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Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the British raid on Rokel Creek in Sierra Leone in 2000, when one para was killed by AK-firing child soldiers and a number of others wounded after the child soldiers kidnapped and threatened to kill 11 members of the Royal Irish Regiment (who didn't fire on...

Will the Americans also be closing the swimming facilities at Emerald Lake?

Oh puh-leeze. Putting aside the irony of someone named Kafka speaking out  against openness in criminal proceedings, even if a word of this had never made the press, every single pers in Trenton would already know as much as they already do, and the rumour mill would have reached nearly everyone...

Coulter is crazy as a s**thouse rat and has curiously large hands and a pronounced Adam's apple for what that's worth, but as I was flipping through the channels devoting time to this story last night, I was thinking that I can't imagine any Canadian university issuing a pre-emptive letter like...

I'm enjoying the discussion here, so how about this hypothetical as it's got me curious: do the QR&O allow commanders to order attacks that are by definition suicidal but that inflict damage/death upon an enemy? I'm thinking of kamikazes here to continue the WWII naval theme, but you could bring...

There aren't many national chains for such things, most credit counsellors are one person with one office so you should be asking around where you live for recommendations. Any credit counsellor/bankruptcy trustee will be a good start. Most will see you for free for the initial consultation and...

I use some six different computers at home and work on four different regular Internet connections  both wired and wireless including one dedicated T-1 at work, running everything from various Mac OSX flavours to XP to Linux on one dual-boot machine and the hang time for this site on days it...

I was on Highway 401 last Saturday doing 120 when a stealth-marked OPP SUV blasted by me like I was absolutely standing still, and in the tenth of a second he was in my view, I could see him driving with one hand while he chatted away on a cellphone held to his ear. I'm sure it was...

I have no opinion on this topic but an anecdote. When I was living in Inuvik around 1998 or so, the Mounties provided security for territorial court, which I had occasion to sit in on. A new guy had come up from the south and his fellow officers informed him that he would sit in on court to get...

We all know that if Layton were PM *shudder*, he'd already be distributing the gold medals won by Canada to underdeveloped nations that didn't win any. Not that there would be that many, what with each Canadian Olympic team required to have a designated number of women, visible minorities and...

Well, you're correct, and I recant that allegation. All this has happened since I was an up-and-coming young shooter and that photograph was infamously mentioned in the same breath as Khaladi's Reichstag flag. I hadn't revisited it since.

So a group of British stewardesses is riffing on an American war photo that was staged in the first place and in the public domain in the second to make a point I don't care about with regards to a company whose services I don't use, all in a country in which I don't live?

Over and above the service record, I'd hit up DND with an FOI for lists of pers who took part, and while you're at it, duplicate the request to the American military and whichever authorities were in charge of such tests, although health data was probably anonymized (although it was the 1950s...

Hey,  ladies get weak-kneed over guys they think are wastewater engineers. Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

I think the trouble is, IMHO, the schools have a zero tolerance policy against actual violence and don't know how to deal with/underplay verbal taunting and other harassment. I'm 40, and when I was in school, you could still fight someone, and consensual fighting acted as a natural check on...

Without any other info, I would suggest that at least one or more of these women was anything but promiscuous. She didn't have herpes, she had sex with this one guy, and now she has herpes. And so does this other woman, and there's this one thing they have in common. I'm not a qualified public...

They were. There are dozens of examples of utterly computer illiterate Americans who downloaded top 40 songs using Limewire,  who never shared it on the net  themselves or tried to sell it being hit with multi-million dollar fines per downloaded song. And Americans do not pay a blank media levy...

Oh, they're so cute. Copying/downloading files for personal use/backup is not a crime in Canada, no matter if the RIAA or the other alphabet soup foreign trade groups think it ought to be. And remember, we have an implicit contract with the owners of copyright in Canada because we pay a tax on...

What's wrong with the Griffon? I know the maintainers say it's not built to the same standards as the America Huey, but I didn't think it was a Ross rifle with rotors either.

What I find troubling about this case is this: previously this charge was only laid against HIV positive individuals, to my knowledge, who engaged in unprotected sex. AIDS is fatal, although it can be managed by drugs. Herpes is not fatal. Inconvenient and somewhat unsightly, sure, but not fatal...