Embattled Immigration Minister Judy Sgro vehemently denied reports Tuesday that a former staffer had links to a terrorist organization banned in Canada.
A national security probe was launched into Ms. Sgro's office after a senior staffer was fired for suspicion of being a security threat, government officials told the Toronto Sun earlier this week.
The staffer, a Canadian of Sri Lankan origin, had worked for several weeks in Ms. Sgro's Ottawa office, sources close to the case told the paper.
[. . . . ] Sources said the Toronto man, whose identity hasn't been released, was given a top position because he was a tireless recruiter of South Asians for the Liberal party.
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Mozambican murderer ordered out of Canada -- May appeal deportation: Fled to Canada after being convicted in journalist's slaying
Mr. Dos Santos was convicted of the murder of Mr. Cardoso, who was shot four years ago while investigating a US$14-million bank fraud that involved Mozambique's ruling party.
Just before his trial, Mr. Dos Santos escaped from a high-security prison and was convicted in absentia.
He was recaptured and sentenced to 28 years in prison but escaped again on May 9 and flew to Canada.[. . . . ]
Deportee's crime spree ends with toy-store stickup
Two are termed "Canadian citizens" but I'm guessing they are connected to or are Jamaican immigrants. This department is out of control and our security is at risk while they hide behind the UN's skirts on allowing people without proper documents to enter our country. They simply get to a port and mouth the words "refugee", though, of course, that may not be the case with these two.
TORONTO - Three men, including a twice-deported career criminal facing deportation again, ended a six-month crime spree by robbing a toy store full of holiday shoppers, police said yesterday.
[. . . . ] Gayle, a Jamaican, was in Canada awaiting deportation when he shot Constable Todd Baylis in the head, killing him in June, 1994.
[. . . . ] Francis, a Jamaican, returned to Canada a third time after being deported twice, and claimed refugee status, said Det. Sgt. Townley. Toronto police arrested him in 2002, when Det. Sgt. Townley said Citizenship and Immigration Canada officials began an investigation. ''By this time,'' Det. Sgt. Townley went on, ''this guy had amassed something like 25 criminal convictions in Toronto and surrounding area.''
Nigerian con man runs scam from jail -- Global News reports women recruited through federal site -- "Some conversations are monitored, some aren't. . . . "You have to understand that there are privacy considerations, notwithstanding you are in jail. People have rights to do certain things."
TORONTO - A Nigerian con man serving time for sexual assault has been running a scam out of the Don jail in Toronto that involves recruiting unwitting women on the outside and taking advantage of lax security on the inside, Global News Toronto reported yesterday.
The man, who has also been convicted of bigamy and credit-card fraud and described by the Ontario Human Rights Commission as a sexual predator, hired employees for his scam by advertising for help on a Government of Canada Web site, according to the report by Global Defenders, the station's investigative unit. [. . . . ]
The "rights" industry -- again. Of course, if a refusal to answer questions in the House of Commons is clothed in privacy rights, we can't blame the prison system from learning from it . . . . . . . can we? Give me a break!
You have to read this one -- why he's in jail, considering that he applied as a "refugee" claiming to be a persecuted gay from Botswana. Gay-friendly Canada welcomed him -- and then . . . . .
Crime victims office being 'dismantled' -- Only a revamp, liberals say -- "taxpayer-funded thorn in his ministry's side"
The Ontario Liberals have all but "dismantled" Canada's first government office dedicated to victims of crime, which for seven years has represented victims in the courts and proposed a string of judicial reforms, its outgoing vice-chairman charged yesterday.
[. . . . ] One of the office's tasks was to disperse money from the province's $40-million victim justice fund, but that has already been taken over by the Attorney-General's Ministry, he said.
Ah, the power to dispense money . . . . . OPM money, that is.
"The office made recommendations that helped lead to a greatly expanded victim-assistance program in the courts, the province's sex-offender registry, key changes to the Coroner's Act and more rights for child sexual abuse victims, said Mr. Jackson."
Congressman Warns of Iranian Attack on U.S. -- using hijacked Canadian planes
WASHINGTON - A senior Republican congressman has been warning America's intelligence community for more than a year of an alleged Iranian plot to crash commercial airliners into a New Hampshire nuclear reactor.
Since February 2003, Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania has held a series of secret meetings in Paris with a former high-ranking official in the Shah's government who has correctly predicted, according to Mr. Weldon, a number of internal developments in Iran ranging from the regime's atomic weapons programs to its support for international terrorism, including Al Qaeda.
Based on two informants inside the mullahs' inner circle, Mr. Weldon's source, whom he code-named "Ali," relayed allegations to the Pennsylvania lawmaker that an Iranian-backed terrorist cell is seeking to hijack Canadian airliners and crash them into an American reactor. The target of the operation was only identified by Ali as SEA, leading Mr. Weldon to predict it was the Seabrook reactor in New Hampshire, about 40 miles north of Boston. Ali told the congressman that the attack was first planned for between November 23 and December 3, 2003, but was postponed to take place after this year's presidential election.
For nearly two years, Mr. Weldon tried to quietly press the CIA and a Senate panel that oversees Langley to follow up on the intelligence his Iranian source in Paris was providing. But these efforts came to nothing, according to Mr. Weldon. So now Mr. Weldon is going public. [. . . . ]
The congressman's experience with America's spy service in the last year echoes frustrations from other American officials and analysts who have cultivated Iranians willing to provide America with intelligence, but who have been ignored. [. . . . ]
The long-awaited meeting of the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Treaty is now underway in Buenos Aires, Argentina. More than 5,000 delegates and non-government organization representatives are there to participate in the festivities. The overwhelming sentiment among the participants is to find a way to force the United States to "get on board." French Ecology Minister Serge Lepeltier said, "I am convinced that we are going to bring the United States into Kyoto, even if it doesn't want to."
[. . . . ] The economic impact this horrendous international law could have is beyond comprehension. The only thing worse - is the knowledge that the power of this international law is in the hands of a bunch of unaccountable U.N. bureaucrats whose goal is to bring down the United States.
Do look at this one. Also, there have been a few articles in the National Post / Financial Post questioning the science behind the claims of the Kyoto supporters -- particularly that it is the West that is going to be at a great disadvantage while others pollute as usual; think of our industries and our workers. It is not politically correct to question the science when such an honourable body as the UN gets behind it, as well as Maurice Strong, the ???-funded NGO's and environmental groups that claim to speak for the rest of us but we must discuss anything with consequences this severe to OUR economic well-being and industry. That doesn't mean we shouldn't downsize our vehicles--starting now--and become less reliant on imported oil just in case. But, let's talk.
Dictatorship of the minority -- "Thus if the majority is denied the right to realize its wishes through the ballot or plebiscites, then by definition the majority does not rule"
Is this too logical for Canada? -- a must read article
Dictatorship of the minority Klaus Rohrich, Dec. 13, 04, Canada Free Press. Klaus Rohrich is President and Creative Director of Taylor/Rohrich Associates Inc.
[. . . . ] If a society guarantees every minority the right to do whatever they desire, then the term "democracy" becomes meaningless. . . . if the majority is denied the right to realize its wishes through the ballot or plebiscites, then by definition the majority does not rule
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Thinking the unthinkable in the House -- Few supporters dare to contemplate it, but there's a remote possibility same-sex marriage legislation may fail to pass
[. . . . ] Already many Grits and other MPs inclined to support the same-sex legislation are coming under fire from key constituencies, including Muslim and Sikh communities that have traditionally backed the Liberals.
Weston thinks that, by the time this issue comes to a vote in spring or afterward, Canadians will have made their feelings known to their MPs -- but it will still go the SCOC to be settled in the end.
Complaint filed against ethics commissioner -- language
OTTAWA (CP) - The federal deputy Immigration minister filed a complaint against the ethics commissioner Monday with the Official Languages Commission over testimony being conducted only in English.
Michel Dorais said he was "troubled" that at least one francophone employee has been forced to testify in English before lawyers hired by Bernard Shapiro to investigate allegations surrounding Immigration Minister Judy Sgro. "I learned that they didn't give people a choice - they sent them a letter in English, swore them in in English and questioned them in English," he told The Canadian Press. [. . . . ]
Weren't they hired as bilingual employees?
Minister to seek funding for 100-seat aircraft -- Emerson to ask Cabinet approval to arrange financing package for Bombardier -- "Published reports in Quebec indicated federal Cabinet agreed to provide roughly $380-million in financing for the 100-seat jet project."
Here we go again.
Why is Bombardier a government aided / taxpayer funded corporate welfare recipient -- as opposed to the mill workers at Ste. Anne Nackawic in NB? When I hear of workers who toiled 25-34 years who now HAVE no pensions--though a few may--I just rage. Also, there were contractors who regularly worked shutting-down the mill--assuming ing they were dismantling for the yearly refit -- and then the mill was abruptly closed. Of course they lost their pay for the job of closing down the mill. How does our government decide who wins and loses in this game of life -- and taxpayer money?
Why has Bombardier been able to feed off taxpayers while millworkers are left in the lurch? If all suffered the vagaries of the marketplace, most would consider it just rotten luck, but when we see the government prop up some, but not all, it appears decidedly unfair. Don't talk to these unfortunate Nackawic ex-employees and contractors about Brazil's government subsidizing Embraer and therefore Canadian taxpayers must subsidize Bombardier.
What these workers see is the unfairness! In continuously propping up Bombardier, the Feds have sucked investors into believing that this was a viable firm. Now, their stocks have nosedived. Bombardier was not viable--except for the taxpayer funding prop, it appears. Let the market decide.
Paul Martin, get the feds out of the business of picking winners and losers and dispensing largesse to the chosen few. There is no need for you to fly around the world as front man for some businessmen, but not others. Let them fly off to negotiate on their own. Stick to the few jobs which your government should be doing; start with corruption and security.
The federal Industry Minister intends to seek Cabinet approval to negotiate a financing package for Bombardier Inc.'s 100-seat regional jet project even though the company was rocked yesterday with a leadership crisis after the sudden departure of Paul Tellier as chief executive.
"You just can't look at a company that's hit a crisis point and say, 'We are going to let it die and live with the ripple effects,' " David Emerson told reporters yesterday in the House of Commons, "because those ripple effects could be profound, irreversible and I for one am not going to stand by and watch that happen to a very important sector of Canadian industry." [. . . . ]
The aircraft industry from Quebec vs other industries or other provinces? No contest!
