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July 2008
- Canadian Court Sends Deserter Back to US
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 15, 08 10:36 AM CDT
  
  Canada's federal court ruled yesterday that an American army deserter can be deported to the US, rejecting his request for a stay to the order. The judge said that Robin Long did not provide clear and convincing evidence that he will suffer irreparable harm if he is returned to the US. Long, 25, fled to Canada in 2005 to avoid serving in Iraq. More »
- Video of Gitmo Interrogation Hits Web
  
  newser | CBC (Canada) | Jul 15, 08 6:47 AM CDT
  
  A videotape of Canadian officials interrogating a sobbing 16-year-old detainee at Guantanamo Bay surfaced on the Internet today. The clip, made public under a court order obtained by the suspect's lawyer, is the first such footage from the detention center to reach the public, the CBC reports. It shows an intelligence agent grilling Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen charged with killing a US soldier during a firefight in Afghanistan. Khadr says he was severely tortured in Afghanistan. More »
- DNA Tests Yield Few Clues on Canada Victims
  
  newser | CNN | Jul 11, 08 7:20 AM CDT
  
  Canadian authorities have determined that two of the five feet found floating on British Columbia's coastline came from the same man. The only other information about the mystery victim are his shoe size (11) and brand preference (Nike), and fact that he must have been alive in early 2003 when that model was available, reports CNN. More »
- Quebec City Celebrates 400th
  
  newser | Globe and Mail | Jul 3, 08 5:10 PM CDT
  
  Canadians celebrated the 400th birthday of Quebec City today, the Toronto Globe and Mail reports. In a rain-drenched ceremony, Prime Minister Stephen Harper praised the adventurous Quebecois spirit and the city—“the most beautiful city in Canada, the most enchanting"—where explorer Samuel de Champlain landed on July 3, 1608. More »
- A Weekend for 2 Nations to Celebrate
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 3, 08 7:39 AM CDT
  
  Tomorrow is Independence Day, but north of the border today marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City, the first settlement of New France and one of the oldest cities in Canada. David Hackett Fischer, a historian writing in the New York Times , uses the occasion to explore a different vision of North America, one predicated not on freedom, but on diversity and exchange. More »
June 2008
- Sixth Foot to Wash Ashore Is a Hoax
  
  newser | Globe and Mail | Jun 19, 08 6:04 PM CDT
  
  The latest severed foot to wash ashore in Canada is a hoax, the Toronto Globe and Mail reports. The sneaker found this week near Vancouver actually contained an animal paw stuffed into a sock, authorities say. An official described the prank as “reprehensible and very disrespectful to the families of missing persons.” That leaves at five the number of feet that have washed up in the last year, fueling fears of a serial killer in British Columbia. More »
- Canada Could Hurt Firms It Tries to 'Protect'
  
  newser | American | Jun 17, 08 3:28 PM CDT
  
  A move last month by the Canadian government to block the country's top space-tech firm from selling one of its divisions to a US buyer illustrates a tricky balancing act, Christopher Sands writes in the American : How far should Ottawa go to appease nationalist sentiment if it eats into economic benefits? The wariness, Sands notes, extends back to colonial days. More »
- 5th Severed Foot Steps Up Canadian Probe
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 17, 08 11:16 AM CDT
  
  Yet another severed foot—the fifth in a year—has washed ashore in British Columbia, causing authorities to take a fresh look at evidence. This is the first sneaker-clad left foot to be found so far. "We're certainly not discounting the possibility that this may be linked to the other recovered feet, but it's very speculative to even entertain that right now," said a local police spokeswoman. "This might take a long time. This is not CSI. " More »
- Canada Apologizes to Indigenous Groups
  
  newser | Globe and Mail | Jun 12, 08 4:42 AM CDT
  
  Canada formally apologized to its indigenous peoples yesterday for forcing children to attend government-run schools where they were often sexually and physically abused. Prime Minister Stephen Harper read the apology in Parliament, calling the forced assimilation a "sad chapter" in the nation's history that damaged several generations, the Globe and Mail reports. "I am sorry Canada tried to erase your identity and your culture." More »
- Destroying Key Records Was Standard at Gitmo
  
  newser | Globe and Mail | Jun 9, 08 9:30 AM CDT
  
  Guantanamo Bay interrogators were urged to destroy notes from interviews with detainees, including Canadian Omar Khadr, documents suggest. Minimizing interrogation records “can minimize certain legal issues,” reads a Guantanamo operational manual for intelligence teams shown to Khadr’s lawyers. The case against Khadr is thought to be based largely on information from the interrogations, the Globe and Mail reports. More »
- Canada Sings the Blues: Beloved Hockey Theme Iced
  
  newser | Globe and Mail | Jun 7, 08 1:09 PM CDT
  
  Hockey Night in Canada is changing its theme song, and if that doesn’t seem like a big deal to you, you’re probably not Canadian. The 40-year-old ditty has become almost a second national anthem for the hockey-obsessed nation. But thanks to a legal challenge from composer Dolores Claman, the state-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has announced a contest to find the new theme. More »
May 2008
- Canadian Minister Quits After Blunder With Lover
  
  newser | Canada.com | May 27, 08 2:45 AM CDT
  
  Canada's foreign affairs minister has been forced to resign because he left NATO summit briefing documents at the home of his former girlfriend. Maxime Bernier was already under fire for his just-dumped lover's connection to Quebec biker gangs, and his resignation follows other embarrassing revelations that have plagued the Canadian government, reports the Ottawa Citizen . More »
- Severed Feet Stump Cops in Canada
  
  newser | Globe and Mail | May 25, 08 12:19 PM CDT
  
  A fourth foot in a sneaker has washed up on a Canadian shore, leaving investigators more puzzled than ever. Each of the three previous right feet have been in sneakers and have washed up on different islands near Vancouver over the last 10 months, reports the Globe and Mail. The feet don't appear to have been "forcibly removed," said an investigator. "They may be connected. We're exploring every scenario." More »
- Mag Uses Wheat Paper for Green Issue
  
  newser | CBC (Canada) | May 23, 08 8:56 AM CDT
  
  A Canadian magazine is printing a special environmental issue on paper made from wheat straw, the CBC reports. Canadian Geographic' s "wheat sheets," made from harvest waste, will be a first for a North American magazine. Environmentalists say using wheat-straw pulp could save millions of trees every year and help farmers boost their incomes. More »
- Linchpin in 'NAFTA-Gate' to Step Down
  
  newser | Globe and Mail | May 22, 08 2:47 PM CDT
  
  Ian Brodie, chief of staff to Canada's prime minister and the key figure in the "NAFTA-gate" scandal, will step down by summer, the Globe and Mail reports. Brodie, the architect of the Conservative Party's victory in 2006 elections, is under investigation in leaks that clouded the Democratic primary in Ohio in March. More »
- Death, Illness on Canada Train Not Related
  
  newser | CTV | May 9, 08 4:39 PM CDT
  
  Canadian authorities are set to lift the quarantine on a train en route from Vancouver to Toronto after determining that the 60-year-old passenger who died aboard earlier today "most likely did not have an infectious disease," CTV reports. Ten other passengers came down with flu-like symptoms; "we do not believe they're related,” an Ontario police officer told the Globe and Mail. More »
- Canada Raises Age of Sexual Consent to 16
  
  newser | Canadian Press | May 1, 08 2:43 PM CDT
  
  Canada increased the minimum age of sexual consent by 2 years to 16 today, the Canadian Press reports. The law is intended to snare sexual predators who prey on 14- and 15-year-olds, and exempts sex that occurs between two individuals less than five years apart in age. Canada's age of consent has been 14 since 1892. More »
- Canadian Town Split on Bear Birth Control
  
  newser | Canada.com | May 1, 08 2:43 AM CDT
  
  Plans to put a British Columbia bear on birth control have stirred up controversy in Whistler, reports the Victoria Times-Colonist. The wild bear, known as Jeanie, is a local celebrity who's been featured in a BBC documentary, but authorities say she is putting her life in danger by coming to the ski town and foraging in garbage to feed her cubs. More »
March 2008
- Deserters Fleeing War Go North—Again
  
  newser | Washington Post | Mar 17, 08 3:14 PM CDT
  
  Iraq war deserters aren't crossing the Canadian border in VW buses, but they are trickling across—and connecting with Vietnam draft dodgers who made the same trek 4 decades ago. About 200 Iraq resisters have migrated north, the Washington Post reports. Some grew disillusioned in Baghdad; others went AWOL from boot camp. And both generations are lobbying the Canadian government to let the younger ones stay. More »
- Canada's US Envoy Urged to Resign Over NAFTA-Gate
  
  newser | Globe and Mail | Mar 12, 08 12:32 PM CDT
  
  The scope of the Barack Obama NAFTA memo scandal widened again yesterday, with Canadian opposition legislators calling for the resignation of Canada's ambassador to the US after he was implicated, the Globe and Mail reports. Michael Wilson admitted speaking to the reporter who broke the story that the candidate was voicing opposition to the trade agreement merely for political purposes. More »

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Background

Nunavut
World Encyclopedia

Nunavut Territory in n Canada; the capital is Iqaluit. Once part of Northwest Territory , Nunavut was granted self-government in 1999. Created as a homeland for the Inuit, its first premier was Paul ...

Northwest Territories
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Northwest Territories territory (2001 pop. 37,360), 532,643 sq mi (1,379,028 sq km), NW Canada. The Northwest Territories lie W of Nunavut, N of lat. 60°N, and E of Yukon. Until 1999, when the Northwest Territories were divided and the eastern portion became Nunavut , the region occupied ...

Alberta
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Alberta , province (2001 pop. 2,974,807), 255,285 sq mi (661,188 sq km), including 6,485 sq mi (16,796 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Land and People Alberta is bounded on the E by Saskatchewan, on the N by the Northwest Territories, on the W by British Columbia, and on the S by Montana. ...

Newfoundland and Labrador
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Newfoundland and Labrador , province (2001 pop. 512,930), 156,185 sq mi (404,519 sq km), E Canada. The province consists of the island of Newfoundland and adjacent islands (2001 pop. 485,066), 43,359 sq mi (112,300 sq km), and the mainland area of Labrador and adjacent islands (2001 pop. 27,864), ...

New Brunswick
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

New Brunswick province (2001 pop. 729,498), 28,345 sq mi (73,433 sq km), including 519 sq mi (1,345 sq km) of water surface, E Canada. Geography One of the Maritime Provinces, New Brunswick is bounded on the N by Chaleur Bay and Quebec prov.; on the E by the Gulf of St. Lawrence, ...

Yukon
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Yukon , river, c.2,000 mi (3,220 km) long, rising in Atlin Lake, NW British Columbia, Canada, and receiving numerous headwater streams; one of the longest rivers of North America. It flows generally northwest, past Dawson and across the Alaska border, to Fort Yukon, thence generally southwest ...

Nova Scotia
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Nova Scotia [Lat.,=new Scotland], province (2001 pop. 908,007), 21,425 sq mi (55,491 sq km), E Canada. Geography One of the Maritime Provinces , Nova Scotia comprises a mainland peninsula and, across the Canso Strait, the adjacent Cape Breton Island . It is bounded on the N by the Gulf of ...

British Columbia
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

British Columbia province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada, is bounded on the E by Alberta, on the S by Montana, Idaho, and Washington, on the ...

Saskatchewan
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Saskatchewan , province (2001 pop. 978,933), 251,700 sq mi (651,903 sq km), W Canada. Geography Saskatchewan is bounded by the Northwest Territories (N), Manitoba (E), North Dakota and Montana (S), and Alberta (W). One of the Prairie Provinces, its northern third is part of the Canadian ...

Manitoba
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Manitoba , province (2001 pop. 1,119,583), 250,934 sq mi (650,930 sq km), including 39,215 sq mi (101,580 sq km) of water surface, W central Canada. Geography Easternmost of the Prairie Provinces, Manitoba is bounded on the N by Nunavut (with a northeast shoreline on Hudson Bay), on the E by ...

Ontario
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Ontario , province (2001 pop. 11,410,046), 412,582 sq mi (1,068,587 sq km), E central Canada. Land and People Ontario, the second largest Canadian province, is the most populous and the leader in mineral, industrial, and agricultural output and in financial and other services. It is bounded ...

Quebec
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Quebec , Fr. Québec , province (2001 pop. 7,237,479), 594,860 sq mi (1,553,637 sq km), E Canada. Geography Quebec is bounded on the N by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, on the E by the Labrador area of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the S by New Brunswick and ...

Canada Day
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

[formerly Dominion Day ] Annual Canadian holiday. Observed on July 1, it commemorates the formation of the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867. With the 1982 passage of the ...

Canada
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Canada , independent nation (2001 pop. 30,007,094), 3,851,787 sq mi (9,976,128 sq km), N North America. Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. It is bounded on the E by the Atlantic ...

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