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A32 I NEWS I THEPR0VINCE.COM CANADA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2008 Election, protesters cited as defence trade show axed There was no significant difference between the health and cognitive behaviour of those women's children and the children of women between the ages of 25 and 29, said the agency. The report found children of older mothers shared similar timing with respect to saying their first word and taking their first step and had similar average scores in physical aggression, emotional disorder and anxiety, and hyperactivity and inattention. CNS STATISTICS CANADA Older moms on the rise OTTAWA More Canadian women are delaying childbirth well into their 30s, but that doesn't mean that babies born to older women are less healthy than those born to younger women, according to Statistics Canada. The federal agency said the percentage of first-bom children of mothers aged 35 and older nearly tripled from four per cent in 1987 to 1 1 per cent in 2005. BY DAVID PUGLIESE doesn't seem too threatening." But conference organizer Rick Tachuk said Ottawa police had warned there could be civil disobedience outside the event.

"We had a security budget but this far, far surpassed any reasonable expectation of what would be required," he added. A defence industry official said the cost was more than $80,000. But officials with the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Canada organization, one of three events taking place under the Secure Canada umbrella, blamed the cancellation on a recendy issued government decree. "This cancellation relates to the federal election currently under way and restrictions placed on senior government officials participating in public conferences," noted the press release from AFCEA Canada. Chief of Defence Staff Gen.

Walt Natynczyk was to have delivered the keynote address. But the Privy Council Office recently launched an unprecedented clamp-down on government business during the federal election. Ottawa Citizen CANWEST NEWS SERVICE The threat of civil disobedience at a defence trade show originally scheduled for next week in Ottawa was the reason for the event being shut down, according to one of its organizers. But others who planned to take part in the two-day event blame a Privy Council Office edict that prevents senior military officers and Defence Department officials from taking part in various aspects of Secure Canada 2008 because of the federal election. And one of the co-ordinators of a disarmament group opposed to Secure Canada 2008 says the trade show's officials are using protesters as scapegoats.

"I think they're totally exaggerating any kind of threat that we posed," said Richard Sanders of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. "Our main thing was a candlelight peace vigil. That Natural Looking Make-up that lasts for 1-3 years. Your eyes will seem brighter, your eyebrows perfect, your lips fuller, and you will look beautiful 24 hours a day. "Our main thing was a candlelight peace vigil.

That doesn't seem too threatening' Richard Sanders, of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade "We had been notified by the City of Ottawa police that they had picked up intelligence on a potential security threat on the event and they brought this to our attention," he said. "This came as a total shock to us." Tachuk said the cost of providing security around the event would have been prohibitive. He declined to discuss security costs but did say event organizers are responsible for paying. X. Hit! -v IcaHQlH i mm hhhmmm Holland America Line Prices INCLUDE roundtrip air, hotel, taxes fuel surcharges WW 9 NIGHTS Nov.

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