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here's a Service Canada link to all the topics the gov't of Canada participates in.

over 150 topics and that's just the federal gov't. most the local things you see daily are provincial or municipal.

It directly reflects how the government works, what else would you expect?

A decade behind the population, complicated as hell, and you are worse off for interacting with it. If anyone asks you: "how does the government work?" simply point them to that site.

Same with:
http://www.usa.gov/
http://canada.gc.ca/

Oh, it's quite easy...

Go find your MP:
http://canada.gc.ca/directories/direct_e.html

Bitch them out.

I don't know about where you live, but here you don't have to file income tax unless the government asks you to file for a specific year or unless you owe the government money (note that I didn't say "unless you know you owe the government money" -- not knowing is not a defense against not filing).

Thus, if like most people you have a job which deducts income tax automatically from your paycheque (that's "paycheck" for speakers of American), you don't have to file (as long as the two rules above are met). However, not filing causes you to miss out on your (usually ~$100 minumum) GST rebate, among others I think.

The above applies to individuals, not corporations. I am not an accountant or lawyer, so YMMV.

There is, it's right here:

http://canada.gc.ca/directories/direct_e.html

A quick search for "Canada Federal Government" and the click the link for "Your MP" gets you there. It wasn't exactly hidden.

That being said, you point of view may actually count for something if you show up at your MP's office. Emails pretty much get stop responses back.

If you refuse to see the ads, you should find your content on another website.

I take it, then, that you will never:

• Go to the bathroom during a commercial
• Change the radio station when the songs switch to ads
• Skip previews when you rent a DVD
• Read a newspaper without examining every advertisement
• Skip a non-articled page while flipping through a magazine

I mean, you wouldn't want to be exploiting those providers by not viewing their advertisements, would you? Somehow, you're asserting that advertisers/providers have a right to force you to look at them.

Just like downloading music on a p2p system is a violation of copyright law.

What a broad generalization. Ever tried getting some legal tunes from indie artists? Or being in a country that allows downloading music?

You have no social right to listen to that music.

Yes, but your analogy is nothing close to that. A more appropriate analogy would be purchasing an album by $BAND and being forced to listen to $TRACK1_ADVERTISING_SPIEL_FOR_3:00 each time you attempted to play the disc.

If you're really concerned, write to the opposition party leaders and/or their shadow cabinet representatives as well. I am uncertain how to get this information directly, so I send it to the opposition party leaders.

http://canada.gc.ca/directories/direct_e.html

Your voice DOES MATTER IN CANADA. People will pay attention. Write something.

Toronto is in Ontario ...

Canada as eleven province and two territory ... I think , not sure if Yukon did not become a province too ...

Alberta (Edmonton)
Nunavut (Iqaluit)
British Columbia (Victoria)
Ontario (Toronto)
Manitoba (Winnipeg)
Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown)
New Brunswick (Fredericton)
Quebec (Québec)
Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John's) Saskatchewan (Regina)
Northwest Territories (Yellowknife)
Yukon (Whitehorse)
Nova Scotia (Halifax)

http://canada.gc.ca/othergov/prov_e.html

http://canada.gc.ca/othergov/prov_f.html

Toronto is in Ontario ...

Canada as eleven province and two territory ... I think , not sure if Yukon did not become a province too ...

Alberta (Edmonton)
Nunavut (Iqaluit)
British Columbia (Victoria)
Ontario (Toronto)
Manitoba (Winnipeg)
Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown)
New Brunswick (Fredericton)
Quebec (Québec)
Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John's) Saskatchewan (Regina)
Northwest Territories (Yellowknife)
Yukon (Whitehorse)
Nova Scotia (Halifax)

http://canada.gc.ca/othergov/prov_e.html

http://canada.gc.ca/othergov/prov_f.html

... Greenland which is/was an autonomous region of Denmark. Sort of like Canada and the UK.

Actually, Canada is not an autonomous region of the UK at all. Canada ceased being a part of the UK in 1867. Canada does happen to share the same monarch as the UK, but she does so as the "Queen of Canada." Canada is also a member nation of The Commonwealth , but this does not make us a region of the UK.

• Current conditions
• "EnviroZine" (Environment Canada's online magazine, with past issues)
• Media releases archive
• Educational crap
• More resources for teachers
• Sea ice conditions
• Laws and acts regarding meteorology
• Climate history (but unavailable on the weekend)
• Water data archive
• City records
• Many more archives!

Please note that most of the time the above linked pages state "CDROM", there is a link near to an ISO! (e.g. the line For those with a high speed Internet connection a HYDAT CD-ROM image (105MB ZIP) is available for download.")

I trust that most, if not all, of those reading this post realize that this constitutes an advanced stage of the death of the Original Series, if not the ideals that it stood for. The final movement began, naturally, with the death of Gene Roddenberry, and entered the final downward slide with the subsequent death of DeForest Kelley. Furthermore, we all recognize that Scotty was the first among equals of the non-Kirk-Spock-McCoy segment of the original cast. Mr. Doohan, we hardly knew ye. Thank you for representing my country on the beaches of Normandy. I hope that I and mine shall not neglect your sacrifice in days to come.

Let's not forget another Canadian technological triumph, the Avro Arrow.

According to the most reliable sources I've been able to find, the Avro Arrow...

1. Was the first fly-by-wire aircraft.
2. Was the first MACH2+ production aircraft.
3. Invented baseball.
4. Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
5. Made the Kessel Run in under twelventeen parsecs, provided that it got a good night's sleep and a running start.
6. Actually did know that a parsec is a unit of distance rather than time, but, being Canadian, was too polite to point out the error.
7. Ran Linux.
8. Was assembled entirely using those Robertson things.

I like your fight-the-power anarchist rage and all, but MY country makes a LOT of tangible products. And movies don't cost us $6 here, and I was mostly being funny in the parent post, so mellow out dude and smoke some semi-legal Canadian weed and enjoy your freedom to do so.

Sorry, no way. People who amass collections of in excess of 1,000 mp3s (of songs they do not posses on CD) are by no stretch of the imagination "victims".

I mean: people seem blind to the fact that by moving jobs overseas, yes, they're lowering their bottom line, but they're ALSO PUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF WORK.

i.e. One job lost, one job gained. Yes, the person getting the job is making less money, but the stuff they get to buy is less overpriced. So people are still getting paid, products are still getting bought.

The problem (in your eyes) is that people here are losing jobs because someone else can offer the same service cheaper. Uhhh...free market, hello? NAFTA? World trade? Those weren't India's ideas.

This is when it's your job to INNOVATE. Free Software means you can start up your new company with very little capital, in your basement. Use all those free software tools to design a nifty little gadget, patent it, go nuts. Shoot a movie like The Blair Witch, write an album like The Strokes. Be an American. Shape up. Do something they haven't. It's unamerican to whine about other's good fortune, but you wouldn't guess it now (did everyone else miss the irony that you shat on the country that gave you the damn Statue of Liberty for exercising their free (as in libre) choice to not fight in a war they didn't believe in?).

But greed is the key, right?
YOUR greed to hang onto your cushy job when someone else can do it cheaper, apparently. You made your free market, now lie in it.

I'll continue to live in my Socialist Paradise where the Government employs people to write Free Software while your military foots the bill it. I love it.

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I'm Canadian, and I know there are lot of Canadians who also share the same ignorance/lack of information on how our Canadian government works but I hope this helps:

The Canadian Alliance is the "Opposition party" or the group of elected individuals in our House of Commons (sorta like the House of Representatives in the states). The difference in our elected officials is that we have more than just two large parties. There's the Liberal Party of Canada, NDP, PC Party of Canada and other parties like the Green Party, The Communist party, etc. (I don't have their URLs, but I'm sure google would help)

To better understand Canadian government, check this out: Structure of the Government of Canada

The Minister of Canadian Heritage is this person named Sheila Copps who is in charge of keeping Canadian Culture 'Canadian'. A lot of people don't like what she does as a lot of times it removes freedoms from the people of Canada and makes things more expensive (our taxes pay for her position and her policies/ideas).

To answer your actual question: Is this one individual overruling a lobbying type group or a governmental group?
The bill became law despite the Canadian Alliance fighting against it.

The actual place to find MP's emails is here. Imagine that, an editor not checking the links.

The actual place to find MP's emails is here. Imagine that, an editor not checking the links.

Baby, you ain't seen nothing if you think that single party control results in problems down south. If you want to know just how bad it can get with single party rule under different supposedly democratic systems, look no farther than this government.

Sure democracy in the USA has it's problems, but Winston Churchill's quote about democracy is particularly apt in your case.

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Ah! I'm in a far away country wich they have never heard of! No way they'll get me!

> they feel the military is their future.

To be honest, look at the strings the IMF and WTO have on their loans to developing nations. Unless suddenly the system has a change of heart, I firmly believe that the military has to be the future of where all the power is centralized.

Yes, it sounds like flame bait. I wish it wasn't this way, but as I see it from up here, the multinationals (and I'm putting Canada in with the US here, so I'm not dissing) are setting themselves up for a rough ride in the future. It's simply a matter of where power resides. If we're determined to center it all on this continent ... well, lets just say that visibilty breeds criticism, and it's only those who are growing in wealth who can't afford to aknowledge it.

It's somewhat ironic, because the space program owes its successes (and failures .. know about that first planned US rocket to outer space?) to the cold war. And now it's being obliterated, in order to deal with the Cold War v2 (aka, terrorism). Anyone want to read into the increased funding of nuclear propulsion?

Government of Canda

Alrighty that url above shows two 'flag symbols' that I can see them having problems with if in fact they were the 'flag symbol' described in the writeup.

I can't seem to find a pic of what they actually had there that was taken away.

On the top left we have the 'stylized flag -Government of Canada' logo and on the right, the 'Canada' with a flag flying from the 'd'

This is the icon referenced as a trademark with the 'Canadian Intellectual Property Office' at this URL:
Industry Canada?

It's worth noting that this last site, at the top, displays the 'stylized flag - Industry Canada' icon and the Government wide 'Canada' icon with the flag flying from the 'd' and over the 'a'

These marks are widely used and recognized - this has nothing to do with displaying the flag.

Thanks for your time :-)

It's a ptetty big initiative, but they are making a lot of progress. It's looking like every taxpayer is going to have a government issue PKI key.

Globalization is only another word for fascism. People are starting to realize that Americans are all nothing more than oversexed perverts, and they want nothing to do with us. I blame it all on Slashdot.

These things are what allow projects like xine and LiViD to exist with a relative lack of legal molestation.

xine doesn't include CSS support by default. You can get a version of Xine with libcss support at the Xine resource page (along with a DXR3-enabled version, if you have that card). OMS links to libcss as well. So neither program actually includes it, but they link to it. As well, LiVid developer Matt Pavlovich was charged under the DMCA in California court for distributing DeCSS - strange, since he isn't a California citizen, and he was really (as far as I can tell) distributing css-auth, the non-ripper version of the CSS decryption scheme.

The DMCA itself is strictly an AMERICAN law and has no jurisdiction * anywhere * else in the world.

What worries me is that DMCA-like laws may be quietly pushed into force in other nations, like my own, which tends to bend over for any large US entity that tries to lean on it. In Canada, it would be even worse; we have no system of "fair use" up here, only a very strictly defined system known as "fair dealing", which basically says the copyright holder can set whatever limits they want on use of their work, and anything else in infringement. Just posessing DeCSS/css-auth could be very quickly made illegal up here.