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The 20-year Odyssey of Kevin Annett... International Justice and A `National Malaise`

This is the Happy Warrior, this is he
That every man in arms should seek to be. - William Wordsworth

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Last year, when a UN committee gave Canada a slap on the wrist for its treatment of indigenous people, a stalwart response followed from Justice Murray Sinclair...

The Chairman of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in the form of a photo-op and an "interim report" at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

Minister, Toronto MPs Join Canadian Tamils in Exhibition on 1983 Black July in Sri Lanka

The exhibition chronologically highlights what organizers calls `anti-Tamil pogroms’ since 1948.

(TORONTO News East-West) - Senior Canadian politicians, including MPs, joined Tamils in remembering the victims of the July 1983 riots in Sri Lanka – also referred to as Black July – at an exhibition at the Scarborough Civic Centre here on Thursday.

Tracy MacCharles, Ontario minister for consumer services, Craig Scott, MP for Toronto-Danforth, and John McKay, MP for Scarborough-Guildwood, joined Canadian Tamil Congress leaders and others from the Canadian Tamil community in watching the exhibition called Remembering Silent Voices.

`Matter for humanity that justice is done`- Interview with Callum Macrae

This is about human rights, and this is about the rule of international law. And I know that whenever I've shown this film to people who didn't know about the situation - it changes minds.

(TORONTO Tamil Guardian) - Tamil Guardian's correspondent based in Toronto, Canada, caught up with the director of the documentaries 'Sri Lanka's Killing Fields' and 'No Fire Zone - the killing fields of Sri Lanka', Callum Macrae, at the sidelines of FETNA 2013.

He discusses how he viewed Sri Lanka's reaction to the documentaries, himself and others who are speaking out against the massacre of tens of thousands of Tamils.

Doc

The best doctor in the world is your veterinarian – he can't ask his patients how they feel. He's got to just know.
- Will Rogers

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - There is perhaps no greater cliché in the history of the Western United States and the Canadian Provinces, than that of the kindly old country doctor.

He's been depicted by Norman Rockwell, chronicled in the real person of Dr. Dafoe, who delivered the Dionne Quints under primitive conditions, and his role has been overdone ad nauseum in literary mag and popular press alike...

Canadian Government: Pardon Rick Simpson

Lend your voice to freedom of health treatment options, and cannabis activist, Rick Simpson.

(EUGENE, OR) - Please help express disdain to the Canadian government for their decision to persecute Mr. Rick Simpson for producing Cannabis Oil for treatment of cancer, and other disorders, providing it free of charge to those who came to him for help, when the medical system had told them there was nothing more they could do for them.

Lend your voice to freedom of health treatment options, and cannabis activist, Rick Simpson.

The Way We Were

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.
- Mae West

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - When I was a kid, growing up in the Alberta dust bowl during the Thirties, Queen Victoria's Birthday was a holiday. It still is. Victoria ruled England and all the little colonies beyond the seas for 60 years or so until she kicked well over 100 years ago. Despite the fact that nobody liked her that much even when she was alive, we still chant about Victoria Day, and celebrate with barbecues and car sales.

Victoria said things like "The Queen is not amused," and other third person gems, such as "For a woman, marriage is beastly..."

Kevin Annett Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

Rev. Annett, a Salem-News.com writer, presently serves as the Field Secretary for the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State.

(NEW YORK CITY) - Reverend Kevin Annett has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a group of American and Canadian academicians, it was learned today.

Annett is currently on an extended speaking tour in Holland, France, Italy and other countries.

Copping the Ultimate Plea

Sub-Prime Martin’s spade ends up being just another shovel job.

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Canadians have learned a lot from our city-cousins to the south.

For example, one of the biggies of American jurisprudence is known as copping a plea, a godsend among bored judges, disgruntled jurors and prosecutors late for a pro bono dinner date.

Parliamentary Secretary Deepak Obhrai Calls on Sri Lanka to Ensure Media Freedom and Investigate Journalist Attacks

Journalists who covered Sri Lanka's Tamil ethnic cleansing disappear and are murdered frequently.

(OTTAWA) - Canada remains deeply concerned about the state of media freedom in Sri Lanka.

The offices of a newspaper in Northern Sri Lanka were attacked again on Saturday.

Appeal from Survivors of Canadian Genocide

"They did everything they can to take the Indian-ness out of our people"

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - Two indigenous elders and survivors of Christian internment camps, Stee-mas and Wahtsek, describe why the Queen and the Pope must be arrested for Crimes against Humanity.

Their appeal to other countries is to help them ban the Vatican, the Crown and the government and churches of Canada from their territories.