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.
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Canadians going prorogue
Harper's move called affront to democracy.Yesterday's rally to protest against the prime minister's year-end move to shut down Parliament until March went peacefully, even as it gave Stephen Harper a sound hammering.
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A Glimmer of Justice for Wrongly Detained Terror Suspects
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.
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HIV Travel Ban Lifted By President Obama
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. will overturn a 22-year-old travel and immigration ban against people with HIV early next year.
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Daycare Serving BC's Poorest Forced to Dump Kids
"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.
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Stimulus funds for non-profits 'set up for failure': MP
A federal-Ontario funding program to stimulate the economy and help non-profit organizations repair and expand their buildings is practically inaccessible, critics say.
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Court orders Ottawa to let Abdelrazik return to Canada
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.
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Former KGB agent takes sanctuary to avoid deportation
A former Soviet KGB agent has taken sanctuary in a Vancouver church in order to avoid his scheduled deportation early Wednesday morning, CBC News has learned.
Mikhail Lennikov lost his last chance to stay in Canada on Monday when a Federal Court Judge upheld a decision by the Federal Public Safety Minister that Lennikov could not remain in Canada.
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Obama references Churchill
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'.."
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VICTORY! Vermont votes for marriage equality!
Vermont becomes the first state to recognize marriage equality for lesbian and gay couples through legislation.
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