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CBC News
January 14, 2009

The B.C. legislature will be recalled as soon as possible to deal with Vancouver’s request for an amendment to the city charter so that it can borrow money to complete the Olympic Athletes Village, Premier Gordon Campbell said Wednesday.

Campbell said he received the official request Tuesday from Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, and the province is willing to move fast.

“As soon as the amendment is appropriately drafted … it will be introduced in the legislature before Feb. 10,” Campbell said.

The premier said it is an urgent situation, and he hopes the legislation gets speedy passage in the legislature.

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Where to begin? Pain compliance – that’s torture – with risk of death employed on a woman and two kids in order to forcibly take the kids away from her. Not my idea of how ‘peace officers’ and ‘public servants’ are supposed to behave in a free society. And incidentally, the state has no place in the nurseries of the nation. None. If something bad is going on, it’s up to the family or neighbours to intervene or alert authorities to any real crimes. That is the safety net. The alternatives are: residential schools and other outrages conducted in the name of children’s welfare. If you remove the government monopoly in this field, maybe communities will learn to take more responsibility for children the way they used to. It takes a village – not an institution.

CBC News
January 14, 2009

A woman in the Northwest Territories says RCMP jolted her with a Taser while child protection workers apprehended her children in Yellowknife last year.

The woman, who cannot be identified, told CBC News that two of her youngest children, aged one and five, were sitting on her lap when a Yellowknife RCMP officer used the electric stun gun on her.

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Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com
January 14, 2009

Another video from 9/11 has been uncovered which proves that the collapse of WTC 7 was anticipated beforehand, despite that fact that the event was unprecedented – no steel framed building had completely collapsed from fire damage alone in previous history.

A widely publicized aspect of the collapse of Building 7 is the fact that news organizations received foreknowledge that it was coming down well in advance of its eventual collapse. Indeed, both BBC and CNN reported that the structure had collapsed nearly 30 minutes before it actually fell.

In the following clip, Fox News correspondent David Lee Miller states, “We are told by one firefighter source that a building identified as trade center number 7 is in danger of collapse, we are told that engineers have gotten as close as they can to the building and that this building is on fire and there is a chance that this building could give way and we are told that if it does they expect that it would collapse in a southerly direction.”

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Katherine O’Neill, The Globe and Mail
January 14, 2009

PM’s response to U.S. policy in Far North disappoints NWT Premier, who says Canada must actively protect resource-rich area

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has dismissed concerns that a Cold War with the United States is about to erupt over a new U.S. policy that boldly challenges Canada’s Arctic sovereignty claims in the frozen, resource-rich region.

“We’ve had some long-standing disagreements with the United States on some of these things, but we’ve managed to contain these disagreements,” Mr. Harper told a Calgary radio show yesterday. “I think we can manage this. … But obviously we will always speak up when the United States questions our sovereignty.”

Northwest Territories Premier Floyd Roland said the increased U.S. interest in the region is of deep concern and the federal government should respond with more than rhetoric.

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Kremena Krumova, Epoch Times
January 14, 2009

SOFIA, Bulgaria—During protests in Bulgaria beginning Jan. 14, twenty buses with nearly 1000 policemen gathered at the National Parliament building in Sofia, the capital, to disperse almost 2000 people protesting against the government. At least 17 protestors and six police officers were injured in the clashes, according to AFP.

The BGNES news agency reported that protesters were throwing snowballs and heavy stones, injuring policeman and smashing windows of nearby shops. More than 50 protestors have so far been arrested, while ambulances are periodically transporting injured citizens to hospitals, in an atmosphere that is becoming more and more tense.

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