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In Memoriam

The TTC will join individuals and communities across the nation in marking Remembrance Day by halting all of its vehicles for two minutes at 11 a.m. today. Subways will be held at platforms, buses and streetcars will remain at the nearest regular stop they hit just prior to 11 a.m., and Wheel-Trans vehicles will pull [...]

PhotoTO: Call to Resist

On September 23, war resister Jeremy Hinzman—who has spent four and a half years living and working in Canada as a conscientious objector—is due to be deported back to the United States where he faces a dishonorable discharge, court martial, and sentence in a military prison, the equivalent of a felony record. A protest was held by the War Resister Support Campaign (WRSC) in Toronto and other cities across the country Saturday to rally support and raise awareness that the government continues to deport war resisters despite, as we previously reported, public and Parliamentary support for them to stay.

Eleventh Hour Hope For Glass

To Corey Glass, Pierre Trudeau’s Vietnam-era proclamation that “Canada should be a refuge from militarism” must ring a little hollow in 2008. Two summers ago, the 25-year-old Iraq War veteran left his post with the U.S. Army, resisting re-deployment to the catastrophic five-year occupation. Since August of 2006, Mr. Glass, like others seeking refugee status, [...]

Remembrance

SECOND BOER WAR (1899-1902) 8,300 served 252 wounded 277 dead WORLD WAR I (1914-1918) 619,636 served 172,950 wounded 66,655 dead WORLD WAR II (1939-1945) 1,081,865 served 53,145 wounded 46,777 dead KOREA (1950-1953) 26,791 served 1,042 wounded 516 dead PERSIAN GULF (1991) 4,500 served AFGHANISTAN (2001 to present) 2,900 currently deployed 1,500+ wounded 152 dead PEACE [...]