three wise monkeys

May 27, 2008 04:30 AM
Cara Anna
Associated Press

BEIJING–Parents whose only child was killed or maimed in China’s earthquake would be allowed to have another, officials who administer the country’s one-child policy in part of the disaster zone said yesterday.

Couples whose only child was killed, severely injured or disabled in the quake can get a certificate allowing them to have another child, said the Chengdu Population and Family Planning Committee, which oversees the policy in the capital of Sichuan province.
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Apr 09, 2008 04:30 AM
Antonia Zerbisias

If you think that some of the Bush administration’s conservative politics – and Orwellian moves – in the U.S. can’t affect Canada, then you have some research to do.

Ten days ago at the University of California in San Francisco, librarian Gloria Won was running through POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE), billed as “the world’s largest database on reproductive health.” Maintained by Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University, and freely available to medical schools, health organizations and the public, it is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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By Oliver Whitehead

The Harper government’s latest move to deny support to film and television programming that it deems offensive is an assault on the values of civilization.

As such, of course, it is nothing new; the Harper Conservatives have merely taken their modest place in a long but dismal line of authority figures whose fear and suspicion of the power of creativity has stifled the expression of original ideas for centuries.
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They’re ripping the tops off mountains in West Virginia coal country to feed our insatiable appetite for power. It’s cheaper that way. And the trees and the animals and the flooding? It may not be pretty, but we’ve got all those dishwashers to run

Feb 23, 2008 04:30 AM
Catherine Porter
Environment Reporter

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA–When you flick on the lights this evening, think of Kayford Mountain. Or what was Kayford Mountain, but now is a sprawling, muddy, trembling construction site 100 metres below Larry Gibson’s home.

Three years ago, Gibson hunted wild boar here, picked gooseberries and peaches, and sat under the shade of white oaks and hickories so thick he couldn’t see the sky.

“Now, you can see the sky below your feet,” Gibson says.
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By Stephen Poloz

Have you ever looked at one of those satellite photos of the earth, taken at night? It is truly a remarkable sight, and full of economic meaning, besides.

What most people see when they look at these photos is the lights – literally billions of them. Of course, they also see massive areas of darkness. But what an economist sees is not the lights, but a map of economic activity. Dense clusters indicate intense economic activity. The photo reveals what might be referred to as economic gravity.
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PM says he’ll pick judges by ideology

Feb 14, 2007 08:46 PM
Jim Brown
Canadian press

OTTAWA — Steven Harper is frankly admitting that he’s looking for judges who will back his law-and-order agenda — and provoking cries from his opponents that he’s trying to subvert the judiciary for political ends.
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Karla a mom, ready to wed

Fri, February 9, 2007

Sources say the notorious killer and the baby boy’s father will tie the knot in the Caribbean.

By ALAN CAIRNS, SUN MEDIA

TORONTO — Karla Homolka is nursing a newborn baby, Sun Media has confirmed. Read the rest of this entry »

Squabbling scuttles council photo
TheStar.com - News - Squabbling scuttles council photo
February 06, 2007
John Spears
CITY HALL BUREAU
Toronto’s new city council isn’t yet picture perfect.

Plans to take a formal portrait of the new council were cancelled this morning after the councillors squabbled over who should sit where. Read the rest of this entry »

Little-known 1977 law requires some born abroad to reregister as citizens
January 25, 2007
Thulasi Srikanthan
Staff Reporter

A little-known legal loophole has left hundreds of Canadians without their citizenship.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada yesterday identified 450 recent cases where people have come to apply for a new passport or renewal of an expired one and found out their citizenship is not valid.
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Lacking papers, a family fleeing persecution can’t be forced back to Iran, but now finds that there’s nowhere to go
January 25, 2007
Nicholas Keung
IMMIGRATION/DIVERSITY REPORTER

An Iranian woman and her two children have been stranded in a Moscow airport for more than eight months while en route to seek asylum in Canada to be united with her brother, her only overseas relative.
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