=== Get ready for the new , improved KKK  from the USA that has come to Calgary and Alberta, in hopes of starting up  groups, aka Klans and hell on earth.  Three very high ranking members made the trip up a few weeks ago.

They have managed to insert " new klan " propaganda into thousands of  local  free tabloids available on street corners and corner stores. While local police downplay the situtation, my sources, ( yes I have some out there), tell me that they expect something  " Very Big " to happen soon.

This could just be the warm up .

Racists interrupt rallies

Activists denounce supremacists' message

By KATIE SCHNEIDER, SUN MEDIA, Calgary
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Anti-racism rallies trying to spread a message of unity were interrupted yesterday by a white supremacist group believed responsible for a spate of posters spreading a message of hate.

Community activists lined the streets of Kensington and the Marlborough LRT station platform distributing leaflets and spreading a message that racism is not welcome in the city, despite appearances by a white supremacist group, including members of the Calgary Aryan Guard, blamed for recently plastering the city with hateful neo-Nazi posters.

Protesters holding colourful anti-racism signs and wearing red and white stickers surrounded the intersection of Kensington Rd. and 10 St. N.W., welcoming honks from passing cars and repeating their chants loudly as the white supremacist group stood on an opposite corner, carrying black and white "White Pride Worldwide" banners and Confederate flags.

At one point during the Kensington rally, the Aryan Guard group became involved in a shoving match with a man who tried to grab one of the its flags.

Lee Easton said he attended the rally to denounce the group's messages and show Calgary is a city of acceptance.

"We need to show that white supremacists do not represent the entire city of Calgary, that Calgary is and can be a very inclusive place," he said.

Many other protesters used the rally to reflect on and share their own experiences living with racism in the workplace, night clubs, by police, and at the airport.

Dijla Al-Rekabi, who moved to Calgary from Iraq 10 years ago, has even been called a terrorist since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, but said no one is immune to discrimination, and all citizens are equal, despite skin colours or nationalities.

"We want a better Calgary and a better Alberta," she said.

"We're all in the same boat -- what impacts you, impacts me."

And, India-born Shamsher Sandhu said people need to use their actions, not just words, to promote acceptance.

"Canada is a multicultural country and we need to prove it," he said.

Former police officer Cam Stewart, who has been hired to work with city departments to drop discriminatory barriers and make workplaces more inclusive, said all employees, especially immigrants, must be able to feel at home for Calgary to thrive.

"If we want to attract the best people in the world, we have to be inclusive," he said.

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More youth being accused of murder: Statistics Canada 
Main culprit is drugs: Edmonton youth worker

CanWest News Service

Murders committed by young people have spiked across Canada in the last year.

In 2006, the rate of young people accused of homicide was the highest since 1961, when data were first collected: a total of 84 youths aged 12 to 17 faced charges - 19 more than in 2005.

Homicide charges include manslaughter, first- and second-degree murder.

Another 69 youths were charged with attempted murder last year.

The numbers showing a rising rate of murder charges against young people also reveal other trends.

Eighty-three young people were charged with homicide last year, but only 54 people were killed, one expert noted.

That likely means more victims are being swarmed, said Rosemary Gartner, a professor at the University of Toronto's Centre of Criminology.

"Either that, or police are changing their methods - maybe they're choosing to charge more people at the scene."

The spike can't necessarily be blamed on increased gang activity, Gartner said - in part because police only started recording gang involvement in youth crime three to four years ago.

The main culprit is more kids selling drugs, said Len Untereiner with Edmonton's Spirit Keeper Youth Society.

"The spike in youth homicides is coming from the need to get money to buy drugs," said Untereiner, who tries to get young aboriginals in Edmonton's inner city out of gangs.

"From what I see, young gang members get killed by others who want their (drug) market share, or when they start using the product and they owe higher-ups money."

In 2005, one third of the youths accused of homicides in Canada had criminal records. One quarter of youth victims also had a criminal record.

While Quebec, Ontario and Alberta each saw 12 youths accused of homicide in 2005 - the latest year Statistics Canada collected a provincial breakdown - Saskatchewan had the highest rate of homicidal youth.

Eleven youths were accused of homicide in Saskatchewan, giving the province a rate of 12 charges per 100,000 youths.

Manitoba had the second-highest rate of youth homicide - nearly nine charged per 100,000 youths.

For a first-degree murder conviction under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the maximum sentence is six years behind bars followed by four years of community supervision.

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Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing. Let the whole world know that Today Is a day of reckoning . Let the weak be strong, Let the right be wrong, Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay,

It’s independence day

==Finally , Justice is done...

By GREGORY BONNELL The Canadian Press
 
 

TORONTO — The youngest Canadian to ever face a death sentence fell victim to a ``miscarriage of justice'' 48 years ago, Ontario's highest court said Tuesday as it acquitted Steven Truscott of the 1959 rape and murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper.

Nearly half a century after he was sentenced as a 14-year-old boy to ``hang by the neck until you are dead'' for one of Canada's most infamous murders, a smiling, grey-haired Truscott, no longer considered a convicted murdered, basked in the glow of the decision.

``I never in my wildest dreams expected in my lifetime for this to come true,'' he told a packed news conference at the offices of his lawyers and the group that helped to secure the acquittal, the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted.
``It's a dream come true.''

Truscott's conviction, placed in the light of fresh evidence, constituted a miscarriage of justice and had to be quashed, a five-member panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled in a massive, 303-page written decision.

``The fresh evidence related to the issue of the time of Lynne Harper's death is sufficient to quash the conviction,'' read the unanimous judgment.

That evidence dealt in large part with the original autopsy notes made at the time by forensic medical examiner Dr. John Penistan, who testified that Harper died before 7:45 p.m. on June 9 — a conclusion that made Truscott the prime suspect.

Last year, the Appeal Court heard evidence that Penistan's original autopsy conclusions allowed for a time of death much later than 7:45 p.m. — perhaps even the next day, when Truscott was in school.

``Armed with the two unofficial and earlier versions of the autopsy report, the defence may have secured an admission by Dr. Penistan that he had changed his mind as to the likely time of Lynne Harper's death,'' the Appeal Court ruled.

``We agree with the appellant's contention that the documents could have had a dramatic impact on the jury's assessment.''

The judgment, which means Truscott is no longer a convicted murderer, falls short of his lawyers' request that the court not only acquit their client but find him innocent as well.

``The appellant has not demonstrated his factual innocence,'' the court wrote. ``At this time, and on the totality of the record, we are in no position to make a declaration of innocence.''

Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant told a news conference within minutes of the decision being released that the Crown had no plans to mount an appeal.

He also delivered an abject apology.

``On behalf of the government, I am truly sorry,'' Bryant said. ``It is a decision that will not be appealed by the Crown — it is over.''

Bryant also said he has asked Justice Sydney Robins — a former Ontario Court of Appeal judge and ``one of our greatest jurists'' — to advise the government on the issue of compensation.

``The government of Ontario will fully co-operate with Justice Robins, as will all counsel.''

Truscott had harsh words for the Crown, saying it fought his lawyers ``every step of the way'' for years despite having the fresh evidence which helped overturn his conviction.

``The Crown chooses not to think about justice,'' Truscott said.

``I know (Bryant) apologized on behalf of the government, but I don't really feel that the apology was sincere. For the past four and a half years they had the same evidence as what the judges have had, and they chose to fight us every step of the way. I don't feel the apology was sincere.''

While the court's finding would normally result in a new trial being ordered, the panel of judges said the Truscott case is unique.

``We are satisfied that were a new trial possible, the acquittal of Mr. Truscott, while not the only possible verdict, would clearly be the more likely result.''

Truscott was convicted of the rape and murder of Harper on Sept. 30, 1959, some three months after her body was found in a wooded area near the CFB Clinton air force base in southwestern Ontario.

Truscott had long claimed he gave Harper a ride on his bicycle and saw his schoolmate get into a passing car on a rural highway.

The Crown successfully argued in 1959 that Harper never made it to the highway because Truscott veered down a path south of that location where he raped and strangled the girl.

At 14, Truscott became the youngest Canadian to be sentenced to hang — a sentence that was commuted to life in prison in 1960, the same year he lost his first appeal.

Six years later, journalist Isabel LeBourdais's book ``The Trial of Steven Truscott'' became the first published document to poke holes in the police investigation and the prosecution's case, prompting a review by the Supreme Court of Canada.

But the conviction was upheld and Truscott spent 10 years in prison before he was released on parole in 1969. He later married his wife Marlene and moved to Guelph, Ont., where he raised his now-grown sons Devon and Ryan and daughter Leslie in anonymity under an assumed surname.

The Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted, led by prominent lawyer James Lockyer, took on his case and in 2000, Truscott went public with his story for the first time in a television documentary.

Less than a year later, his lawyers asked the federal justice minister to reopen the case. Retired Quebec justice Fred Kaufman was given the task and concluded there was likely a miscarriage of justice.

Irwin Cotler, who was justice minister at the time, nonetheless sent the case to the Ontario Court of Appeal to examine whether new evidence might have altered the outcome of the original trial.

During the review — part of which was broadcast live on television — Truscott's lawyers argued previously undisclosed witness testimony that put him and Harper on a bridge north of the wooded trail where her remains were found contradicts the Crown's original murder theory and proves his innocence.

They also introduced forensic evidence related to Harper's stomach contents and the process of her body's decomposition that suggested she was likely killed some time after she and Truscott were know to be together.

Journalist Julian Sher, who has written a book on the Truscott case, said the Appeal Court's decision is virtually everything Truscott wanted to hear, short of a finding of innocence.

``Steven Truscott went to bed last night a convicted murderer,'' Sher said.

``This morning, he has been acquitted of a crime he always said he never committed. He has the court saying there was a miscarriage of justice, which he always believed, what he always wanted to hear. In that sense, it's extremely, extremely important.''

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2007 09 01

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Not all girls 'sugar and spice' 

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Three disturbing crimes involving teenaged girls have left Haligonians shaking their heads in shock and disgust this week.

It's an obvious, but dated, reaction, says a professor at Dalhousie University's Maritime School of Social Work.

"When we hear about girls being violent, it disrupts our conceptions of what it means to be a girl. Conventionally, girls are meant to be sugar and spice and all things nice," Marion Brown said.

That's not been the case this week, with three girls - two 16, one 15 - charged with aggravated assault in the brutal beating of a senior citizen Monday evening.

On Wednesday evening, girls ran rampant on Brunswick Street, according to Halifax Regional Police. At about 6:15 p.m., three females - aged 17, 18 and 24 - were assaulted by a group of teens aged 14 to 18.

"After they separated, one of the girls took her cellphone and called police and when the other group saw this, three of them came back and continued the assault," said Halifax Regional Police spokesman Const. Jeff Carr.

One victim was taken to hospital after being kicked in the head; another had her glasses broken.

A few hours later, five girls entered Jay's Convenience store and blatantly "helped themselves" to merchandise, said Carr.

The 67-year-old shopkeeper followed them down the street, where he was punched either by one of the girls or by a male who joined the gang.

Carr said the spike in girl crime "is not a brand-new trend, but it's relatively new."

One Canadian expert told CBC Radio that traditionally the ratio of crimes committed by boys compared with girls was 10-1 but it is now closer to 4-1.

Madonna Parris isn't surprised.

"Sad to say, it does sometimes come down that girls are just as capable of doing this as guys," said the Saint Mary's University student.

Parris, 20, might well have become one of those girls.

"I didn't have any sympathy for people who had money," she says of her early years in public housing.

At age 14, however, she joined Leave Out Violence (LOVE), a national anti-violence program. She's now a youth leader with the group in metro.

"Racism, sexism, classism absolutely shape the lives of the people we are talking about here," notes Brown, who interviewed 22 girls in foster care for her PhD thesis on the topic.

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