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  • February 2008

    • Canadian Pols Call for Bribery Probe

      Toronto Star (Canada)  |  Feb 29, 08 1:15 PM CST

      Canadian Pols Call for Bribery Probe

      (Newser) - Canadian Liberals are demanding investigations of bribery allegations against Conservative officials, the Toronto Star reports. In 2005, a new book says, two Conservatives approached independent legislator Chuck Cadman, who was suffering from terminal cancer, and offered him a $1 million life insurance policy if he voted to oust PM Paul Martin. Cadman angrily refused, and the move failed by one vote. Cadman died soon after. More »

    • EU Probes Chocolate Price Fixing

      Associated Press  |  Feb 20, 08 6:22 AM CST

      EU Probes Chocolate Price Fixing

      (Newser) - The European Commission suspects candy giant Hershey of conspiring with other chocolate and candy manufacturers in an industry-wide price-fixing scheme, AP reports. Both Hershey and rival Mars recently received requests for information from the commission after some 50 civil lawsuits in the US have alleged price fixing. The two companies say they are cooperating. More »

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      Germany  • Canada  • Mars  • conspiracy  • European Commission  • chocolate  • candy  • price fixing  • Hershey  • Nestle  • Cadbury Schweppes  • Kraft

    • New Afghan Bombing Kills 37

      Guardian (UK)  |  Feb 18, 08 7:16 AM CST

      New Afghan Bombing Kills 37

      (Newser) - Terrorists targeting a Canadian NATO convoy today in southern Afghanistan killed at least 37 when they detonated a massive car bomb in a crowded marketplace, the Guardian reports. At least 30 more were wounded, including three soldiers. Like yesterday’s bombing, which claimed 100 lives and was the deadliest since the fall of the Taliban, the blast hit Kandahar province, near the Pakistani border. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Taliban  • Canada  • NATO  • bombing  • Kandahar

    • Canada Man Says He's JFK's Son

      Globe and Mail  |  Feb 14, 08 3:42 AM CST

      Canada Man Says He's JFK's Son

      (Newser) - A Vancouver man is claiming he's John F. Kennedy's son and he wants the Kennedy clan to supply some DNA so he can prove it. Jack Worthington was born on November 22, 1961—exactly two years before JFK was assassinated in Dallas. The alleged presidential love child says his Texan mother was introduced to JFK by Lyndon Johnson during the first year of the Kennedy presidency. More »

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      Canada  • John F. Kennedy  • Vancouver  • Kennedy family

    • Scientists ID Catastrophic Climate Change 'Tipping Zones'

      Independent (UK)  |  Feb 5, 08 4:34 AM CST

      Scientists ID Catastrophic Climate Change 'Tipping Zones'

      (Newser) - Scientists have identified nine danger zones where global warming could be pushed past the point of no return within years, the Independent reports. The scenarios include the melting of ice in the Arctic and Antarctic, the collapse of the Indian and West African monsoons, and the death of forests in Canada, Siberia and the Amazon. Once climate "tipping points" are reached in any of the zones, the change would likely be irreversible—and could all occur within this century, the experts warned. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • Canada  • greenhouse gases  • Amazon.com  • Arctic  • Antarctica  • Siberia  • monsoon  • forests  • global weather

  • January 2008

    • A New Racial Slur: 'Canadians'

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jan 30, 08 12:13 PM CST

      A New Racial Slur: 'Canadians'

      (Newser) - An otherwise insignificant manslaughter trial in Texas has bloggers and citizens of the US' northern neighbor flabbergasted after a prosecutor seemed to refer to blacks on the jury by the euphemism "Canadians." It's apparently not an isolated usage, the Guardian reports: Internet users have dug up many examples of American racists using "Canadians" to make hateful remarks sound anodyne. More »

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      Texas  • Canada  • racism  • racial slurs

    • Arctic Ice Vanishing 'Like Mad'

      LiveScience  |  Jan 30, 08 9:30 AM CST

      Arctic Ice Vanishing 'Like Mad'

      (Newser) - Ice caps on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic are "receding like mad" and could be gone completely within 50 years, LiveScience reports. The fields of ice have shrunk by half in the last 50 years and haven't been so small for at least 1,600 years, according to a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • Canada  • Arctic  • Canadian Arctic

    • Canadian Panel Urges Afghanistan Troop Pullout

      Financial Times (UK)  |  Jan 23, 08 3:42 AM CST

      Canadian Panel Urges Afghanistan Troop Pullout

      (Newser) - A government-appointed panel has recommended that Canada withdraw from a combat role in Afghanistan next year unless European allies shoulder more of the burden, reports the Financial Times . "Canadian resources, and Canadians' patience, are not limitless," said the panel, which was established to defuse the debate that has sharply divided Canadian public opinion. The panel is calling for at least 1,000 more troops from its NATO allies to help Canadian forces in the dangerous Kandahar region. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Canada  • NATO  • Kandahar

    • Canadian FM Apologizes for Torture List

      BBC  |  Jan 20, 08 2:00 PM CST

      Canadian FM Apologizes for Torture List

      (Newser) - Canadian foreign minister Maxime Bernier has apologized for the inclusion of the US and Israel on a list of countries in which prisoners risk being subjected to torture, the BBC reports. The list, part of a torture awareness guide for diplomats, cited US interrogation techniques and referred to its Guantanamo Bay facility. Both countries denounced their placement on the list. More »

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      Israel  • United States  • Guantanamo Bay  • Canada  • torture  • torture list  • Maxime Bernier

    • US Makes Canadian Torture List

      BBC  |  Jan 18, 08 6:40 AM CST

      US Makes Canadian Torture List

      (Newser) - The US, along with China, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel, is listed in an official Canadian foreign ministry document of countries where prisoners are at risk of torture, the BBC reports. The "torture awareness" training manual classifies as torture some US interrogation techniques, including forced nudity, isolation, and sleep deprivation. More »

    • Indignant NATO Allies Blast Gates' Critique

      Times (UK)  |  Jan 17, 08 5:02 AM CST

      Indignant NATO Allies Blast Gates' Critique

      (Newser) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has sparked an uproar among America's allies after he complained to the Los Angeles Times that some NATO forces are unprepared for their jobs in Afghanistan. The Dutch, British and Canadians—who all have troops in the south of the country—immediately slammed the comments, with one Brit official calling it "bloody outrageous." More »

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      Afghanistan  • Great Britain  • Canada  • NATO  • Robert Gates  • Netherlands  • military training  • counter insurgency

    • 3,200 Marines Tapped for Afghan Surge

      Associated Press  |  Jan 15, 08 7:10 AM CST

      3,200 Marines Tapped for Afghan Surge

      (Newser) - Official orders have y