Word: canadianism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Talk about a story with legs. Back in February, the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games were rocked by allegations that Canadian pairs skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier had been robbed of their rightful gold medal. Both pairs were eventually given gold, but by then the scandal had outraged the world - Oh, the shock of it! Dirty dealings in figure skating! Eventually, interest waned, until this week's exciting tidbit emerged: the Russian mob may have been behind the Olympic scandal from the start. So for resurrecting this tale of ignominy, our person of the week is Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov...
...years, U.S. citizens living in northern border states from Maine to Washington have been slipping into Canada to pick up prescription drugs at cut-rate prices. The Senate passed a proposal last week that would make it easier to ship Canadian drugs directly to the U.S. But opposition from the drug industry is fierce, and Washington handicappers give the measure little chance of becoming...
...easy to see why. Canadian price controls and the weak Canadian dollar mean that popular prescription drugs in Canada can be 35% to 80% less expensive than their U.S. counterparts. "I've heard stories of entire condominium complexes in Florida that order their drugs from Canadian websites," says Billy Shawn, founder of TheCanadianDrugStore.com...
...this legal? It's debatable. Although the U.S. has not yet cracked down on the practice, Canadian authorities are starting to. Officials in the province of Ontario laid charges against TheCanadianDrugstore.com last May for, among other things, operating as an unlicensed pharmacy. (The company, undeterred, moved key operations to British Columbia.) And because patients are buying outside the law, they have no recourse if they get sent the wrong drugs or second-rate counterfeits...
...like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and helping build their military capability. But Israeli intelligence sources tell TIME that during Israel's invasion of Hebron two weeks ago, officials arrested a Hizballah operative who was planning a potentially devastating strike within Israel. The officials say the operative, a Lebanese-born Canadian man known as Abu Ahmed, had been scouting locations for large-scale attacks similar to a failed bomb attempt at a gas depot in May that would have demolished a residential neighborhood in Tel Aviv. Abu Ahmed's arrest, combined with news last month that a 35-year-old Israeli...