The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Ottawa - Sexually explicit movies could be outlawed and museums left in turmoil under a federal bill to protect children from sexual exploitation, a group of artists says. The group wants the artistic-merit defence left in Bill C-20, so artists' works don't become the subjects of kiddie porn lawsuits. If the bill passes without changes, movies such as The Boys of St. Vincent might never be produced, says Megan Williams, national director of the Canadian Conference of the Arts. Monteal - Lawyers for suspected terrorist Adil Charkaoui argued Wednesday the federal government is violating international law and the Constitution by holding him without charges under secret evidence. Charkaoui, 30, was arrested and detained in May on a rarely used security certificate after the federal government declared him a threat to national security. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has said Charkaoui is a sleeper agent who should be deported to his native Morocco because he could be activated to carry out attacks at any time. Ottawa - Immigrant men working full time saw their real earnings fall by seven per cent between 1980 and 2000 even though they had more education than their Canadian-born counterparts, says Statistics Canada. During the same period, the earnings of Canadian-born men rose by seven per cent.
