Canadian Tyrone Edwards organized a trip to the inauguration in Washington. Young people, black and Arab, piled into three buses and off they went. Then they came to the border.

An American-born Israeli Jew who participated in breaking the Gaza naval blockade by sailing with supplies into the territory spoke at a Canadian Senate meeting room on Jan. 19.

A court martial in Canada heard on January 6 the basics of the government's case against Captain Robert Semrau. He is charged with killing a wounded Taliban in Helmand Province on October 19.

University employees in the Ontario Branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are calling for a ban on Israeli teachers in Ontario universities.

In this protest, one size fits all. On Dec.14, Iraqi television reporter Muntadhar al-Zeidi made his claim to a footnote in history by throwing his shoes at a visiting George W Bush.

Damien Corsetti, a former U.S. military intelligence investigator who acted as an interrogator at Bagram in Afghanistan and at Abu Graib in Iraq, was interviewed recently on CBC.