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Taking liberties

A new Alberta law lets cops presume you’re guilty until proven innocent
Imagine the following scenario: you’re driving down the highway. At a roadside check stop for drunk drivers far from home, the police wave you over. Though you haven’t had anything to drink, the police think you fit the profile of a drug runner and […]

What did we know about Gagliano and when did we know it?

What’s the difference between being one of the Mafia’s “made men” and just being a regular associate in the world of the La Cosa Nostra? Apparently, to Canadians, quite a bit.
When the news broke on November 18 that a New York mobster had named former Canadian cabinet minister, Alfonso Gagliano, as a made member of […]

First Canada’s mining company, then the world?

Some China-watchers say that the Communist party may be using the takeover of Canadian mining giant Noranda as a way to exert control over the U.S.
In Timmins, Ont., the biggest worry about the news that China’s Minmetals is interested in taking over Noranda Inc., Canada’s biggest mining corporation, is how many jobs it’s going to […]

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