Articles tagged with: Ottawa
By Sarah Boesveld
The federal government has asked the United States not to use Canadian-collected evidence in prosecutions against Omar Khadr, a gesture observers are calling “inadequate and invalid.”
In a statement released late Tuesday, Justice Minister …
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 …
By Edward Alden
Benamar Benatta was mysteriously handed over by Canada to U.S. authorities the day after the 9-11 terrorist attacks, and spent nearly five years in American jails without ever being convicted of a crime.
Earlier …
By Thomas Walkom
Another of Ottawa’s national security claims has proved bogus. For more than seven years, the federal government and its security bureaucrats insisted that alleged terrorist Hassan Almrei so threatened Canada that he had …
CONFRONTING THE “WAR ON TERROR”:
No Security Without Human Rights.
Thursday, December 10, 7 pm
Ottawa Public Library Auditorium, 120 Metcalfe
December 10 is International Human Rights Day. Ironically, it is also the seventh anniversary of Mohamed Harkat’s detention …
Editorial by The Globe and Mail
The diplomat Richard Colvin was Canada’s eyes and ears in Afghanistan, and there is no reason to believe he has acted with anything but integrity in his public testimony …
The Ottawa Citizen
Americans viewed the attack of 9/11 as an act of war, and no fair-minded person should blame them for doing so. And because there has never been a war in which even the …
By Ian MacLeod
OTTAWA — In his first public speech, the new director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service chastised those critical of Canada’s efforts to fight terrorism.
“Many of our opinion leaders have come to see …
From CBC Ottawa
A book that tells the story of Maher Arar and three other Canadians tortured overseas has won the 2009 City of Ottawa Book Award for English non-fiction.
Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians …
Ottawa’s controversial security-certificate program to rid Canada of alleged spies came with a multimillion-dollar price tag
By Colin Freeze
From Thursday’s Globe and Mail
Ottawa has spent $60-million over the past two years in its failed …
By Janice Tibbetts
OTTAWA — Canada’s most senior judge cautioned Tuesday against going overboard in the fight against terrorism by putting too much emphasis on the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. at the expense of sacrificing …
From CBC News
A meeting was held Tuesday night to help improve relations between Ottawa police and the city’s Lebanese and Arab communities.
Police felt it was important to create a dialogue with the two groups, said …
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 …
From CBC News
There were mixed messages from the government over whether the Tories will appeal a Federal Court judge’s ruling that Canada must press the U.S. for the return of Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay.
During …
