Canadian News Update - New Media and politics

So word came out yesterday that Afghanistan is loaded with mineral riches. A trillion dollars worth or more. Now the US has spent 250 billion dollars in a war over there so far, so that means the return on their investment won't be fabulous but it does maybe explain why they'd fight for years and years in a vast ungovernable hellhole of a country famous for being the graveyard of empires. There's a pretty good chance that this was known to American intelligence some time ago.

Long after the fact, while the Afghan detainee talks go on and on (Parliament was given two weeks to settle this on April 27 by Peter Milliken or find the Tories in contempt) word comes that Canadian military officials wanted diplomat Richard Colvin to be pulled from his posting in Afghanistan because they didn't like what he was writing, documents show. The truth is always inconvenient to those who are in violation of the law. Canadian soldiers raised the issue six months after the Harper government boasted of improved safeguards for detainees, and were roundly ignored.