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Ottawa to overhaul citizenship guide

T he Conservative government has re-written the book on what it means to be Canadian. No longer will prospective immigrants learn that Canada is a peaceful nation, respected for its work in conflict zones around the world. Instead there will be a ...

From JOE FRIESEN, Globe and Mail,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jason Kenney

Ottawa moves to remodel Canada's image

T he Conservative government will redefine what it means to be Canadian this week by introducing a new guide to citizenship, a rare and significant attempt to reshape the national image. The new document, which will be the citizenship study guide for ...

From JOE FRIESEN, Globe and Mail,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jason Kenney,  Adrienne Clarkson,  Jack Granatstein,  John de Chastelain,  Terry Fox

Women drowned trying to escape sinking Jeep

They found Ashley Neufeld's body pressed against the back window of the Jeep Cherokee, one of her best friends dead beside her, the other a few feet away in the front seat. It looked as though she was locked in a desperate struggle to survive, her ...

From JOE FRIESEN, Globe and Mail,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jeep

Family and friends mourn H1N1 victim's loss

B efore Frank Filice could speak a word his throat was caught by emotion and tears welled in his eyes. Just the mention of Evan Frustaglio's name was enough to send a flood of painful thoughts through his mind. He gestured toward his own son, ...

From JOE FRIESEN, Globe and Mail,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harry Potter,  Don Cherry

Blair defends arrest of grocer who nabbed thief

T he story of David Chen, the Chinatown grocer charged with kidnapping and forcible confinement for his citizen's arrest of a shoplifter, has galvanized shopkeepers on Spadina Avenue and across the city. They complain Toronto police don't do enough to ...

From JOE FRIESEN, Globe and Mail,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bill Blair,  Jason Kenney

Mississauga to investigate 'murky' dealings

T hey came in their hundreds, filling every seat in the Mississauga council chamber, all expressing support for their still-swaggering mayor, the suddenly and improbably embattled Hazel McCallion. Her council opponents, chiefly mayoral rival Carolyn ...

From JOE FRIESEN, Globe and Mail,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hazel McCallion

Punjabi editor fears for his life after attack

J agdish Grewal saw three masked men dressed in black running toward him, and he knew what it meant. He had just enough time to make it to his van and lock the door, but the men were on him in seconds. As he tried frantically to start the engine, they ...

From JOE FRIESEN, Globe and Mail,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Air India

The battle for Brampton

I n a Brampton living room last weekend, Sunny Gill helped seal the conversion of a young Sikh truck driver who claims he can move 300 votes from the Liberals to the Conservatives. The truck driver was just the latest domino to fall favourably for Mr. ...

From JOE FRIESEN, Globe and Mail,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ruby Dhalla,  Stephen Harper,  Pierre Trudeau,  Jason Kenney,  Gerard Kennedy

Pension fund shortfalls to cost the city millions

A shortfall in a Toronto police pension fund will cost the city more than $20-million over the next five years. The Metropolitan Toronto Police Benefit Fund, a pre-amalgamation pension plan that includes only a handful of serving police officers, could ...

From JOE FRIESEN, Globe and Mail,  6 Oct 2009

Angling for Justice

T he 12-year-old boy shuffled toward the judge with the timid reluctance one would expect of a child called to answer before authority. Barely four feet tall with a bird-like frame, his tiny stature – unusual even for a boy his age – took the Lindsay, ...

From JOE FRIESEN, Globe and Mail,  2 Oct 2009

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