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...good as it used to be, but she still musters enough wit for biting ripostes. Josefina has served rich coffee and even richer company over the 48 years that she owned Café Pamplona, playing host to writers, students, locals and luminaries. (She sold it to a young Canadian couple last week.) The café, “my little coffeehouse in Cambridge,” as she fondly calls it, will not be the same without her behind its counter.America, however, just might be. “This is a lonely country. When you go to Pamplona?...
Americans are less healthy than Canadians and have poorer and less accessible healthcare despite spending about twice as much on it per capita, according to a study published by three Harvard Medical School scientists last week. The authors, HMS instructor Karen E. Lasser and assistant professors Stephanie J. Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein, concluded that Americans suffer more from chronic illnesses and obesity than Canadians, are less likely to have one regular doctor, and are almost twice as likely to forego medicine they need because they cannot afford it. The authors also found that Canadians saw smaller disparities in healthcare...
Amid unconfirmed reports that the 17 men and boys arrested in Toronto over the weekend aimed to bomb the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa and office towers in downtown Toronto, Canadians are still breathing a sigh of relief that the Mounties - along with other police and intelligence agents - appear to have got their men. But there are still fears about what threats may remain undiscovered. Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, responsible for the Canadian Intelligence and Security Service and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said there could be more arrests coming as the investigation continues...
...Meanwhile, Canadians are wrestling with the shock of finding an alleged terror plot on their own soil, and debating what it may mean for Canada's role in the war on terror. Michael Wilson, the Canadian ambassador to the U.S., was quick to assert that Canada is on top of its domestic security threats, and to dispute New York Senator Peter King?s suggestion that there is ?a disportionate number of Al-Qaeda in Canada because of their very liberal immigration laws." In fact, since most of the young men arrested were born or grew up in Canada, this appears...
...Parliament, says he was invited to speak last year at a mosque in the suburb of Mississauga, where several of the young men now charged were members. Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, the oldest of those charged, was a volunteer in the mosque and introduced Khan, in the process accusing Canadian soldiers of going to Afghanistan to rape Muslim women. Khan says he defended the Canadian military, and many of the people gathered were also offended by Jamal?s comments But his story raises questions about the ways in which young Canadians could be influenced by those with extremist views. Notes...