BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Dialing back the propaganda and the emotional reaction to a report hailing from Iran a bit...
If one were to reread the story and insert that the Albertan authorities were social workers from child protective services then this story reads like so many genuine stories about children being separated from their parents by the capricious and utterly unaccountable acts of CPS workers.
Not to say that the story is true, but that the best fabrications all too often are constructed with elements of truth.

It'd be far better if CPS did not have such far reaching powers as they do.
My last contract was with Child Services in Alberta. You are quite far from being correct Bart. Child Services workers are sometime hampered from a lack of ability to remove children from truly awful conditions, sickeneing abuse, or the opposite - willful neglect.
Then there is the opposite end of the spectrum; a little girl in Manitoba was killed by her step dad, after Child Services lost contact with the little girl and her mother. That tale is truly sick; the workers had the ability to protect that child, they just didn't bother it seems.
http://www.winnipegsun.com/2012/12/10/phoenix-sinclair