Happy Halloween
The ringleader of a group of thugs who kidnapped, tortured and locked a naked college student in a tool box for three days has been released from prison.
Richard Ian Bolt served a five-year, four-month sentence for his crimes, which were described by the judge in his trial as “degrading, sadistic and cruel.”
Police consider Bolt to be a violent offender who poses a significant risk to the public.
منبع : Edmonton Journal
دوستان عزیز
آیا شما اعتقاد دارید افرادی که انسان های خوبی هستند چهره های نورانی و روحانی دارند؟
ممنون می شوم اگر بتوانید نظرتان را راجع به این مطلب بفرمایید؟
Montrealer Nathalie Morin, 24, who is in Saudi Arabia with her husband and 3 children. Her husband has refused to give her permission to return to Canada - unless the Canadian government pays him $300,000
The price of Nathalie Morin’s freedom is $300,000 US.So says the common-law husband of the Montreal-area mother of three, 25, who swore in an affidavit that she has been held against her will in Saudi Arabia since 2005.
منبع : Montreal Gazette
Lineup at South Vancouver Clinic at 6405 Knight for H1N1 flu shots in Vancouver
Another three British Columbians have died from the H1N1 flu virus in the past week, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, bringing to 12 the number of B.C. residents who have died in the flu pandemic.
All three recent deaths involved adults with underlying health conditions.
Two of those who died were women, aged 48 and 50, who lived in the Fraser Health region. The other was a man in his 40s living in the Interior Health region.
منبع : Vancouver Sun
Saskatchewan is joining the rest of North America by moving to a one-piece driver’s licence.
The licences will cost SGI $6 million to develop and won’t be ready until 2011. But drivers will only have to renew their licences every five years with the new format instead of every year.
“I think it’s about time we did it,” said June Draude, minister responsible for SGI.
“First of all it’s going to make us the same as every other jurisdiction in North America, the same type of licence, which will allow police departments in other jurisdictions to understand this is actually a driver’s licence.”
منبع : Regina Leader-Post
A Canadian arrested in Chicago for allegedly helping plot a terrorist attack against a Danish newspaper told the FBI he was offended by editorial cartoons of Muhammad published by the daily.
Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a 48-year-old Pakistani-born Canadian, has been charged with supporting terrorism for his role in what the FBI says was a plot against the Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen.
منبع : National Post
Ontario has long been criticized for spending little on early childhood education, with kindergarten being a hot topic in recent years.
Research for the report found that children who attended full-day programs had better academic performance and social success as they entered Grade 1 than children who attended half-day programs.
منبع : Global News
The most famous Canadian on the planet came to Ottawa Friday night and bared her backside for all to see.
Pamela Anderson strutted onto the runway at Parliament Ultra Nightclub dressed in a camo-and-thong getup that left little to the imagination -- and I know because I've imagined it many times. It was the big bang at the end of a fashion show by New York City designer Richie Rich.
منبع : Ottawa Citizen
The University of Calgary entered the hospitality business Tuesday with the official opening of Hotel Alma, located in the campus's newest building, the Dr. Fok Ying Tung International House.
Alma is the first full-service hotel and conference facility of its kind on a Canadian university campus.
منبع : Calgary Herald
The migrant smuggling ship intercepted off the West Coast carrying 76 Sri Lankan men is owned by the outlawed Tamil Tigers and previously smuggled weapons from North Korea to Sri Lanka, says an international expert on South Asia terrorism.
Canada hosts the largest population of Sri Lankan Tamils outside of Sri Lanka, and has long been a key support base for the Tigers, which is on Canada’s official list of terrorist organizations.
منبع : Ottawa Citizen
Protestors shout at people going into the Shaw Conference Centre to hear former U.S. President George W. Bush speak in Edmonton Alberta on Tuesday.
Scores of angry activists waved placards and chanted slogans outside an Edmonton conference centre Tuesday evening to protest a speech inside by former U.S. president George W. Bush.
The protesters harried those in line for the talk with loud boos and calls of "shame, shame."
منبع : Edmonton Journal
Canadian Tamil Congress representatives Roy Ratnavel (left) and David Poopalapillai speak Tuesday October 20. 2009 in Vancouver, B.C.Two of 76 asylum-seekers apprehended on a rusty ship on the weekend should continue to be detained because of fears they won't reappear if released, an immigration review board member ordered Tuesday. The detention hearing was the first to be held since the 76 men, believed to be Tamils from Sri Lanka, were detained on the weekend
Police have released new photos of a violent sexual offender wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after disappearing from his Calgary home only two weeks after he was released from prison. Three Canada-wide warrants have been issued for Zimmerman who served more than three years in a federal prison for sexual assault with a weapon and forcible confinement.
منبع : Calgary Herald
دوستان عزیز
در حال حاضر در بعضی از کشورهای اروپایی، مجادله ای مابین قانون گذاران کشور، در رابطه با تصویب نهایی قانونی بحث برانگیز وجود دارد که به حکومت اجازه خواهد داد تا متجاوزین جنسی را اخته نماید.
البته اخته کردن در اینجا نه به معنای نقص عضو فیزیکی فرد مجرم بلکه محروم کردن وی از لذت بردن جنسی به منظور از بین بردن انگیزه ی اصلی ارتکاب جرم در این افراد می باشد.ممنون می شوم اگر بتوانید نظراتتان را راجع به این مطلب بفرمایید.
با سپاس
A Calgary couple and their son, who managed two condominium buildings, have been fined a total of $12,650 under the Public Health Act for allowing conditions to become deplorable.
Court heard the buildings at 2121 17th St. S.W. and 1215 5th St. S.W. contained large amounts of mould on walls and other places, bed bugs, mice droppings in kitchen drawers, unlocked bars in windows, missing railings from balconies and other deficiencies in 2006 and 2007.
منبع : Calgary Herald
Guns N' Roses is planning a 13-city tour of the country — in the depths of winter — according to concert ticket websites Ticketmaster and Gillett Entertainment Group.
The band will start the Canadian leg of their Chinese Democracy tour on Jan. 13 in Winnipeg, followed by dates in Calgary (Jan.16), Edmonton (Jan. 17), Saskatoon (Jan. 19), Regina (Jan. 20), Hamilton (Jan. 24), London (Jan. 25), Montreal (Jan. 27), Toronto (Jan. 28), Ottawa (Jan. 31), Quebec City (Feb. 1), Moncton (Feb. 3) and Halifax (Feb. 4).
This is the band's first Canadian swing since it finally released its latest album, Chinese Democracy, in November 2008, 17 years after its previous album.
منبع : Canwest News
The H1N1 vaccine has arrived in B.C., though shots are likely two weeks away. British Columbia received its first shipment of the H1N1 vaccine over the weekend, but it will likely be another two weeks before people can start rolling up their sleeves for the shot. The vaccine still needs Health Canada’s final approval and must still be prepared for final distribution.
منبع : Vancouver Sun
A home in a quiet neighbourhood near the General and Children's hospitals was destroyed by fire Sunday morning, when it was struck by a car being driven by a young man who was later arrested and charged with impaired driving. Richard Chamberland, 21, of Ottawa, was charged with impaired driving, driving with a blood-alcohol level over .08, and dangerous driving
منبع : Canwest NewsMaziar Bahari, 42, a Concordia University graduate who works for Newsweek magazine has been detained by authorities in Iran in an ongoing crackdown on journalists. He graduated from Concordia University in 1993 with a degree in Communication Studies, has been working as a correspondent for Newsweek magazine.
Bahari is a Canadian citizen who was born in Iran and travelling on his Iranian passport when he was arrested. At the time, the Iranian government refused to recognize his Canadian citizenship and refused to allow him consular assistance.
B.C. leads the nation in positive tests for the H1N1 virus, also called swine flu. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Perry Kendall says the rate of positive tests for the potentially deadly flu in B.C. is several times higher than in the rest of Canada
A rusting ship carrying 76 men has been intercepted off the west coast of Vancouver Island and escorted into Victoria by Canadian authorities in what officials suspect is a case of human smuggling.
An armed RCMP boarding party took control of the vessel late Friday afternoon in the Strait of Juan de Fuca between Vancouver Island and Washington State. There were no shots fired in the takeover and no one was injured.
Traffic backs up on centre street n. on Wednesday. this week's snowfall has caused chaos on city roads. Motorists slogged through another icy commute Wednesday as city sanders were on the roads in full force to clear snow-clogged streets and highways
The Canadian dollar continued to get a boost from strong demand for oil and other commodities, as well as Canada's relatively robust economy compared to its still-ailing neighbour to the south. As many Canadians spent Monday recovering from feasts of turkey, the loonie lifted a new high for the year against the American dollar, reaching nearly 97 U.S. cents.
منبع : Vancouver Sun
Irene and Leslie Dube have made one of the largest private donations in Saskatchewan history, pledging $6.5 million to the Children's Hospital Foundation of Saskatchewan.
منبع : Regina Leader Post
منبع : Canwest NewsA computer system outage cancelled about 50 Air Canada Jazz flights across the country late Friday night. The airline said the computer glitch was fixed around 4 a.m. ET Saturday, but said some Jazz flights may still be delayed Saturday until the backlog is cleared
The UBC Thunderbird Robotics Team Tread (l-r) Taylor Cooper, Amy Cheng, Andre Wild, Ian Phillips and professor John Meech has developed a robot for a NASA competition in California next week. Their robot, the Miskin SR-1 MoonScraper, will need to collect sand samples in an environment that is similar to that of the moon's surface. They are the only Canadian school entered and are hoping to bring home the $500,000 USD prize
The Canadian dollar rallied on Friday after the release of official figures that showed the Canadian economy added over 30,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate surprised analysts
The Canadian economy gained a much better-than-expected 31,000 jobs in September, driven mostly by full-time jobs, Statistics Canada said Friday, as the economy continued to show signs recovering from the country’s first recession since the early 1990s.
A mother of three is taking the City of Calgary to court over the right to have chickens. Mary March, who has three hens in the back yard of her home in the northwest community of Highwood, pleaded not guilty at provincial traffic court on Tuesday to a bylaw ticket she received for possessing livestock in a prohibited area

A Nanaimo man convicted of poaching a deer on a city street in Nanaimo in 2007 must now pay more than $3,000 in fines, make a $4,700 donation toward conservation and is prohibited from hunting for the next 14 years.
B.C. is scheduled to be the first province to receive the Nissan LEAF, Nissan’s first all-electric real-world car, in 2011 in advance of global distribution in 2012
منبع : The Province