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MONTREAL -- Swingers clubs will spring up across Canada because of a judge ruling their activities are not necessarily illegal, the head of a swingers group said yesterday. Municipal court Judge Denis Boisvert found five people guilty of swinging-related offences, but decided "contemporary Canadian society tolerates swinging and swingers clubs if the sexual acts take place in private." Jean Hamel, president of the 8,000-member Quebec Swingers Association, said Boisvert's ruling will have national significance. "I don't think more clubs will open in Quebec but I think it will open doors for other places in Canada, like Toronto." Judge Boisvert found...

A group of women in the free-wheeling US state of California have launched a cheeky nude peace campaign to protest President George W. Bush's "naked aggression" against Iraq in a bid to prevent a war.Some 105 angry housewives, grandmothers and doctors between the ages of 22 and 83 are baring their souls -- and bodies -- in a series of "spelling bee" protests in which they spell out peace slogans using only their nude bodies. The group, organized by 72-year-old artist Donna Sheehan, decided to take the radical action and form the "Baring Witness" movement after becoming frustrated that...