
doubtless the last time that many of them will be able to come and take part in
an anniversary like this, so there is a lot of emotion. The feelings you get
from most of them is their immense joy to be here, and a lot of pride and when
you talk to them and interview them, there is always a little tear in the corner
of their eye because they are obviously remembering their comrades who fell on
the beaches. The tourists who meet them have a great fondness for these
veterans…1,800 were expected in Normandy and these veterans have their photos
taken with the tourists, people give them a hug. We saw a group of three
Americans singing a little song from the 1940s to a 94-year-old veteran – the
same one who said to us jokingly: ‘I haven’t told you everything because I am
holding some back for the 80th and the 90th anniversary’. And there is
something else that comes across, too: they are afraid of another war. They
talk about it and they are sorry that their sacrifice has not resulted in a
much more peaceful Europe and world.”
euronews:
“By
and large, war-related commemorations attract a lot of French and foreign
tourists. Why is that, Laurence?”
Laurence
Alexandrowicz, euronews, Ouistreham:
“Well,
it has to be said that this is a particularly remarkable year, with the allied
landings being marked at the beginning of June – the 70th anniversary of D-Day
– and at the end of the month, in Sarajevo, there is also the centenary of the
start of the First World War.
“And
I think that when times are hard, people cling to those values conveyed by the
young soldiers who came to free France and Europe. There are a lot of tourists,
notably Americans, who have told us how important is was for them to honour the
dead. And, as I was saying, in 10 years time, there maybe won’t be any veterans
left. That is why there are particularly large numbers this year. And between
June and September in Normandy, 8 million tourists are expected for the 400
events linked to this D-Day anniversary.”
EU
to soften fuel quality rules, opening door to Canadian crude: Financial Times
Jun
6 2014 — CP
The
federal government is saying little on a report that the European Union is
poised to soften fuel quality rules so products made from Canada’s oilsands
would not face hefty penalties. The Financial Times is reporting that EU
officials have decided to change a draft of a fuel quality directive, something
Canadian officials have lobbied […]
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Call
prostitution what it is — sexual abuse
By
Tasha Kheiriddin | Jun 5, 2014 8:59 pm | 10 comments
Sex
work. That’s what prostitution is called now in polite circles. It sounds less
degrading, more like an acceptable answer to the classic Toronto party icebreaker:
“So what do you do?” “Sex work”. “Oh, that’s nice. Good for you. Aren’t these
canapés divine?”
Except
there’s nothing divine about “sex work”. No one has a career conversation with
their kids that starts out: “Gosh, Dad and I would really love it if you became
a prostitute.” It’s not an activity most people suggest to a significant other:
“Honey, if only you’d take up hooking, or hire a prostitute on a regular basis,
I’d feel so much better about our relationship.”
Most
prostitutes do what they do as a last resort, something they fall into due to
external influences like sexual abuse, drug dependency, pimping or human
trafficking. Most prostitutes do not present like dominatrix Terri-Jean
Bedford, cheerfully whipping her way to the Supreme Court. They face
exploitation, physical and sexual abuse — even death — on a regular basis.
Prostitution is not a safe life, nor a desirable one.
Consequently,
most public discussion around prostitution has focused on protecting those who
practice it. In December 2013, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court judgment
striking down Canada’s prostitution laws, based chiefly on safeguarding
prostitutes’ charter rights to safety and security of the person.
But
this conversation tends to minimize the impact of prostitution on other
individuals and the community at large. What about the families of johns torn
apart when their activities are uncovered? The homeowners whose neighbourhoods
are devalued when their street turns into a stroll? The parents whose kids
can’t play in the park because it has turned into a meat market? The young
girls who are propositioned as they walk home from school? What about their
rights?
Prostitution
is an activity with far more negative than positive consequences for society
writ large. And that is why the Conservatives’ new prostitution bill strikes
the right balance between protecting prostitutes, punishing those who exploit
them and upholding the well-being of all those affected by the practice of the
world’s oldest “profession”.
Sexual violence represents a more personal
form of attack. It crosses the boundary between the physical and the emotional.
It represents a violation of spirit, not just flesh.
The
most important feature of the new bill is that it would criminalize the
purchase of sex, while not punishing the seller. At first blush, this is a
paradox. But it is grounded in the recognition that most of these transactions
are not actually voluntary.
The
power imbalance between seller and purchaser in the so-called ‘sex trade’ has
few parallels anywhere else in commerce. The shopowner selling oranges on the
street corner is usually not desperate to feed a drug habit, or terrified of a
pimp beating her to a pulp. The same cannot be said of the prostitute who
agrees to get into a car with a john. This transforms the “transaction” into a
form of abuse.
The
act of selling sex is a selling of the self, in the most intimate way possible.
A parallel can be drawn with the way the law differentiates between crimes
involving sex and those which do not, between sexual assault and simple
assault. Sexual violence represents a more personal form of attack. It crosses
the boundary between the physical and the emotional. It represents a violation
of spirit, not just flesh.
Critics
may dismiss these as moral judgements. But morality sits at the root of much of
our law. Morality is not the same as religion — it isn’t just the Ten
Commandments telling us not to kill or steal. Moral standards allow citizens to
live in harmony together. Some moral prohibitions are absolute (murder), others
less so (high school dress codes). Some evolve together: Greater respect for
human rights begat greater respect for particular rights, such as those of
women, gays and lesbians, and visible minorities.
Over
time, some changes in morality are positive, others not. So what of
prostitution? Should we remove all legal prohibition in the name of lessing its
stigma and protecting prostitutes, or of some type of moral evolution?
The
answer is no. Throughout history, prostitution has carried a stigma for a
reason. It is not a “profession” like any other. It goes to the heart of gender
relations, the couple, the family, and the community. And it demands a balance
between the rights of everyone it affects — not just those who sell sex, and
certainly not those who buy it.
Going
to the local brothel for a quickie should not be the same as going to Loblaw’s
to pick up a litre of milk. And if the Conservatives’ law is challenged in
court, so be it. Some standards are worth the fight.
Tasha
Kheiriddin is a political writer and broadcaster who frequently comments in
both English and French. In her student days, Tasha was active in youth
politics in her hometown of Montreal, eventually serving as national policy
director and then president of the Progressive Conservative Youth Federation of
Canada. After practising law and a stint in the government of Mike Harris,
Tasha became the Ontario director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and
co-wrote the 2005 bestseller, Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a
Conservative Revolution. Tasha moved back to Montreal in 2006 and served as
vice-president of the Montreal Economic Institute, and later director for
Quebec of the Fraser Institute, while also lecturing on conservative politics
at McGill University. Tasha now lives in Whitby, Ontario with her daughter
Zara, born in 2009.
The
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WHEN
I THINK OF PROSTITUTION- THINK OF SEX TRAFFICKING AND LITTLE GIRLS... 1000
FIRST NATIONS GIRLS DEAD - AND WHY CAN'T THERE BE A BETTER LIFE.... we used 2
volunteer the horrific red district on young street in Toronto in the 70s
trying 2 save teen girls and boys from vicious monsters who used and drained
their beautiful bodies and then threw them away.... DO NOT TELL ME PROSTITUTION
IS HONOURABLE WORK.... DO NOT TELL ME THAT PROSTITUTION NEEDS MORE
ATTENTION- look around u stupid... look
around u...... sex trafficking of 60 million girls and boys globally.... f**k u
and ur 'appropriate prostitution'..... f**k u
PHOTOS...this
is prostitution....
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill- Canada's Prime Minister MacKenzie King
INCREDIBLE
VIDEO FROM EURONEWS- O Canada
D-Day:
100-year-old Canadian veteran returns to the beaches
06/06
16:15 CET
‘‘They
were (the British soldiers) against the ramp. A group of them were drinking a
cup of coffee, or I should say tea. I had to tell the captain, ‘Listen, when
you’ve finished your tea, we need to move the dead as quickly as possible as
it’s no good for the morale of the troops coming in,’‘ said Ernest.
A
rapid allied advance was seen as crucial to gain a strong foothold on French
soil. But not everything went to plan.
‘‘The
goal was for the infantry to get eight kilometres inland on foot, like we say
in Latin, ‘Pedibus cum jambis’‘, but they didn’t get that far. So for the
fourth wave of soldiers we supplied them with at least 100 fold up bicycles so
they could reach their objective.’‘
The
Normandy Ernest now returns to is hardly recognisable compared to the one he
first saw all those years ago.
‘‘The
Canadians were the first to take German prisoners. They were cosseted by the
people of Normandy with Calvados and everything else. The French were
delighted, even though they had lost women and children and homes. The people
of Normandy really suffered and when we see the prosperity today it’s hard to
believe. This prosperity came from being released from the Nazi yoke.’‘
Ernest
says the ceremonies he has come to attend are largely for his fallen comrades,
and the ultimate price they paid for the world we live in today.
‘‘The
memory, unfortunately for me, is for those that lost their lives here, but what
do you want, freedom has a price and when you see these headstones perfectly
aligned, this is the sacrifice individuals made for freedom.’‘
From
Normandy, euronews’ Laurence Alexandrowicz reports: ‘‘The war memorial in Beny
Reviers in the peaceful Normandy countryside is extremely moving. More than
2,000 men have been laid to rest here, with the youngest Canadian who was
buried here being little more than 16 years old.’‘
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Canada's
Forgotten PoW Camps
While
few people remember it now, Canada was home to thousands of German and Italian
prisoners during the Second World War. With Britain fearful of a possible
invasion, more than 37,000 of their PoWs were transported to remote camps
across Canada. Over a seven-year period the prisoners basked in a unique brand
of Canadian hospitality, enjoying a lifestyle that convinced some to eventually
call Canada home. CBC Archives takes a look back at the reality of life behind
the Canadian barbed wire
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CANADA-
WWII- Canadian preparations
Canadian
preparations[edit]
Canada
D-Day - thank u merci- WWII- We Remember
CANADA'S
BROKEN HEART- #PrayForMoncton u can send condolences at the following address:
CANADA'S
BROKEN HEART-u can send condolences at the following
address: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/index-eng.htm#tabn1
#?PrayForMoncton? prayers
and tears... Our beautiful Canada...our beautiful Protectors of Canadians by
kill and run xbox/gameboy killer-
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1. The last secret of WW2: Operation
Keelhaul – Betrayal of ...
From
Surviving Lienz: A little-known story of betrayal and treachery
during Operation Keelhaul at the end of WWII will be revealed to
Canadians by
The
last secret of WW2: Operation Keelhaul – Betrayal of the Cossacks in Lienz
From
Surviving Lienz:
A little-known story of betrayal and
treachery during Operation Keelhaul at the end of WWII will be revealed to
Canadians by Professor Doctor Harald Stadler and author Anthony Schlega. They
will be visiting several Canadian cities from May 4–16, 2009 to raise awareness
of this shameful historical event, and funds for a memorial at the site of the
massacre in Lienz, Austria.
Sunday, May 10 – 6pm Holy at Trinity
Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Winnipeg, MB
Monday, May 11 – 6pm at Mohyla Institute in
Saskatoon, SK
Friday, May 15 – 6pm at Ukrainian Orthodox
Church of St. Elia in Edmonton
A
little background:
The Lienz Cossacks were ‘white Russians’
who’d fought bitterly against communism and the rise of the Soviet Union
following the Russian Revolution. During the Second World War, when Germany
invaded the Soviet Union, the Lienz Cossacks sided with the Nazis in order to
try the topple the communist regime and bring ‘freedom’ to their country.
The Lienz Cossacks who’d fought with the
Germans were rounded up by the British. It was up to the United Kingdom to
decide what to do with them.
Because of the brutality of the Cossack
soldiers, who had murdered and raped their way along with the SS and the German
army, the British wanted nothing to do with them and ‘repatriated’ these
‘Russians’ to the Soviet Union, where they ‘belonged.’
Trains and trucks were pulled up and
Cossack soldiers were forced into them. As were their wives, families and
children – many of whom were not even Russian, having been born in the years
after the Lienz Cossacks had left Russia.
The Cossacks didn’t go willingly. British
troops had to beat them into submission with billy clubs and rifle-butts.
Eventually, almost 35,000 Cossacks were transported to their ‘mother country’
where the Soviets ‘welcomed’ them.
The vast majority of them were sent
immediately to labor camps in Siberia, which were little better than the death
camps the Nazis had built. Almost all of the Lienz Cossacks ‘repatriated’ back
to Russia died in brutal suffering.
The ‘lucky’ ones didn’t even make it that
far. Because many of the Cossacks weren’t born in Russia (their parents had
left following the Russian Revolution) they were unable to be tried for treason
as Soviet Citizens. Therefore the Red Army saved themselves the hassle of a
military trial and executed them on the spot, with a bullet through the brains.
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No
more war in Ireland or Lebanon- In the
song, the narrator expresses despair over all of the violence and suffering she
reads about in newspapers and witnesses on TV news coverage, and notes how
wonderful it would be if, for just one day, the newspapers and television news
anchors had nothing to report, because "nothing bad happened today".
NOVA
SCOTIA'S ANNE MURRAY- A LITTLE GOOD NEWS- 1983
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let's
get our Red on Canada
We
Are Canadian Soldiers- LYRICS
Supporting
Our Canadian Troops !!!
Lyrics:
It's
time to strap out boots on,
This
is a perfect day to die,
Wipe
the blood out of our eyes.
In
this life there's no surrender,
There's
nothing left for us to do,
Find
the strength to see this through.
We
are the ones who will never be broken
With
our final breath, we'll fight to the death
We
Are Soldiers! We Are Soldiers!
Whoa,
Who-oh-oh-oa, Who-oh-ohhhhhhh-oh-oa
WE
ARE SOLDIERS!
I
stand here right beside you,
Tonight
we're fighting for ours lives,
Let
me hear your battlecry. Your Battlecry!
We
are the ones who will never be broken
With
our final breath, we'll fight to the death
We
Are Soldiers! We Are Soldiers!
We
are the ones who will not go unspoken(unspoken)
No
we will not sleep, we are not sheep
We
Are Soldiers! We Are Soldiers! Yeah!
We
stand shoulder to shoulder
We
stand shoulder to shoulder
We
stand shoulder to shoulder
You
can't erase us, you'll just have to face us!
We
stand shoulder to shoulder!
We
stand shoulder to shoulder!
We
stand shoulder to shoulder!
You
can't erase us, you'll just have to face us!
We
are the ones who will never be broken
With
our final breath, we'll fight to the death
We
Are Soldiers! We Are Soldiers!
We
are the ones who will not go unspoken(unspoken)
No
we will not sleep, we are not sheep
We
Are Soldiers! We Are Soldiers! Yeah!
Whoa!
Who-oh-oh-oa! Who-oh-ohhhhhhh-oh-oa!
We
Are Soldiers!
Whoa!
Who-oh-oh-oa! Who-oh-ohhhhhhh-oh-oa!
We
Are Soldiers!
Whoa!
Who-oh-oh-oa! Who-oh-ohhhhhhh-oh-oa!
We
Are Soldiers!
We
Are Canadian Soldiers
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Incredible
historical video and voice of angels- by Canadian Students- 2 honour our troops
From WWI, WWII right on 2 and including Afghanistan- of our Military, Militia,
Reservists, Special Forces, Rangers... and Merchant Seamen
Proud
Canadian Soldier
Uploaded
on 9 Mar 2008
In
response to high casualties suffered by Hotel company in 2007 Malvern
Collegiate responded by sending a flag to Hotel signed by the school. On
returning home Hotel Company returned the flag to the school where it will
forever hang in the halls and be flown every Remembrance Day This is the story
of that flag and a video that was sent from the school to the soldiers with the
flag
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Taliban
prisoners’ families release video, call for help
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BLOGGED:
SAD
COMMENTARY OF OUR WORLD- Half the educated on planet no jobs- other half no
food- and world is abuzz on Crimea while Syria eats itself and women reduced
2... still nothing- we need a new world order that's not 80%male and white
don't u think
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blogged:
FROM
CANADA WITH LOVE- Animals, Children and Watermelon Wine... and love 2 our
troops- have a good week end March 2014- OUR NATION'S FLAG HISTORY
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BLOGGED:
WELCOME
2 CANADA-Come2Canada Irish youth- EU Youth and work -study- we'd love 2 have u-
a land of immigrants- 36million people 2nd largest country on planet- come work
here or/and study- GET UR CANADA ON -Come on Asians, Europeans, Africans,
Middle East, Balkins- get ur education- get good jobs -Get ur Canada on..and a
bit o history of the Maritimes 2 -come on -we'd love 2 have ya/updates April
2014-
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blogged:
IDLE
NO MORE CANADA- One Billion Rising- Breaking the Chains- Global abuse of
Aboriginals First Peoples- Canada/USA/Australia/New Zealand/Latin America -
UNITED NATIONS SHAME- all politicans have betrayed Canadians 10,000 year
peoples
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BLOGGED:
CANADA
MILITARY NEWS: Oct 2013-POPE FRANCIS-cover of Rolling Stone-Time-The Advocate
winning the hearts of billions Jan 2014- Our Catholic-Christian Faith in
Canada/Pope Francis and Canada's love of our CANADA GAY MILITARY CHAPLAIN
GENERAL and our military/love of our Jewish and Muslim brothers and sisters and
our Canadian history/Dr.Lockeridge 1976/Latin/Rosary - we are Canadian -God is
Angry- WATER MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD- Pope Francis
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BLOGGED:
CANADA
MILITARY NEWS: Gloria Steinem and Marlo Thomas called Canada's Women and girls
the bravest in the world back in our days of 60s, 70s and 80s- and we raised
our sons 2 treat women and children better- Please don't let us down- March 8-
International Women's Day is everyday- no more excuses students- no more
excuses- Loretta Saunders 4 u/Rita MacNeil Warrior Woman/BLOGS /DAILY UPDATES
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"Walk
A Mile In My Shoes"
(As
recorded by Joe South)
If
I could be you and you could be me for just one hour
If
we could find a way to get inside each other's mind
If
you could see me through your eyes instead of your ego
I
believe you'd be surprised to see that you'd been blind.
Walk
a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
And
before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk
a mile in my shoes.
Now
your whole world you see around you is just a reflection
And
the law of common says you reap just what you sow
So
unless you've lived a life of total perfection
You'd
better be careful of every stone that you throw.
Walk
a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
And
before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk
a mile in my shoes.
And
yet we spend the day throwing stones at one another
'Cause
I don't think or wear my hair the same way you do
Well
I may be common people but I'm your brother
And
when you strike out and try to hurt me its a-hurtin' you.
Walk
a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
And
before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk
a mile in my shoes.
There
are people on reservations and out in the ghettos
And
brother there but for the grace of God go you and I
If
I only had the wings of a little angel
Don't
you know I'd fly to the top of the mountain, and then I'd cry.
Walk
a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
And
before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk
a mile in my shoes.
JOE
SOUTH- " WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES "
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HOMELESS
HARLEY LAWRENCE OF NOVA SCOTIA- MURDERED DOWN ON MAIN- We must do better Nova
Scotia- Canada- we just must- tears and prayers -a little good news-MAY 2014-
CATCHING MONSTERS
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