Tom Brokaw explains the relationship between Canada and The United States, in a pre-recorded short film that aired on NBC prior to the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Benamar Benatta was mysteriously handed over by Canada to U.S. authorities the day after the 9-11 terrorist attacks, and spent nearly five years in American jails without ever being convicted of a crime.

"Bridge funding" from the province -- which allowed the Phil Bouvier daycare in Vancouver's Strathcona neighborhood (Canada's poorest postal code) to employ three extra staff members for a short time this year -- ran out this summer.

The Federal Court of Canada on Thursday ordered the federal government to allow the return of a Montreal man stranded in Sudan for six years as an al-Qaeda suspect, ruling his charter rights have been breached.
Abousfian Abdelrazik, 47, was arrested and detained while visiting his mother in Sudan in 2003 and for the last year has been living in the Canadian Embassy in Khartoum.

Obama has been criticised, in particular by Cheney, for making public four secret Bush administration memos detailing interrogation techniques approved for use by the CIA, including waterboarding...."I was struck by an article that I was reading the other day talking about the fact that the British, during World War Two...And Churchill said 'we don't torture'.."

Once a terror suspect, Montrealer has a ticket home home but no passport.Former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler and other opposition MPs joined forces on Tuesday to plead the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Montrealer who has a ticket to fly home on Friday but remains in limbo at Canada's embassy in Sudan.

"I have never heard of such a thing in all my days: The main representative of the people ordering a corporate chieftain to step down — today! And not just any corporate CEO, but the head of the company that has spent more years at #1 on the Fortune 500 than any other corporation in the world." – Michael Moore

A lawyer for the trustee seeking to locate disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's assets for investors says more than $1 billion has been found.

Josef Fritzl, the Austrian accused of imprisoning his daughter and fathering seven children with her, has changed his pleas to guilty on all charges.Fritzl, 73, said video testimony from his daughter, played in court on Tuesday, had made him change his mind.

Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student journalist sentenced to death for blasphemy in Afghanistan, has been told he will spend the next 20 years in jail after the country's highest court ruled against him – without even hearing his defence.