David, convicted wife-beater, deported to Canada
A man who was convicted of beating his wife for years was deported earlier this month, officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Wednesday.
Victor David, 66, was returned to his native Canada on Sept. 15, four days after he said he would not fight efforts to deport him.
David was convicted in 2001 of brutally beating and imprisoning his wife Linda David for years on a filthy sailboat that was moored in Everett and Marysville. He served a five-year prison sentence and in August was turned over to customs officials where he began removal proceedings.
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Canada presses China over deported Uighur activist
Canada is pressing China to reveal what it has done with a Canadian citizen who is also a member of the Muslim Uighur minority, Canadas foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
Huseyincan Celil, who friends say fled China in the mid 1990s, was arrested in the central Asian nation of Uzbekistan in March. Uzbekistan has told Ottawa it deported Celil to China, the ministry said.
Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs account for about 8 million of the 19 million people in Chinas northwestern province of Xinjiang. Beijing has waged a long campaign against Uighur separatists, whom it labels terrorists.
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Canada faces court issue with child killer
A Chinese national, convicted in Canada of killing a 9-year-old girl, may be released after a 15 years in prison instead of deported to China, a report says.
Canadian prosecutors defended the second-degree murder plea bargain reached with Min Chen, who was sentenced Friday, by saying after he served time in a Canadian prison, he would be deported to China and most likely face charges.
Min was sentenced to life in prison, without parole for 15 years.A Chinese law allows for double jeopardy if a citizen commits a crime abroad. But Canadian law bans double jeopardy.
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Manchester Man Convicted Of Importing Drugs From Canada
A Manchester, N.H., man has been convicted in federal court in Vermont of conspiracy to import marijuana from Canada and possession with intent to sell.
Scott Frechette, 35, is one of nine people who authorities said teamed up to smuggle hundreds of pounds of marijuana into America.
A Canadian customs official with more than 20 years of experience also has been arrested and charged in the case.
Frechette will be sentenced in March.
In addition, he has been ordered to forfeit half the interest in his Manchester home, $65,000 in cash seized there and his 2002
Canada's Prince of Darkness, Michael Ignatieff Or Thomas Friedman in Stripped Trousers, Silk Stockings and Garters
If Michael Ignatieff is anything, it's connected, and I do not mean just to the relatively small establishment of Canada, I mean connected to the shadowy godfathers of World Empire. Ignatieff has a rich career in America where truly loyal service, whether by natural or adopted sons, is always handsomely rewarded.
Another Canadian, David Frum, made it all the way to the White House with his custom-tailored scribbling. So too such a genuinely dangerous American as Pat Buchanan. How does a man like Thomas Friedman
'Canada and the world'
The following is the full text of the speech titled "Canada and the World" delivered by Liberal MP Michael Ignatieff at the University of Ottawa on March 30, 2006.
Ever since I entered Parliament in January, people have been asking me: Why have you gone into politics? As in: " Are you nuts?"
No, I’m not nuts.
This is my country, after all.
As a child, I played in the barns of my uncle’s dairy farm in Richmond, Quebec; I swam off the rocks at my aunt’s place in Georgian Bay; when I was a young teacher out in British Columbia,
