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SEATTLE -- Got the blue-state blues? Rudi Kischer feels your pain. The immigration lawyer in Vancouver, British Columbia, plans seminars in three US cities -- Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles -- to tell Americans frustrated with President Bush's reelection that the grass is greener north of the border. And that is not an allusion to Canada's more-lenient marijuana laws. "We started last year getting a lot of calls from Americans dissatisfied with the way the country is going," Kischer said. "Then after the election, it's been crazy up here. The Canadian immigration website had 115,000 hits the day after...

The suicide bomber who killed Canadian Forces Corporal Jamie Murphy of Conception Harbour, Nfld., was a Canadian citizen, the son of al-Qaeda operative Ahmed Said Khadr, according to a Taliban spokesman who spoke yesterday from Afghanistan. The spokesman suggested it was Abdullah Khadr who walked up to a Canadian patrol in Kabul on Jan. 27 and detonated a bomb. Abdullah is the eldest of four brothers and the only male member of the family who was not detained or shot as a terrorism suspect. The Taliban account is being treated with much skepticism by Ottawa officials, who said it is...