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17 December 2007

Oh no, Canada

What... we don't have enough real criminals in this country?
Bruce Montague is a good, honest, simple man. He is persuaded that he is right and that, therefore, he must win under the law.

He is the sort of man Henry David Thoreau was talking about in his On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: those "heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men," who "serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part."
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The double-edged immigrant dream
Police have arrested a labourer from Ecuador in the killing of a Mississauga housekeeper this fall. Figueroa is originally from Ecuador but had been living in Toronto. He was planning to leave for South America in a few days, English said.

Jocelyn Dulnuan was found dead in her living quarters at a mansion on Doulton Place on Oct. 1. Dulnuan, 27, came to Canada in November 2006, seeking work to support her fiancé and child in the Philippines.
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