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Minister of Justice Announces Winner of the 2012 National Youth Justice Policing Award

Posted August 20th, 2012 by Canada News Centre - National News

The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today presented this year’s Minister of Justice National Youth Justice Policing Award to members of the Prince Albert Police Service

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The Attorney General of Canada to Appeal the Refusal by a Judge of the British Columbia Court of Appeal to Stay the Constitutional Exemption Granted In the Carter Case

Posted August 17th, 2012 by Canada News Centre - National News

The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, confirmed that the Government of Canada will seek to vary the refusal by a judge of the British Columbia Court of Appeal to stay the d…

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UK man gets four years for linking to videos on other websites

Posted August 15th, 2012 by Lee Mathews

People build websites to share all kinds of things with all kinds of other people. Turns out doing that might be more dangerous than you’d think.

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Victims of Crime in Alberta Receive Further Federal Support

Posted August 14th, 2012 by Canada News Centre - National News

Kerry-Lynne Findlay, Q.C., M.P. for Delta-Richmond East and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice on behalf of the Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today anno…

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Minister Toews to Make an Announcement Related to Crime Prevention

Posted August 10th, 2012 by Canada News Centre - National News

The Honourable Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety, along with MP for Edmonton-Centre, the Honourable Laurie Hawn, will speak and a media availability will follow.

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RCMP Launches Second Annual Youth Camp: A Career Nowhere Near Ordinary

Posted August 9th, 2012 by Canada News Centre - National News

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police offers a challenging, exciting, and rewarding career to those who want to make a difference in their communities and across Canada. The RCMP is always recruiting and we are looking for people from all walks of life to …

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Government Announces Coming Into Force of the Protecting Children from Sexual Predators Component of the Safe Streets and Communities Act

Posted August 9th, 2012 by Canada News Centre - National News

The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, accompanied by the Honourable Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, today announced the coming into force of the protecting children from se…

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E-bike, licence to drive drunk?

Posted August 2nd, 2012 by Allan W Janssen

An e-bike stands outside Urban Wasp in London, Ont. (CRAIG GLOVER / QMI AGENCY FILE PHOTO) By Patrick Callan, QMI Agency LONDON, ON — The environmentally friendly e-bike could be the last refuge for drunk drivers as technology continues to accelerate ahead of Canadian law. Because of conflicting provincial and federal laws about e-bikes, there [...]

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Canadians voice their apprehension on the proposed return of terrorist Omar Khadr to Canada

Posted July 29th, 2012 by MariaS

TORONTO .. Ontario
From BlazingCatFur blog

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The Canadian government has balked at the return of the convicted war criminal and murderer until U.S. authorities turn over allegedly-damning video footage of psychiatrists’ interviews wi…

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Science of Eyewitness Memory Enters Courtroom

Posted July 27th, 2012 by Brandon Keim

Science has prevailed over injustice in the state of New Jersey, where all jurors will soon learn about memory’s unreliability and the limits of eyewitness testimony. According to instructions issued July 19 by New Jersey’s Supreme Court, judges must tell jurors that “human memory is not foolproof,” and enumerate the many ways in which eyewitness recall can be distorted or mistaken.

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Free Speech for some …. not for all

Posted July 27th, 2012 by MariaS

Oh yeah … all journalists have their own agendum. In the article below journalist Brendan O’Neill writing at TheTelegraph forgets to mention the Greek athlete Paraskevi Papachristou   and   Stephen Birrelli  … just two other name…

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For wife-killers, Canada offers a deal you can’t refuse, apply for immigration today, arrive here next year, be a bachelor again soon after

Posted July 26th, 2012 by MariaS

Just serve 5 years behind our 5-star prison bars and that’s that.  Now is that a deal or what !!  So murder away.  We understand your frustration with pesky wives who are just begging to be killed…. we do, we do.  

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Canadian Progressive World: NYPD brutalized Occupy Wall Street protesters and violated their rights: REPORT

Posted July 26th, 2012 by Obert Madondo

I spend the last five hours digesting the contents of the report on the first systematic look the NYPD’s response to Occupy Wall Street protests. The report is the product of an eight-month investigation undertaken by law clinics at Fordham, Harvard,…

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Zellstoff Celgar Limited Partnership Sentenced for the Release of Acutely Lethal Effluent into the Columbia River

Posted July 26th, 2012 by Canada News Centre - National News

On July 25, 2012, Zellstoff Celgar Limited Partnership was sentenced in British Columbia Provincial court for depositing acutely lethal effluent into the Columbia River, and for other offences under the Environmental Management Act. The sentencing is t…

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Government of Canada Announces Funding Toward a Child Advocacy Centre Serving Remote Communities in Northwestern Ontario

Posted July 23rd, 2012 by Canada News Centre - National News

The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Mr. Greg Rickford, M.P. for Kenora and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, today announced that funding …

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New Science Emboldens Long Shot Bid for Dolphin, Whale Rights

Posted July 19th, 2012 by Brandon Keim

Over the last several decades, researchers have shown that many dolphin and whale species are extraordinarily intelligent and social creatures, with complex cultures and rich inner lives. They are, in a word, persons — and now animal advocates are challenging society to follow science to its logical conclusion and give legal rights to cetaceans. If they’re successful, a dolphin could conceivably become the first non-human ever considered a legal person.

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How Canadian schools stack up in QS rankings (part two)

Posted July 18th, 2012 by Josh Dehaas

Subject rankings for psychology, law, economics…

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Minister Paradis Approves BD White Birch Investment LLC Acquisition of White Birch Paper Company

Posted July 13th, 2012 by Canada News Centre - National News

The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry, today made the following statement regarding the acquisition of the Canadian business carried on by White Birch Paper Company by BD White Birch Investment LLC.

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Harper Government Delivers on Commitment to Modernize Canada’s Copyright Laws

Posted June 29th, 2012 by Canada News Centre - National News

Today, the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry, and the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, announced that new legislation designed to modernize Canada’s copyright laws has received Royal Assent.

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So Was That "The Roberts Surprise" Or Is It Now "RobertsCare"?

Posted June 28th, 2012 by Alan McLeod

What do the President of the USA, the putative nominee for the GOP and the Chief Justice of the United States all agree with? The legality of an individual mandate under their jurisdiction. People are confused:Roberts’ action Thursday was enough to sen…

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