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/ 23 September 2009
What were the Canadians thinking? Richard Poplak debriefs the rest of us on aliens, the IRB and televised games of Texas Hold ‘Em.
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/ 20 September 2009
South Africa’s delegation to ‘Climate Week’ aims
to negotiate for financial pledges from developed
countries, writes Yolandi Groenewald
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/ 12 September 2009
The case of Brandon Huntley, the white South African recently granted refugee status in Canada, has stirred much debate about the politics of racism.
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/ 11 September 2009
Open letter to the Charge d’Affaires of Canada in South Africa.
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/ 10 September 2009
Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is challenging a decision to grant SA’s Brandon Huntley refugee status, it was reported on Thursday.
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/ 3 September 2009
SA wants a review of a decision by a Canadian board to grant a white South African refugee status because he allegedly suffered racist attacks in SA.
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/ 1 September 2009
The ANC on Tuesday condemned a Canadian decision to give a white South African refugee status from crime-ridden country South Africa.
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/ 1 September 2009
Canada has granted an SA citizen refugee status because SA’s government cannot protect him from persecution by ”African South Africans”, reports say.
Fish stocks around the world are still collapsing but there are encouraging signs of change.
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/ 2 November 2008
US vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin fell prey to a prankster on Saturday when he called her impersonating French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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/ 14 October 2008
Canada’s Conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, appeared poised to retain his job as polls opened in Tuesday’s national election.
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/ 14 October 2008
Veteran Sanath Jayasuriya and newcomer Ajantha Mendis led Sri Lanka to a five-wicket victory over Pakistan in the Canada Twenty20 final on Monday.
Last year, Roger Federer gave Rafael Nadal a ride from the Canadian Masters in his private jet. There will be no such cosiness this time.
Production is soaring in Alberta’s bitumen belt, but the environment is suffering, writes John Vidal.
Canada says it will not press for the return of a young Canadian inmate held at Guantánamo Bay despite video footage that showed him weeping.
The future of northern Alberta’s aspen and pine woods, its rivers and animals are in doubt as the world’s greatest modern oil rush accelerates.
Severed feet are washing up on shore in a whodunnit that has the locals in a Canadian fishing and ferrying community buzzing.
The discovery this week of a human foot off the coast of British Columbia — the fifth such find since last August — has sparked much speculation.
Canadian Grand Prix winner Robert Kubica said he will go flat out to win the Formula One title after taking the championship lead on Sunday.
Lewis Hamilton went from hero to zero on Sunday after crashing into Ferrari’s world champion Kimi Raikkonen in a bizarre pit-lane pile-up at the Canadian Grand Prix.
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has apparently broached the possibility of forming a breakaway series in the wake of the sex scandal involving FIA president Max Mosley.
Formula One world championship leader Lewis Hamilton has set his sights on a triumphant return to Montreal this weekend.
Canada’s Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the case of a man who said he lost interest in sex after he found two dead flies in an unopened bottle of drinking water. Waddah Mustapha sued the bottling company, saying he had suffered psychological damage, including depression, phobia, anxiety and damage to his sex life after the unpleasant 2001 discovery.
Food prices should stay high for the next two to three seasons but should eventually ease as stocks are replenished, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Thursday. Senior officials from the United Nations agency said corn prices would be supported this year by lower US plantings and by increased demand for ethanol.
Canada will probe how blueprints for the new headquarters of an elite military counter-terrorism unit ended up in a pile of garbage, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said this week. The Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit, housed inside an armed forces base in Trenton, Ontario, is designed to cope with the aftermath of an attack using weapons of mass destruction.
Sometimes it pays to have your own wheels. Two teenage suspects in a convenience store robbery in Oakville, Ontario, near Toronto, may have made a clean escape had they thought to bring a getaway car along for the heist. Instead, the men fled the store on foot with an undisclosed amount of money, and then called for a taxi — which showed up with two police officers inside.
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/ 14 February 2008
Malaria continues to cut a swathe through Africa, which accounts for most cases of the disease and of malaria-related deaths. A study by Burkina Faso’s Health Sciences Research Institute may point the way to reducing malaria’s toll on children, however.
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/ 24 January 2008
Canada on Wednesday bowed out of the United Nations 2009 conference on racism in Durban, saying it would likely ”degenerate into … expressions of intolerance and anti-Semitism”. Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity Jason Kenney said that, to his knowledge, Canada was the first country to announce it would not take part.
A new law meant to help crack down on young Canadian street racers in their souped up cars has nabbed an octogenarian in his Oldsmobile. The 85-year-old man is one of 2 300 drivers across Ontario to be charged under new legislation, designed to combat ”street racing, stunts and contests”, since it came into effect three months ago — and he’s the oldest.
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/ 13 October 2007
A Ghanaian conservation research centre will assist a Canadian company in harvesting underwater trees in one of the world’s largest tropical hardwood forests. Ghana’s Volta Lake is a reservoir that was created as part of a hydroelectric project more than 40 years ago.
The Canadian general who headed the United Nations peacekeeping force during the 1994 Rwandan genocide gave a chilling account on Tuesday of how roadblocks popped up like mushrooms and served only to pick out and murder Tutsis. Romeo Dallaire testified at the Canadian war crimes trial of Desire Munyaneza, who is accused of leading the attacks.
The Internationals, who outgunned the Americans in world ranking strength, were left to rue their dismal foursomes record after losing the Presidents Cup by 19-½ points to 14-½ on Sunday. Despite boasting nine players in the world top 19 at Royal Montreal Golf Club this week, the Internationals won a mere half point out of a possible 11.