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26.Marijuana church "fictitious artifice", Crown argues (www.nationalpost.com)
The tenets of a Toronto organization seeking a religious exemption to marijuana prohibitions was described by a federal government prosecutor on Thursday as a "fictitious artifice" and a ruse by cannabis enthusiasts.
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Restorative Justice for the District of Sudbury (www.sdrj.ca)Restorative Justice for the district of Sudbury is a community based organization that provides a healthy and safe community through the healing of victims, the accused and the community. We use relationship building as a powerful tool for crime prevention and reduction.
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28.Whose national security?: Canadian state surveillance -Google Books (books.google.ca)
Would you believe that RCMP operatives used to spy on Tupperware parties? In the 1950s and 1960s they also monitored high school students and many others.
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29.Revisionist history in Virginia? Governor's proclamation left out slavery (ca.news.yahoo.com)
When Bob McDonnell proclaimed Confederate History Month earlier this week, the newly elected Republican governor of Virginia made no mention of slavery
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30.U.K. military uses 'mosque' shapes on firing range (ca.news.yahoo.com)
British military officials have apologized to a Muslim group for using structures resembling mosques at a target range, but have not said whether the structures will be removed.
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The Strange Disappearance Of Anat Kam (maxblumenthal.com)Kam was detained last December and placed under house arrest. However, news of her arrest only began to seep out into the news in March. Kam now awaits trial for treason and espionage, charges that could land her in prison for as long as 14 years.
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You’re Going to San Francisco, Be Sure to Never Sit on the Sidewalk (americancity.org)Last Tuesday in San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom introduced legislation to the Board of Supervisors to create a sit/lie ordinance for the city, making it illegal for people to sit or lie down on the sidewalk.
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33.Vatican cites sovereignty as defence in abuse case, says bishops aren't employees - Yahoo! Canada News (ca.news.yahoo.com)
The Vatican lawyers plan to argue the pope has immunity as head of state.
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34.Judge limits Steelworkers to 8 picketers - (www.thesudburystar.com)
The number of striking United Steelworkers on the picket line at Vale Inco operations in the city will be limited to eight, a Sudbury judge ruled Wednesday
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35.Whale Wars' is back and so is controversial Capt. Paul Watson | Outposts | Los Angeles Times (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
Capt. Paul Watson, whose Sea Shepherd Society has drawn praise and harsh criticism for its sometimes confrontational encounters with Japanese whalers, says of the second season of the Animal Planet series, "Whale Wars,"
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Military vehicles spotted passing through Sudbury (www.northernlife.ca)These military vehicles passed through Greater Sudbury on their way home, after being used in Exercise Maple Guardian.
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Gary Kinsman's book Canadian War on Queers takes on gay issues in government (www.straight.com)After 17 years of research, a gay sociology professor at Laurentian University has published a book he hopes will awaken Canadians to decades-long “Canadian state” discrimination against gays and lesbians in the name of national security.
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38.Vale to hire contract staff to break strike (www.ft.com)
Vale, the Brazilian mining group, is preparing to break a strike at its Canadian nickel and copper mines by bringing contract workers across picket lines that have interrupted production for the past eight months.
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39.IDF phasing out contentious tank shell in wake of Gaza war (www.haaretz.com)
Israel is phasing out a U.S.-made tank shell that sprays thousands of deadly darts over a wide area, in favor of a more precise round produced locally, the commander of the Armored Corps said on Sunday.
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Video: Burning Spear-Slavery days in Studio (www.youtube.com)Clasic hit revisited in studio
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41.Marines' weapon loaded with 'scream' (www.dailymail.co.uk)
US troops are to be armed with a stun gun that uses a baby's high-pitched scream to bring the enemy to its knees.The gun, which will be issued to marines in Iraq this month, fires "sonic bullets" that can be targeted like a torch beam.
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Ont. poised to take final legislative step in handing over park to First Nation (ca.news.yahoo.com)More than 14 years after native protester Dudley George was killed by police during a confrontation over disputed land, Ontario is poised to take the final legislative step in relinquishing control of Ipperwash Provincial Park,
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Sudbury Regional Police - FIGHT BACK SUDBURY! (fightbacksudbury.weebly.com)The 10 year old parking tickets in question were dated Dec. 13, 1999 and Feb.18, 28, 2000. Co-incidentally, just five days before the last ticket (on November 23, 2000) and under very suspicious circumstance, I had a run in with certain members of SRPS which resulted in a lengthy, questionable, criminal trial with the local Crown Attorney
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Sudbury 2003 Homelessness_report_T7.pdf (www.city.greatersudbury.on.ca)the preliminary results of a three-year study of homelessness in Sudbury funded by the National Homelessness Initiative.
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Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) has called on Rick Bartolucci, the Ontario Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services to direct the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) to stop impersonating reporters.
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Developments Magazine (www.developments.org.uk)Developments is a free magazine - published four times a year - and website which tells the stories of people and organisations who are working to end poverty.
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More than 17,000 episodes of troops going Awol since 2003 (www.independent.co.uk)British soldiers have gone on the run from their posts on more than 17,000 occasions since the start of the Iraq war
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Rodriguez right on in labour dispute - Brian Oliver Sudbury (www.thesudburystar.com)There will be strike-related violence in our community if Vale Inco is allowed to restart its operations with replacement workers.
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Future police: Meet the UK's armed robot drones (www.wired.co.uk)Police forces all over the UK will soon be able to draw on unmanned aircraft from a national fleet, according to Home Office plans
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Louder than bombs: LRAD 'sonic cannon' debuts in U.S. at G20 protests - DailyFinance (www.dailyfinance.com)Pittsburgh police on Thursday used an audio cannon manufactured by American Technology Corporation (ATCO), a San Diego-based company, to disperse protesters outside the G-20 Summit -- the first time its LRAD series device has been used on civilians in the U.S.
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