Harper v. Canada: 2011 election scandal brings scrutiny to PM’s controversial past
Prime Minister Harper spent years mired in a court case titled “Harper v. Canada” to challenge the country’s election regulations.
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Lifelong Canadians face discrimination by their own government…still
With a citizenship lawsuit filed in federal court last month, Lost Canadians continue their quest to end bizarre legal loopholes.
Fukushima anniversary: B.C. looks south to closest nuclear plant
Sitting a six-hour drive south of Vancouver, the Columbia Generating Station is B.C.’s closet nuclear plant. As we near the one year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, VO investigates.
Government pipeline rhetoric reminiscent of Cold War, McCarthyism: prof
Federal accusations that Enbridge opponents are “foreign” influenced “radicals” are frighteningly familiar to a Cold War historian.
Civil liberties, privacy groups cry foul as PM hails historic border deal
Today’s sweeping U.S.-Canada border deal locks out terrorists, widens gates for trade, PM says.
B.C. intervened to halt Bush torture case
Questions of political interference are being raised after a court case against former U.S. president George W. Bush was stopped in its tracks by the attorney general last week
Legal challenge seeking George W. Bush’s arrest during B.C. visit fails
George W. Bush’s visit to Surrey, B.C., on Thursday was met with a protest and an unsuccessful courtroom bid to have him detained for torture during his presidency
Former Guantanamo prisoner supports Bush arrest
After spending five years as an extra-judicial prisoner of George W. Bush’s ‘war on terror,’ Murat Kurnaz is disappointed that Canada did not arrest the former U.S. president during his visit to Surrey
Lawyers press for Bush arrest, as #Occupy activists set to converge in Surrey
A 70-page legal indictment — accompanied by a staggering 4,000-page dossier — has been filed in B.C. court to have former George W. Bush arrested during his visit to Surrey tomorrow
Police rough up anti-Cheney protesters
As former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney spoke in Vancouver on Monday night, several hundred people demanded his arrest on charges of war crimes and torture, blocking both entrances to the upscale Vancouver Club by linking arms, as others staged a sit-in lasting several hours.
