On Wednesday, Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed hope that a trade boom will result following a Free Trade Agreement between both countries that became effective on August 15th . Santos also stressed that his government is working to reduce security risks for oil companies, in view of recent attacks blamed on [...]
2011 Aug 11 | Posted in
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The police-reported crime rate, which measures the overall volume of crime, continued its long-term downward trend in 2010, declining 5% from 2009. At the same time, the Crime Severity Index, which measures the severity of crime, fell 6%. The national crime rate has been falling steadily for the past 20 years and is now at its lowest level since 1973. Canadian police [...]
A young brazilian man, 25, suspected of dealing Ecstasy through the social networking site Facebook, was arrested by officers of Precinct 12 (Copacabana), in Barra da Tijuca in western Rio do Janeiro. The commissioner responsible for the action, Antenor Lopes Martins Jr explained that the alleged criminal lived in the neighborhood of Espirito Santo (Holy [...]
2011 Jul 31 | Posted in
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Canadians on the West Coast are becoming more concerned about potential radioactive contamination after authorities in Japan raced to combat the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns in the quake- and tsunami-damaged northeastern coast of the country. More than 170,000 people have been ordered out of the region, where officials fear one reactor at a power [...]
Contract killers murdered Canadian businessman Daniel Dion and stuffed his body into the trunk of his rental car in southern Mexico before setting it ablaze, his family believes, informed a journalistic report made by Peter Edwards for TheStar.com “Considering what we know and have seen, the people that killed Daniel were professional and went greatly [...]
Germany’s Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH has delivered to Canada the first 20 modernized Leopard 2 A4M tanks for use in Afghanistan. The transfer ceremony was last week near Hanover, Germany. Canada commissioned KMW to upgrade 20 Leopard main battle tanks in July 2009. Canada is part of the international coalition fighting in Afghanistan. KMW said the [...]
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano told concerned locals Wednesday that there may be a way to salvage an underused crossing post that was left in the lurch amid a multimillion renovation when the Canadians closed their side of the border. The tiny border station — which not too long ago closed for the night [...]
2010 Aug 26 | Posted in
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The U.S. Department of State released the following Travel Alert on June 17, 2010: The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens traveling to or residing in Toronto, Canada to the potential for large-scale demonstrations in downtown Toronto before and during the G-20 Summit scheduled for June 26-27, 2010. This Travel Alert expires on June 28, 2010. [...]
2010 Jun 20 | Posted in
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Ottawa has a problem with crack cocaine. Its tentacles are everywhere. In the ByWard Market, obviously, but also in the middle-class enclaves of Orléans and Barrhaven and Kanata. Police officers, drug counsellors, community groups, politicians, outreach workers, judges and an army of others in the fight know that realistically it will never leave town. “It [...]
Sheri is a mother, a wife, a daughter. She is a caregiver. And she is a convict. Dressed in her hospital scrubs, hair neatly gathered in a ponytail, she says agreeing to smuggle drugs into Canada might have been one of the worst decisions she’s ever made. Becoming a drug mule was a stupid decision [...]
