October 30, 2009 Stephen Smysnuik, Toronto Star ___ Jessica Maciel had enough to worry about, being a 20-year-old single woman dealing with an unexpected pregnancy. But then she was fired because of it. "It’s something I felt like I was…
Guest Blogger: Amber Alternative Dispute Resolution is a means to resolving conflict through alternatives to going to court. This may be through Mediation – pretty much for any dispute; the assistance of a group of professionals in a Collaborative Family…
By Pulat Yunusov According to media reports on Friday, the federal privacy commissioner approved the see-through airport body scanners. These machines show your naked body in Casper-the-ghost 3D on the security officer’s screen. Although the officer can easily see if you are a bikini…
Allan Woods Ottawa Bureau Michelle Shephard National Security Reporter Published On Thu Oct 29 2009 Ottawa has spent more than $1.3-million fighting against Toronto-born captive Omar Khadr, who has been held at the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay detention centre for seven…
The Canadian Press Published on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 10:55AM EDT A fugitive banker who has been fighting extradition to Thailand since 1996 lost a final legal battle Thursday at the Supreme Court of Canada. The court refused to hear…
By Michelle Shephard Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr was buried face down under rubble, blinded by shrapnel and crippled, at the time the Pentagon alleges he threw a grenade that fatally wounded a U.S. soldier, according to classified photographs and defence…
Sidhartha Banerjee THE CANADIAN PRESS ___ MONTREAL – A Canadian judge has imposed the toughest sentence possible on a man convicted of committing atrocities during the 1994 Rwandan genocide in an act described as the worst possible crime a human…
October 28, 2009 Timothy Appleby – Globe & Mail ___ Nearly four years after eight bodies found in field near London, Ont., six-man, six-woman panel begins deliberations Three and a half years after the bloodied bodies of eight outlaw bikers…
Bob Mitchell Staff Reporter Published On Wed Oct 28 2009 After more than three years, a Mississauga couple still feels the physical and emotional scars of the night their lives were shattered. But Mark and Allison Radman said they felt…
Andrew Chung Quebec Bureau MONTREAL–He defied the authorities and avoided deportation for nearly four years by taking refuge at a Montreal Catholic Church, but Abdelkader Belaouni’s gamble has finally paid off. The government has told him he can stay. Hemmed…