Ultra-left wing politician Amir Khadir is on the defensive over a picture on his kitchen table that shows him holding a gun and standing over Premier Jean Charest's dead body.

Quebec MNA Khadir defends picture showing dead Charest

Nima Machouf finds picture on their kitchen table that shows Khadir holding a gun and standing over Premier Jean Charest's dead body funny

Brian Daly, QMI Agency
First posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:33 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 03:32 PM EDT

MONTREAL — Ultra-left wing politician Amir Khadir is on the defensive over a picture on his kitchen table that shows him holding a gun and standing over Premier Jean Charest’s dead body.

The separatist Quebec Solidaire Leader and his wife both defended the image, currently being used as evidence against their daughter as she fights accusations of masterminding student violence.

The image is a doctored version of an 1830 painting by French artist Eugene Delacroix depicting the French Revolution of that year.

Khadir’s face is superimposed on the body of a revolutionary holding a musket. Charest’s face appears on the body of one of several dead men lying at Khadir’s feet.

Police snapped photos of the doctored painting last week as they raided Khadir’s home and arrested his daughter, Yalda Machouf Khadir, 19.

She spent five days in jail before a judge released her on $12,000 bail Tuesday.

As one of the world's leading international financial centres, Hong Kong has a major capitalist service economy characterised by low taxation and free trade. The currency, Hong Kong dollar, is the eighth most traded currency in the world as of 2010. Hong Kong was once described by Milton Friedman as the world’s greatest experiment in laissez-faire capitalism (Wikipedia)

Hundreds at risk of immigration ax
Phila Siu 
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Up to 1,000 Hongkongers who applied to emigrate to Canada may have to abandon their plans or reapply if the authorities there accept a proposal to scrap a backlog of pre-2008 applications.

A source close to the Canadian consulate in Hong Kong said currently there are fewer than 1,000 Hongkongers whose applications are still being processed.

The consulate can provide only “limited help” aside from passing a petition submitted by 80 Hongkongers and mainlanders in April to the country’s immigration department, the source said.

Strippers to be stripped of work visas: Kenney
By Jessica Hume ,Parliamentary Bureau

First posted: Monday, June 11, 2012 05:03 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, June 11, 2012 05:20 PM EDT
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OTTAWA – With the passage of its massive budget Bill C-38, the government says it will end giving work visas to foreign strippers once and for all.

In Opposition, Stephen Harper was against a Liberal program that effectively expedited work permits for foreigners intending to work in the adult entertainment industry.

Though the Conservatives trashed that program soon after taking office, roughly 100 of those visas have been renewed each year since 2006.

Toronto police are seen setting up a perimeter outside the Eaton Centre shopping mall in Toronto, following a shooting on June 2. (Victor Biro/Canadian Press)

2nd victim dies days after Eaton Centre shooting

Nixon Nirmalendran was left in grave condition with bullet wounds to his neck and chest after the shooting at the Eaton Centre on June 2. RICK MADONIK/TORONTO STAR

CBC News Posted: Jun 11, 2012 9:02 PM ET Last Updated: Jun 12, 2012 9:12 AM ET
Toronto police are seen setting up a perimeter outside the Eaton Centre shopping mall in Toronto, following a shooting on June 2. (Victor Biro/Canadian Press)

A man has succumbed to injuries he suffered during the deadly food court shooting that took place in Toronto’s Eaton Centre on June 2.

Toronto police say 22-year-old Nixon Nirmalendran died Monday evening. Police previously said he had suffered “multiple gunshot wounds” in the food court attack.

The shooting, which occurred on a Saturday night when the mall and the north-end food court was packed with shoppers, also claimed the life of 24-year-old Ahmed Hassan.

Police have alleged that Hassan, the shooter and Nirmalendran, were members of the same gang. However, investigators do not believe the shooting at the Eaton Centre was gang-motivated.

Five other people survived gunshot injuries, including a 13-year-old boy who was wounded in the head. The teen was released from hospital on Sunday.

Police have charged Christopher Husbands, 23, of Toronto, with one count of first-degree murder and six counts of attempted murder.

Husbands turned himself in to police in the early hours of June 4. Police announced the charges against him hours later.

Man shot outside north end restaurant
CBC – 1 hour 35 minutes ago

The victim was shot near Jane Street and Wilson Avenue.

Police are investigating after a 31-year-old man was shot as many as 10 times outside a restaurant near Jane Street and Wilson Avenue.

The victim was confronted by another man in the parking lot of the Frontline Sugar Restaurant,at 1906 Wilson Avenue, just after 10 p.m.

The man was rushed to hospital and is reported to be in stable condition.

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Police say their investigation is in the early stages but have described the suspect as black 24-25, wearing a grey T-shirt and Capri jeans. They have not released the name of the victim.