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Most Europeans would support strike to stop Iran from getting the bomb 2007-04-08 05:54:00 • By GEORGE CONGERJerusalem Post08 Apr 2007LONDON – Over half of Europeans
would support a preemptive military strike
to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, according to a poll published last week.
A survey commissioned by the pro-business Open Europe think tank in London found that most of those surveyed in 18 EU member states, including in France and Britain, backed military action as
Russian immigrants in Israel 2007-04-08 04:13:00 How should Israel
deal with olim who hate Jews?The Jewish Chronicle06 Apr 2007How should Israel deal with olim who hate Jews?
A spate of antisemitic attacks carried out by Russianimmigrants
is a challenge to Zionism, says Elana Gomel.
If antisemitism is a disease, Zionism has been presented as its cure. With its precarious geopolitical situation, the argument goes, Israel cannot guarantee
Murder case suspect gets bail 2007-04-07 22:25:00 BY KIM BOLANThe Vancouver Sun04 Apr 2007SURREY The brother-in-law of slain Surrey teacher Manjit Panghali was released on bail Tuesday after being charged last month with being an accessory after the fact to her murder.
Sukhvinder Singh Panghali must surrender his passport and stay away from Panghali’s family, as well as adhere to a courtordered curfew.
Stan Lowe, who speaks for the Crown, Read more:suspect
Saving face as South Asian women die 2007-04-07 22:19:00 BY BRIAN HUTCHINSONNational Post07 Apr 2007VANCOUVER • Wally Oppal, B.C.’s Attorney-General, called it a “cancer” in the province’s Indo-Canadian community. He was speaking about domestic violence. Specifically spousal assault: Husbands beating their wives. Sometimes killing them.
For being blunt, Mr. Oppal was taken to task by some of his fellow Indo-Canadians. They implied he was a Read more:Saving
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, Asian
Too many skilled immigrants drive taxis 2007-04-07 20:43:00 BY KIM BOLAN CanWest News ServiceTimes Colonist04 Apr 2007Scientists, doctors and other skilled immigrants
are driving taxis
and working security jobs because of discrimination against foreign-trained professionals, say Indo-Canadian community leaders.
And they want all levels of government to work to end discrimination against foreign credentials so Canada can benefit from immigrants with Read more:drive
Racial tension fuels day-care food fight 2007-04-07 20:37:00 Times Colonist
04 Apr 2007
Parents want meatless menu for Muslim child
MONTREAL (CP) — The ongoing debate in Quebec over accommodating religious minorities has flared up again over a day-care lunch menu.
A day-care centre in the east end of Montreal is taking issue with a human rights commission ruling suggesting it not serve meat to a Muslim child, in accordance with Islamic dietary rules. Read more:Racial
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Nancy Pelosi in Syria 2007-04-07 20:11:00 Bravo, "Globe and Mail"!
The Globe and Mail Weekend07 Apr 2007U.S. House Speaker NancyPelosi
should hope that she does not end up as another Ségolène Royal, the French Socialist presidential candidate who embarrassed herself when trying to enhance her foreign credentials in the Middle East.
Ms. Royal’s mistake was her failure to speak up when a Hezbollah politician compared Israel’s past role Read more:Syria
, Nancy Pelosi
Students chant anti-American slogans while burning DVDs, videos and music CDs Friday 2007-04-07 19:32:00 Try to close us down and you’ll suffer
‘tens of thousands’ of suicide attacks, mullah tells disapproving government
The Vancouver Sun
07 Apr 2007
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani mullah said Friday
he had set up a Taliban-style Islamic court at his mosque in the capital and pledged “tens of thousands” of suicide attacks if the government tries to shut it down.
The fiery declaration by cleric Abdul Read more:chant
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Iran’s true face 2007-04-07 06:46:00 Jerusalem Post06 Apr 2007Fifteen British sailors are safely back home, after two weeks in Iranian captivity – a happy ending which in itself should please anyone who deplored their unjust detention in the first place and all the grist their seizure provided for Teheran’s propaganda mill.
Exasperatingly, however, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his cohorts have managed to come out
Another one to stay in Vancouver 2007-04-07 06:35:00 Chinese fugitive can stay, for nowBY IAN BAILEY POLITICAL REPORTERThe Province06 Apr 2007A Federal Court ruling has cleared the way for one of China’s most-wanted fugitives to remain in Canada — for now.
Yesterday’s ruling by Justice Yves de Montigny allows for a judicial review of an immigration official’s recent decision that Lai Changxing faces no risk of execution or torture if deported to Read more:Vancouver
So they just waste taxpayers' money? But hey, there'll be next season of "Little Mosque on the Prairies" 2007-04-07 01:54:00 Pull the plug on ratings-hungry CBClgunter@shaw.caEdmonton Journal06 Apr 2007If you like the CBC's crime reconstruction series 72 Hours: True Crime, you’re going to be disappointed. Mother Corp announced Wednesday the half-hour series, which “chronicles Canada’s most infamous crimes in an innovative ‘nouveau noir’ fashion” (whatever that is), will not be returning this fall.
Frankly, before I Read more:waste
Read the truth! 2007-04-06 20:44:00 Daily Mail, UK:
We were blindfolded, bound and stripped, say our sailors
Canada cannot deport Iranian gangster? 2007-04-06 18:35:00 Arrested gangster has avoided deportation for eight yearsBY KIM BOLANThe Vancouver Sun06 Apr 2007A Vancouver gangster who was arrested this week as part of a massive Ontario undercover operation targeting the Hells Angels has avoided deportation for eight years despite a finding that his “serious criminality” made him inadmissible to stay in Canada
.
Thirty-two-year-old Omid Bayani was first Read more:Iranian
South Asian women rally in Vancouver against violence 2007-04-06 18:29:00 The Province06 Apr 2007VANCOUVER — Murders and assaults of SouthAsian
women are a backlash against
the progress they’ve made in society, activists said Thursday as they rallied in Vancouver
.
Elders in traditional Indian saris and teenagers in jeans congregated in the heart of Vancouver’s Punjabi Market to put a public face on domestic violence within the Indo-Canadian community.
Three Lower
Joy after bombing 2007-04-06 05:42:00 Jubilant Iraqis celebrate killing four British soldiers
‘The ugly reality of war’Richard Norton-Taylor Michael HowardThe Guardian06 Apr 2007As 15 sailors and marines were celebrating their release by the Iranian government, the bloody reality of the conflict in which they were embroiled struck British soldiers yesterday on the streets of southern Iraq.
Four soldiers on patrol in a Warrior
View from Ontario 2007-04-05 22:48:00 Iran’s costly paradeToronto Star05 Apr 2007Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad relished his moment in the limelight yesterday, lecturing Britain and the United States before “pardoning” and freeing 15 British sailors who never should have been held captive in the first place.
Parading them for the cameras one last time to say how grateful they were to be “forgiven,” he even joked about their Read more:Ontario
Bomb exploded in Montreal Jewish community 2007-04-05 22:13:00 Blast sets off calls for hate-crimes unitMICHELLE LALONDE THE GAZETTEThe Gazette05 Apr 2007A homemade bomb that exploded at the entrance to a Jewishcommunity
centre in Snowdon late Tuesday has some members of Montreal
’s Jewish community demanding police set up a permanent hate-crimes squad.
Police were called at 11:15 p.m. Tuesday by employees of the YM-YWHA Ben Weider Jewish Community Centre,
ANGELS TAKEN DOWNThe Province05 Apr 2007At least ... 2007-04-05 15:04:00 ANGELS TAKEN DOWNThe Province
05 Apr 2007At least
two people were arrested in B.C. yesterday in a series of cross-country raids against the Hells Angels and affiliated gangs.
RCMP Insp. Gary Shinkaruk, head of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs Task Force, said a long-time full-patch member of the Haney chapter of the Angels was taken into custody. He would not say what charges are expected.
“I can
View from UK 2007-04-05 14:50:00 HUMILIATEDBy John Ingham and Mike TheodoulouDaily Express05 Apr 2007THEY were paraded one by one, wearing shiny Iranian suits, in front of their beaming captor yesterday – and forced to “thank” him for their freedom.
As the 15 Royal Marines and sailors trooped before the world’s cameras, towering above Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, their 13-day ordeal edged towards a peaceful
Saudi-trained Canadian cleric has been banned from entering the country 2007-04-09 18:51:00 Bridging Islamic divideThe New Zealand Herald09 Apr 2007 SHEIK Bilal Philips should have been speaking at the Australian Islamic Conference in Melbourne at the weekend. Instead, the Saudi
-trained Canadiancleric
has been banned from entering the country, supposedly for security reasons.
Philips, an advocate of fundamental Islam, has been named by United States officials as an "un-indicted
What shall it profit Moscow? A lot 2007-04-09 17:16:00 The Globe and Mail09 Apr 2007Recent reports of controversy over Russian funding of the construction of Iran’s atomic power station at Bushehr has lead many people to the wrong conclusion. The New York Times, for example, reported that Russian officials had told Iran no fuel would be delivered to the station if enrichment continued, leading many to assume there was a change in Moscow
’s stand on Read more:shall
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It stinks 2007-04-09 06:51:00 by Max HastingsDaily Mail09 Apr 2007THIS stinks. The Ministry of Defence’s decision to allow the released Iranian hostages to sell their stories for personal profit drives a coach and horses through service rules, sets a shocking precedent, and makes a squalid saga smellier still.
The decision has been denounced with rare and welcome unanimity across the political spectrum. It suggests collusion
Support for hunger strikers 2007-04-09 03:19:00 Benjamin MarksAustralian09 Apr 2007REFUGEE advocates say more than 100 inmates of Villawood detention centre in Sydney have refused meals in an act of solidarity with a group of nine detainees who have been on hunger strike for nearly two weeks.
The nine, all thought to be Chinese Falun Gong practitioners, have not eaten since March 28. They went on the hunger strike after the deportation of Read more:Support
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