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Parade goers draped in Maple Leaf offer veterans unflagging gratitude Elsewhere in Holland, it was Moeder Dag - Mother's Day. Elsewhere in Europe, it was VE Day, the 60th anniversary of the momentous Allied victory. But here in the heart of the country battle-weary Canadian troops wrestled from German occupiers in the spring of 1945, yesterday was emphatically, even ostentatiously, Canada Day. Market squares were draped in Canadian flags strung like pennants from trees and lampposts. Three-dimensional Canadian-flag decorations were pounded into the lawns of suburban homes like Christmas displays. The Maple Leaf snapped on flagpoles above storefronts. Scores more...

WESTERBORK, Netherlands (CP) - Ernst Verduin spent just three days at the Westerbork transit camp in northeastern Holland before the Nazis shipped him and his sister off to Auschwitz. But it was only a few years ago that the 77-year-old grandfather learned that brief time might have offered him his best chance to escape more than two years of hell that pulled apart his family and saw him transferred from camp to camp until he was finally liberated from Buchenwald in 1945. During a tour of the camp, which is now a museum and memorial centre, he found out the...

It's time for Canadians who truly love democracy to get off their butts and fight. There is a non-confidence motion in the house of commons today and if it passes then the government of Paul Martin will have to resign. As we know it, the liberals said that they will refuse to resign, I say that we the people go and demand the resignation of the government. I'm pretty sure that there will be media attention. Anyone with me??

Clark Supports Martin's Decision on BMD Josh Pringle Friday, March 4, 2005 Joe Clark says former Prime Minister Paul Martin did the right thing when he decided Canada would say no to participation in the U-S missile defence program. The former Conservative Prime Minister says there are too many unanswered questions about the U-S plan. Clark compared Martin's decision on Missile Defence to one former Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney had to make in 1985 when he rejected a U.S. proposal to have Canada take part in its Strategic Defence Initiative.

“Man and Woman”, “Wife”, “Husband”, “Widow”, “Widower” Banished From all Ontario Law Terms, when referring to spouses, are banned from all government programs, services, documentsToronto, February 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the obscenely rapid, three-day introduction and passage of its same-sex “marriage” Bill 171, the Ontario government has advanced a revolutionary change in the way all laws and government programs and institutions refer to marriage and married persons. Everything referring to spouses must now be gender neutral. No longer can a married couple be referred to as “husband and wife” or “man and woman”. The terms “Widow” and “widower” are...

Okay, so I am looking at some photographs taken of D-Day, June 6, 1944, when the American, British, and Canadian armies landed in France. Most of the photographs are the usual standard routine seen-them-before photographs, but there are a couple of them, involving the Canadians landing on "Juno" beach, where these guys, instead of coming ashore bearing weapons, are carrying bicycles. Yes, bicycles, hundreds and hundreds of Canadians with bicycles, wading ashore under gun-fire. The text does not explain why. So then.....what were the Canadians doing with bicycles, and did such instruments have any effect on how the invasion went?

Most want referendum Canadians back gay rights but want marriage preserved as is, National Post/Global National poll finds Tom Blackwell National Post Wednesday, February 02, 2005 1 | 2 | NEXT >> CREDIT: David McNew, Getty Images Wedding cake. As MPs begin debating the government's same-sex marriage bill, a healthy majority of Canadians would actually prefer to see the contentious issue decided by a country-wide referendum, a new National Post/Global National poll suggests. More than two-thirds said they would prefer a direct say on the gay marriage question, rather than a free vote in Parliament that lets politicians act according...

The Canadians are checking in. Canadians are logging on to the Canada Free Press website in droves, and it’s largely courtesy of Fox News. Liberally quoting Rachel Marsden’s insightful column about Fox News versus the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), I wrote a column, Thursday about what a dramatic improvement the more professional Fox News would be over leftwing slanted, taxpayer-funded CBC in balance-deprived Canada. The letters that poured in within the first day after the column affirm my belief that mainstream Canada wants Fox NOW. So many letters from fellow Canadians also gave me a personal boost. Ever since going...

Talking to Americans not what it used to be MARTIN KNELMAN Hockey Night in Canada may have been snatched away from us, but this country's second favourite spectator sport is enjoying a resurgence. In the wake of the November election, when U.S. voters dared to re-elect a president widely loathed in Canada, bashing Americans has become an even more satisfying feel-good diversion than it used to be. And as the CBC discovered this week, it also happens to be just about the only reliable ratings booster that does not involve shooting pucks down the ice. Here is the astonishing bulletin....

Yet another planeload carrying 201 Jewish immigrants from N. America touched down in Israel today, bringing the number of immigrants from the continent this year to over 2,800 - the most since 1983. "Heveinu Shalom Aleichem ~ We have brought you peace." Today's flight was the first Winter flight of olim [new immigrants] organized by Nefesh b'Nefesh, an organization aiming to "remove or minimize the financial, professional, logistical and social obstacles that potential olim face." Though the average age of this year's North American immigrants is 33, two sisters in their 90s who survived the Holocaust were among those who...

Day denies evading condolences over AIDS rumour CTV.ca News Staff The Conservative Party's foreign affairs critic, Stockwell Day, is denying accusations that he refused to send condolences for Arafat's death because of rumours that the former Palestinian leader died of AIDS. "Some of you have asked why I have not released a statement of condolence or sympathy," Day said in an e-mail to party colleagues obtained by The Canadian Press. "As you know, there are two sides to the Arafat story. You pick." The e-mail attached an article by conservative commentator David Frum in Frontpage Magazine that looks at Arafat's...

"The Americans" - Original Script The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the world. As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Well, Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did,...

MONTREAL -- Making it illegal for Canadians to subscribe to foreign television channels via satellite infringes on their freedom of expression, a long-awaited judgment concluded Thursday. The 153-page ruling by Quebec Court Judge Danielle Cote found two sections of the federal Radiocommunication Act dealing with so-called grey-market satellite systems for decoding an encrypted programming signal violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. "She had to invalidate the law because the law itself was so infringing," said Jacques D'Argy of Drummondville, Que., who sought the court ruling. D'Argy and his brother-in-law, Richard Theriault, were charged in December 1998 with using...

Tories dismiss 'flake' Layton's talk of a plot 'The accusations are ridiculous. There's nothing to add': Bloc Anne Dawson and Bill Curry CanWest News Service Thursday, October 07, 2004 OTTAWA - Jack Layton yesterday alleged the Conservatives and Bloc Quebecois were scheming to vote down the Throne Speech and install Stephen Harper as prime minister, but members of the opposition parties immediately dismissed the NDP leader's accusations as "ridiculous" and "embarrassing." Mr. Layton was angered to learn Mr. Harper had presented amendments to the Throne Speech that the NDP leader had proposed himself when he was negotiating with Mr. Harper...

One Cdn. sailor dies from submarine accident CTV.ca News Staff A Canadian sailor has died of injuries suffered during a fire on the HMCS Chicoutimi, a sombre House of Commons heard. Prime Minister Paul Martin said Lieut. Chris Saunders died after being airlifted from the submarine, adrift in the North Atlantic Ocean between Ireland and Scotland. "We pay him homage and we make known our deep respect to his family," Martin said in the Commons. Saunders, a combat systems engineer, leaves behind his wife Gwen and two children. The news came as a shock, because reports initially indicate any of...

MONTREAL (CP) - The results are enough to make John Kerry wish Canadians could vote in the U.S. presidential election. A Leger Marketing poll conducted Sept. 21-26 indicates 56 per cent of Canadians supported the Democratic candidate, compared with 19 per cent who backed President George W. Bush. The remaining 25 per cent refused to answer or said they didn't know. Kerry's strongest support in Canada came from Quebec, where 69 per cent of respondents said they preferred the challenger, compared with only 11 per cent who favoured Bush. Other regional breakdowns, with Kerry's numbers first and Bush's second, were:...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - This week's Republican convention has given U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) a boost in the polls, a Canadian survey of American voters showed on Thursday. The Leger Marketing survey, published in Montreal's Le Devoir newspaper, gave Bush an edge of 51 percent to 47 percent over Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites). The poll was taken on the first two days of the convention, Aug. 30-31, and company President Jean-Marc Leger said it was the first to emerge based on data during the Republican gathering. "Americans are responding well to the...

Well, it looks like we've gone and offended the Canadians again. This time the United States is trying to get the Canadians to go along with a missile defense (search) program which will defend North America — which includes both the U.S. and Canada. Liberal member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish, who called the Americans “bastards” last year, this time she called Americans “idiots.” The exact phrase she used, by the way, was “coalition of idiots,” as in we're not going to join a “coalition of idiots in this missile defense program.” Canadians like Parrish think they don't have to be...

SEATTLE — Evil — a word usually reserved for the likes of Adolph Hitler or Usama bin Laden — is now being used by more than a third of Canadian teens to describe the United States.

TORONTO - Fifty volunteers who left Canada to join a ''cult-like'' militant group called Mujahedin-e-Khalq are being detained by the U.S. military in Iraq -- more than twice the number previously thought, the National Post has learned.