U.S. President George W. Bush is not the brightest kid on the block, but atleast he has a sense of humour.

"You can fool some of the people all of the time," Bush reportedly quippedat a Washington dinner, "and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."

The war on drugs in Colombia is a smokescreen that hides the true cause of the country's civil war, say members of a Canadian delegation that recently returned from the South American country.

"This is not a war on drugs, it's a war on people to take resources at their expense," said Rhonda Spence, president of CoDevelopment Canada, a Vancouver-based non-governmental organization that does development work in Latin America.

The Minga delegation - a group of thirty Canadian social activists, union leaders and members of the New Democratic Party (NDP) - spent two weeks in Colombia on a fact

Civil libertarians in Canada have criticized several different pieces of federal legislation over the past few months. The governing Liberals insist that these controversial laws are needed to fight organized crime and international terrorism.

Many critics, however, insist the government is acting like a dictatorial regime.