By Louisa Taylor
It was the moment he and three friends had driven almost 1,000 kilometres to see.
Ahmed, a young Canadian born in Somalia and raised in Ottawa, watched intently as Barack Hussein Obama raised his …

Court Refuses to Hold U.S. Officials Accountable for Complicity in Torture Abroad
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November 2, 2009, New York –  Today, a federal Court of Appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials for …

From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
April 29, 2009 at 2:00 AM EDT
His name is Abousfian Abdelrazik, but it could as easily be Joseph Smith, a Canadian Everyman. He is a citizen denied the right to return …

By Christian Ehret, JURIST
US military judge Colonel Patrick Parrish ruled Tuesday that Pentagon officials lacked the authority to dismiss Lieutenant Commander William Kuebler as defense counsel for Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr.
Chief defense counsel …

From The Current, CBC Radio One
Part One: Abdelrazik
We started this segment with some tape from Abousfian Abdelrazik. For the last 11 months, he has been sleeping on a cot in the lobby of the …