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Jack Letts is a British born Canadian who was born in Oxford to a Canadian father and British mother. While he has British citizenship by birth, his holding Canadian citizenship provides the Home Secretary the opportunity to strip him of his British citizenship. It appears this may have...

Latest on Jack Letts ... Archived link here On this, from the latest Canadian Press article linked above:

Yup (as of 2019, date of article) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/18/jack-letts-stripped-british-citizenship-isis-canada My understanding is that The Supremes have yet to hear (or decide whether to hear) the appeal of the Federal Court of Appeal decision - although I defer to those...

You’re correct. Not sure if the SCC will hear the appeal, but I would guess they would given the seriousness.

This popped up 20 Jan (and corrected 26 Jan) on the Fed Court site (also attached & archived here) - hard to find because of the "names" used (although a few names are named in there, including Jack Letts, mentioned in these parts before) ...

Not sure how I feel about this.  On one hand that guy might be dead.  On the other he may have escaped. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jack-letts-syria-turkey-artillery-1.5319047

I can hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the left wingers who think he's "misunderstood" etc....

... or the father's for that matter. Oh my, just caught this, too ... "Father of accused ISIL member Jack Letts challenges Andrew Scheer to a debate on son's fate" :pop:

Jihadi Jack now Canada's problem as Britain strips him of his UK citizenship. See rest of article here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7367565/ISIS-fighter-Jihadi-Jack-stripped-UK-passport-sparking-furious-diplomatic-row-Canada.html :stirpot:

Your ears are excellent then. I've yet to see or hear anyone coming to his defense. I'm not saying they're out there; inevitably there will be a few- just please don't presnt it as if that is a broadly held or accepted view from what you would lump as 'the left'. The father's a Canadian...

UK court:  yes, sending $ to your son who's up to shenanigans = you funding shenanigans … More @ link * - links to Wikipedia article on dual UK-Canadian national son

Funny you should mention that ....  ;D More in the Globe & Mail here.

Interesting angle to the "One NATO member steps aside while another NATO member vows to take on forces (including some Canadians) fighting ISIS" story - this from Brit media: Meanwhile, lookit who Brit media says shows up in some recent video from the area ... :pop:

Another nudge from our southern neighbours …

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/jihadi-jack-letts-syria-1.4385163 His parents sound like real winners.  The article tries to paint this kid like a victim, typical.