Beijing has promoted its 2008 Games as a nature-friendly festival of sport, but water for the expanses of greenery and sparkling waterways greeting visitors in August will be pumped from sources already battered by over-use and over-engineering, says Probe International, a Canada-based conservation group.
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The January 2008 article, “Civil rights war in Canada” (pp. 11-16), quoted from REAL Women’s magazine Reality (Mar/April 2007) in saying that “adoptions, social services such as nursing homes, religious-based schools, marriages, employment conduct, etc., carried out by religious organizations will be held to secular standards, not religious ones.” One reason for this development, it [...]

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Those Canadians who hope to see the new Asian giants rival the U.S. in a few decades as the great global engine and the new big market for Canada simply do not realize that such a change would be an unmitigated disaster for us.
China is a brutal one-party dictatorship, a mixture of totalitarianism and unbridled [...]

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It’s an issue the Liberal govenrment of Ontario, led by Premier Dalton McGuinty, doesn’t want to deal with — polygamy in the Muslim community. Last week the Toronto Star told the story of Safa Rigby, a 35-year-old mother of five children who recently learned her husband of 14 years had two other wives. Ms. Rigby’s [...]

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The battle for “ownership” of the polar oil reserves has accelerated with the disclosure that Russia has sent a fleet of nuclear-powered ice breakers into the Arctic.
It has reinforced fears that Moscow intends to annex “unlawfully” a vast portion of the ice-covered Arctic, beneath which scientists believe up to 10 billion tons of gas and [...]

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Jacob Verhoef, the federal geoscientist leading Canada’s bid to assert control of offshore territory in the High Arctic, told Canwest News Service on Friday that preliminary results of a seabed mapping project off Ellesmere Island suggest the submerged Alpha Ridge is attached to the Canadian landmass and appears likely to qualify under the UN Convention [...]

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday a 30-billion-dollar plan to re-equip Canada’s military, to boost its recruiting and to bolster Canada’s defense industry over the next 20 years. The initiative will include major combat fleet replacements of surface combat ships, maritime patrol craft, fixed-wing search and rescue aircraft, fighter aircraft, and land combat vehicles [...]

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A majority of Canadians (67 percent) believe the influence of China and India in the world will rival that of the United States within the next decade, said a survey Thursday.
As well, more than 60 percent of Canadians believe the growing importance of China and India as economic powers are more of an opportunity [...]

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Canada Names US As A Torture Risk
Tampa Tribune, FL - 8 hours ago
It also lists Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Syria as places where inmates could face torture. …
Canada manual: US prisoners face torture San Jose Mercury News
Canada Adds US to List Of Nations That Torture Washington Post
Canada: US Added To Torture [...]

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The Canadian Human Rights Commission and the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal have begun proceedings against Mark Steyn, author of America Alone. They are responding to complaints from the Canadian Islamic Congress about an excerpt from the book that was published in the Canadian journal Maclean’s. “The article,” the CIC claims, “subjects Canadian Muslims to [...]

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China’s newest attack helicopter is powered by Canadian-built engines, a development military analysts say could spark a backlash against Canada’s aerospace industry from U.S. lawmakers concerned about technology being transferred into the wrong hands.
Other analysts are questioning why Canada would sell engines to a nation that has used its military to crush internal dissent.
The engines [...]

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CH-18 Hornets were scrambled to intercept several Tupolev-95 Bear bombers flying over the arctic a bit too close to Canadian airspace Friday, Lt.-Gen. Angus Watt told The Chronicle Herald. “It’s not exactly a new challenge; it’s an old challenge that has returned,” Watt said.
The area buzzed by the bombers is located inside what the Canadian [...]

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Canada fired a warning shot in a new Cold war over the vast resources of the far North by announcing last night that it will build two new military bases in the Arctic wilderness.
A week after Russia laid claim to the North Pole in what is rapidly becoming a global scramble for the region’s vast [...]

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is poised to announce plans for a deepwater docking facility and military base in the far north of the country as part of the nation’s quest to assert its sovereignty in the Arctic.
Military planning documents, obtained by CBC news on Thursday, outline C$60m ($57m) plans to adapt an abandoned mine [...]

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As a Kremlin-backed Arctic expedition led by a Russian legislator closed in Monday on the North Pole - with plans to send a submersible craft and a flag to the ocean bottom to assert Russian sovereignty over an Ontario-sized swath of the polar seafloor - a leading Canadian expert on the Arctic urged Canada’s leaders [...]

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It is not the kind of militaristic statement expected of the peace-loving Canadians. In front of a choreographed line-up of 120 sailors in their summer whites at a naval base outside Victoria in British Columbia, the prime minister, Stephen Harper, gave a warning to other nations with their eye on the potentially oil-rich Arctic.
“Canada has [...]

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While we focus on the illegal immigration issue concerning our southern border, we are neglecting a dangerous situation concerning our border with Canada. FSM Contributing Editor Michael Cutler brings this to your attention. It is an urgent matter requiring immediate action.
There has been so much emphasis upon our vulnerabilities from the southern border that we [...]

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Is that snub just an oversight or is it a reflection of the deep freeze that has set in between China and Canada since Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government came to power?
“There’s a large suspicion – an anxiety – that this is a signal of the deteriorated state of Canada-China relations,” says Paul Evans of [...]

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OTTAWA: Almost half of counter-espionage efforts in Canada target Chinese spies, the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has told a senate committee.
China ranked at the top of its list of more than a dozen countries believed to be spying on Canada, hoping to glean government, technological and corporate secrets, CSIS director Jim [...]

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Even in the post 9-11 world, relations between the U.S. and Canada are continuously strained over the war on Terror. FSM Editor Susan MacAllen tells why we need to be concerned about Canada’s lax security and overwhelmingly anti-American public mood.
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Russian military officials will fly over Canada on Thursday and Friday, on the lookout for weapons of mass destruction that might be hidden in the landscape below.
The flight, aboard a Russian Tupolev 154M jet, is being conducted under the terms of the Treaty on Open Skies. Canada has flown similar observation flights over Russia and [...]

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