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State Secretariat has Lady Gaga ban letter The State Secretariat -– not the President -- has received a letter urging that Lady Gaga be banned from performing in Indonesia, written by the notorious Islamic People’s Forum (FUI) and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI). But the letter has never...

Palestinian Airlines resumes flights after 7 years By IBRAHIM BARZAK and KARIN LAUB Associated Press MARKA AIRBASE, Jordan (AP) - Palestinian Airlines is back in the skies after being grounded for seven years by the deepening enmities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Once hailed as a...

Rare white deer spotted in London, Ont. By Alex Weber, QMI Agency LONDON, ONT. - At first glance, they looked like a pair of lost goats. But it didn't take long for David Baert to realize the...

Taxpayer group takes on bag tax The city’s five cent bag fee has been called “illegal” by the Toronto Taxpayers Coalition. The coalition announced Sunday that it filed a complaint against Toronto’s controversial bag bylaw to the federal competition bureau. “What we’re saying is that there...

OTTAWA — A prominent B.C. academic and close political ally of New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair said Friday that Mulcair's environmental policies would lead to some oilsands operations being rendered no longer being viable. The statement by University of B.C. professor Michael Byers...

Wreaths, tears mark 95 years since Vimy Ridge battle Thousands of Canadians gathered at the site of the Battle of Vimy Ridge Monday, to mark 95 years since the fight in northern France that some say was a turning point in forging Canada's identity as an independent nation. Veterans...

Supreme Court of Canada nixes Nuuchahnulth fisheries decision review Category: NEWS...

First Nations will balk at Harper's private property plans, Atleo warns Category: NEWS Created on Monday, 02 April 2012 12:16 Last Updated on...

Feeling left out, chiefs go to court Category: NEWS Created on Tuesday...

Man who testified in Shafia trial shunned by family Paul Schliesmann, QMI Agency KINGSTON, ONT. - A man who helped convict his niece of killing three of her daughters and her husband’s first wife says he has been ostracized from his family and friends. “At the beginning...

Native girl punished for speaking her language Three little phrases — I love you; hello; thank you — uttered in a young girl’s native tongue and then translated have sparked a furor at a middle school in Wisconsin. The dust-up began in January when Grade 7 student Miranda Washinawatok, who...

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MORE TO COME APTN National News OTTAWA–While Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared a “new day” had dawned on the relationship between Canada and its Indigenous population, he offered no grand pronouncements in his speech to First Nations chiefs during the opening of the Crown-First Nations...

Suing Google to Remove Results About Your Alleged Orgy Won’t Work « Above the Law: A Legal Web Site Ummm, ya...OooooKay... I don't even know what smilie this deserves.

Military: 3 rockets from Lebanon strike Israel The Associated Press Date: Tuesday Nov. 29, 2011 5:59 AM ET JERUSALEM — Rockets fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel early Tuesday for the first time in more than two years, drawing a burst of Israeli artillery fire across the tense...

A new way to police? Police Chief Who Oversaw 1999 WTO Crackdown Says Paramilitary Policing Is a Disaster The police chief who oversaw Seattle's crackdown on WTO protesters learned the dangers of militarization. November 17, 2011 They came from all over, tens of thousands of...

The Canadian Press Date: Wed. Nov. 23 2011 5:02 PM ET Bill for native accountability won't fix problems: AFN OTTAWA — Aboriginal affairs minister John Duncan is resurrecting a bill that would force First Nations to publish the salaries of band leaders and councillors. First Nations...

Accused poppy thief in Canada as refugee claimant TORONTO - Some Toronto veterans are seeking the deportation of a Czech man accused of stealing west-end poppy boxes after he and his family were given refugee status in this country that they fought for. A man surrendered to police on Nov. 7...

Canada signed on to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples two years after it was adopted globally but it remains intransigent when it comes to respecting the declaration’s tenants, according to Amnesty International. Thursday, 10 November 2011 09:36 By...

Province's laws moot: reserve Thursday, 10 November 2011 11:41 First Nation opens cheap-smoke and gaming site; challenges province By: Matt Goerzen PIPESTONE, Man. -- Members of the Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation celebrated the opening of a controversial smoke shop and gaming...