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▌🍁 ▌CANADA ▌🍁 ▌Our northern neighbor in the news

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Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle arrived in Canada late Friday, about five years after they were captured by a Taliban-linked extremist network in Afghanistan.

Coleman was pregnant at the time they were abducted and gave birth to four children while in captivity. Boyle said the Islamic Haqqani network killed his infant daughter and raped Coleman during their capture.

Here's what we know about why the couple was in Afghanistan to begin with:

  • They were attracted to under-developed regions.
  • The couple set off in the summer of 2012 for a journey that took them to Russia, the central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and then to Afghanistan.
  • "They were interested in cultures that are under-developed," said Caitlan's mother, Lyn Coleman.
  • They didn't travel like typical tourists. They avoided staying in hotels and visiting mainstream attractions while abroad. Josh was quoted by his mother as saying, "Nowhere is too far to walk if you have enough time."
  • The previous year, shortly after they got married, Caitlan and Joshua went to Guatemala for a four-month hiking trip.

The trip to Afghanistan was not on the couple's original itinerary, according to Sarah Flood, who was close friends with Coleman.

Jim Coleman, Caitlan's father, said that while they were in central Asia, the couple met people who spoke highly of Afghanistan.

"They really and truly believed that if people were loved and treated with respect that that would be given back to them in kind," said Linda Boyle, Boyle's mother.












https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/10/14/what-were-caitlan-coleman-and-joshua-boyle-doing-afghanistan/764516001/
 
Canada may have to answer for its role in Libya



It has been six years since the NATO-supported Libyan uprising murdered President Moammar Gadhafi and toppled his regime. Canada was proud of the fact that the big boys — namely the U.K., U.S. and France — had let us appear to be leading the charge against Libya.

Canada’s then-foreign minister John Baird was the loudest among the chorus of NATO voices bellowing for regime change, Lt.-Gen. Charles Bouchard was publicly named the allied force commander, Canadian CF-18 fighter jets were among the first in operation in the skies above Libya, and the Canadian frigate HMCS Charlottetown plied the Mediterranean coastline to enforce the UN arms embargo.

While it was never admitted at the time, the fact that members of the Canadian Special Operations Regiment marched in the Nov. 24, 2011 victory parade on Parliament Hill would appear to confirm that we also had special forces boots on the ground during that conflict.

In addition to that parade, complete with a ceremonial flypast of fighter jets and helicopters, Canada also fast-tracked the Order of Canada process to bestow this honor on Lt.-Gen. Bouchard in recognition of his glorious victory in the desert.

That is an awful lot of glory for such a one-sided martial contest, which pitted the world’s most capable military alliance against a fourth-rate developing-world African security force. It was also a very premature exercise in self-congratulation.

It quickly became evident that what NATO achieved was not regime change. In the absence of a replacement administration, we plunged Libya into a state of violent anarchy.

The disparate militias that had fought together against Gadhafi loyalists refused to disarm and they immediately began fighting among each other.

A British parliamentary report into the Libya intervention was tabled last September and it was a scathing indictment. The report concluded that the collective intervention of the U.K., France and the U.S. and Canada resulted in Libya’s “political and economic collapse, inter-militia and inter-tribal warfare, humanitarian and migrant crises, widespread human rights violations, the spread of Gadhafi regime weapons across the region and the growth of ISIL (Islamic State) in North Africa.”

Former U.S. president Barack Obama summed it up much more succinctly when he described the 2011 Libyan intervention as a “shitshow” and called it the low point in his foreign affairs legacy.

To be fair to Obama, Libya was then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s personal pet project.



http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1513658-on-target-canada-may-have-to-answer-for-its-role-in-libya
 
Canada falls to US in pre-Olympic matchup



Canada's hockey team opened its pre-Olympic exhibition schedule with a 5-2 loss to the United States on Sunday.

Canada, the defending Olympic champions, play a total of six exhibition games against the reigning silver-medallist Americans before the Pyeongchang Games in February. They meet next on Wednesday night in Boston.

The teams also play Dec. 3 in St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 5 in Winnipeg, Dec. 15 in San Jose, Calif., and Dec. 17 in Edmonton.

The Americans will also host the annual Four Nations Cup next month. The tournament runs Nov. 5-12 in Tampa, Fla., and includes Canada, Sweden and Finland.

Canada has won four straight Olympic gold medals in hockey, but the U.S. has claimed seven of the last eight world championships.






http://www.tsn.ca/canada-s-women-s-team-falls-to-u-s-in-pre-olympic-matchup-1.892343
 
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ISIS fighters are coming back to Canada. Some never left.


As the Islamic State (ISIS) continues to lose ground in Syria and Iraq, a new report has found supporters of the militant group — and other terrorist organizations — have returned to their home countries.

It is estimated that 180 people with a nexus to Canada headed to other countries as foreign fighters, were stopped on the way, or remained there and kept fighting.

The government of Canada calls these people “extremist travelers”. They include Canadians, permanent residents and those who have visited Canada multiple times.

A recent report said 33 countries have reported arrivals of at least 5,600 extremist travelers. Those returns represent a “huge challenge for security and law enforcement entities.”

A terrorist threat nevertheless remains in the form of ISIS supporters who didn’t go to to the front — and it’s one that “will remain real for many years to come,” whether influenced by returnees or not, the report added.


https://globalnews.ca/news/3821510/isis-fighters-return-canada/
 
Canada's immigrant population has risen to 21.9 percent, and it's expected to get higher, according to Canada Census figures released Wednesday.

The current number marks a significant increase since 2006 when Canada's immigrant population was 19.8 percent, reported the CBC.

With a current total population of about 36 million, Canada allowed 1.2 million immigrants between 2011 and 2016, with approximately half -- 48 percent -- from Asia, according to Statistics Canada numbers.

In addition to more than 20 percent of the population being foreign-born, 37.5 percent of Canadians under the age of 15 have a parent who is foreign-born, as well.

That's about a 3 percent increase since 2011, Statistics Canada found, and the number is expected to grow.

"This population of children with an immigrant background could continue to grow and could represent from 39.3 percent to 49.1 percent of children under the age of 15 by 2036," the organization said.








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https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/10/26/Canadas-immigrant-population-reaches-219-percent-expected-to-grow/7141508992471/
 
Getin the ring said:
Canada pretty much doesn't count on the world stage, they have no skin in the game, ever.. ehhh
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So true ... and it was only a few years ago that the Canucks passed a law making it illegal for old men to fuck 14 year old girls and boys. Freakin' liberal pedophile nation. They only changed the law when their pedophilia was exposed on the "world stage".
 
Bigdog said:
So true ... and it was only a few years ago that the Canucks passed a law making it illegal for old men to fuck 14 year old girls and boys. Freakin' liberal pedophile nation. They only changed the law when their pedophilia was exposed on the "world stage".
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I'm surprised. Are you sure they changed it?
 
The Halifax Pop Explosion music festival is apologizing for the actions of a volunteer who interrupted a performance by Polaris Prize-winning singer Lido Pimienta with "overt racism."

A statement on behalf of the festival's board of directors addresses the singer directly and promises to make changes to improve "anti-oppression and anti-racism training" over the next year.

"We are sorry that one of our volunteers interrupted your art, your show, and your audience by being aggressive and racist," reads a Facebook post signed by vice-chairman Georgie Dudka.

The Halifax festival says the incident involved a white volunteer photographer and several white audience members who reacted negatively when Pimienta invited "brown girls to the front" during her Oct. 19 show.

The outspoken singer, who took home the Polaris Prize for her album "La Papessa" last month, frequently asks her audience to welcome people of color to the front of the stage. In turn, she requests that white people move back.



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You forgot one.

This is all bullshit and FAKE NEWS.

No wonder you idiots want to ban everyone outside of Trumpy world from posting on this bullshit.
 
▌🍁 ▌CANADA ▌🍁 ▌Our northern neighbor in the news

Last year, Justin Trudeau appeared to issue an open invitation to refugees with a tweet declaring, “to those fleeing persecution, terror & war #WelcomeToCanada.”

This year, his government is working hard to deter thousands of people who are walking over the U.S. border to seek asylum in Canada.

Canada has begun granting refugee status to fewer irregular border crossers—that is, people who walk into the country without going through a designated port of entry. In 2017, the country granted refugee status to 53 percent of such border crossers, but that number was down to 40 percent in the first three months of this year, Reuters reported. Did Trudeau change his mind about Canada’s welcoming posture?

Canada has built a reputation for warmly embracing Syrians. But most of the newcomers are from elsewhere. At first, it was mostly Haitians who made the journey. In recent months, Nigerians have become the most frequent border crossers. Many get visitor visas to come to the U.S., then take a bus or taxi to upstate New York, where they walk north into Quebec—straight into the arms of Canadian border guards waiting to arrest them.

The migrants are typically detained for a few hours and then bussed to an emergency shelter in Montreal, where they stay and work on their asylum applications. While they wait for their cases to be adjudicated, they can access healthcare and send their children to public school for free, just like any Canadian. And some citizens are not too thrilled about that.

“There’s a perception that Canada is being invaded,” said Wendy Ayotte, a member of Bridges Not Borders, a Quebec-based volunteer group that formed last summer to support the asylum seekers. “The perception is that these people are illegal and that they’re violating Canada’s borders and that they’re just queue jumpers trying to get freebies on welfare.”

Among those who crossed into Canada irregularly between February 2017 and March 2018 and have had their refugee claims finalized, Haitians were accepted at a rate of 9 percent, Nigerians at 34 percent.

Canadian groups like La Meute argue that this situation amounts to an “invasion of illegals”. Roxham Road, where Quebec and New York meet, is the most popular crossing for people walking into Canada. Over the past month, Canadian politicians and commentators have issued calls to build a wall or fence there.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/theres-a-perception-that-canada-is-being-invaded/561032/
 
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