O Canada - French Version by Canada First Nations
Statement
by the Honourable Bal Gosal, Minister of State (Sport), on the Announcement of
the Nominees to the 2014 Canadian Olympic Ski Jumping Team
OTTAWA,
Jan. 26, 2014 /CNW/ - I offer my heartfelt congratulations to the ski jumping
athletes who have been named to the 2014 Canadian Olympic Team.
The
athletes named to the 2014 Canadian Olympic ski jumping team are Mackenzie
Boyd-Clowes, Dusty Korek, Atsuko Tanaka, Alexandra Pretorius, and Taylor
Henrich. They are all from Calgary, Alberta.
Our
athletes are an enormous source of pride for all Canadians. That is why our
Government is proud to provide continued support for Olympic sports and our
Canadian Olympic athletes who will proudly represent this great nation on the
world stage.
As
Minister of State (Sport), I wish all these athletes the very best of success
as they prepare to represent Canada next month in Sochi, Russia. This is an
incredible milestone in your sport careers, and all Canadians will be cheering
for you and your teammates in your pursuit of world-class athletic excellence
at the Olympic Winter Games.
SOURCE
Canadian Heritage
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Canada,
struggling to emerge from a two-year slump brought on by weak exports, has
swept past the U.S., Germany and Japan in a Bloomberg ranking of the best
countries for doing business. Canada rose four places to reach second place,
behind only Hong Kong, which led for a third straight year. The U.S. fell one
[…]
Canada's No 1 folks- Canada Passes U.S. in Bloomberg Ease of Business Ranking
Canada Passes U.S. in Bloomberg Ease of Business
Ranking
By Theophilos
Argitis Jan 21, 2014 6:01 PM ET
Canada,
struggling to emerge from a two-year slump brought on by weak exports, has
swept past the U.S., Germany and Japan in a Bloomberg ranking of the best countries for doing business.
Canada
rose four places to reach second place, behind only Hong Kong, which led for a
third straight year. The U.S. fell one spot to third place in the index that’s
based on six criteria, followed by Singapore and Australia.
The
rise in the ranking for Canada reflects recent corporate tax cuts and the
impact of a weakening dollar that policy makers are projecting will help the
world’s 11th-largest economy rebound from weaker-than-expected exports. A
falling dollar lowers input costs relative to competitors, while the tax cuts
helped make investments more profitable.
“Those
are two big factors,” said John Manley, a former Canadian finance minister
who is now head of the Ottawa-based Canadian Council of Chief Executives.
“Compared with a lot of the world, we have a pretty good story to tell.”
After
rising for much of the previous decade, Canada’s currency has depreciated since
2011, amid weakening commodity prices and as investors regained confidence in
the U.S. economy. The drop has accelerated since October, when the
Bank
of Canada dropped its bias for higher interest
rates, a move that Prime Minister Stephen
Harper endorsed. The dollar is down 14 percent from its
post-recession high on July 21, 2011 and has dropped 6.2 percent since the
bank’s Oct. 22 announcement.
Harper
has also sought to bolster the expansion with tax cuts, trade deals such as the
recently announced pact with the European Union and efforts to build energy
infrastructure.
Tax
Cuts
Harper,
in power since 2006, gradually cut the rate to 15 percent from above 22
percent, a move opposition lawmakers have said is unaffordable when the
government is running deficits.
Thomas
Mulcair, leader of the main opposition New Democratic Party, said in
a March interview he would increase corporate tax rates to fund social programs
if he took power, claiming the cuts have benefited primarily the country’s
largest companies.
Royal Bank of Canada, Suncor
Energy Inc. (SU), Bank of Nova
Scotia, Toronto-Dominion Bank and Bank of Montreal are the country’s
five largest corporate payers of income taxes, according to data compiled by
Bloomberg.
Lower
corporate taxes helped fuel federal shortfalls that are poised to top C$160
billion ($146 billion) between 2008 and 2015, according to finance department
projections released in November.
Manley
said its important not to become complacent, and is urging the federal
government to pay “close attention” to training and skills issues,
infrastructure development and make sure trade agreements get implemented.
“Competitiveness
is one of those things that you could never say you’ve achieved it,” Manley
said. “Holding on to No. 2 is not going to be easy.”
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Canada
News.Net - Saturday 25th January, 2014
To
commemorate the one hundred years of the 1914 Komagata Maru incident, when 376
Punjabi immigrants on a ship from India were denied entry to Canada, a museum
in this country is launching a year-long exhibition on the event from Jan 30.
The Sikh Heritage Museum in Abbotsford city in the Canadian province of British
Columbia is launching the year-long exhibition that takes an extensive look at
...
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Examiner
- Saturday 25th January, 2014
ESPN
, Maxence Parrot of Cowansville, Quebec won a gold medal in the Winter X Games
in Aspen, Colorado for the second straight day on Saturday when he finished
first in the men's slopestyle snowboarding final. Parrot, who won the Big Air
Final on Friday, put down a score of 96.33 points to beat his Canadian Olympic
teammate Mark McMorris of Regina, Saskatchewan by 0.67 points. Stale ...
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Examiner
- Saturday 25th January, 2014
International
Luge Federation website , Alex Gough of Calgary won a silver medal on Saturday
in a women's World Cup luge competition in Sigulda, Latvia. Gough's silver
medal is key because it comes with less than two weeks from the start of the
2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Gough posted a time of 1:24.052 to place in
the second position. Kate Hansen of the United States won the ...
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CHINA-
THE YEAR OF THE HORSE
CBC
News - Saturday 25th January, 2014
Calgary's
Chinese community is celebrating the Year of the Horse this weekend and is
inviting the public to come and experience the festivities. The Calgary Chinese
Cultural Centre will host a variety of activities and events over Saturday and
Sunday. This year's theme project is what's called a "bun fun" tree
-- a tree-like construction with more than 2,000 Chinese ...
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This
is just so horrible.... so horrible
The
Star - Saturday 25th January, 2014
An
emergency worker digs through the remains of the senior residence Residence du
Havre in L'Isle Verte, Quebec, January 25, 2014. REUTERS/Mathieu ...
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nb:
Canada population 36 million USA 320
million people
Canada’s economy: Dull and plodding, but prudently
avoiding America’s extremes
·
By David T Jones
| David vs. David
– Fri, 24 Jan, 2014
It
is almost difficult to remember the pre-2008 era of impregnable optimism for
the U.S. economy and with it, the global economies generally.
It
was indeed a period of “irrational exuberance” as then-Federal Reserve Board
Chairman Alan Greenspan put it, but was based on what were believed to be
economic verities: that inflation was under control; that real estate had
“sky’s the limit” prospects; that banks/loans/mortgages were adroitly attended
by gimlet-eyed accountants; and that tweaks and twitches by government would
resolve any peripheral economic problems.
But
then the U.S. economy (along with much of the West) crashed and burned in 2008;
it is still struggling to extricate itself from the mire. We are a long/long
way from reaching equivalence with the economy of the mid-2000 decade.
For
the United States, start-the-new-year optimism has taken counsel of its hopes.
Inflation has remained low and the Fed has apparently decided to stop pumping
money into the economy. The stock market has recovered from 2008 its nadir.
Analysts have battened on slightly lower unemployment numbers and slightly
better GNP growth projections. But these latter statistics are more chimera
than reality. Lower unemployment has been driven by people leaving the
workforce — just completely giving up. If we used calculations comparable to
those in Europe where all individuals eligible to work but not working are
counted, U.S. unemployment would be over 12 rather than seven per cent.
And
the American public understands this reality. Polls continue to reflect the
majority of the population believes we are still in recession. They ignore the
technical parameters defining “recession” — they simply know that friends are
out of work, claiming disability, or too old to get jobs paying wages
comparable to jobs they’ve lost; children are still living in their basements
“working” as unpaid interns; others are hiding out in graduate schools
attempting to obtain credentials that will give them a start (but accumulating
debt) while ruing the idiocy of their sociology-literature-philosophy-art
history liberal arts degree. Too many homes are still “under water” — with
mortgages greater than their residence value. Private investment remains low;
the construction industry isn’t constructing. And Americans sense that
Obamacare is going to send already high medical costs even higher.
And
our never-ending annual budget deficit, let alone the spiraling national debt
that 20 generations couldn’t amortize, is barely mentioned. If the deficit has
narrowed slightly, it reflects the highly unpopular “sequestration”
meat-cleaver reductions driven by Republicans.
We
are caught in an existential political divide: Republicans reject higher taxes;
Democrats reject recalibrating social services. And the expectation that
“boomers” moving into retirement — requiring the medical assistance, pensions,
and general societal support necessary for outliving their body’s design
expectations — presses ever harder on an economy system can no longer deliver.
We
are facing a cruel reality: the United States might be able to have the world’s
greatest armed forces or the world’s best medical system, but cannot pay for
both. And, in our struggles with Obamacare, and military downsizing, we are
about to confront this reality.
And
Canada is stuck — living alongside us where a benign symbiosis has suddenly
become, not toxic, but problematic.
If
anything, Canada is almost deliberately hobbling itself by its refusal to
exploit natural resources adroitly. Canadian environmentalists have never
conceived of a pipeline they couldn’t excoriate. And President Obama’s
continued delay in deciding to approve the Keystone Pipeline begins to appear
more malicious than judicious.
Canada,
somewhat blithely and with a little more rooster-crowing than absolutely
necessary, has done very well indeed. Almost every economic parameter has
exceeded the OECD norm, resulting in gnashing-of-teeth by the opposition, which
has been reduced to the equivalent of saying “we would have done it
faster/better — and kept the GST as well. And Prime Minister Harper isn’t as
cuddly as Just-in-time Trudeau.”
By
having outsourced its defense requirements to the United States, Canada has
substantially reduced what a country of its population and economic strength
would normally expend. And by running a “dull” banking system, Canada avoided
spectacular fiscal leaps — but also the depth-defying plunges resulting from
errors of too-clever-by-half financial analysts/bankers.
Careful,
cautious, prudent, dull — but correct. That is the projection of the Canadian
economy as it plods toward an election with finances designed to show budgetary
surplus (with some voter-attracting but still prudent spending).
If
anything, Canada is almost deliberately hobbling itself by its refusal to
exploit natural resources adroitly. Canadian environmentalists have never
conceived of a pipeline they couldn’t excoriate. And President Obama’s
continued delay in deciding to approve the Keystone Pipeline begins to appear
more malicious than judicious.
We
are moving again toward a bilateral relationship characterized as “best friends
— like it or not.” With the subtitle of “with friends like this…”
We
will thrash our way out of this morass; it hasn’t been quick or easy, but it
will happen.
(Photo
courtesy The Canadian Press)
David
T. Jones
is a retired State Department Senior Foreign Service Career Officer and a
frequent contributor to American Diplomacy. During a career that spanned over
30 years, he concentrated on politico-military issues, serving for the Army
Chief of Staff. He is co-author of Uneasy Neighbor(u)rs, a study of
American-Canadian bilateral concerns and has published several hundred
articles, columns, and reviews on U.S. - Canadian bilateral issues and general
foreign policy.
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Kuwait
to adopt Canadian model in dealing with auto-road accidents Al-Obaidi meets
with team of Canadian health providers
KUWAIT
CITY, Jan 25, (KUNA): Kuwait needs to adopt the Canadian approach to dealing
with the ubiquity of hospital care for auto-accident patients, said Minister of
Health Ali Al-Obaidi, while meeting here on Saturday with a team of Canadian
health providers.
The
Canadian model, he told KUNA, was instrumental in reducing deaths as a result
of road accidents from 50 percent in 1993 to 18 percent in 1998 to 9 percent in
2002, reaching to as low as 4 percent currently. It is incumbent on the
Ministry of Health to apply this model to reduce the enormous rate of
fatalities on Kuwaiti roads and highways, he said, noting that cooperation with
Canadian specialists would go far in achieving more manageable rates of
fatalities.
On
his part the ministry’s Undersecretary for Technical Tasks Dr Jamal Al-Harbi
told KUNA that ministry officials discussed with the visiting Canadian team the
possibility of sending Kuwaiti physicians to Canadian hospitals to get
expertise on treating patients of road accidents and on developing effective
methods of treatment of patients in intensive care units (ICUs). He further
said the ministry of health also sought to learn from the Canadians the best
ways to run outpatient clinics with the emphasis on reducing the frequency of
their use by recurrent patients.
The
visiting Canadian team of health providers conducted in their current visit to
the country a number of lectures and seminars and workshops directed at local
physicians, nursing staff, and medical technicians, said Dr Reda Jenna, head of
medical emergencies at Adan Hospital, adding that the Canadian team apprised
the local health givers of the latest methods in dealing with emergency room
care. On its part, the Canadian team spoke favorably of the health care system
in Kuwait while noting that it could progress easily through extensive training
programs and boosting the spirit of team work
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More
than 1,000 Saudi scholarship students graduate from Canada
·
EFFORTS
PAY OFF: Saudi scholarship students at a graduation ceremony in Ottawa. (AN
photo)
RIYADH:
KHALID TAWALBEH
Published
— Sunday 26 January 2014
Minister
of Higher Education Khaled Al-Anqari sponsored the graduation ceremony of 1,043
male and female scholarship students under the fourth graduating class of the
King Abdullah Foreign Scholarship Program in Ottawa, Canada.
The ceremony was attended by Osama Al-Sanusi, undersecretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Nayef Al-Sudairi, Saudi ambassador to Canada; and senior officials. Al-Sudairi applauded the vision of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah in boosting education.
Al-Anqari said that during its first year, the scholarship program sent 5,000 scholarship students to America and that the program now has more than 150,000 students in various disciplines in over 30 countries. The scholarship program has seen 55,000 students graduate since its inception.
Al-Anqari said the scholarship program emphasizes the Kingdom’s initiatives for establishing principles of constructive dialogue between cultures and civilizations.
The ceremony was attended by Osama Al-Sanusi, undersecretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Nayef Al-Sudairi, Saudi ambassador to Canada; and senior officials. Al-Sudairi applauded the vision of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah in boosting education.
Al-Anqari said that during its first year, the scholarship program sent 5,000 scholarship students to America and that the program now has more than 150,000 students in various disciplines in over 30 countries. The scholarship program has seen 55,000 students graduate since its inception.
Al-Anqari said the scholarship program emphasizes the Kingdom’s initiatives for establishing principles of constructive dialogue between cultures and civilizations.
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GOD
BLESS THE VICTIMS OF CANADA- IT'S TIME- FINALLY
Tory 'Tough-On-Crime' Law Stands, Thief's Appeal
Rejected By Top Court
CP | By The
Canadian Press Posted: 01/24/2014 12:24 pm EST | Updated: 01/24/2014 7:59 pm
EST
OTTAWA
- The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed the appeal of a convicted thief who
tried to use the Conservative government's Truth in Sentencing Act to reduce
his jail sentence.
It's
the first time the Supreme Court has ruled on the government's controversial
tough-on-crime bill, but the case likely won't be precedent-setting.
The
high court was confined to a narrow issue surrounding how the law should be
retroactively applied to offences committed before it came into force.
In a
rare ruling from the bench today, the court dismissed the appeal of a petty
criminal from Toronto who argued that he deserved greater credit for pre-trial
custody.
Calvin
Clarke unsuccessfully argued that even though he was formally charged after the
act came into force, he deserved credit because he actually committed the
offences prior to that.
The
Supreme Court issued a short, verbal ruling from the bench — a rare occurrence
— and said reasons would follow in the coming days.
On
Feb. 20, 2010, two days before the act came into force, Clarke and an
accomplice broke into a Toronto apartment because they wanted to steal a
flat-screen TV.
They
came across 40 to 50 prohibited firearms, so they stole those too.
Two
days later, police arrested the accomplice, and he confessed and implicated
Clarke.
Clarke
was arrested and formally charged three weeks after the act had been on the
books.
At
his sentencing hearing in January 2011, Clarke argued that he deserved leniency
on his sentence, and should be given double the credit for pretrial custody.
The
Tories' act did away with the old practice of giving two-for-one, pre-trial
detention credit.
The
Ontario Attorney General successfully argued that if the high court accepted
that argument it would "manufacture ambiguity where there is none."
Police
managed to recover only 11 of the 40 to 50 stolen firearms
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President
Obama: Stop kicking Canada around
Fixated
as we Americans are on Canada’s three most attention-getting exports – polar
vortexes, Alberta clippers and the antics of Toronto’s addled mayor – we’ve
somewhat overlooked a major feature of Canada’s current relations with the
United States: extreme annoyance.
Last
week, speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Canada’s foreign minister
calmly but pointedly complained that the U.S. owes Canada a response on the
Keystone XL pipeline. “We can’t continue in this state of limbo,” he sort of
complained, in what for a placid, imperturbable Canadian passes for an
explosion of volcanic rage.
Canadians
may be preternaturally measured and polite, but they simply can’t believe how
they’ve been treated by President Obama – left hanging humiliatingly on an
issue whose merits were settled years ago.
Canada,
the Saudi Arabia of oil sands, is committed to developing this priceless
resource. Its natural export partner is the United States. But crossing the
border requires State Department approval, which means the president decides
yes or no.
After
three years of review, the State Department found no significant
environmental risk to Keystone. Nonetheless, the original route was changed to
assuage concerns regarding the Ogallala Aquifer. Obama withheld approval
through the 2012 election. To this day he has issued no decision.
The
Canadians are beside themselves. After five years of manufactured delay, they
need a decision one way or the other because if denied a pipeline south, they
could build a pipeline west to the Pacific. China would buy their oil in a New
York minute.
Yet
John Kerry fumblingly says he is awaiting yet another environmental report. He
offered no decision date.
If
Obama wants to cave to his environmental left, go ahead. But why keep Canada in
limbo? It’s a show of supreme and undeserved disrespect for yet another ally.
It seems not enough to have given the back of the hand to Britain, Israel,
Poland and the Czech Republic, and to have so enraged the Saudis that they actually
rejected a Security Council seat – disgusted as they were with this
administration’s remarkable combination of fecklessness and highhandedness.
Must we crown this run of diplomatic malpractice with gratuitous injury to
Canada, our most reliable, most congenial friend in the world?
And
for what? This is not a close call. The Keystone case is almost absurdly open
and shut.
Even
if you swallow everything the environmentalists tell you about oil sands, the
idea that blocking Keystone will prevent their development by Canada is
ridiculous. Canada sees its oil sands as a natural bounty and key strategic
asset. Canada will not leave it in the ground.
Where's
the environmental gain in blocking Keystone? The oil will be produced and the
oil will be burned. If it goes to China, the Pacific pipeline will carry the
same environmental risks as a U.S. pipeline.
And
Alberta oil still can go to the U.S., if not by pipeline then by rail, which
requires no State Department approval. That would result in far more greenhouse
gas emissions – exactly the opposite of what the environmentalists are seeking.
Moreover,
rail can be exceedingly dangerous. Last year a tanker train derailed and
exploded en route through Quebec. The fireball destroyed half of downtown
Lac-Megantic, killing 47, many incinerated beyond recognition.
This
isn’t theoretical environmentalism. This is not a decrease in snail darter
population. This is 47 dead human beings. More recently, we’ve had two rail-oil
accidents within the U.S., one near Philadelphia and one in North Dakota.
Add
to this the slam-dunk strategic case for Keystone: Canadian oil reduces our
dependence on the volatile Middle East, shifting petroleum power from OPEC and
the killing zones of the Middle East to North America. What more reliable
source of oil could we possibly have than Canada?
Keystone
has left Canada very upset, though characteristically relatively quiet.
Canadians may have succeeded in sublimating every ounce of normal human
hostility and unpleasantness by way of hockey fights, but that doesn’t mean we
should take advantage of their good manners.
The
only rationale for denying the pipeline is political – to appease Obama’s more
extreme environmentalists. For a president who claims not to be ideological,
the irony is striking: Here is an easily available piece of infrastructure –
privately built, costing government not a penny, creating thousands of jobs
and, yes, shovel ready – and yet the president, who’s been incessantly pushing
new “infrastructure” as a fundamental economic necessity, can’t say yes.
Well
then, Mr. President, say something. You owe Canada at least that. Up or
down. Five years is long enough.
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Canada
contributes over six mln euro to OPCW for descturction of Syrian chemical
weapons
BRUSSELS,
Jan 24 (KUNA) -- The Canadian government has announced a voluntary contribution
of CAD 10 million (about 6.6 million euro) to the Trust Fund of the
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for destroying Syrian
chemical weapons.
The contribution will add to 13 million euro that OPCW Member States have already provided to the Trust Fund to date, with more than 21 million euro in additional pledges, said the OPCW in a press release at the Hague Friday night.
"I wish to thank Canada for its generosity and solidarity," said the OPCW Director-General Ambassador Ahmet Uzumcu.
"Such cooperation, by all the Member States and organizations contributing to the Trust Fund, is vital if we are to achieve the ambitious target of eliminating Syria's chemical weapons programme by mid-2014," he added. (end)
The contribution will add to 13 million euro that OPCW Member States have already provided to the Trust Fund to date, with more than 21 million euro in additional pledges, said the OPCW in a press release at the Hague Friday night.
"I wish to thank Canada for its generosity and solidarity," said the OPCW Director-General Ambassador Ahmet Uzumcu.
"Such cooperation, by all the Member States and organizations contributing to the Trust Fund, is vital if we are to achieve the ambitious target of eliminating Syria's chemical weapons programme by mid-2014," he added. (end)
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CANADA MILITARY NEWS: This
Muslim on Muslim hate wars destroying our planet/Arabs and Persians and their
hate factions are killing millions of innocent Muslims- and the world is tired
of this shit
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when ur VIDEO GAMEBOY KILLERS- butchering innocents in Muslim on Muslim wars
return home 2UR 'civilized' nations from Muslim on Muslim on let's just kill
wars???/F**KING PAEDOPHILES/INDIA RAPES THEIR DAUGHTERS FREES THEIR SONS
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Canada’s
Afghanistan mission: 100 days of photos
This
special photo gallery, stretching back to March 2002, contains pictures from
the Canadian military’s archives, some of which have never been seen by the
public
Day
19 of #100 images: A photo taken in October 2010 by Master Cpl. Shilo Adamson
shows a battle tank in the field during a counter-insurgency mission in
Kandahar province at dawn. A Canadian soldier silhouetted in a helmet sits atop
the massive vehicle.
View
6 photos
zoom
Corp.
Shilo Adamson
Day
19 of #100 images: A photo taken in October 2010 by Master Cpl. Shilo Adamson
shows a battle tank in the field during a counter-insurgency mission in
Kandahar province at dawn. A Canadian soldier silhouetted in a helmet sits atop
the massive vehicle.
By:
Donovan Vincent News reporter, Published on Tue Jan 07 2014
The
photographs are compelling, poignant and intended to serve as a reminder of the
sacrifice our Canadian troops made in Afghanistan.
The
Canadian military is marking its last 100 days in Afghanistan with a special
online gallery featuring photos from the field. Among the pictures featured so
far: our troops conducting training exercises with Afghan soldiers, Canadian
fighters in Kandahar tearfully carrying the casket of a fallen comrade, a
comical shot of members of a Canadian regiment pushing a car driven by an
Afghan citizen in Kabul, the vehicle stuck in heavy snow.
The
gallery is intended as a recap of Canada’s mission in Afghanistan, which wraps
up at the end of March, says Captain Indira Thackorie, a spokesperson with
Canadian Joint Operations Command. She is one of the organizers of the gallery.
Photos
View photos
Day 2 of #100images: Ship formation in the
Gulf of Oman during Operation Apollo, Canada's initial contribution to the
mission in Afghanistan. zoom
The
first picture in the gallery was taken March 14, 2002, in Bagram, and shows
members of the 3rd Battalion, Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry carrying their
supplies in preparation for combat in Gardez, as part of Operation Anaconda.
The
photo marked one of the first combat missions for Canadian troops since the
Korean War.
More
on thestar.com
Canadian
troops mark last holiday in Afghanistan
Canadian
military looks at video games for training
Canada
evolves from peacekeeper to war-fighter
Some
of the gallery photos have been shown in the past in media reports, Canadian
government releases and websites, or during Canadian military events. But some
are from the Canadian military’s archives and have never been seen before by
the public. The pictures were taken by assigned military photographers, or
soldiers themselves.
Each
day the gallery will feature a new photo. Organizers intend to capture a
variety of aspects: the Canadian Navy, or Army, or Air Force involvement in
Afghanistan, male and female soldiers stationed there, early days of the
mission to present times, reconstruction efforts, combat, etc.
The
Canadian Forces started the gallery, which can also be seen on the Star’s
website, a few weeks ago. The military is also posting an image a day on
Twitter, using the hash tag #100images.
Master
Cpl. Shilo Adamson, an image technician who served in Afghanistan briefly in
late 2010, was assigned to take photographs with her Nikon D3. One of her
pictures, set to run in the gallery Thursday, was taken in October 2010, and
shows a Leopard main battle tank in the field during a counter-insurgency
mission in Kandahar province.
A
Canadian soldier silhouetted in a helmet sits atop the massive vehicle. The
picture was taken around 5 a.m.
“I
almost missed the photo. It (the tank) was behind me, but I saw it and thought
‘Oh my God, I have to take a picture of that,’ ” Adamson said in an interview
Tuesday.
Canada’s
military commitment in Afghanistan began in the months after the Sept. 11,
2001, terror attacks in the U.S.
Since
2011, when Canada’s combat role ceased, our military activities in Afghanistan
have consisted of training Afghans. From now until next month about 100
Canadian soldiers will remain there until the mission ends.
According
to defence department figures, 138 soldiers were killed in action during the
mission, another 20 died from other causes; 635 were wounded and a further
1,436 soldiers suffered non-battle injuries. These include soldiers injured in
traffic accidents, other accidental injuries and those returned home for
medical reasons.
With
files from Bruce Campion-Smith
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Carleton
University Presents the Indigenous Human Library
by
aanationtalk
on January 23, 2014
January
22, 2014
Instead
of borrowing a printed book, participants in the Indigenous Human Library will
have the opportunity to borrow a “human book” and have a conversation.
Participants can connect with First Nations, Inuit and Métis people, and listen
to their unique set of life experiences, stories and knowledge.
Carleton’s
Indigenous Human Library is like a normal library – participants will have the
opportunity to sit with a human book for 30 minutes. Book reservations for
specific time slots will be available the day of the event, starting at 3:30pm
in the University Centre’s Galleria.
Readers
are expected to respect the books and return them in the same mental, physical,
spiritual and emotional condition as they found them. Readers should keep an
open mind and ask questions within the book’s discussion topic. Readers must
also accept that books can say: “That chapter isn’t in this book” or simply end
the conversation at any time.
When:
Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Where: Baker’s Grill, Fourth Floor, University Centre
Where: Baker’s Grill, Fourth Floor, University Centre
Website
with list of available books and other details: http://carleton.ca/aboriginal/cu-events/indigenous-human-library/
Note:
Book reservations will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration for
human book readings will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Galleria.
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For
more information
Naomi Sarazin
(613) 520-2600 ext. 1468
naomi.sarazin@carleton.ca
Naomi Sarazin
(613) 520-2600 ext. 1468
naomi.sarazin@carleton.ca
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Column One: Canada takes its place at the table
01/23/2014
21:48
Under
Stephen Harper, as the noose of int'l isolation is drawn around Israel’s neck
more tightly every day, Canada has emerged as an outspoken supporter and
defender of the Jewish state.
Canada's
Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses Knesset, January 20, 2014. Photo:
KNESSET
During
a press conference with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, an
Israeli reporter asked visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, “Is
Canada paying a price for being so supportive of Israel? Is it possible to
support Israel and still have ties to the Arab world?”
This
question goes to the heart of what is generally perceived as Israel’s greatest
weakness. The Arab boycott of Israel and of companies doing business with
Israel has served as one of the most potent weapons in the anti-Israel arsenal
for over a generation. Indeed, since the OPEC oil embargo in 1974, it has been
the Arabs’ single most powerful weapon in their unceasing campaign for the
destruction of the Jewish state.
It was Arab economic bullying that forced African nations to cut their ties with the Jewish state.
It was Arab economic bullying that forced African nations to cut their ties with the Jewish state.
It
was the Arab use of the oil weapon after the 1973 Yom Kippur War that convinced
Western Europe to end its diplomatic support for Israel and throw in with the
PLO.
More
than anything else, it is the Arab economic boycott of companies that do
business with Israel that has eroded Israel’s diplomatic standing over the past
two generations and transformed the only human rights respecting democracy in
the Middle East into an international pariah.
And
yet, under Stephen Harper, as the noose of international isolation is drawn
around Israel’s neck more tightly every day, Canada has emerged as an outspoken
supporter and defender of the Jewish state.
So
in essence, the Israeli reporter’s question to Harper could easily be rephrased
as, “Are you crazy?”
Harper
responded to the question by rejecting its premises – that the Arab world
behaves as a bloc, and that standing up for your convictions is a losing
proposition when those convictions involve taking unpopular stands.
As
he put it, “I wouldn’t want to say there is no price, but my general view of
the world is that people respect your view, if you express it appropriately and
they understand it’s genuine….The fact of the matter is, Canada has deep
relations with many Arab countries…. And frankly [there are] many matters where
we probably far more often agree than disagree. So look, I don’t think it’s
automatically the view that if you have a particular issue where you disagree,
that this needs to rupture relationships irrevocably.”
In
other words, what Harper acknowledged was that yes, Canada has lost contracts
in some Arab countries due to its support for Israel. But by and large, it
hasn’t taken a serious hit.
The
obvious follow-up question would have been to ask if Canada gains anything from
its support for Israel that can compensate for the economic hits it takes for
it.
The
answer to that question is yes, Canada, and other countries that support Israel
now, when such support is more notable than it was in the past, do gain
significantly from their actions. This is true on two levels.
First,
economically, Israel is in a far different position than it was 20 years ago.
During Harper’s visit, Canada and Israel updated their free trade agreement and
signed a number of other agreements enhancing cooperation in multiple fields.
As
Netanyahu said, “I think that cooperation makes us both stronger and more
prosperous and more secure countries.”
Canada
isn’t alone in recognizing the economic potential of good ties with Israel.
Consider Norway.
For
the past 15 years, Norway has distinguished itself as a trailblazer in the
European bid to isolate Israel politically and wage economic warfare against
it. Norway was among the first European countries to divest from Israeli
companies. Its trade unions have been leading purveyors of anti-Israel
propaganda and economic warfare.
Last
fall Norway elected a new conservative government. And under the leadership of
Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Norway is seeking to rebuild its ties with Israel.
Just after the election, the Israeli embassy in Oslo hosted a meeting of
Norwegian and Israeli businessmen. Norway’s new finance minister is interested
in cooperation between Norway’s oil industry and Israel’s new natural gas
sector.
Norway’s
new minister of culture, Thorhild Widvey, held a workshop for 160 Norwegian
television producers with Israeli producers who successfully sold Israeli
series to the US market.
Disowning
the boycott Israel movement, Widvey said, “We don’t see the boycott as an
effective tool to promote positive change.”
Today,
the economies of the Arab world are collapsing. Fracking technologies are
lowering demand for Middle Eastern oil. Political instability is drying up
foreign investment and tourism. And local universities are incapable of
producing graduates able to function in the global economy.
As a
consequence, the Arabs’ capacity to intimidate governments into rejecting the
economic benefits Israel has to offer is steadily decreasing.
Israel’s
ability to compensate for potential loss of Arab business is not the main
reason why supporting Israel helps Canada. Far more importantly for Canada,
support for Israel gives Ottawa a say in global affairs. Canada today has the
power to shape the global agenda to a degree it never had before.
Until
Harper came along, Canada’s foreign policy was mainly characterized by Ottawa’s
enthusiasm for all UN-related things. But Canada’s involvement in the UN never
bought it a place at the table.
Down
south in Washington, to the extent anyone thought about Canada at all outside
the contexts of oil, beer and hockey, it was considered a run-of-the-mill NATO
ally which occasionally expressed mild hostility to US power.
Under
Harper’s leadership, Canada has become a player in the global arena for the
first time. And this achievement owes in large part to his decision to support
Israel.
Since
the US became the leader of the free world at the end of World War II, several
of its loyal allies built up their international position by exerting moral
leadership and so convincing – through inspiration or shame – Washington to
follow their example.
Britain
is the prime example of this model. Both Winston Churchill and Margaret
Thatcher won Britain a place at the table by staking out moral and strategic
positions on Communism and other issues that the US was unable to reject
without openly breaking with its own interests and stated goals.
Israel
has also managed to stake out a position on the global stage – currently on the
issue of Iran’s nuclear weapons program – by pointing out the contradictions
between the US’s national interest of cultivating a stable Middle East and its
current policy of mollycoddling the mullahs in Tehran while facilitating their
nuclear weapons program.
By
standing with Israel, Canada is filling a part of the leadership vacuum that
the Obama administration has created by stepping away from the US’s
responsibilities as the leader of the free world. From the G8 to the UN and
beyond, Canada’s support for Israel has enabled Ottawa to influence US and
European policy to a degree it never has before.
Canada’s
enhanced moral stature was demonstrated this week with UNESCO’s abrupt decision
to cancel the opening of an exhibition on the Jewish people’s 3,500-year
history in the Land of Israel that was scheduled to open at UNESCO’s Paris
Headquarters on Sunday.
Canada,
Israel and Montenegro co-sponsored the exhibition which was organized jointly
by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and UNESCO.
On
January 9, the US rejected the Wiesenthal Center’s request for US
co-sponsorship.
Kelly
Siekman, director of the Office of UNESCO Affairs at the State Department
wrote, “At this sensitive juncture in the ongoing Middle East peace process,
and after thoughtful consideration with review at the highest levels, we have
made the decision that the United States will not be able to co-sponsor the
current exhibit during its display at UNESCO headquarters.”
In
other words, the Obama administration opted to reject the historical fact that
the Jews are the indigenous people of the Land of Israel in order to promote a
peace process with the PLO, which, like the Arab world in general, rejects
historical fact in its bid to delegitimize with the aim of destroying the
Jewish state.
Five
days after Siekman rejected the Wiesenthal Center’s request, the Arab members
of UNESCO wrote a letter to UNESCO President Irina Bokova demanding that the
exhibition be canceled, in the interest of the peace process. Bokova quickly
bowed to their will, in the interest of the peace process.
While
the administration was quick to condemn UNESCO’s decision, it was left
stuttering when the media discovered that UNESCO’s actions were of a piece with
the administration’s own policy decision.
The
administration’s embarrassment at this revelation was exponentially amplified
by the fact that its duplicity, hypocrisy and preference for political
expedience over historical facts came to light while Harper was in Israel,
since unlike the Obama administration, the Harper government did co-sponsor the
canceled exhibition.
Harper
emerged from the UNESCO affront to the historical record as an unrivaled force
of conscience and as a moral leader on a world stage populated by opportunists,
at best. His position served as a warning to the US that its sacrifice of truth
on the altar of the peace process will not go unnoticed.
Canada,
it should be noted, is not the only country whose support for Israel is
distinguishing it as a moral leader and facilitating its rise to a position of
global influence. Australia’s new center-right Liberal government is also
making a name for itself by rejecting anti-Israel nostrums that have become
accepted wisdom despite the fact that they are based on lies.
For
instance, for years, the false Arab claim that Israeli communities beyond the
1949 armistice lines are illegal under international law has gone unchallenged.
But last week, Australian Foreign Minister Julia Bishop dropped a bombshell
when, in an interview with The Times of Israel, she broke from the consensus of
mendacity saying, “I would like to see which international law has declared
them illegal.”
Statements
by Australian foreign ministers seldom receive global coverage. But Bishop’s
did.
And
the more outspoken Australia is in its support for Israel and rejection of the
discourse of lies that characterizes the discussion of Israel, the more
attention Australia will get and the more influential it will become on the
world stage.
Like
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Harper’s decision to support Israel is
rooted in his most deeply held convictions about right and wrong. There is
nothing opportunistic about his policy.
It
is therefore wonderful and empowering that by staying true to his beliefs,
Harper is also transforming Canada into a force to be reckoned with on the
global stage. Moreover, he is setting an example that will likely be followed
by more and more countries, as the benefits of his embrace of Israel become
widely recognized.
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give
a little - take a little... street justice is what is happening in
USA/UK/Australia.... is Canasda next???
CBC
News - Saturday 25th January, 2014
B.C.
Provincial Court judge Joseph Galati says the federal government's one year
minimum sentence for drug traffickers unnecessarily hurts Downtown Eastside
addicts. (The Canadian ...
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CANADA'S
YORK UNIVERSITY- SHAME ON U- WOMEN EQUAL MEN IN OUR CANADA- ONE BILLION RISING-
NO MORE ABUSES-EXCUSES http://nova0000scotia.blogspot.ca/2014/01/canadas-york-university-shame-shame-on.html
CANADA'S
YORK UNIVERSITY- SHAME- SHAME ON U- WOMEN EQUAL MEN IN OUR CANADA- SHAME ON U--
ONE BILLION RISING- NO MORE EXCUSES- AS MINISTER PETER MACKAY SAY..IT'S WHY OUR
TROOPS GO 2 WAR - 2 PROTECT LITTLE GIRLS AND RIGHTS OF WOMEN- SHAME CANADA'S
YORK UNIVERSITY
CANADA-
YORK UNIVERSITY'S SHAME- IN THE ONE
COUNTRY WHERE WOMEN EQUAL MEN.... SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!
Laugh,
scream or cry. Maybe all three as a religious student at York University gets
the school to permit him to somehow carry on his instruction without being in
contact with women because of his beliefs. From the story written by James
Bradshaw it is clear the university is utterly conflicted by this unnatural
request. We say unnatural but there are probably better words to describe it.
The pertinent technical point here is that the person in question enrolled for
an online course never thinking, presumably, that he would have to attend a
meeting with other online classmates. We foolish Canadians might call it
teamwork. In future, it may be possible for the university to skirt such
requests by making it clear that there will be some mixed company required as
part of the course. James Bradshaw
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'Girl power' crucial in push to achieve global development goals,
says Ban in Davos-JAN 24- UN NEWS 2014
UN News Centre Translate This Article
23 January 2014
23 January 2014 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today, in one of several key meetings he is attending in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum is underway, called on the world to invest more to release the potential of over half a billion adolescent girls in developing countries currently held back by poverty, discrimination and violence, calling them key to achieving a crucial raft of development goals.
'Investors tend to rate opportunities based on their potential for returns,' he told a group of eminent persons from the private sector, academia, Governments and civil society dedicated to achieving the eight United Nations anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
'The United Nations gives girls a gold rating. When you invest in their future, you are guaranteed results that multiply across society—on health, education, peace and the welfare of future generations,' he said, highlighting the returns on 'girl power.'
Addressing a lunch of his MDG Advocacy Group on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, he stressed that investing in girls was vital in the 'final push for success.' Later in the day, the UN chief is expected to speak at a climate change-focused press conference alongside the President of the European Commission and the World Bank President.
The MDGs, adopted by the UN Millennium Summit of 2000 aim to slash extreme hunger and poverty, boost access to health care and education, achieve gender equality and environmental stability, reduce maternal and child mortality and the incidence of HIV/AIDS, all by the end of 2015.
'We are in a race against time. The MDG deadline is just over 700 days away,' Mr. Ban warned. 'You understand that when we give a girl better health, education and well-being, we see results far beyond that individual. A girl is as valuable to our world as a tree is to a forest. When a tree grows up straight and strong, the whole environment benefits. When a girl grows up straight and strong, her family, her community and even her country can feel the positive effects.'
Mr. Ban noted that every year a girl stays in primary school boosts her eventual wages by up to 20 per cent, and women and girls reinvest the vast majority of their income—90 per cent—back into their families. When female education goes up, so does economic growth. 'Today I urge you to keep girls at the centre of all of your strategies,' he declared, stressing that this is more than a philanthropic issue. 'This is a challenge to do business better. It is a chance to change your institutions so they reflect more enlightened attitudes about girls and include strategies to improve their lives...
'When we support girls, they reward society with enormous contributions in creativity, compassion and—yes—girl power.'
Mr. Ban set up the Group in 2010 to help him build political will and mobilize global action to achieve the MDGs. It is currently co-chaired by Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
UN News Centre Translate This Article
23 January 2014
23 January 2014 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today, in one of several key meetings he is attending in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum is underway, called on the world to invest more to release the potential of over half a billion adolescent girls in developing countries currently held back by poverty, discrimination and violence, calling them key to achieving a crucial raft of development goals.
'Investors tend to rate opportunities based on their potential for returns,' he told a group of eminent persons from the private sector, academia, Governments and civil society dedicated to achieving the eight United Nations anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
'The United Nations gives girls a gold rating. When you invest in their future, you are guaranteed results that multiply across society—on health, education, peace and the welfare of future generations,' he said, highlighting the returns on 'girl power.'
Addressing a lunch of his MDG Advocacy Group on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, he stressed that investing in girls was vital in the 'final push for success.' Later in the day, the UN chief is expected to speak at a climate change-focused press conference alongside the President of the European Commission and the World Bank President.
The MDGs, adopted by the UN Millennium Summit of 2000 aim to slash extreme hunger and poverty, boost access to health care and education, achieve gender equality and environmental stability, reduce maternal and child mortality and the incidence of HIV/AIDS, all by the end of 2015.
'We are in a race against time. The MDG deadline is just over 700 days away,' Mr. Ban warned. 'You understand that when we give a girl better health, education and well-being, we see results far beyond that individual. A girl is as valuable to our world as a tree is to a forest. When a tree grows up straight and strong, the whole environment benefits. When a girl grows up straight and strong, her family, her community and even her country can feel the positive effects.'
Mr. Ban noted that every year a girl stays in primary school boosts her eventual wages by up to 20 per cent, and women and girls reinvest the vast majority of their income—90 per cent—back into their families. When female education goes up, so does economic growth. 'Today I urge you to keep girls at the centre of all of your strategies,' he declared, stressing that this is more than a philanthropic issue. 'This is a challenge to do business better. It is a chance to change your institutions so they reflect more enlightened attitudes about girls and include strategies to improve their lives...
'When we support girls, they reward society with enormous contributions in creativity, compassion and—yes—girl power.'
Mr. Ban set up the Group in 2010 to help him build political will and mobilize global action to achieve the MDGs. It is currently co-chaired by Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
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Port calls on SMU students
Internship program aims to help more international graduates stay in Nova Scotia
JOANN ALBERSTAT BUSINESS EDITOR
jalberstat@herald.ca @CH_JAlberstat
Cultural awareness and networking opportunities: These are two ways in which international students in particular benefit from internships, a Saint Mary’s University MBA student says.
“Someone like me who is trying to enter the Canadian workforce, it’s a very different work ethic," Miguel Bautista said in an interview Thursday.
“For example, I’m not used to coming in to an environment that doesn’t penalize you for being too early or too late. You can be who you want to be."
Bautista, a second-year student from the Philippines, was on hand for the launch of an internship program aimed at encouraging more international students to stay in Nova Scotia after they graduate.
The Halifax Port Authority is partnered with the Halifax university’s Sobey School on Business on the three-year project, which is getting underway this year.
The program will allow two business students per year to have a paid internship at the authority. The work terms will range from four months to eight months, depending on their student and the work requirements.
Karen Oldfield, the authority’s president and CEO, said the new program builds on training opportunities — such as summer jobs and co-op placements — already offered to post-secondary students by the port organization. The international initiative has a specific focus on retaining senior business students at Saint Mary’s, she said.
“Their choice is either to go home or try to find a job here.
“We want to be that bridge that gives them that little edge that enables them to find a job here."
Oldfield said she hopes other organizations establish similar programs to help international students get work experience in the province.
Almost half the students at the Sobey School are from other countries, Saint Mary’s president Colin Dodds said.
The program will cost an estimated $23,000 to $26,000 per year.
A local business group, the Atlantic section of the Hong Kong-Canada Business Association, was involved in helping the port authority put in place a memorandum of understanding with the university to set up the program.
Bautista, who had an internship last summer at Halifax tech consultancy T4G, said it’s not only international students who benefit from such programs. The perspective that international students bring to the workplace is also an asset for employers, he said.
“It’s a really different way of attacking problems, finding solutions, talking to people," the IT specialist said. “If someone needs a different perspective, that’s pretty much what we are, by definition."
Having a global perspective in the workplace also helps companies looking to do business in another part of the world, Bautista
said.
Their choice is either to go home or try to find a job here. We want to be that bridge that gives them that little edge that enables them to find a job here.
Karen Oldfield Halifax Port Authority president and CEO
Miguel Bautista attends an announcement Thursday at the Halifax Seaport Farmers Market of an internship program aimed at encouraging more international students to stay in Nova Scotia after they graduate. CHRISTIAN LAFORCE • Staff
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THANK
U... THANK U CANADA
Federal anti-cyberbullying
campaign launched at Halifax school
Take time to think
before pressing send, Rehtaeh’s father urges
FRANCES WILLICK Education Reporter
Published January 9, 2014 - 1:42pm
Last Updated January 9, 2014 - 1:45pm
Published January 9, 2014 - 1:42pm
Last Updated January 9, 2014 - 1:45pm
Justice Minister Peter MacKay, left, and Glen Canning, father of the late
Rehtaeh Parsons, attend a news conference at Fairview Junior High School in
Halifax on Thursday. MacKay announced a national campaign to stop
cyberbullying. (ANDREW VAUGHAN / The Canadian Press)
One BlackBerry. One boy.
Glen Canning had sobering words for a room full of junior
high students as he helped launch the federal government’s new
anti-cyberbullying campaign on Thursday.
The father of bullied Cole Harbour teen, Rehtaeh Parsons,
told students at Fairview Junior High how his daughter never recovered from the
taunting and harassment that began after one “upsetting” photo of her was
shared among students by one boy at her school.
“It destroyed her life so much she felt in the end that
she would never have the semblance of happiness again,” he said. “And so she
ended her life.”
His tale was a cautionary one directed to would-be
bullies.
“Just remember, a lot of that happened because one
BlackBerry had a picture on it and it was in the hands of one boy. That’s an
awful powerful thing to do to somebody,” he said.
“So, if you ever are in a situation to do that to
somebody, please stop and just think about it. Think about how hurtful and
harmful that could be. You could really end somebody’s life.
“Because you don’t know, once you hit send, what’s going
to happen. And you have no control over it after it’s left your cellphone or
your Facebook page or your email. ... But you are the one person police will
come back to and say, ‘You’re under arrest.’ You don’t want to be that person.”
The new national campaign emphasizes the potential legal
consequences of cyberbullying.
Called Stop Hating Online, the campaign also outlines what constitutes
cyberbullying and what to do if you’re a victim or a victim’s parent. It
includes a TV ad, online ads and the website
Canada.ca/StopHatingOnline.
The TV ad shows young people sharing a photo on their cellphones and
computers before being hauled into what appears to be a principal’s office and
being confronted by a police officer.
The voiceover says, “Let your kids know, in some cases, what they do with
their phones could be more than just wrong. It could be illegal.”
Federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay urged the students to take personal
responsibility to fight cyberbullying as he launched the campaign at their
school.
“Everybody has a role to play. Everybody can get involved,” he told the
students. “The campaign has the potential to make it go away, to make people’s
lives better, to bring people together ... and in fact to stop the pain, to
stop hatred and save lives. It’s that important.”
MacKay said as a new father, the campaign is personal.
“I understand instinctively now what it means to have a child that could be
bullied, what it means to have a young person who feels so devastated and so
ignored and so absolutely destitute that they could take their own lives,” he
said.
The campaign follows on the heels of a new bill, introduced in November,
that would criminalize the distribution of “intimate images” without consent
and give judges the power to seize computers and data used in a crime.
A second phase of the anti-cyberbullying campaign will be launched in
February.
MacKay said he hopes the bill will pass in the spring and become part of
the Criminal Code before summer.
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BLOGGED:
ONE BILLION RISING CANADA- Women and the right
2 vote- country by country- Please honour those women who sacrificed so much 4
ur privilege 2 vote - pls honour us
ONE BILLION RISING- breaking
the chains- global women winning their rights 2 vote
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usa-
no keystone... but u have over 7,000 fracking wells in Texas alone and now this
sweet deal?
Star
Tribune - Saturday 25th January, 2014
Latin
American nations are poised to accelerate imports of U.S. refined-oil products
after failing to build refineries to meet demand from a growing middle ...
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Police officer dog sledding Algonquin Park for a good
cause
C News
Saturday 25th January, 2014
Toronto
Police Supt. Heinz Kuck is preparing for a four-day frozen adventure that will
see him dog sled 100 kilometres through Algonquin Park next month. (PHOTOS
SUPPLIED)
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Pope Francis calls for constructive dialogue in
Ukraine
Source:
Reuters - Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:17 PM
Author:
Reuters
ME,
Jan 26 (Reuters) - Pope Francis called on Sunday for an end to violence in
Ukraine after at least three people were killed during the latest clashes in
the two-month crisis.
Police
and demonstrators in Kiev clashed again on Sunday as protests against President
Viktor Yanukovich's abrupt turn away from the European Union towards Russia,
Ukraine's former Soviet overlord.
"I
am close to Ukraine in prayer, in particular to those who have lost their lives
in recent days and to their families," Pope Francis said in his weekly
Angelus in St Peter's Square.
"I
hope that a constructive dialogue between the institutions and civil society
can take place, that any resort to violence is avoided and that the spirit of
peace and a search for the common good is in the hearts of all."
The
mass rallies against Yanukovich's rule erupted last November after he pulled
out of a free trade deal with the EU in favour of closer economic ties with
Russia.
They
have since spiralled into protests against misrule and corruption among
Ukraine's leaders and officials. There have been violent clashes with police in
Kiev city centre, resulting in the death of three protesters last week, two
from gunshot wounds.
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PRAY
4 THE UNITED NATIONS THAT WE ALL SUBSCRIBED 2 WHEN FORMED IN 1945 TO BE THE
SAVIOURS OF THE INNOCENT, THE POOR, THE HELPLESS..
Dictatorships China and Cuba just took their new seats on the Executive Board of UNDP, whose stated priority is “Building democratic societies.” The tyrannies will help oversee UN democracy promotion through 2016.
Iran’s murderous and misogynistic regime is already a member, and will continue helping UNDP to “Empower women” through 2015.
Below: Watch Chinese dissident Yang Jianli and Cuban dissident Rosa Maria Paya oppose their countries’ election to the UN Human Rights Council.
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