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Canada to hear appeal for Omar Khadr’s repatriation from Guantanamo

By David Parker

Canada’s Supreme Court will hear an appeal from the Canadian government of a lower court order to ask the United States to repatriate Canadian national Omar Khadr. Khadr is the only remaining citizen of a Western country detained at the infamous U.S. detention and torture centre, Guantanamo Bay. He was captured in 2002 in Afghanistan, [...]

Unembedded: An interview with Scott Taylor

By Erica Butler

 
 
Scott Taylor’s new book, Unembedded (Douglas & McIntyre, year), is a memoir of Taylor’s life as a soldier and journalist covering Canada’s military.  In a CKDU news/Halifax Media Coop interview, Taylor shares his perspective as an unembedded war reporter in Afghanistan and Iraq, and recounts the trials and tribulations of his magazine, Esprit de Corps, [...]