October 1, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
How do you measure America’s gun violence epidemic?
Why do Americans keep shooting each other to death?
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ISIS strikes: Why dictators are the biggest winners of Middle East unrest
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stood shoulder to shoulder with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry shortly after meeting with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday, declaring Egypt an “important partner” in America’s brewing fight against the Islamic State.
Forget Keystone: Enbridge’s Eastern Gulf pipeline could reach the Gulf first – backed by cash from Alberta government
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
While the fate of TransCanada’s embattled Keystone XL remains uncertain 70-odd months into its quest to link Alberta’s oilsands with the Gulf of Mexico, another Canadian company’s lesser-known, less-scrutinized pipeline project is on track to make it there first.
And the Alberta government is weighing whether it wants in.
Canadian Cynthia Vanier’s arrest a success in international security co-operation, Mexico’s Calderon says
Photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 – Globe and Mail
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon cites the arrest of Canadian consultant Cynthia Vanier on accusations of trying to smuggle one of Moammar Gadhafi’s sons out of Libya as a prime example of successful security co-operation between Mexico, Canada and the United States.
Thing is, Canada has yet to elucidate exactly what its role was in Ms. Vanier’s arrest and the investigation leading up to it – and her lawyer, among others, would really like to know.
Inside Gitmo, no signs of shutting down
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 – Globe and Mail
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GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA — The man – bearded, dressed in white – approaches the fenced-off, glassed-off door to his cell block.
“Solve our problems,” reads the sign he holds up above his head, black block letters on white background. “Respond to our requests.”
He’s silent, or at least appears so behind the layers separating him from the cluster of journalists he’s approaching.
Nevertheless, the carefully orchestrated calm of the tour teeters for a moment. It’s the closest the choreographed walk through two Guantanamo Bay prison camps comes to veering off course into the unscripted.
“All right, that’s it, we should go,” say several guards gathered around the half-dozen reporters.
And the tour moves along, through the rotunda inside Guantanamo Bay’s Camp VI.
Foiled attack leaves airport chaos in its wake
Monday, December 28, 2009 – Globe and Mail
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International airports were scrambling yesterday to tighten security on U.S. flights, causing passenger chaos on the busiest travel day of the year, in the wake of Christmas Day’s foiled attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airplane.
U.S. President Barack Obama, on vacation in Hawaii, ordered a review of security protocols and the no-fly list to determine how a man with explosives strapped to his body boarded a flight weeks after the man’s father contacted U.S. authorities to warn them of his son’s growing radicalism.
Jammed airports were a scene of bedlam yesterday as travellers were left waiting in line for hours and rushing to make alternative plans as a slate of ramped-up security measures disrupted connecting flights and slowed departures to a crawl.
But nothing better demonstrated the heightened anxiety in the skies than a case of airsickness that became a national security incident.
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