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Ottawa to offer Omar Khadr apology, $10-million in compensation Robert Fife OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF — The Globe and Mail Published Monday, Jul. 03, 2017 10:00PM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Jul. 04, 2017 6:28PM EDT The Trudeau government is poised to offer an apology and a $10-million compensation package to former child soldier Omar Khadr for abuses he suffered while detained in the U.S. military prison for captured and suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2010 that the actions of federal officials who participated in U.S. interrogations of Mr. Khadr had offended “the most basic Canadian...

November 18, 2002 The Report Alberta farmers go to jail to fight the Canadian Wheat Board over freedom, private property and justice by Candis McLean IN the living room of his spacious farm home southwest of Red Deer, Alta., Jim Chatenay stands surveying the intricately carved ivory chess set given his great-grandfather, a president of Switzerland, by the king of Siam. It is a few days before Mr. Chatenay, 59, is due to turn himself in to security officers, one of 13 Alberta farmers who chose to go to jail to protest coercion by the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). "It's...