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Daniel Foggo, The Sunday Times
September 6, 2009

PARENTS are being threatened with having their children taken into care after questioning doctors’ diagnoses or objecting to their medical care.

John Hemming, a Liberal Democrat MP, who campaigns to stop injustices in the family court, said: “Very often care proceedings are used as retaliation by local authorities against ‘uppity’ people who question the system.”

Cases are emerging across the UK:

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Dean Beeby, Canadian Press
September 6, 2009

OTTAWA – Canada’s border guards are pulling out their guns, batons and pepper spray much more frequently, says a newly released report, suggesting border crossings are becoming more dangerous places.

There were 127 so-called use-of-force incidents in the year ending March 31, almost three times more than occurred in each of the previous two years.

And guards who began to carry sidearms in July 2007 are now pulling them from their holsters about three times a month.

The report says no guns were actually fired in the 34 cases where the sidearm was used last year. Batons were brought out five times but never used.

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