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I recorded a video commentary about the Canadian government's response to the boat that arrived on BC's shore with almost 500 Tamil refugee claimants from Sri Lanka, for Canada's progressive news outlet Rabble.ca. Feel free to share widely.

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Kristopher Wentworth was having a really bad day. He was in court and things didn't look good. He'd robbed a variety store - and stolen a few pills from a girlfriend. Wentworth lost his temper in the courtroom - and that's when his situation went from bad to drastically worse. When the deputies tried to handcuff him, he spat at one, right in the ( Read more... )

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Hair above her upper lip. The deep timbre of her voice. A muscular build. Her flatter-than average chest. A growing fixation on these corporeal cues is replacing the cheers that first met teenaged South African athlete Caster Semenya when she took the 800m gold medal at the world championship in Berlin last Wednesday ( Read more... )

A beautiful, healthy baby. It's what the young mother had been hoping for, especially after learning during her pregnancy that she had HIV. But her joy was short-lived. Just 12 hours after giving birth, as she lay in bed in the state-run Hospital de Curicó in Chile, the 22-year-old woman was told that she had been sterilized - without her consent. ( Read more... )