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If murder was not illegal in Canada but it was in the US and Meng Wanzhou stood accused of that crime, could Canadian un-elected judges be excused in freeing her?:

Defense lawyers argue a senior executive of the Chinese tech giant Huawei should not be extradited to the U.S. because her actions would not be considered crimes under Canadian law.

The extradition hearing for Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou is scheduled to begin Monday. Meng, the daughter of the company’s founder, faces charges of committing fraud to try and evade U.S. sanctions on Iran. Huawei is China’s first global tech brand and Beijing views her case as a political move designed to prevent China’s rise.

We have an extradition treaty with the US that needs to be respected before any political interests that the Liberals have.

That really is the crux of it.




When will Omar Khadr's lawyers exhaust his reward for terrorism?:

An American civilian court has refused to order a military court to decide an appeal from former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr.

In a brief decision this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied Khadr’s request to force the issue.

“At this time, (Khadr) has not demonstrated a ‘clear and indisputable right’ to the extraordinary remedy,” the court said.

American troops captured Khadr, 33, as a badly wounded 15-year-old in Afghanistan in July 2002. He pleaded guilty to five war crimes, including the murder of a U.S. special forces soldier, before a widely disparaged military commission in 2010. As part of the plea deal, the court sentenced him to eight more years rather than to the jury-recommended 40 years.

Khadr later said the deal was his only way out of the infamous American prison in Cuba. He filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review in 2013 after arriving in Canada, arguing the offences to which he had pleaded guilty were not war crimes when he allegedly committed them.

What makes Shakespeare so universal (his works are even translated into Klingon) is that his well-written works speak to so many whereas partisan, leftist drivel is obnoxious, poorly-written and speaks only to a few:

Grade 11 English students at the Ottawa Catholic School Board are ditching Shakespeare and Margaret Atwood in favour of studying literature by Indigenous authors like Richard Wagamese and Tanya Talaga.

The board has approved a change from the traditional course to an offering called “English: Understanding Contemporary First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Voices.”

Five secondary schools already offer the course and within two years it will be the standard in all the board’s schools.

A similar change has been adopted or is underway at several other boards across the province as they try to increase the diversity of literature being studied and implement recommendations of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

I knew white shame would be in this somewhere.




The tsars and their communist counterparts have never really left when one thinks about it:

The Russian parliament overwhelmingly backed President Vladimir Putin’s surprise choice for prime minister on Thursday after what one daily called a “January revolution”, a major political overhaul that some say could set Putin up as leader for life. 

Also - another nearly-forgotten victim of communism:

Seventy-five years later, the international drumbeat of evil and indifference can still feel overwhelming, with the international community too often a bystander to atrocity and injustice. How appropriate, then, that Jan. 17 — the day of Raoul Wallenberg’s disappearance in the Soviet Gulag in 1945 — has been designated Raoul Wallenberg Commemorative Day in honour of this disappeared hero, who is Canada’s first honorary citizen.

Oon jawa wiki pon Solo hoo hoo hoo:

A morbidly obese ISIS fanatic dubbed “Jabba the Jihadi” has been captured by Iraqi forces — who loaded him onto a flatbed truck because he couldn’t fit in a police car.

The 560-pound mufti Abu Abdul Bari, also known as Shifa al-Nima, was nabbed Thursday by an elite SWAT team of the Nineveh regiment in the city of Mosul, according to Stars and Stripes.

The jumbo jihadist was known for “provocative speeches against the security forces” and is considered one of the top leaders of “ISIS gangs,” Iraqi security officials said in a statement.

Bari issued religious decrees — or fatwas — ordering the execution of scholars and clerics who refused to pledge allegiance to ISIS when the terror group occupied the city, the statement said.

During the heyday of the group’s self-styled caliphate in 2014, he also ordered the destruction of a mosque built at the site believed to be the burial place of the biblical prophet Jonah, who once had a famous encounter with a whale.

Maajid Nawaz, founder of the London-based anti-extremism think Quilliam, also shared images of the heavyweight’s arrest.

“He was so overweight, maybe from remaining sedentary in his hiding place, that he had to be taken by police in the back of a pick up truck,” he wrote on Facebook.

“Most religious justifications provided to ISIS for enslaving, raping, torturing, ethnic cleansing & massacring Iraqis, Syrians & others are from this paltry beast who can’t even stand on his own two legs,” he wrote.