Ottawa police charge two girls, 15, with human trafficking. India, Canada sign MoU on road transportation, safety. The MoU will facilitate sharing and exchange of knowledge and technical expertise in the areas of infrastructure development, operation and maintenance of roads, Intelligent Transport System. The MoU was signed by India's Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, C P Joshi and Canadian Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communication Denis Label, during the 15th Annual Conference and General Meeting of ITS Canada, held in Quebec City, yesterday. The agreement aims to facilitate partnerships between key private and public sector stakeholders and raise awareness of infrastructure investment opportunities in Canada and India. India's exports to Canada in 2011 were up by 25 per cent and imports from Canada registered an increase of 31.7 per cent over 2010, Joshi said.
Total bilateral trade during 2011 registered 28.35 per cent increase over the previous year. Bilateral trade during the calendar year 2011 crossed 5 billion US Dollar mark, the minister said. Canada's Warrantless Surveillance Bill C-30 Reviving. ANONYMOUS #Quebec Sans Liberte #CANADA. Quebec students defy cops, call mass protests. By G. Dunkel Montreal Published May 26, 2012 7:58 AM Quebec students, who have been striking for three months for lower tuition and demonstrating each of the last 25 nights including May 18, have now targeted Law 78, adopted by the Quebec parliament a day earlier. The students, who have demanded a repeal of 75 percent tuition hikes, are defying the new law by demonstrating and holding marches in large numbers in Montreal and Quebec City and in smaller numbers in Rimouski, Gatineau and Sherbrooke. The student movement has issued a call for 100,000 people to come out in Montreal on May 22 to mark the 100th day of the strike.
The cops deem these marches illegal. According to television reports, while hundreds gathered in the three small cities, over a thousand protesters gathered in front of the National Assembly, Quebec’s parliament, and marched from there all over old Quebec city and back. Background of strike Articles copyright 1995-2012 Workers World. Blame Canada - By Mark MacKinnon. In December 2010, a trio of Western diplomats stationed in China -- one each from Canada, Switzerland, and the European Union -- drove from Beijing to the village of Dongshigu, eight hours away in Shandong province, hoping to visit the detained dissident Chen Guangcheng. No one has spoken publicly about what happened next. Theydid not mention the excursion itself, and certainly not the rough reception they received from the hands of the guards who prevented them from seeing Chen.
But one person with knowledge of the incident used the words "roughed up;" another said the diplomats had been "threatened" by "thugs. " All three embassies declined to comment about what had happened in Dongshigu. Intimidating diplomats violates the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which asserts diplomats have freedom of movement within a host country, unless there's a national security reason to deny it. It's also a breach of the informal rule against threatening a foreign country's emissaries.
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