Barry Artiste Op/EdBoth our National TV News Stations CBC and CTV have reported disturbing news in the Omar Khadr affair, that Arar was also present with him at an al qaeda training camp. If this turns out to be...
This article doesn't apply to just Canadians. It applies to anyone traveling abroad. Why spend money in another country when that government won't even afford an individual the justice they deserve if...
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While this doesn't place the US on the 'official' torture watch list, diplomats are being trained to look for the specific types of torture the US uses, such as waterboarding, forced nudity, isolation and sleep...
"Thursday, our lawmakers offered an apology to a Canadian citizen deported by U.S. counter-terrorism officials to Syria where he was imprisoned and tortured. They called on Bush to apologize to Maher Arar, a Syrian-born software engineer banned from entering the U.S....
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Placed under 'crime' intentionally."New RCMP boss helped censor Arar report
COLIN FREEZE AND CAMPBELL CLARK
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
August 11, 2007 at 12:52 AM EDT
TORONTO, OTTAWA — The civilian appointed to lead Canada's national police into a new era of...
For those who have been following the case of Maher Arar, it has now been revealed that Canadian intelligence officials knew that Arar was likely to be tortured if he was deported to Jordan. ""I think the U.S. would like to get Arar to Jordan where they can have their...
Immigration Lawyers, state Conrad Black, feeling Blue over his legal difficulties may look to the Red Maple leaf for a brief respite from the glaring media entourage covering his trial. ...
Time has released its annual list of the Top 100 most influential people. There are a couple of expected subjects (Al Gore, Justin Timberlake) and a couple of pleasant surprises (Tina Fey, Queen Elizabeth II--the...
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"The ex Supreme Court Justice John Major's appointed by Harper to conduct a public hearing into the Air India F.U. has discovered that like the Arar Inquiry the State has marshelled all their forces in a united front called National Security. The RCMP, CSIS, Foreign...
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"This has to be some form of new math, right. "Terrorism suspect Mohamed Mahjoub will soon be living again in Toronto with his wife and two young sons after spending almost seven years behind bars without charges." Because if he has been in jail for seven...
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"We need a serious shake up in the Foreign Affairs department. This is not the first time this has happened. "Canadian diplomats failed to contact the Chinese family of Huseyin Celil for more than 10 months after the Canadian citizen was arrested," So while the...
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"Lingering suspicion about Arar troubling says Jim Travers in the Toronto Star. As I and others have pointed out it is troubling, especially when it comes from the Conservative Blogosphere."
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(ok, my headline is a little misleading - torture seems to be a prerequisite to compensation)OTTAWA, Canada (AP) -- Canada's prime minister apologized to Maher Arar on Friday and announced the government would...
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"Despite the cash settlement and the official apology from the New Government of Canada, it wasn't our fault it was that other government, what Harper would not do is clean house in the RCMP and CSIS of those who are directly responsible for what happened to Arar."
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"While the Grande Formage his-self today apologized for the Canadian Government, the RCMP and CSIS treatment of Maher Arar there are those in his peanut gallery over at the Blogging Tories that continue to spread the lie that Arar is Al-Quaeda or a terrorist, or...."
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