Arab League Arrives in Israel: Extends 'hand of peace'

JERUSALEM (AP) - Arab League envoys paid a historic visit to Israel on Wednesday to present a plan calling for a comprehensive regional settlement, saying they were extending "a hand of peace" on behalf of the Arab world.

The one-day visit by the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan marked the first time the 22-member group has sent representatives to Israel. The Arab League peace plan envisions full recognition of Israel in return for an Israeli withdrawal from lands captured in the 1967 Middle East war.

The visit highlights a dramatic change of direction for the Arab body, which actively pursued Israel's destruction after the Jewish state was created in 1948. The league refused to recognize Israel for decades afterward and suspended Egypt in 1979 for a decade after it become the first Arab state to make peace.

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Critics Say Ontario Ignored MultiCULTural Groups

TORONTO (CP) - A much anticipated auditor general's report into a series of year-end government grants to multicultural organizations with alleged ties to the Liberal party is expected to land on the premier's desk Thursday.

The so-called Liberal "slush-fund" issue brought legislative business to a halt for about two weeks last spring when it came to light that some $32 million in grants were doled out to ethnic groups, some with Liberal ties.


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No Translator - Set The Negro Child Molester Free To Molest Again

ROCKVILLE, Md. - Charges against a man accused of repeatedly raping and molesting a 7-year-old girl were dismissed last week because the court could not find an interpreter fluent in the suspect's native West African language.

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Gun Control is Bullshit

An excerpt from the show "Bullshit" where Penn & Teller discuss gun control. In light of the recent shooting rampage in Virgina they make some good points that gun control laws would not have prevented this tragedy.

Price hikes Make Profit for Jew Capitalists Rothmans Inc.

TORONTO - The Jewish owned Cigarette selling capitalists of Rothmans Inc. made a 15% rise in their Spring-Quarter profits, making a total of $33.8 million, a record influienced by raising prices for their products.

That's right. They are making money from killing you, and a lot of it.

LONDON FREE PRESS on Rothmans Inc.:
"Net income amounted to 50 cents a share in the company's first quarter ended June 30, compared with $29.3 million or 43 cents a share a year ago, the Toronto-based company said yesterday. Sales, net of excise duty and taxes, increased to $177.4 million from $162.9 million. Rothmans maintained its hearty quarterly dividend of 30 cents a share."

Man Must Still Pay Alimony Despite Lesbian Ex's Domestic Partnership

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has ordered a man to continue paying alimony to his ex-wife — even though she’s in a registered domestic partnership with another woman and even uses the other woman’s last name.
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Enforcing Rules For Capitalists

Canadians have read and heard much about the Conrad Black trial, but many missed an important point. That being: Would the former media baron and his co-defendants have been prosecuted with the same vigour here as we saw in the court in Chicago?

We'll see the role of the Canadian system in November when charges from the Ontario Securities Commission are heard.

We supposedly live next door to the land of "hard capitalism," but past cases leave us wondering if our misbehaving fat cats get away with more than theirs do.

A report entitled Corporate Governance in Canada and the United States: A Comparative View, produced by the Canada Institute of Washington's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, suggests just that.

The report discusses the Sarbanes-Oxley Act passed by the U.S. Congress in reaction to major corporate scandals of recent years. That legislation, which Canada lacks, provided clarity about responsibilities of top corporate people and penalties for non- compliance.

The report faults the "highly fragmented system in Canada -- with multiple provincial and territorial securities regulators, federal financial institution regulators, provincial and federal corporate laws, enforcement authorities at all three levels of government .

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