In June, chief commissioner of Scouts Canada Steve Kent admitted the organization did not handle incidents of abuse with 'the rigour we would expect.'Scouting was one of the pillars of 20th-century society in North America. Young boys (and girls who joined Girl Guides) were schooled in traditional values of honesty, kindness, respect for law and being helpful to others.

Scouting's motto is "Be Prepared." But the century-old institution seemed unprepared, or perhaps unwilling, to deal with the infiltration of pedophiles into its ranks.

The court-ordered release Thursday of thousands of pages of internal documents — known as the Perversion Files — from the Boy Scouts of America's archives has exposed the organization's inability to deal with sexual predators within the organization.

The 1,200 confidential files were made public following a ruling by the Oregon Supreme Court in collection with a suit by an abuse victim. The Boy Scouts had fought to keep the documents under wraps. According to The Associated Press, the files date almost as far back as the founding of the U.S. scouting organization in 1910.

The files, which have been

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CBC Marketplace has confirmed what many of us have been suspecting for some time: Dental costs and recommended procedures vary widely across the country.

A CBC researcher named Theresa visited 20 dentists' offices, small and large, across Toronto and Vancouver. Upon tallying the recommended treatments, Theresa found she had been quoted dental procedures ranging from $114 to $11,931.

Prior to her visits, dental experts suggested "only a few cleanings and possibly a crown," CBC reported. This didn't stop dentists from recommending everything from night guards to root canals and complete "smile makeovers" involving expensive veneers.

Dentist and author of Confessions of a Former Cosmetic Dentist, Dr. Michael Zuk of Red Deer, Alberta, told the news program that dentists often gravitate to the veneers as a "cure-all" solution, partially for economic reasons, "trying to make $30,000 to $40,000 in cases that really don't need the treatment."

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Nunavut's Department of Education told the CBC that the social media sites were burning through so much bandwidth people couldn't even access their email anymore.Think about how much time you spend online, for whatever your reasons. You probably feel the Internet has become such an indispensable part of our day-to-day functioning that it's difficult to imagine how you would get on without it.

In fact, many of us are so hooked to our digital habits, we seek out WiFi hotspots and Internet cafés while on vacation, perhaps even believing that there's nowhere left in the world where a boss' email can't find us.

That's not true, of course. Particularly in locales with limited bandwidth resources. That's why, as CBC News reports, schools in Nunavut are now blocking Facebook and YouTube access from their computers.

The reason? Nunavut's Department of Education told the news network that the social media sites were burning through so much bandwidth people couldn't even access their email anymore.

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While the news has surprisingly been met with approval by students, it's the teachers who have

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A jury found an Ontario man, unnamed due to a publication ban, guilty of sexually assaulting the preteen daughter of his landlords for almost a year.

Convicted of five counts of sexual assault, he was sentenced to 30 months in prison.

A twist in the story, however, helped him win an appeal of that sentence, the Toronto Star reports.

Before sexual assault allegations were made against the man, in his 40s, he was riding in a car with the victim's mother. A horrible accident left him a quadriplegic.

The victim testified through video statements that she had told her mother of one incidence of the repeated assaults — over the course of a year, groping escalated to oral and anal sex —prior to the accident, but wasn't taken seriously and refrained from telling her mother of any further incidents.

It wasn't until the man sued the girl's family for $6 million in damages following the accident that the sexual assault allegations surfaced.

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Sri Lankan Tamil community members shout slogans against the Tamil Nadu attack on Sri Lankan pilgrims on September 6, 2012. REUTERS/Dinuka LiyanawatteThe bloody, decades-long ethnic war in Sri Lanka has been over for three years but its after-effects still ripple through the Tamil diaspora around the world, especially in Canada, a haven for thousands who fled the bitter conflict.

The National Post reports the Canada Border Services Agency is asking the Immigration and Refugee Board to order the deportation of a Sri Lankan refugee who's lived in Canada for 15 years on grounds he was a bag man for the terrorist Tamil Tigers.

"I can confirm that the CBSA has requested an admissibility hearing for a person they believe is inadmissible to Canada, as there are reasonable grounds to believe the individual was or is a member of the World Tamil Movement, and as a member engaged in fundraising for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam,"  Faith St. John, a CBSA spokeswoman in Vancouver, told the Post.

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The man's name has not been released because of

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PTSD symptoms can manifest in police officers, professionals who contend with violence, death and risks to their own safety on a daily basis.If you've ever suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), you know how devastating and debilitating it can be.

PTSD is an anxiety disorder that can set in after the experience of a traumatic event, particularly when the event involved bodily harm or death.

Though individual cases vary, symptoms can range between constant flashback episodes, emotional numbness and even physical manifestations like dizziness or a quickened heart rate. Depression is an unfortunately all-too-common result.

And though it can strike anyone, certain professions lend themselves more freely to PTSD incidents. Imagine a soldier returning from combat or the firefighters who responded to calls at the World Trade Centre buildings on 9/11.

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Naturally, these symptoms also manifest in police officers, professionals who contend with violence, death and risks to their own safety on a daily basis.

The Toronto Star has run an

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A visit to Iran by two former First Nations chiefs from Manitoba, where they slammed Canada's treatment of aboriginals, has created the predictable backlash at home.

Terry Nelson and Dennis Pashe made the rounds in Tehran, culminating in a lengthy interview on the Iranian television outlet Press TV.

Nelson, who Press TV described as "the top Chief of Canada Aboriginals," told the audience he and Pashe were pressured not to make the trip.

"But we were pretty clear that the dehumanization, the demonization of the Iranian people has been one of the facts of Western media and we understand that because we too have also met with the crusader," he said, according to an article on the Press TV web site.

The trip is notable because of the deep diplomatic rift between Canada and Iran mainly over the Islamic state's

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Justin Hutchings is an example of the law of unintended consequences.

He's been fired from his job with a London, Ont., clothing store after posting an intentionally cruel comment on a Facebook page dedicated to Amanda Todd, the Vancouver-area teen who killed herself after years of bullying in school and cyberspace.

According to the Toronto Star, Calgary mother Christine Claveau spotted Hutchings' post — "Thank God this bitch is dead" — and emailed his employer, Mr. Big & Tall Menswear, to complain.

"Our company ethics are based on tolerance, respect and fair and honourable treatment of all individuals, internally, with our customers and the population as a whole," Kamy Scarlett, senior vice-president store operations and corporate human resources of the store's parent company, Grafton-Fraser Inc., told the Star.

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