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Six years ago Toronto-born Omar Khadr was fifteen years old and living in Afghanistan. He is now 21, and his place of abode is Guantanamo Bay, the infamous American terrorist prison on the coast of Cuba. He is accused of killing an American soldier in a firefight in Afghanistan in July, 200..
(Read full article on Why Was a Child Sent to Guantanamo Bay in the First Place?)
The Republic of the Sudan is Africa’s largest country. It covers 2,505,810 square kilometres and borders on the Red Sea. It is in Sudan that the Blue Nile and the White Nile join to form the Nile which runs through Egypt in..
(Read full article on Hope in Sudan?)
On April 10, 2008 the citizens of the impoverished Himalayan country of Nepal voted for a 601-seat Constituent Assembly. This vote was unique in two ways, however. In the first place the Communist Party of ..
(Read full article on Nepal, communism, and the Gurkhas)
There is no doubt that we are living in a changing world, one that is changing much more rapidly than even climate scientists had forecast. There are growing instances of extreme weather, rising temperatures in zones that previously had mild or even cool summers, and droughts in regions tha..
(Read full article on Global Warming, Extreme Weather – Is There Something Going On?)
A few months ago it was proposed that the Olympics might be an economic and political blessing for China. Observers hoped that the Games would spur trade, increase cultural contact and reduce the incidence of human rights abuses in..
(Read full article on Are the Olympics Really Opening Up China?)
Well, now that’s all over except the cheering, it’s time to take stock of why Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination in the U.S. and to ask the question whether he can win the American Presidency. The Democratic nomination “election” was unique in a numbe..
(Read full article on New Election Look for the United States)
It’s nice to know that some people are thinking of our planet. In a remote corner of northwestern Alberta, Canada, an alliance of aboriginal people, the provincial government, and oil companies have finalized an agreement ..
(Read full article on July World Spinners)
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, (UNESCO), increased the number of World Heritage List sites by eight on the 8th of July. The complete list is now compo..
(Read full article on The List of World Heritage Sites Grows by Eight)
Israel celebrated its sixtieth anniversary, as well as its Memorial Day, on May 8th 2008 – a celebration that not everyone believed would come to pass. Israelis flocked to Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, while many oth..
(Read full article on Whose Anniversary is it - Israel or the US?)
The Northwest Passage has always held a somewhat mysterious place in Canadian history from Martin Frobisher’s initial sighting of an ice-bound east-west passage in 1576 to the first Canadian tra..
(Read full article on The Northwest Passage - A Review)
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