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[The Toronto Observer] War resister pins hope on Bill C-440 | The Toronto Observer: In August, she was granted a new PRRA after Justice James Russell found the PRRA Officer didn’t properly assess the risk that Rivera would face harsher prosecution based on her opposition to the Iraq War. The final decision on the new ruling can take up to four months to determine.

[Suite101: Politics & Society Articles] Bill Would Welcome Military Deserters to Canada: Foreign War ...: One of the proposed amendments would deem that a foreign national who has served in the military in his or her country has sufficient humanitarian and compassionate grounds to warrant permanent status in Canada. The person would have had to have left the armed services or refused to perform compulsory military service because of a moral, political or religious objection to participating in an armed conflict that has not been sanctioned by the United Nations.

[from Reason to Freedom - Think for Yourself!] Volunteer soldiers and slave armies | from Reason to Freedom: Currently, most "war resisters" hanging out in the Great White North are "U.S. military personnel who have refused to participate in the Iraq War on the grounds that it's illegal and immoral." (Toronto Star). But here's the contradiction.

[Fredericton Peace Coalition] Fredericton Peace Coalition » Bill in Support of U.S. Iraq War ...: This is an extremely important step forward for the campaign to ensure that US Iraq War resisters are allowed to stay in Canada. If adopted, the bill will give legal weight to the motion already passed twice in Parliament in support of war resisters, which has been ignored by the minority Conservative government.

[Soundoff] Rally in Vancouver Thursday to support Iraq war resister - Soundoff:  The Canadian armed forces have experienced their share of loss in Afganistan; I bet these Canadian servicemembers would have a few choice words for Mr.

[Full Comment] Gerard Kennedy: U.S. deserters deserve Canadian compassion - Full ...: The facts of my private members bill Bill C-440 are plain: it would create grounds for humanitarian consideration for permanent residence in Canada.  The narrow grounds would be a finding of genuine moral or conscientious objection to leave the armed services in a war not sanctioned by the United Nations (such as the Iraq War), and subject to compulsion by way of return to service or stop-loss (a controversial U.S measure that forced military personnel back into war zones even after their service was concluded).

[Home] America's Wars: How Serial War Became the American Way of Life: On the right, there has been the idea that we "fought with one hand tied behind our back." (In fact the only weapons the U.S. did not use in Indochina were nuclear.) Within the liberal establishment, on the other hand, a lone-assassin theory is preferred: as with the Iraq War, where the blame is placed on Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, so with Vietnam the culprit of choice has become Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

[No Apologies] Post's Gunter: Sheltering War Resisters Akin to Sheltering Deluded ...: Kennedy and Siksay want to shelter peaceful resisters, Gunter wants us to think that’s the same as sheltering murderers. Methinks Mr Gunter failed to learn the meaning of opposite in school.

[Paul S. Graham] » American war resister Joshua Key on 13-city western Canadian ...: While most Canadians support war resisters and oppose the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Canadian government hasn’t gotten the message. Josh Key needs and deserves our support.

[Breaking News] Canadian Parliament introduces bill to allow US war resisters to ...: CAW says Ford Canada wants to reach new labor dealTORONTO ”” The Canadian Auto Workers says Ford Canada has asked the union to match recent concessions reached in labor deals with General Motors Canada and Chrysler Canada so the company can remain competitive. CAW negotiator Mike Vince said Tuesday the union met with Ford management last night and the company outlined why the automaker needs a new contract to remain competitive in its Canadian and U.S operations.

[Untitled] » Blog Archive » A boost for American war resisters in Canada: Bill C-440, a bill in support of US Iraq War resisters, was introduced in the House of Commons today. MP Gerard Kennedy (Parkdale-High Park) introduced the bill, .

[God's Politics] Daily News Digest (by Duane Shank) - God's Politics - Jim Wallis ...: The latest news on Bipartisan friendship, Economy, Medicare, Militarized foreign policy, Afghanistan, War resister deported, Guantanamo video, Iran, Iraq Israel, and Sudan.

[ICONOCLAST MEDIA] ICONOCLAST MEDIA » Blog Archive » Olivia Chow in support of U.S. ...: Just days before Iraq war veteran Rodney Watson faces deportation by the Harper government, Immigration Critic Olivia Chow speaks out in support of the Iraq war resisters at a vigil in Toronto, Canada.

[Untitled] » Blog Archive » Support Iraq War resisters: When Desertion is a Duty: in support of Iraq war resisters. Film Screening of “Sir! No Sir!” and Panel discussion. sir-no-sir-poster Time: 7:00-9:30 p.m.. Date: Sunday, August 9, 2009. Place: Crescentwood Fort Rouge United Church (Nassau at ... Sponsors: This event is sponsored by the Winnipeg branch of War Resisters Canada & Crescent Fort Rouge United Church. http://www.resisters.ca/; http://www.crescentfortrouge.ca. This event is intended to raise awareness of and funds ...

[Pelican Project Pro-Life] Post's Gunter: Sheltering War Resisters Akin to Sheltering Deluded ...: Writing in the National Post, Alberta columnist Lorne Gunter wieghs in a private member’s bill (Bill C-440), co-sponsored by Toronto Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy and British Columbia New Democrat MP Bill Siksay, that would shelter U.S. war deserters in Canada .Gunter calls for consistency, arguing if Kennedy and Siksay are willing to accommodate conscientious objectors to the ”˜illegal and immoral’ war in Iraq, then they should also accommodate rogue pro-life activists who shoot abortion doctors

[Dahr Jamail's Mideast Dispatches » Dahr Jamail - Independent Reporting from Iraq and the Middle East] Afghanistan War Resister to “Put the War on Trial” | Dahr Jamail ...: Branum explained, “It’s his own personal ethics and principles of the Nuremburg Principles, that the war in Afghanistan does not meet the criteria for lawful war under the UN Charter, which says that member nations who joined the UN, as did the US, should give up war forever, aside from two exceptions: that the war is in self-defense, and that the use of force was authorized by the UN Security Council.

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