East-West Artery Reopens in Georgia

"TBILISI, Georgia -- Traffic gradually began to trickle along Georgia's main east-west highway over the weekend, after the departure of Russian troops who had been barring traffic on the road and, effectively,...

Lawyer Accuses City GM of "dictatorial" conduct "contrary to the rule of law"

Vancouver lawyer Gregory Bruce has accused Jacquie Forbes-Roberts, City of  Vancouver General Manager of Community Services, of acting in a “dictatorial” manner “contrary to the rule of law”.  Bruce made the accusations in a March 11, 2008 letter about...

Volunteer of the Year Barred from Carnegie Center

Ada D. returned to Carnegie Community Center last Wednesday after being barred from this City of Vancouver building for two weeks at the beginning of April.Ada, a middle-aged woman with long brown hair originally from Newfoundland, was barred when another kitchen volunteer,...

Carnegie Centre Director Wants to Know the Truth About William Simpson's Barring

This is a letter I recently wrote a fellow Director of the Board at the Carnegie Centre. He had written to the board asking for information about the barring of another Board Member, William Simpson, from the...

MySpace Sex Offenders Busted

Whilst I seriously hope that NP isn't attracting sex-offender readers, it's probably best, should you be legally barred from Internet use, that you not create a page on what is arguably the world's most popular social-networking site. So far there's no evidence that these...

Zimbabwe Court Orders Lawer Release, Nobody Listens

Further symptoms emerge of a divorce between the Presidency of Zimbabwe and the rest of the government, as two anti-Mugabe lawyers were arrested, remaining in custody despite a court order for their release. "A Zimbabwean court has ordered the release of two opposition...

US Feds Sue over Muslim Skullcap

This seems to be a growing trend. This time, though, the one being forced to remove religious headwear is a corrections officer, and not a soccer kid. This officer has the feds on his side, so we'll see how it all goes down."The feds have lobbed a civil-rights lawsuit at the...

The New Spin Forward: Political Theater and the President's Speech

"For all the hype it wasn't much of a speech. For the price of a full half hour of reserved time on the major networks we got a brief history lesson, some fairly obvious statistics, and a Presidential confirmation...

Barring the Door at the Four Seasons

"The hotel chain's CEO wants to take the company private, with help from Bill Gates and a Saudi prince. And he's unwilling to consider competing offers.It was an unusual statement by any chief executive, let alone one who is trying to persuade shareholders to accept his bid...

More Votes Than Registered Voters

The mainstream media censored the vast majority of the evidence of fraud, so that most Americans to this day, have never heard a fraction of what was amiss.

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