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Ottawa Star The Voice of New Canadians www.OttawaStar.com • March 1, 2014 • Volume 1, Issue 15
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Canadian kids can navigate a tablet before they can tie their laces: report
Government to create longer wait to become Canadian Strip citizenship from terrorists TORONTO—In the first major overhaul of the Citizenship Act in nearly four decades, the Conservative government vowed Thursday to tighten the rules for those who want to become Canadian, crack down on fraud and strip citizenship from dual nationals who engage in terrorism. The proposed changes were aimed at strengthening the value of Canadian citiContinued on page 11
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By Diana Mehta, The Canadian Press
By Michael Oliveira, The Canadian Press
No criminal T charge or conviction is needed for a government forfeiture
ORONTO—A global study of how young kids are using the Internet found Canadians were spending less time online and were less likely to have their own email address or social media account. Still, more of the three- to fiveyear-old Canadian children involved in the study knew how to use a mouse and
By Allison Jones, The Canadian Press
A man from North Bay, Ont., cannot reclaim $10,000 in suspected drug money that police seized after they found it in several wads stuffed in his pockets, a judge has ruled. Jason Paquette at various times told police the source of the money was none of their business, that it was to buy a car and that it was his savings, and explained he didn’t keep it in the bank because he didn’t want any of it taken for child support, the Ontario Superior Court judge wrote in his ruling. “I am not persuaded by Paquette’s explanation as to why he kept the money on his person,” Judge M. Gregory Ellies wrote. Continued on page 10
play computer games than ride a bike or write their name. The survey of more than 6,000 mothers in 10 countries was conducted by security software company AVG Technologies, which researched how kids between the ages of three to five and six to nine were engaged with the Internet. About 89 per cent of the kids in the older group were already Internet users, while the figure was one percentage
point higher in Canada. A whopping 97 per cent of the Brazilian kids and 96 per cent of the British children in that age bracket were familiar with the Internet. When the parents of the six- to nineyear-old kids were asked how long they allowed their children to go online the most common reply was between two to five hours a week (42 per cent), followed by less than two hours weekly (36 per cent), five to Continued on page 9
Two ex-Supreme Court judges offer conflicting views on Quebec’s proposed secular charter The Canadian Press
QUEBEC—Two former Supreme Court of Canada justices delivered conflicting views on Feb 7 on whether Quebec’s proposed secular charter would hold up in court. Louise Arbour, a member of Canada’s highest court from 1999 to 2004, wrote in a letter to Montreal La Presse
she firmly believes the Parti Quebecois government’s proposed charter violates the right to freedom of religion. Arbour, who also served as the UN high commissioner for human rights, wrote that the prohibition of wearing so-called conspicuous religious symbols will mainly target Muslim women who wear a head scarf. Continued on page 9
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