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Sind sie, Herr Feldwebel, willkommen. From the Charter of Rights and Freedoms: 11. Any person charged with an offence has the right ...     (h) if finally acquitted of the offence, not to be tried for it again and, if finally found guilty and punished for the offence, not to be tried or...

First of all, the Taliban were never the legal government of Afghanistan, any more than a street gang in Harlem is the legal government there, howver much influence they may have.  The Taliban held power, true, but in general, the legality of those running a country is determined by recognition...

Herr Schultz - Justice Canada has a website which will take you to virtually all Canadian laws and statutes, so far as I can tell.  http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/index.html  Under Title, enter "Criminal Code." It is my impression that one cannot be tried twice for the same offense.  Given that...

Ma'am, I am not minimizing the seriousness or nastiness of rape nor suggesting in any way that even one offense is acceptable. My point is merely that rape, per se, is not a crime against humanity. To qualify it as a crime against humanity, it must take place in a context of mass rape or...

Sorry, but I think I must agree with Vern.  As nasty as rape is, the way the above citation reads, individual acts of rape which are not as part of a widespread deliberate campaign of rape do not fall under the category of crimes against humanity.  Using rape as a means of mass intimidation, to...

I remember talking to an ICP in Trenton, who said that those with private pilot licences sometimes had a hard time of it in flight training because the Air Force wants its pilots to fly in its own way and they had often picked up bad habits.  I suspect that that might apply to some extent even...

Not a lawyer due to the inconvenient fact of having married parents, but it you look at the Criminal Code, the key bit on treason would seem to refer to anyone who: 46(1)(c) assists an enemy at war with Canada, or any armed forces against whom Canadian Forces are engaged in hostilities, whether...

Kaplan - You may be right. On the other hand, the locals most likely know if the Taliban was still there, certainly in small villages where everybody knows everybody and where their 'guests' would very soon start levying for food and such.  As well, the locals generally are not fond of the...

I am not condoning the act of rape but, setting that aside, am curious about a couple of things I have seen here. In particular, can somebody shed more light on rape being considered an crime against humanity?  I can see that in a Bosnia context, where mass rape was used as a terror tactic. I...

I would suggest that the odds of a full-out war between the two is rather restricted by simple geography.  Peripheral scraps, perhaps. Economic and political warfare, certainly. But the thought of getting mechanized armies across the Himalayas, much less supplying them on the far side, is pretty...

As regards a Canadian soldier being guilty of a crime if he does not report an act that would be a crime in Canada. Consider the following things that are illegal in Canada but accepted there: polygamy (my, but that's been a hot-button issue around N America lately!) cultivation of drugs such...

Well, to quote Uma Thurman, "It's mercy, forgiveness and compassion I lack, not rationality."  Nobody ever accused the Taliban of being stupid.

Well, according to The Toronto Star (and we all know how reliable they are), Air Canada flies 34 million passengers a year (that was in 2007).  So, every increase of a dollar per barrel translates to a 76¢ increase in the cost of flying the average passenger. Given that oil has gone up about...

Releasing the prisoners was not, I suspect, related to a critical shortage of recruits. It was more likely on one hand a masterful PR stroke, telling the world (and especially the Afghans), "Hey, we're still here and still a viable, capable force, capable of going anywhere and doing whatever we...

Spoken like a Sapper - Chimo!

Geo - you old softy! Why don't you just come out and say what you think?  ;)

There is more - check the link.  www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=586429

Keep in mind that the Senator was not speaking to a VFW luncheon or the workers at General Dynamics...

Looks interesting, but "Banned in Canada?"  Where did I miss that?

I stand corrected.