Thursday, April 08, 2004

Soldiers Choose Canada by Alisa Solomon: "Hughey did watch New York shut down Toronto in a fourth-quarter comeback that night--but on TV from St. Catharines, Ontario, where a Quaker couple has taken him in. He is the second American soldier who opposes the war to have applied for refugee status in Canada. As the occupation in Iraq drags on, morale among soldiers plummets, and talk of a post-election draft heats up, their cases will determine whether Canada will once again welcome young Americans resisting a questionable war. "