Federal government sets quota for seal cull on Sable Island, but says there will be no hunt this year.
Bruce Wark
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Omar Khadr’s treatment ruled supremely unjust
In a sharply worded 9-0 ruling, the Supreme Court declared last week that the federal government’s ongoing treatment of Omar Khadr violates the principles of fundamental justice and his right to liberty and security. In one scathing passage, the judges condemned Canadian officials for repeatedly interrogating the Canadian teenager at the Guantanamo Bay torture camp […]
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1,580 Canadian soldiers injured and killed in Afghanistan
The table above lists the annual number of soldiers injured, wounded and killed from the beginning of the Canadian military deployment to Afghanistan in April 2002 to December 31, 2009. Sharp increase in injuries The figures, released to the Coast by the Department of National Defence, show that a total of 1,580 Canadian soldiers had been injured and killed in Afghanistan by the end of December. The 2009 total was 505 higher than the 1,075 soldiers injured and killed by the end of 2008. Non-battle injuries, defined as those injured as a result of traffic accidents, the accidental discharge
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Ocean vs. Economical Mutual
Judge quashes subpoenas requiring insurance lawyer to testify in the civil lawsuit, May Ocean vs. Economical Mutual.
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Haiti is poor for a reason
As video showing the devastation of Haiti flashed around the world, the media carried heart-rending stories of death and disaster. Dahoud Andre, host of a Haitian radio program in New York, told the story of a woman in Haiti’s capital who returned home after the earthquake to find her house flattened. “Her husband and her […]
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Halifax march calls for end to Israeli oppression
Halifax marchers demand end to Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and its siege of Gaza
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2010 predictions: Year of Fire
As 2009, the year of the ox (solid, stolid and steady) gives way to 2010, the year of the tiger (fiery, ferocious and fearless), it’s time to review last year’s predictions, then gaze into my crystal ball once again. I hate to brag, but all of my 2009 predictions were 100 percent bang on. Remember […]
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Changing climates
My favourite media moment at the Copenhagen climate conference came last Thursday when Evo Morales declared: “Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.” Bolivia’s president was being interviewed by Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, heard at noon weekdays on CKDU. Morales, speaking through a translator, described the irrational and unlimited industrialization that destroys the […]
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N.S. economic forecast predicts higher unemployment
Graham Steele NDP finance minister, Graham Steele says more people will be unemployed in Nova Scotia in the coming year than originally forecast. In his September budget, Steele predicted the provincial unemployment rate would average eight percent in 2009/10, but in his budget update released today, the finance minister revised that figure upward to 9.1 […]
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Environmentalists welcome coastal report
Bruce Wark Walter Regan, Sackville Rivers Association Several prominent environmentalists welcomed the release Wednesday of a provincial report on the state of Nova Scotia’s coastline. “On a scale of one to 10, this is an eight,” said Walter Regan, President of the Sackville Rivers Association. “We’ve got to get control over our coastal zones.” Regan […]
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We are Canadian. We are all villains now.
“O wad some Power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us!” Robbie Burns composed those immortal lines before the advent of today’s powerful international media. These global village chroniclers are certainly giving Canadians the gift of seeing ourselves—and the picture’s not pretty. Apparently we’re seen as corrupt villains bent on derailing […]
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2009 State of Nova Scotia coast report
Sea levels in Nova Scotia are expected to rise sharply over the next century —- anywhere between 70 and 140 centimetres. (Or between two feet, three inches and four feet, seven inches.) Those figures are contained in The 2009 State of Nova Scotia’s Coast Report released today in Halifax. The report says global sea levels […]
