File photo: Omar Khadr. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HOConvicted terrorist Omar Khadr was transferred to a maximum-security prison in eastern Ontario on Saturday morning. The 26-year-old Canadian spent the past decade serving in the U.S.-run military prison of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Khadr was placed into a cell by himself in Millhaven Institution in Bath, Ont. The maximum-security prison for men includes a six-bunk facility — dubbed "Guantanamo North" by some — to hold suspected terrorists. But, until an assessment is made by Corrections Canada, it is not known if Khadr will be placed there.

"For his own security, that would make sense [to put Khadr in a maximum-security facility] but on the other hand there's no need for him to be placed in maximum security. He's been a model inmate in Guantanamo. Ask any guard," Khadr's layer Brydie Bethell told the Globe and Mail.

In 2002, Canadian-born Khadr was captured by U.S. officers in the rubble of a bombed out compound in

Former Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) CEO John Furlong makes a statement during a news conference in Vancouver Thursday.

Whatever the outcome of allegations that John Furlong has a hidden past as an abusive, possibly racist phys-ed teacher, the damage to the former Olympic kingpin's reputation is done.

History shows that people tainted by accusations, whether it's Michael Jackson's suspected pedophilia, Bill Clinton's serial womanizing or Peter MacKay's use of a search-and-rescue chopper as a taxi, can overcome them even if they're proven true.

But what happened to Furlong this week provides an object lesson in the perils of editing your past and why for people who rise to prominence in the wired world, full disclosure is always the best option.

The Irish-born Furlong was showered with honours after taking the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics from initial bid to triumphal climax as head of the Games organizing committee. He received the Order of Canada and was sought after for both business posts and political office.

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Since the

After polling more than 18,000 people, Denmark-based Reputation Institute ranked the world's 100 most reputable cities and released the results in a survey on Thursday.Reputation is everything — and Vancouver's is in very good shape.

After polling more than 18,000 people from the G8 countries, the Denmark-based Reputation Institute ranked the world's 100 most reputable cities and released the results in a survey on Thursday.

Determining factors included beauty, safety, cultural offerings and infrastructure.

Vancouver took top spot, beating out close competitors Vienna and Sydney. Toronto placed 22nd. Montreal wasn't far behind at 26.

"We believe that a factor in Vancouver's stature is our reputation as a city where all nationalities gather comfortably, where over 40 first languages are spoken in the average school, where perhaps 50 per cent of our population has English as a second language and in our having a deep-seated respect for varied religious views," Tourism Vancouver president Rick Antonson says in a statement accompanying the survey's release.

Vancouver was only seventh in the beauty rankings, following old-world architectural gems Venice,

The number of aboriginal women in prison has reached crisis levels, according to a new report by Public Safety.The number of aboriginal women behind bars has mushroomed to crisis proportions in Canada in the last decade, according to a report prepared for the federal Public Safety Department.

And while it didn't create the problem, the Conservative government's "tough on crime agenda" will make it worse, the report says, according to The Canadian Press.

The report, entitled Marginalized, was prepared by a consulting firm and released recently by Public Safety, CP reported.

It calls for "aggressive action" but was pessimistic the problem would be addressed.

"It is highly unlikely that the issues of such a marginalized population will receive the attention and resources necessary to even begin to address the multitude of issues," the report says.

[ Related: Aboriginal background must factor in sentencing: Supreme Court ]

"Absent political will, fundamental change will not occur within the system.  Furthermore, given the political climate of late, there is no indication that effective change for

The decriminalization of marijuana generated heated debate at this week's Union of B.C. Municipalities annual meeting in Victoria.The impact of a decision by British Columbia's civic leaders to support decriminalization of marijuana will be more symbolic than real.

The Union of B.C. Municipalities voted Wednesday for a resolution to push the federal government to decriminalize pot and research was to tax and regulate it.

It's the latest push from B.C. politicians to relax the law around pot. Previously, former mayors from across the political spectrum and former attorneys general have recommended decriminalization.

Marijuana activist Dana Larsen is also trying a back-door decriminalization tack, gathering names on a petition for a referendum under B.C. initiative legislation to change the provincial Police Act that would require police not to enforce the law against simple possession and use.

[ Related: B.C. pot advocate seeks petition on decriminalization ]

But the issue remains contentious in the home of B.C. Bud. Proponents hail the resolution but opponents argue decriminalization won't solve the problems

A Tim Hortons owner in Estevan, Saskatchewan, the province's eighth-largest city, can't seem to find enough staff to fill his roster.As unemployed workers all over North America struggle to find a job, at least one Saskatchewan employer appears to be experiencing the problem in reverse.

CBC News reports that a Tim Hortons owner in Estevan, the province's eighth-largest city, can't seem to find enough staff to fill his roster.

Dennis Willows blames the dearth of skilled service industry employees on competition from the nearby oil patch in Alberta.

"We're in a pretty desperate situation, in Estevan, and have been for the last couple of years now," he told the news network.

"We just don't have the workers in Canada," Willows said. "You would think ... people would be moving out here. But we don't see a lot of them."

Willows has started recruiting staff from as far away as Mexico, the Philippines and India to man the counters at his coffee shop and worries about finding enough people to hire before his second franchise location opens next month.

He told CBC a number of other business owners in the area have complained

Rob Ford's obsession with football may have come back to bite him on his hind quarters once again.

A member of the controversial Toronto mayor's staff approached the Ontario government last March to inquire about getting money to improve the football field at the high school where Ford coaches, the Toronto Star reported Thursday.

"They inquired about programs available for infrastructure projects such as this, but never submitted a formal application for funding," the unnamed official told the Star on Wednesday.

Ford coaches the Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School Eagles in suburban Etobicoke, as well as the Rexdale Raiders, a youth league team he set up that also practices on Don Bosco's field.

The Star said five Toronto sports fields got provincial infrastructure stimulus money but not Don Bosco, and that Ford's staffer called to ask about Don Bosco in particular.

[ Related: Toronto's Rob Ford the latest in a line of controversial, colourful Canadian mayors ]

The Star reported Ford,

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a bullied Nova Scotia teen's right to privacy trumps press freedoms.Privacy trumps press freedom, the Supreme Court decided today, at least when concerning a bullied minor.

A Nova Scotia teen, 17, was granted permission to pursue her bullies anonymously rather than risk additional torment by those who created a fake Facebook page to humiliate her.

"The case raised the question of whether the vulnerability of minors warrants special protection in what would otherwise be an open civil court proceeding," the Globe and Mail's Kirk Makin wrote.

The Supreme Court ruled that the interests of the vulnerable cyber-bullied teen came before the rights to the press to report freely on the case.

Read the ruling here.

"The critical importance of the open court principle and a free press has been tenaciously embedded in the jurisprudence," Madam Justice Rosalie Abella wrote for a 7-0 majority. "In this case, however, there are interests that are sufficiently compelling to justify restricting such access: privacy and the protection of children from cyber bullying."