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HONG KONG - Stephen Harper wrapped up a four-day tour of mainland China, acknowledging Canada has only "scratched the surface" on what it can gain from closer ties with the economic dynamo. The prime minister flew to Hong Kong on Saturday afternoon, ending his controversial first visit to China with a hectic final half-day in Shanghai - one where he scored some style points after receiving a scolding in Beijing. He was mobbed by curious Chinese shoppers at a local market where he made an unscheduled stop ostensibly to buy a supply of Oolong brand for his tea-loving mom. And...

Steve McIntyre, 62, is a Toronto retiree. He plays squash, dabbles with numbers and insists he never set out to stir up any trouble. So why does his name appear again and again - in the most unflattering ways - in hundreds of e-mails written by the world's most influential climate change scientists[?]...McIntyre is called everything from a "bozo" and a "moron" to a "playground bully." [snip] McIntyre contacted Ross McKitrick, a University of Guelph statistical economist who was also analyzing the science behind the IPCC reports. Together they unearthed evidence that Mann's calculations were predisposed to producing a hockey...

How to be charming in China? A democratic leader having to visit a dictatorship is somewhat like a temperance preacher obliged to tour a distillery. He can’t be too charming without compromising his principles (and offending his constituency) yet unless he’s somewhat charming, there’s no point in going at all. This, in a nutshell, is Stephen Harper’s dilemma. Let me revise this. For others, it may be a dilemma. For Harper, it’s only a task. He brings considerable experience to it. Years of walking a tightrope should serve Canada’s prime minister well, and so far it has. For instance, when...

Friday December 4, 2009 Pastor Boissoin Exonerated: Judge Rules Letter on Homosexuality Not "Hate" Speech By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiCALGARY, December 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Christian pastor who was hauled before the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal (AHRT) for writing a letter to the editor on homosexuality has been exonerated by a Court of Queen's Bench judge who ruled the letter was not a hate crime but legitimate expression allowed under freedom of speech.Pastor Stephen Boissoin told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that he was "overjoyed and relieved" that the lengthy, stressful and expensive seven year legal battle over his letter to the...

IntroductionIn the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 (9/11) terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers in New York and Washington, Canada’s military is increasingly being called upon to deploy into complex operational environments where it must deal with highly adaptive adversaries seeking to destabilize society through a variety of asymmetric means. In articulating this new security paradigm, Steven Metz, Chairman of the Regional Strategy and Planning Department, and a research professor, argues: “... [that] rather than being discrete conflicts between insurgents and an established regime, they are nested in complex, multidimensional clashes having political, social, cultural, and economic...

You'd have to spend an hour scouring the world atlas to find a destination with a paved landing strip that's still off-limits to Chinese tourists. Among the must-see hotspots granted ‘special' status by Chinese rulers to advertise and organize its citizen multitudes into visitation hordes are tourism meccas like Syria, Lebanon, Uganda, Bangladesh, Burma and the tiny North Mariana Islands which, single Chinese men take note, has the most favorable male to female sex ratio in the world. Until this week, Canada was about the only mid-sized country missing from the 105-nation list of countries bestowed with China's much-vaulted approved...

SHANGHAI, China - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is telling Chinese leaders they should not expect silence on human rights as the tradeoff for expanded economic ties. The Canadian leader delivered his first and only major speech of his four-day visit Friday night in Shanghai, China's glittering commercial centre that proclaims the country's emergence as an economic power in towers of neon. And he made it clear he believes the two countries have much to gain from a stronger economic partnership, especially in the energy sector. Canada is an emerging energy superpower, the world's seventh biggest oil producer, third largest natural...

EDMONTON — Even though Albertans shouldn't expect to see a balanced budget by the new health authority until 2011-12, pinching pennies won't come on the backs of patients, says a top health executive with Alberta's health superboard. "When they need the health system, our responsibility is to make sure the system is there to meet their needs," said Mike Conroy, executive vice-president of corporate services for Alberta Health Services. He spoke one day after The Journal detailed a presentation he made in B.C. that suggested Alberta could face a projected health deficit between $500 million and $1 billion in 2010-11,...

Three-quarters of Ontarians oppose the looming 13 per cent harmonized sales tax, suggests a new Toronto Star-Angus Reid Public Opinion survey. In troubling news for Premier Dalton McGuinty's Liberals, 70 per cent of the 1,162 people polled said their opinion of the government has worsened due to the HST. The numbers were released on the first day of public hearings into the tax at Queen's Park, where various interest groups converged, and about 300 First Nations peoples held an anti-tax rally on the front lawn and later blocked evening rush-hour traffic on University Ave. and College St.

WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's national security advisor said on Friday the United States hopes Canadian troops will "stay as long as they possibly can" in Afghanistan and encouraged NATO nations to avoid "summary announcements of total withdrawal" from the war zone. But retired General James Jones did not say if Washington had asked Ottawa to extend the Canadian combat mission past July 2011, the date on which the U.S. expects to start withdrawing its forces. "Canada has made such a huge contribution to the mission in Afghanistan for so long that it is a charter member of the effort. So...

Fortunately, with the internet, we are no longer captive of Big Media for our news. The government-owned Canadian Broadcast Corporation, of all things, has been covering the controversy extensively. In this clip, noted commentator Rex Murphy lowers to guns to deck level on the scandal.

The relations between Russia and NATO have been put to the test. One of the members of the North Atlantic Alliance – Canada – blocked the approval of all documents which were supposed to be discussed at the meeting of foreign ministers of Russia and NATO members on December 4...

Some folk have been asking why Canada Free Press (CFP) didn’t cover President Barack Obama’s Tuesday night speech at West Point Military Academy. CFP was tuned in on the speech through Mark Levin’s syndicated radio show. Our coverage of the speech is as follows: “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”. Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me. (That’s the 44 times Obama referred to “I” and Me in the...

IntroductionIn August 2008, I redeployed to Canada after working with the Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) in Kabul, Afghanistan for one year. During that year, I had worked on a daily basis with the Ministry of Education, conducting capacity-building in that organization. Although you may ask what a military officer was doing in the Ministry of Education, in actual fact I was teaching Afghan civil servants management and planning functions. You see, there is no professional civil service – as we know it – in that country, and, more importantly, there is no functioning middle management layer. And so I found...

The audience shift at the Munk Debate followed a global trendOn Tuesday night about 1,100 people participated in a sold-out global warming debate that, in the end, turned downtown Toronto’s new concert hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music into a microcosm of a larger transformation that is sweeping the world. The debate pitted two well known global warming activists of international repute against two well-known skeptics. The skeptics won, shifting the audience’s support away from the drastic global warming action demanded by activists and toward the moderate reponse of the skeptics, a move that is rapidly becoming a trend...

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- A crack U.S. unit from the 82nd Airborne Division has been placed under Canadian command in order to "create a ring of stability" around Kandahar City before "the fighting season" kicks off again next May. The 2nd battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division is to be deployed in the Taliban-infested district of Arghandab by Christmas, Canadian Brig.-Gen. Daniel Menard confirmed Wednesday. However, the move into one of the most volatile parts of Afghanistan, which has been widely tipped for weeks, will come at a price. Brig.-Gen. Menard predicted that it would "easily...

When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world's peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country's government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee's tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I've broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.

Ottawa, Canada (LifeNews.com) -- A new Canadian poll finds a tremendous incongruency in the thinking of Canadians on key social and political issues. The new survey finds Canadians are more outraged with the killing of animals or their medical testing than the destruction of unborn children and using them for scientific study.A new national survey conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion and published in Maclean’s magazine finds practices pro-life advocates find objectionable are morally acceptable.The poll asked: "Regardless of whether or not you think each of the following issues should be legal, please indicate whether you personally believe they are...

Hopes for a new global climate pact have risen after rich nations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Trinidad and Tobago offered to help poorer countries bear the costs of implementing any deal. Commonwealth countries are home to two billion people, or a third of the planet's population - including major global players like Britain and India, and smaller island states like Nauru and the Maldives. The United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen joined 53 Commonwealth leaders to work on the issue of climate change ahead of...

Ontario's Legislature ground to a halt Monday afternoon because of a protest over Premier Dalton McGuinty's controversial 13 per cent harmonized sales tax. Owen Sound-area MPP Bill Murdoch of the Progressive Conservatives refused to leave the chamber after being ordered out for using unparliamentary language, with fellow MPPs Randy Hillier and Toby Barret blocking the sergeant-at-arms from escorting him out. The Tories repeatedly chanted "call public hearings" in a bid to force the Liberals to hold province-wide hearings into the tax – taking effect next July 1 – all as Speaker of the Legislature Steve Peters threatened to eject other...

My first exposure to Afghan prisoners was in November of 2001, when a dozen or so raggedy-clad and frightened men were put on display outside a primitive jail in Badakhshan by the Northern Alliance. This was in complete violation of Geneva Protocols that forbid any public parading of detainees scooped up in combat. But nobody was paying attention to such formal rules of conduct; the Alliance, in fact, never would, as they went on to commit far worse acts, including many atrocities, on their gleeful march to Kabul – a seizure of the capital that Washington had vainly attempted to...

It was one of the more bizarre scenes one will see in professional sports. The Saskatchewan Roughriders were in full party mode, galloping onto the field to celebrate the franchise’s second Grey Cup win in three seasons after Montreal’s Damon Duval missed a 43-yard field-goal attempt that would have won the game for the heavily-favoured Alouettes. But the Riders’ celebration stopped colder than a Regina winter night when the players suddenly noticed a red flag lying under the goalpost, followed by the announcement that Saskatchewan had lined up with too many men on the field. That gave Duval another shot...

I've railed a lot against Canada's Official Jews -- the Jews who are Jews for a living, the Jews who claim to speak for all Jews. Bernie "Burny" Farber at the Canadian Jewish Congress is the worst, with his fetish for censorship. The B'nai Brith and Simon Wiesenthal Center are close behind. But tonight I have to salute my home town Official Jews for being dumber than a bag of hammers. A cople of weeks ago, there was a vandalism spree, where swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti were spraypainted on Jewish property around Calgary. In response, the Official Jews held...

When Bill Cosby arrives in Newfoundland in a few days, it will be a return of sorts for the famous comedian. Cosby was stationed at the U.S. military base in Argentia, about 120 kilometres from St. John's, N.L., as an American military corpsman in 1959. While there was work to be done at the naval base and air station that was home to thousands of military personnel, it's the play that seems to stick out in the now-72-year-old comedian's memory. "These guys had their own bar and they drank better than movie stars," he says. "You could get a litre...

I am a physical scientist with a PhD from Brown University. My thesis was in quantum mechanical scattering theory. I spent a full career developing strategic weapons before being ordained an Anglican priest. I served several parishes in California and Colorado before moving to the Chesapeake shore. Last year, while serving as a Senior Fellow in the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, I had the privilege of moderating a theological symposium entitled God, Energy, and our Kinship with Nature, which was sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

World powers united in condemnation of Iran's nuclear activities yesterday in a rare show of international consensus on the threat posed by Tehran's continued nuclear defiance. China and Russia joined the United States, Britain, France and Germany in backing an International Atomic Energy Agency resolution censuring Iran and ordering it to halt construction of a secret uranium enrichment plant. The resolution, the first since February 2006, passed with 25 votes and six abstentions. Only Malaysia, Venezuela and Cuba supported Iran. ...China, which has shared Moscow's reluctance to take a hard line with Tehran, was reportedly persuaded to support the resolution...

I enjoy the way things are spun. The polar bear population has soared, rising from an estimated 5,000 polar bears 50 years ago to an estimated 25,000 today. Limiting the hunting of polar bears helped. Limiting the hunting of those delicious baby seals that polar bears like to eat. Now Canada is overrun by polar bears and there is not enough food to sustain them. There are reports that polar bears are eating other polar bears.

Till now, I have avoided more than very limited comment on the whole global-warming-carbon emissions controversy. But now that colossal spending and regulating programs impend on these issues, I must say that the Al Gore-David Suzuki conventional-wisdom hysteria is an insane scam. The basic relevant facts are that carbon emissions are not the principal factor in global warming, and despite dire contrary forecasts and ever-increasing carbon-emissions in the world — especially as the economies of China and India, representing 40% of the world’s population, expand by six to 10 percent each year — the world has not grown a millidegree...

For Immediate Release Media Release: Nov. 27, 2009 Firearms Marking Regulations Deferred http://www.cdnshootingsports.org/2009/11/firearms_marking_media_release_20091127.html Canadian Shooting Sports Association and the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action are pleased to announce a one year deferral in the implementation of the Firearms Marking Regulations. These regulations are loosely inspired from the United Nations Firearms Protocol and would require all firearms imported into Canada to be marked with the Country and Year of Import. Currently, the marking scheme contained in the regulations would bankrupt many of Canada's firearms importers and drive the cost of purchasing a new firearm up by as much as $200.00 This...

OTTAWA, November 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Despite the fact that Canada has one of the most liberal abortion laws in the world and that recent polls show that most Canadians would prefer to have some restrictions on abortion, the political pressure to keep the status quo on the issue is so firm that it is rare for a Canadian politician to even mention the issue, let alone critically.But one Conservative MP has bucked the trend of silence and recently issued a salvo against Canada's "abortion regime" that he argued is directly and seriously harmful to mothers, as well as their unborn children."As...

Hundreds of Ottawa Muslims converged on the Civic Centre Friday for Eid-ul-Adah, one of the most important dates in the Muslim calendar. It's known as the "Festival of Sacrifice" and commemorates the Prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son to God. "Today, we're celebrating Eid-ul-Adah and it coincides with the pilgrimage to Mecca, which is going on right now," "This is Eid, and it's one of the most important days for us because we're Muslim," said Eman Frahat. The event was co-organized by the Muslim Association of Canada and the Ottawa Muslim Association.

Hey did you hear about Sarah Palin’s book tour? Turns out that the former VP candidate and Alaskan Governor is on some sort of press tour and is trying to get in the news. During a book signing event in Columbus, Ohio, Canadian Comedian Mary Walsh ambushed Palin with camera crew and microphone to seek her thoughts on the Canadian health care system (and ostensibly embarrass her as well.) While the event security detail prevented a meaningful interview, Palin did provide some basic comments consistent with her conservative position. While many websites are now presenting this video clip as evidence...

OTTAWA, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Canada's top court on Friday backed the right of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N) to close a store after a union organized workers there it but said such closures could require the retail giant to compensate workers. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of Wal-Mart, which opened a store in Jonquiere, Quebec, in 2001 and closed it four years later after a union was certified to negotiate a collective agreement and Quebec's labor ministry said negotiations should go to arbitration. The Jonquiere store was the first Wal-Mart store in Canada or the United States to...

As an American living in Canada and a do-it-yourself (DIY) investor, I've decided to short the US dollar and to keep the majority of my holdings in Canada resource companies (oil and gas, gold mining). This is a play that has worked well so far. When the resource-heavy Canadian stock market felt serious pressure during the credit crisis I was able to pick up some bargains. I am far from alone in this strategy. PetroChina's purchase of a $1.9 billion stake in Alberta's Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. and Korean National Oil Corp.'s plan to acquire outright Harvest Energy Trust for...

Retired climatologist Dr. Tim Ball joins us to discuss the significance of the recently leaked emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University which expose deceit, duplicity and collusion between climate researchers to maintain the fraud of the man made global warming theory. These emails reveal stunning behind-the-scenes details about how this fraud has been developed and perpetuated, and Dr. Ball shares his insights on what they show.

One wonders if Richard Colvin, the Canadian diplomat whose warnings about torture of Taliban prisoners by Afghans has created a firestorm of recriminations, had any idea of what he was unleashing when he compiled his report? As an honest man, he might have been too prone to accept complaints by supposed victims. Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners routinely claim they were tortured, which some (media included) confuse with factual evidence. A feeding frenzy is now underway with the federal government vulnerable. The only ones not caught up in the frenzy are the public. In the Toronto Star, Rosie DiManno blames Canada...

OTTAWA — When Cabinet ministers were attacking diplomat Richard Colvin’s credibility and denying his warnings about the Afghan torture of detainees handed over by Canadian soldiers, it wasn’t a fair fight. Mr. Colvin triumphed because he had spent 18 months on Afghan soil, visited its prisons and talked to detainees. The ministers were merely engaged in political bluster. But now Mr. Colvin’s credibility is being pounded by military brass with top-level Afghanistan credentials, a tri-general counteroffensive that demands the government free up the secret correspondence that is said to support the diplomat’s incendiary testimony. The front that opened on Wednesday...

NEW YORK, Nov. 25 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Twenty-four people have developed a side effect known as anaphylaxis from new-flu vaccine in Canada and one of them has died, Canadian health officials said Wednesday. The fatality was a man in his 80s who was suffering from an underlying disease, the officials said, adding they are investigating a possible linkage between the H1N1 flu vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc which the man was administered and his death.

WASHINGTON - Seeking to enhance its efforts to crack down on fraudulent refugee claims, the Harper government on Tuesday announced it has struck a deal to share fingerprint information on asylum seekers with the United States. Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan made the announcement following a bilateral summit here with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Under the protocol, the U.S. will join a biometric data-sharing initiative Canada had already launched last summer with the United Kingdom and Australia. "Biometrics continue to be a powerful tool to prevent terrorists and criminals from crossing our shared border and preventing identity...

I first spotted him at a banquet and awards ceremony in Seoul, marking the 50th anniversary of the Korean War -- a grizzled old colonel with a white handlebar moustache and the Medal of Honour around his neck. But what caught my attention were two Canadian war medals nestled among the 26 medal ribbons he wore -- the Canadian Volunteer Medal with overseas clasp, and Victory Medal from the Second World War. "How come?" I asked him. A mischievous grin spread across his face. He introduced himself -- Col. Lewis Lee Millett, a storied American fighting soldier, although I didn't...

The fast-moving international case against a Pakistani-Canadian businessman charged with plotting a terror attack in Denmark and suspected of others in India moved into Pakistan on Monday night with news of the capture of another suspect.Illyas Kashmiri, a former Pakistani military officer and now a reputed commander of the Pakistan-based Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) militant group, is believed to have been detained by Pakistan at the behest of the FBI, according to an unconfirmed report in The Times of India.It's not clear when and where Kashmiri may have been taken into custody or if he is among as many as five people...

LONDON — Canadian doctors have been advised not to use a batch of 170,000 swine flu vaccines after six reports of serious allergic reactions among recipients, but there are no similar reports from other countries, pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday. Authorities routinely monitor vaccines for any signals of problems, such as the allergic reactions that do occur, rarely, every year. Company spokeswoman Gwenan White said that GlaxoSmithKline advised medical staff in Canada ast week to refrain from using one batch of the vaccine while they look into reports that that it might have caused more allergic reactions than normal....

When the House of Representatives passed a health-care reform bill this month that included a watertight prohibition on federal funding for elective abortions, outraged American feminists wondered just how one of their own – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – could have countenanced such a concession. (snip) U.S. church leaders do not hesitate to call politicians out on their beliefs with a vehemence that might be considered abusive, if not irrelevant to their functions, in Canada. It happened again on the weekend when the bishop of Providence confirmed that he had instructed Mr. Kennedy's nephew, Rhode Island congressman Patrick Kennedy, to...

LONDON — The pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline says it has advised medical staff in Canada to not use one batch of swine flu vaccine for fear it may trigger life-threatening allergies. GlaxoSmithKline spokeswoman Gwenan White said Tuesday the company issued the advice after reports that one batch of the swine flu vaccine might have caused more allergic reactions than normal. She says the affected batch contains 172,000 doses of the vaccine. She declined to say how many doses had been administered before the advice to stop using them was given.

It's an issue that won't go away, especially now that the opposition tastes blood. Like a dog with a bone, Parliament and predictable types among the public agitate the question of prisoners captured by Canadian troops in Afghanistan being turned over to Afghan authorities who are accused of torturing them. Canada's Military Police Complaints Commission also probes the question, which stem from a report by Richard Colvin who was a senior diplomat in Afghanistan and now works out of our embassy in Washington. Rightly or wrongly, the government is reeling -- running for cover. DISCREDITFor starters, the charges date back...

Two more Italian cafes have been firebombed in Montreal, bringing the number of attacks in recent weeks to seven. Police say a Mafia turf war, an offensive by street gangs, or copycat arsonists could be behind the firebombings. Police have few clues - because the establishment owners aren't talking.

CASR CanadianAmerican StrategicReview -CanadianDefence Policy,Foreign Policy,& Canada-USRelations- Arctic  Sovereignty Arctic  SAR CASR Home Arctic Soverignty – Arctic Search and Rescue – Argo ATVs – November 2009 Nunavut SAR Volunteers Receive 12 Amphibious Avenger ATVsto Tackle Rescues in  Partially-Thawed (or -Frozen) Conditions The Government of  Nunavut displayed its recently arrived Search and Rescue vehicle to the press. Twelve Argo Avenger 750 EFi all-terrain vehicles  have been delivered  to 12  Nunavut  communities to  handle  SAR in more-than-usually difficult conditions in spring and  early autumn.  The 12  recipient communities were chosen for the locations best able to cover the widest possible SAR...

lo CASR CanadianAmerican StrategicReview -CanadianDefence Policy,Foreign Policy,& Canada-USRelations- CF Press Release Ice Floe Rescue  Modest  ProposalRethinking   SAR  Modest  Proposal Transport  Canada? Modest  Proposal Rangers Air Reserve? Modest  Proposal Arctic Utility Aircraft? CASR  Home Arctic Presence  –  Search  &  Rescue  –  SAR  Techs  –  Updated  –  November  2009 Air Force must focus on core missions  —  Time  to calve off  SARLocal  Civilian  Agencies  may  prove  to be  more  Cost-Effective Dianne  DeMille ,  Editor ,  Canadian  American  Strategic  Review  ( CASR ) In  the  News :  On  09  November 2009,  Canadian  Forces  Search  and  Rescue  Technicians ( SAR Techs ),  rescued  an Inuit youth  from...

Shaw wasn’t always skeptical about vaccines. The neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia had his teenage son vaccinated with most of the recommended shots. But then he started studying some of the ingredients commonly found in vaccines. What he discovered caused him to go cold turkey on all shots for his six-year-old daughter. And that includes the vaccine for the H1N1 flu. “I am not convinced H1N1 is sufficiently hazardous to most people to risk the potential downside of the vaccine,” Shaw said over the phone from his office in the research pavilion at the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority....

Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in a bikini at the beach. Nathalie Blanchard, 29, took long-term sick leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Quebec, more than a year ago for severe depression. She was receiving monthly benefits from her insurance company, Manulife. When Ms. Blanchard called Manulife to inquire why the payments dried up, the insurance company said that "I'm available to work, because of Facebook," she told CBC television. She said that Manulife cited...