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During the week prior to police opening fire and killing 34 miners at the Lonmin mine at Marikana in South Africa's North West province, on Thursday August 16, ten people were killed in clashes with police. Over 200 mineworkers remain in police custody, arrested after the deadly August 16th crackdown.
University of Waterloo professor of systems design engineering Chris Eliasmith and his team of researchers has not only created the world's largest functional brain model, they've created the only one that can perform the specific tasks researchers ask it to do, according to Terry Stewart, post doctoral research associate and project manager for the brain model called Spaun.
Three years ago, I sat in a circle in the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Toronto. Around me was a group of Muslim youth who had gathered to discuss a media related project that would focus on finding the points of overlap between Muslim Canadian Youth and the larger diverse Canadian Community.
When Israel rained death and destruction on the Gaza Strip four years ago, Chris Hedges wrote the following. "Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and Naval vessels to bomb densely crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks mosques and slums, to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armour, no command and control, no army and calls it a war. It is not a war. It is Murder. Images of dead Palestinian children lined up as if asleep on the floor of the main hospital in Gaza are a metaphor for the future. Israel will from now on speak to the Palestinians in the language of death."
Global Warming
After leading Liberal leader Jean Chretien in the polls prior to the October 25, 1993 election, the Progressive Conservatives and newly elected leader Kim Campbell were swept from power in a Liberal landslide.
When Splitting the Sky, a Mohawk activist from Six Nations, was arrested for obstruction of justice while attempting a citizen's arrest of George W. Bush, in Calgary on March 17th 2009, he was acting as part of a global phenomenon, according to Anthony Hall, professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge.
There have been rallies in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and London England, in addition to Montreal, Halifax and Toronto. It started with four women in Saskatoon Jessica Gordon, Sheelah McLean, Sylvia McAdams and Nina Wilson. Their twitter and facebook promotion grew "Idle no More" into an international movement.
On November 5, 2011, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) imposed a two year moratorium on new applications to sponsor parents or grandparents. A new option was provided where parents and grandparents of Canadian citizens and permanent residents could apply for the Parent and Grandparent Super Visa in order to visit Canada. This procedure would allow parents and grandparents to visit Canada for up to two years and the visa would be valid for ten years.[1]
The first indication that there was something fundamentally wrong with the level of the playing field at the 2011 World Rugby Cup currently unfolding throughout New Zealand was a seemingly innocuous complaint about the scheduling from the coach of the Canadian national team, former All Black back Kieran Crowley.
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In early 2023, months before Israel launched its genocidal war on Palestinians, renowned French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd opined that World War III had begun.