A Canadian youth hockey team forfeited the rest of its season this week following social media backlash and death threats after a video surfaced of players dancing to music from an indigenous electronic group led to accusations they were mocking indigenous culture.

“We could not guarantee the safety of our players, the families and the teams that we were going to play against because of the threats that were made against the team,” Shane Kearney, a parent of one of the players on Fort McMurray Midget 'A' Junior Oil Barons in the Canadian province of Alberta, said in a Feb. 13 statement posted on Facebook.

The parents decided to forfeit the team’s remaining six games, and the team has also paid $2,100 in penalties for dropping out, the Calgary HeraldIn the Aman Ki Asha debate organized by the recently conceived Debating Societies of India and Pakistan on January 10 in New Delhi's Taj Palace's Durbar Hall - the distinguished panel supporting the state's role in promoting lasting peace between the two countries won the vote of about 200 people present at the debate. The opposing but equally illustrious panel could not persuade the audience or their debating counterparts of civil society's most critical importance in better promoting peace between India and Pakistan.

THE DEBATING brief for the two sides was, "Engagement between members of civil society is the most important factor in promoting a lasting peace between India and Pakistan." Till the very last word was said, both sides remained embroiled in defining civil society and its constituents