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Omar Khadr goes on trial today. (Pentagon takes 3rd try at Khadr (TORONTO STAR).
I wish the Canadian politicians would be as vocal about this individual’s legal rights as they are about other child abuse and human rights issues. Of course we now don’t mind the death penalty being applied to our citizens in other countries, so why not prosecution of child soldiers.

On the flip side, I learned recently that if I take a computer into the U.S. containing confidential information about students in my classes, I could be subject to a fine of $2000 and my university, $500,000, under Nova Scotia’s Personal Information International Disclosure Protection Act – an act passed to protect Nova Scotians from abuses of the U.S. Patriot Act! (Under that act, all servers with confidential info. about students, research etc. must be in Canada – Maud Barlow would be happy for that!).