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The Air India bombing inquiry has been told of a hint of coming disaster 11 days before Canada's worst mass murder. A former Vancouver police officer, Don McLean, testified Tuesday at the inquiry in Ottawa about an exchange between two men he described as Sikh militants on June 12, 1985. He quoted the first as saying: "No consuls have been killed. No ambassadors have been killed. What are you going to do? Nothing?" The reply, he said, was: "You will see something be done in two weeks." The conversation took place in the basement of the Vancouver-area home of a...

St?phane Dion's Turnaround on Terror Kevin Steel The Western Standard Monday, March 26, 2007 Everyone assumed it was a done deal. With two components of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) about to expire, Stephen Harper's minority government thought they had the support of the Opposition Liberals to renew the legislation. Then, about two weeks before the vote, Liberal Leader St?phane Dion had a change of heart; no longer would his party support extending the measures. In a House vote on Feb. 27, the Liberals, NDP and Bloc Qu?b?cois ruled the day, 159-124. Now police can no longer hold terror suspects...

VANCOUVER: In a disappointment to relatives of the victims of the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people, Canadian prosecutors have decided not to appeal against the acquittal of two main accused in the case. An e-mail sent by the Crown to relatives of the victims said: "Members of the prosecution team, senior members of the Criminal Justice (Branch), have conducted an exhaustive review and have come to the difficult decision that there are no grounds on which the Crown could launch an appeal," media reports here said today. A spokesman for the Crown would not comment. Justice Ian...