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Inuk’s Ancestry: The 4,000 Year-Old Paleo-Eskimo Genome
Hi all, this is Kambiz. I’m resurfacing to share with you a new Peopling of the America’s research that peeked my interests. The Nature paper is titled, “Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo.” The preserved nuclear DNA of a 4,000-year-old man’s tuft of hair, found out of Greenland’s...
The Wikipedia entry for Y-chromosome haplogroup T claims: “The distribution of haplogroup T in most parts of Europe is spotty or regionalized”. As it is through much of the rest of the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_T_(Y-DNA) However from the map at Wiki we can see that Y-hap T is largely distributed along coastlines and...
Reduced Brain Size of Homo floresiensis Hints at Her Likely Ancestors
See also: Is Homo floresiensis really that strange? – Zinjanthropus@ A Primate of Modern Aspect A new, detailed and freely accessible paper, Reconstructing the Ups and Downs of Primate Brain Evolution: Implications for Adaptive Hypotheses and Homo floresiensis (provisional PDF) has just come online at BMC Biology, in which Stephen H....
Four Stone Hearth #85: Cold Wind Edition at A Very Remote Period Indeed
Julien has posted the current edition of Four Stone Hearth over at his blog, marking the 85th occasion on which this anthropology blog carnival has appeared online. There’s a distinct archaeological feel to the opening section, including mention of the Silk Road, something I’ve been mulling over of late, but...
The Archaeology Channel – “Timeless India” by Zafar Hai
The Archaeology Channel – Timeless India TAC have made available a 25-minute promotional film produced and directed by Zafar Hai on behalf of the Ministry of Tourism in India, and narrated by no less a luminary than Michael York. Featuring many historic locations and exotic sights such as temples, this film is...
Wednesday Round-up at Neuroanthropology – Videogaming/ 100th Edition
As readers here may be aware, recent reports from the world of neuroscience with an anthropological slant are assembled every Wednesday over at Neuroanthropology, and this week’s edition includes, amongst many others: Chris Kelty et al., Outlaw Biology? Public Participation in the Age of Big Bio Looks like a fascinating symposium this...
Golublog: An Anthropology Blog
In my quest for additional optimization I recently downloaded and tried the mac app Launchbar. In general I do not believe in loading down your computer with tons of software in an attempt to convince yourself that you are a ‘power user’ but I am going to make an exception...
This 2003 film could have been a perfectly decent romantic comedy with a strong female cast, a fine supporting performance from Shirley Maclaine, and Julia Stiles’s enormous, round head. Instead, the film’s ambition to document the story of an entire family, and its own obvious infatuation with its characters lead...
Fran said we had — and I quote here from her email — a “two scroll morning” so I will try to keep this relatively brief. I suppose I’ve known since I was a little kid that ‘torah’ means ‘instruction’. I think too often we are tempted to imagine this...
Psalms that did not make the cut #325
This text first appeared in excavations of Ugarit in 1962 with a colophon describing it as “‘A Hymn of Baal’s Victory Over The Silverfish”. It bears a resemblance to the ‘crushing of the crawlies’ texts first described by Charpin from Mari, and thus the theme is likely a common one...
I for one welcome my NPR overlords. I’ve held off commenting on NPR’s “Fifty Great Voices” series despite my obsession with the human voice because… well really because I didn’t care that much. I thought about saying something when someone objected that Iggy Pop was not, technically, a ‘great voice’...
More details since Tom asked: I use Things as a GTDish type device — to capture everything I need to do so I don’t worry about it and can focus on work. I also use it to schedule all events and deadlines. I can’t be bothered with ‘projects’ since I do...
Conversations with Dina
Daily updates on what I’m reading The FASTForward Blog » Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Research from Cecile Demailly: Commentary by Bill Ives – CLIP: The report suggests that, “communicating externally about the internal change may help to change the mindsets internally.” This is an interesting idea. Those that have been successful in...
Daily updates on what I’m reading The Social Media Expert Crisis Descends – "If you’ve gotten 200 followers for your corporate Twitter account in Sydney, and sent out 20 tweets, that’s now ample qualification that you are a social media expert. I spoke to someone recently who works in IT but...
Daily updates on what I’m reading Time to Rewrite the Brand Playbook for Digital – Advertising Age – CMO Strategy – CLIP: " .. a lot of marketing professionals also tend to forget that brands have always been the products of their media. When there was only print, logos were important....
Daily updates on what I’m reading The net generation, unplugged | The Economist – CLIP: "Michael Wesch, who pioneered the use of new media in his cultural anthropology classes at Kansas State University, is also sceptical, saying that many of his incoming students have only a superficial familiarity with the digital...
Daily updates on what I’m reading Putting people first » Internet on mobiles: evolution of usability and user experience. PhD dissertation. – Overview and Article Downloaded. http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2009/isbn9789522481900/article11.pdf and http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2009/isbn9789522481900/<br /> <br /> <br /> Clip: "Anne Kaikkonen, a UI product manager at Nokia, recently presented her doctoral dissertation on the usability and user experience...
Daily updates on what I’m reading random thoughts on being an entrepreneur | @gapingvoid – Some of my favourites: 7. People buy your product because it helps fill in the narrative gaps in their lives. 5. In a world of over-supply and commodification, you are no longer paid to supply. You’re being paid...
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Chinese medicine societies reject tiger bones ahead of CITES
From WWF (panda.org)WWF and TRAFFIC welcome a World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS) statement urging its members not to use tiger bone or any other parts from endangered wildlife.The statement was made at a symposium Friday in Beijing and notes that some of the claimed medicinal benefits of tiger...
Does "our internal moral cup runneth over" when we go green?
From Newsweek.comEnvironmental HypocrisyA new study shows that people are more likely to cheat and steal after buying green products.By Sharon BegleyThere have probably been environmental hypocrites ever since the first caveman professed his love of wildlife right before going out and slaughtering giant herds of megafauna, but it's never been...
Hammerhead shark mystery solved
From BBC Earth NewsBy Jody Bourton ...
Women Who Drink Gain Less Weight
From the New York TimesBy TARA PARKER-POPEDieters are often advised to stop drinking alcohol to avoid the extra calories lurking in a glass of wine or a favorite cocktail. But new research suggests that women who regularly consume moderate amounts of alcohol are less likely to gain weight than nondrinkers...
Update: meat eating gorillas???
The new paper "Vertebrate DNA in Fecal Samples from Bonobos and Gorillas: Evidence for Meat Consumption or Artefact?" by Hofreiter et al. (2010) started getting a lot of press today, see here, here and here (and a very nice addendum to this last post here)First of all, its really interesting...
A really funny but touching video by New York Time Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof on the physical and mental toughness of Congolese women-MAThe "What are you carrying?" video can be found HEREThanks to Chrissie E for the link...
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Shedding New Light on Saturn and Enceladus/Test post
Shedding New Light on Saturn (Dec. 27, 2009) - Planetary Radio | The Planetary SocietyAs The Crust Turns: Cassini Data Show Enceladus in Motion - NASA JPL A recent podcast from the Planetary Society featured the Cassini mission at Saturn, home to shimmering rings and mysterious moons, where the spacecraft...
Posthumous Dues - Mac Tonnies, Author and Blogger, Dead at 34
UFOMystic: Remembering Mac It was something of a shock to hear the very sad news that author and blogger Mac Tonnies passed away in his sleep last week, aged only 34. We briefly corresponded several years ago, and he was about the first person in the public eye to say they...
From Memory/Take No More/Hospital Records Podcast
Whilst the world waits with bated breath for the release date of 'Take No More' from Utah Jazz, featured on the 96th edition of the only dnb podcast you'll ever need to hear, here's a quick look at Mistabishi's much vaunted Matrix Remix of 'From Memory', also featured as the...
Stimulus Respond - 'Icon' Edition - Call for Contributions
Following on from the previous 'Numbers' edition, Open publication - Free publishing - More stimulus Stimulus Respond are now seeking content for the next issue, called 'Icon', as we see from this advisory: We are currently soliciting contributions for the next edition of the next issue of Stimulus Respond, called Icon....
Jupiter Impact Points Us To Mars
ESA Science & Technology: Hubble views new dark spot on JupiterOver the past few days, spectacular images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope have shown the scene of a vast impact - roughly twice the length of Europe - which has scarred the surface of Jupiter, making this the second...
A Blog is Born: NickG Productions: To whom it may concern..
NickG Productions: To whom it may concern..A quick heads-up to a new blog written by NickG, who is technically, or at least biologically part of the remote central stable of writers, so this is to wish him all good luck in what I hope will be a long and very...
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Big game at the Wilbur D. May Museum in Reno (San Francisco Chronicle)
Wilbur D. May shot big game in Africa. He flew the globe during the infancy of aviation. He drove an ambulance in World War I, composed music and raised race horses on his Nevada ranch. He was a skier, yachtsman, philanthropist and art collector. Son of David... World War I...
Penelope Cruz smolders in "Broken Embraces," Bryan Cranston gets cooking in "Breaking Bad," season two, and Walt Disney presents its first black princess in "The Princess and the Frog," all arriving this week on DVD....
Teotihuacan Mural Paintings Recover Splendor (Art Daily)
Nural painting in Tetitla. Las Águilas. Photo: DMC.INAH. M MARAT. MEXICO CITY.- Several Prehispanic mural paintings at Tetitla Palace, in Teotihuacan Archaeological Zone are fully restored after 2 years of work conducted by specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH)....
Is Tech Taking Its Toll on Our Relationships? (ABC News)
Research looks at what technology is doing to personal, romantic, professional relationships....
Maya Site Inhabitants Manufactured Weapons and Tools (Art Daily)
Polychrome vase, San Claudio archaeological site in Tabasco. Photo: José Luis Romero/INAH. MEXICO CITY.- Specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) explore in Tenosique, Tabasco, an archaeological site of Maya affiliation dedicated exclusively to manufacture weapons and tools....
INDIANA'S OLDEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER (DePauw)
The DePauw: What's your hometown and major? Nikki Craker: Willoughbie, Ohio, and biology major. Aurora Flores: Chicago and anthropology and French major....
NYT > Archaeology and Anthropology
Kenneth Dover, a Provocative Scholar of Ancient Greek Literature, Dies at 89
Mr. Dover became known for his willingness to break taboos, from his frank descriptions of sexual behavior to his baldly stated desire to bring about the death of a vexing Oxford colleague....
Taking It With You in Ancient Egypt
The Brooklyn Museum has assembled an exhibition that explores all facets of the Egyptian funerary industry....
When Scholarship and Tribal Heritage Face Off Against Commerce
A mound of stones atop a hill in Oxford, Ala., possibly created by American Indians centuries ago, came into conflict with a desire to build a Sam’s Club....
Researchers Identify Fossil of Dinosaur-Eating Snake
In a fossilized scene found in India more than 20 years ago, scientists discovered a prehistoric snake ready to feast on dinosaur hatchlings....
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Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force
Biologists are finding evidence that culture has been interacting with genes to shape human evolution....
Constructing Amusement
Back from Mexican 'ciber'space
The eagle has landed, amidst the afterglow of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. I was doing my own triple axles down in Mexico looking for Internet Cafes with people who spend time in virtual worlds though, spanning several cities including sprawling Guadalajara, colonial Guanajuato, coastal San Patricio/Barra de Navidad,...
It's been a busy while preparing for this latest stint of fieldwork...I'm currently at the Universidad de Guadalajara, CUCEA, where I'll be affiliated as a researcher for the next two weeks. With my compadres from the institute here, along with the concurrent SFU field school, I'll be looking...
Practising non-violence makes me stabby.
We've been on a roll this week...Here's a story from RegHardware, talking about a teen who allegedly attacked his father with regards to a video game. Now, it's not the usual link aka "violent video games cause violence in kids," but rather "parents of violent kid attempt to diffuse violence...
So, gaming does NOT cause rickets.
As I ventured in the last blog entry, the story on games causing rickets was just plain "lazy journalism." The quote straight from the scientist who helped to write the report is now on record saying, "We do not say that gaming causes rickets."How many times have we seen this...
Rickets linked to excessive gaming
While blaming games for all imaginable ills in society is not a new phenomenon, this one is quite the leap: According to this article, researchers in the UK are focusing on the rise of British kids afflicted with rickets, correlated with excessive gaming indoors.But Florence, correlation does not causation imply,...
2010 CGSA Symposium, May 28th-29th, Montreal
Holy Batman, here we are already wrapping up Week 2 of the new semester. Just finished up a barrage of tutorials for CMNS 353.Happy New Year, btw. Too late for that? Well in the spirit of more time (and we all need more of it) the call...
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Martin Heidegger on Building, Dwelling, Thinking.@Everything2.com
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Attention: The Internet Is Killing Yours: A Q+A with Rach... | Motherboard
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Science's breakthrough of the year: Uncovering 'Ardi'
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Smithsonian Human Origins Program - Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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Savage Minds
Trouble brewing in New Orleans?
Those who just recently joined the AAA might not know about the 2004 battle over whether or not the conference would be held in San Francisco. At issue was a strike by UNITE-HERE, a hotel workers union. In the end, the AAA chose not to cross the picket line and...
Please welcome HTML in comments
For months — perhaps even years — John McCreery and MTBradley have been sounding off in the comments about how damn hard it is to learn textile format, the only way SM accepts to format comments. It turns out he wasn’t the only one. Textile — a beloved markup language...
This week, I was happy to find blogs that I hadn’t seen in the past (and no, I’m talking about the Economist online). If I’m missing a blog (like your blog), email me, and I can include them in future weeks and put them on our blogroll. So Over It: The...
Welcome Adam Fish and New Interview Project
We here at Savage Minds are happy to announce that Adam Fish has gone savage and become a full-member of the team. Originally brought on as a guest-blogger during a 2009 film fieldtrip to Palestine, Adam has been an enthusiastic contributor to the site and we look forward to more...
Corridors: From Metaphor to Ethnography
It is not uncommon for us to refer to the corridors of academia as a kind of metaphor for the gossipy, informal, discourse which takes place outside of classrooms. Yet we rarely engage in ethnographic study of how academics actually use corridors. This is exactly what Rachel Hurdley has done....
Oscar Caliber: Soldiers in Avatar and The Hurt Locker
(This occasional contribution comes from the team of Ken MacLeish and Zoė H. Wool. Ken is a doctoral candidate in anthropology and the Program in Folklore, Public Culture and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He conducted 12 months of intensive fieldwork with soldiers and military families...
Linguistic Anthropology
New blog posts relating to linguistic anthropology are available at SLA Blog, the official blog of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.Also check out the official homepage of Society for Linguistic Anthropology....
American Anthropological Association 2009 Annual Meeting
The American Anthropological Association will hold its annual meeting December 2nd through the 6th at the Philadelphia Mariott Downtown hotel in Philadelphia, PA. The theme for the 2009 meeting is "The End/s of Anthropology".Below is my annual partial list of panels and meetings of interest to linguistic anthropologists, including...
The Invention of Saying-things-that-don't-strictly-accord-with-empirical-fact
(Sorry for the long delay between posts. I'm writing up my dissertation research, which I will defend in a couple of weeks.)I recently enjoyed seeing the film The Invention of Lying. The film's premise is that in an world where all human speech must accord strictly with empirical fact (or...
I've been hearing an awful lot about health care reform in the US this summer - even from British outlets. It's all a bit disconcerting, especially the riotous town hall meetings and the arguments that seem unmoored from the facts.FactCheck.org has a nice piece debunking seven falsehoods related to this...
Who speaks Shoshone, and when?
A comment on last Sunday's Weekend Edition radio program inspired me to think about two questions. A participant in the Shoshone/Goshute Youth Language Apprenticeship Program (SYLAP) commented:Someone will step in. You can even bring in a white man to [run a business]. But there isn't going to be a white...
This morning Weekend Edition Sunday featured an interesting story on the Shoshone Youth Language Apprenticeship Program being held at the University of Utah campus this summer. Toward the end of piece one learner, a young Shoshone woman, described why she decided to forget about business school and instead study linguistics.Someone...
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Hindi Film Songs and the Barriers between Ethnomusicology and Anthropology
There are only few studies on popular music in South Asia. Tereza Kuldova (Tessa Valo) reviews for us the book Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema by ethnomusicologist Anna Morcom. Her review shows - among other things - the differences and barriers between anthropology and ethnomusicology. —– Review: Hindi Film Songs...
Is it a good idea to fight against female circumcision? Not neccesarily according to Sierra Leonean-American anthropologist Fuambai Ahmadu. In an interview in Anthropology Today (available free as pdf here), she attacks Western feminists, media and anti-Female Genital Mutilation campaigns and accuses them for presenting a one-sided,...
University reforms - a threat to anthropology?
It started around 20 years ago: The idea of education as a right was being replaced by a concept of education as a commodity to purchase. Today’s universities are managed like businesses, striving for “excellence", being best, competing for the “best” brains with new logos and slogans like The University...
Pecha Kucha - the future of presenting papers?
Why reading your paper when there are lot more exciting ways of presenting your research? I have asked Aleksandra Bartoszko and Marcy Hessling to tell us about their experience with a recent experiment at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association last december. They attended a panel where...
Why Siberian nomads cope so well with climate change
The tundra ecosystems in Siberia are vulnerable to both climate change and oil/gass drilling. Yet the Yamal-Nenets in West Siberia have shown remarkable resilience to these changes. “Free access to open space has been the key for success” says Bruce Forbes of the University of Lapland, Finland, Environmental Research...
Haiti Earthquake: Worldwide solidarity, a common humanity? (updated)
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Amazing Photoshopesque Painting Techniques
This was done with a real person using paint. Unbelievable. Via Gizmodo.......
Ainu Komonjo Digitization Project at U-Wisconsin
Dr. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney at the University of Wisconsin has been digitizing some very old Japanese texts about the Ainu first people. The real benefit is that there are wonderful drawings of the unique clothing that the Ainu wore, which indicated......
Apple acknowledges hard drive problems in Mac Books
So I guess I'm not the only one with hard drive problems: Apple to Replace Bad Hard Drives Apple, meet Toyota. The computer company, while not formally issuing a recall, says it will replace for free “a very small percentage”......
Bethel: Community and Schizophrenia -- now available on DVD or streaming on Amazon!
I'm very happy to announce that Amazon.com is now distributing my film, Bethel: Community and Schizophrenia in Northern Japan, as a DVD, streaming rental, or streaming purchase! DVD : $24.99 7-day streaming video-on-demand rental : $1.99 Purchase video-on-demand : $9.99......
Meta: MacBook Pro / Toshiba hard drive fails again
Sigh. My new 2009 MacBook Pro died this weekend of hard drive failure. Argh! Just in time for the beginning of classes, of course. And again, just like the last time (see 2005/02) it was a Toshiba hard drive that......
Lady Gaga is now Creative Director for Polaroid
Reminds me of an exhibit I saw at the Art Institute in Chicago that consisted of what was written on the backs of photographs. The exhibit was in dialogue with the move to digital and the fact that these physical......
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Just a quick one to wish everyone a bountiful, joyful and prosperous New Year of the Tiger, and to share the latest pics of Charlie It's weird how you can see so much of your baby before he (in this case) even comes out of the womb. This one is...
Social Network Analysis of the Social Media Club - Kuala Lumpur
SMCKL is a group that meets occasionally to explore matters relevant to social media and industry. The most recent one was about social media monitoring tools, and featured three presentations by comScore, Brandtology and JamiQ. They were interesting, but I was surprised that nobody was talking about social network analysis...
How can 10,000 unique visitors mean an audience of 100?
A distinct advantage of internet advertising is the ability to accurately measure the audience (through page views), and to know precisely how many people took an interest in the ad by clicking on it. 'Click fraud' (simulating different people by repeated clicking) is detected by automated software, and 'unique visitors'...
I love listening to podcasts - they are a great way to use some of that downtime in an interesting way - when you're driving, walking the dogs, cooking, and so on... I can listen to my favourite programmes whenever I want, pause them, rewind, turn up the volume (great...
A historical chronology of English language blogs in Malaysia
OK, the title pretty much says it all To get an overall view of the history of blogs in Malaysia, and my fieldwork, I've made a table. Of course, this only represents what I know of, and the events and so that I was able to attend during my fieldwork. There...
One useful thing about blogs is that they also serve as a kind of 'digital memory' - like a diary, memories and thoughts are stored for a future time when you can go back and be reminded of what you've been through. How some things you thought were so important...
UC Santa Cruz - Anthropology
UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow Chelsea Blackmore
Dr. Chelsea Blackmore UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley Ritual among the Masses: Deconstructing Identity and Class in an Ancient Maya Neigh......
Call for Paper Proposals (Proposal Deadline: February 12, 2010)
The Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz invites submissions for a one-day Graduate Student Conference to be held on April 24, 2010, on the topic of: Experimental Ecologies: Emergi......
UCSC Science & Justice Training Program
The Science & Justice Training Program at UCSC is a unique graduate-level research and education program that trains science and engineering students alongside social science and humanities students to identify and respond to moments where research r......
Anthropology Winter 2010 Colloquia
Professor Shuhei Kimura University of Kyoto Sayaka Takano University of Tokyo Works and Lives: Cultural Anthropology in and beyond Tokyo Wednesday, January 13, 3:......
Archaeology & Physical Anthropology Lunch Talks Winter 2010
BRING YOUR LUNCH!! All events held in 328 Social Sciences 1 (Ethnographic Library) Judith Habicht-Mauche Department of Anthropology UC Santa Cruz Fieldwork Opportun......
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“A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken. “ — Frank Herbert Thesis submission – 42 days and counting. ...
Notes from: Waltham, Mary. 2009. “The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing Among Social Science and Humanities Associations”, Report on a study funded by a Planning Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation http://www.nhalliance.org/bm~doc/hssreport.pdf This is an interesting report that reveals how large scholarly associations popular in the U.S. are adapting to new publishing environments....
A changing anthropology? Some notes and quotes.
Helping to define the “anthropology” and “change” parts of the thesis question, “how is the internet fueling change in anthropology?”: “The intellectual history of the nineteenth century is marked above all by this disciplinarization and professionalization of knowledge, that is to say, by the creation of permanent institutional structures designed both...
Mana’o Self Archiving Repository
After a long summer delay wondering what was up with the Mana’o repository, today I finally got word that yes, it is officially shutting its doors [it has unofficially been down all summer due to the operation being run on a personal home server]. Alex Golub, who spearheaded the project...
[to explain, since this post is not very self-explanatory, this is a story about how two sections of my thesis have changed drastically over the summer - one section, on self-archiving, part of a larger discussion on open access, discussed the Mana'o Self Archiving Repository for Anthropology, which coincidentally, a...
Stephen Harper abusing the courts?
“The Conservatives will appeal a federal court ruling that orders the government to repatriate Canadian-born terrorism suspect Omar Khadr from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, the CBC is reporting. According to the report, the government has filed a stay pending appeal of a Federal Court of Appeal ruling earlier...