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the death ofDouglas Jung
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what happened in canada in 2002
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Canada officially re-establishes diplomatic relations with Afghanistan.
25 Official relations between Afghanistan and Canada did not occur immediately, but developed over time. Canadians involvement in Afghanistan dates back to the 1960s, with the creation of the first Canadian development assistance program to Afghanistan. As the need for greater coordination of efforts by development agencies working there grew, Ottawa decided to establish full diplomatic relations with Afghanistan in 1968. In 1971, Canadian aid to Afghanistan included 257 000 bushels of wheat, wh -
the death of Lucien Rivard
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Federal government allows stem cell research using human embryos
The stem cell controversy is the ethical debate primarily concerning the creation, treatment, and destruction of human embryos incident to research involving embryonic stem cells. Not all stem cell research involves the creation, use, or destruction of human embryos. For example, adult stem cells, amniotic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells do not involve human embryos at all -
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority is established
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) (French: Administration canadienne de la sûreté du transport aérien, or ACSTA) is a Canadian Crown corporation responsible for the security screening at the 89 designated airports in Canada. CATSA reports to the Government of Canada through the Minister of Transport, who is responsible to the Parliament of Canada. CATSA was officially formed April 1, 2002, following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. After Sept 11 -
During Bastille Day celebrations, Jacques Chirac is saved from an assassination attempt by a Canadian tourist
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A Senate committee rules that marijuana should be legalized in Canada
Canada\'s Justice Minister Martin Cauchon says that Canadian laws relating to marijuana could do with \"modernization.\" Although the Justice Minister doesn\'t plan to go so far as to make marijuana legal, he is expected to introduce legislation in 2003 to decriminalize the use and possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. In other words, the use and possession of small amounts of marijuana would remain illegal, but jail sentences and criminal records would be replaced with fine -
American officials deport Canadian citizen Maher Arar to Syria
Arar was detained during a layover at John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 on his way home to Canada from a family vacation in Tunis. He was held without charges in solitary confinement in the United States for nearly two weeks, questioned, and denied meaningful access to a lawyer. The US government suspected him of being a member of Al Qaeda and deported him, not to Canada, his current home, but to his native Syria, even though its government is known to use torture.