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What you mean is this: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/a... Good informal advice too. A look at the mechanism at work is provided here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

> How is the government not concerned about corporate espionage, terrorism, and other criminal activity, you'd think from a security standpoint, they would want encryption to be legit.

Because such measures limits the capacity of the government to conduct corporate espionage, terrorism, and other criminal activity?

There was some resistance to metrication in Canada.

The metrication of gasoline and diesel fuel sales in 1981 prompted 37 Progressive Conservative Members of Parliament to open a "freedom to measure" gas station in Carleton Place, Ontario, selling gas in both imperial gallons and litres. The small city of Peterborough, Ontario, was a noted hotbed of opposition to metrication, having been one of the government's three test centres for the metrication process. Bill Domm, a Member of Parliament representing the riding of Peterborough, was one of the country's most outspoken opponents of metrication. During this period, a few government employees lost their jobs for their opposition to metrication.[2] One official with Revenue Canada who publicly opposed mandatory metric conversion was dismissed for "conduct unacceptable for a public servant."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

CBC has a video about it:

http://www.cbc.ca/archives/cat...

If i visit one of your national parks or other scenic natural areas under their purview, and i'm taking family photos if this will be just another way the united states government shakes down tourists for cash.

Bill Gated did NOT "put a pc in every home." The big barrier to putting computers in every home was price - when a hobby computer (pre IBM PC era) cost $6k and up (and a car cost less), only people who were seriously interested would have one.

The manufacturers of PC clones were what started the trend to "a pc in every home," with lower prices. As did the game consoles of the era, which were most people's first real contact with something "computer-ish".

Also, the threat to "move jobs to Canada" has been made before. They use that when they've already decided that some jobs should be moved elsewhere, so that they can get some free leverage. But threatening to move jobs to Vancouver? Someone making $150k simply won't be able to afford housing - not in Vancouver where you can't tell the difference between a million-dollar home and a crack house.

Oh, and the income tax differential means that $150k US salary doesn't leave as much to take home as $200k in Canada.

Enough power for about two modest homes, assuming a storage system somewhere. The "12kW/day" in the story title is usual green-hype exaggeration intended to fool those wishing to be fooled.

The 25% efficiency claim is interesting. Better than real-world PVs by 6-7%. Actually utilizing all of the claimed capabilities (heat, desalination, power) is not going to be a passive, low-maintenance operation; this is a utility scale product.

Still, probably a lot better than igniting birds.

How about penalizing clothing manufacturers unless they make certain amount of clothing in Canada with a Canadian theme.

You've been listening to the CBC again. Link is to an excellent Canadian comedy show, by the way, that I'm sure would survive even without CanCon protection.

IMO, wave power is just too random. Tidal power is predictable, and can be harnessed both on the rise and the fall of the tides. Just think about havesting the flow of the Bay of Fundy!

Yes. Just think about it.

I seem to recall a news story from a few years ago where they'd tried to put wave power in the Bay of Fundy, where the highest tides in the world are.

OpenHydro -- the Irish company which installed the world's first 1-megawatt tidal turbine in the Bay of Fundy -- and its partner Nova Scotia Power deployed the 10-tonne turbine on the floor of the Minas Passage in November 2009.

Then just 20 days later, all 12 turbine rotor blades were destroyed by tidal flows that were two and a half times stronger than for what the turbine was designed.

Basically, the tides destroyed the machinery in three weeks or so.

So, yes, there's plenty of mechanical energy to harvest. The problem is that it might also be stronger than the stuff you've built.

R O T F L M A O (you really are a transsexual freak) http://i.cbc.ca/1.2529772.1391...

In Marketplace’s undercover investigation, a Karachi call centre supervisor was caught on camera reassuring a new hire that they can’t be caught.

"There is no need to worry," he says. "The customer will not be able to report us. They can’t trace us."

Employees are also told to say they’re calling from Ontario, and the callers used fake names.

They know that they're lying. They know they're running scams. Screw them.

Hey look, an article about Canada! I wonder if some ignorant racist english dude decided to randomly bash Quebec for no reason...

No reason? You mean the massive corruption inquiry going on right now? How about the other ones in Montreal, or Hull, I can keep going man. Let's point out the rest, my comment wasn't racist. Quebec isn't a race, it might be considered a segment of Canadian culture however. If you don't think there isn't massive corruption going on in that province, you either have never lived there, or don't know anyone who lives there now. Even your died in the wool Quebecker will tell you exactly how corrupt it is: "Very."

The link is bad. American shakedown: Police won't charge you, but they'll grab your money

You'd think series like Street Hawk and Knight Rider would be fiction, but it seems the goold old US of A is crazier than fiction.
Cops steeling money (and other objects too) from honest citizens. Good god. What a cesspool of a country.

The link in the article is cut off and gives a 404. Here is the correct link:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/a...

The link is bad. American shakedown: Police won't charge you, but they'll grab your money

Yes, because in the U.S. you'd never have for-profit prisons, civil forfeiture, or even outright cops stealing cash under the pretence of fighting crime.

The U.S. certainly wouldn't have issues with police beating minorities or killing them, leading to riots. They wouldn't have a growing number of cases of false imprisonment, or police militarization

http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yo...

51% of the Canadian population has attended post-secondary education. That means most Canadians had to perform fairly well in their science classes, and in University, were probably forced to take at least a few science courses even if they were in an unrelated field.

I found this question on their measure of scientific literacy. See page 77,
"The universe began with a huge explosion".
They marked it as correct if you answered "true".
sigh.

Also, I found a weird one:
"listened to a science program on the radio"
avg. annual frequency: 3.6
% who engaged at least once in the past 3 months: 30

Seriously? There are science shows on Canadian radio that a third of the population listened to?
Why yes, there is and they do.
http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/
http://legacy.jyi.org/volumes/...

Now I'm impressed.

The clincher for me - which indisputably shows the authors' bias - is that Canada ranks #1 in people protesting GMOs and nuclear power, and the authors consider this a good sign that their population is scientifically literate!

The report says nothing of the kind. Did you read it? GMOs and nuclear power are mentioned as divisive issues, but there is no data on the ranking of people against them.

Well, for some reason the CBC's coverage of this seems to think that Canada is 3rd out of 33 countries in having high numbers protesting nuclear power. I haven't read the full report, but either (1) the CBC is wrong, (2) you're wrong, or (3) the CBC is reporting based on true information that isn't in the report you read.

Regardless, it sounds like SOMEBODY did a survey comparing attitudes about at least nuclear power and found Canadians were near the top in terms of objecting and protesting.

The linked article is not very clear. There's much better coverage on the CBC site.

The study considered two different things, scientific literacy, and level of reservations towards science.

The "we depend too much on science..." was from the second part - about reservations towards science.

The science literacy part asked questions like:
Does the sun go around the earth or does the earth go around the sun?
Human beings as we know them today developed from earlier species of animals. True or false?
Electrons are smaller than atoms. True or false?

Astronauts have complained for decades about vision problems such as blurriness following trips into space. A recent NASA survey of 300 astronauts found correctible near and distance vision problems in 48 per cent of astronauts who had been on extended missions and 23 per cent of those who had been on brief missions. In some cases, they lasted for years after the astronauts returned to Earth.

Fluid shifting toward head causes problems

In the new study, the astronauts had spent an average of 108 days in space. Their eye abnormalities were similar to those seen in patients on Earth with idiopathic intracranial hypertension. Patients with the condition have increased pressure around their brains for no apparent reason.

Among the astronauts in the study:

33 per cent had expansion of the space filled with cerebral spinal fluid that surrounds the optic nerve, which connects the eye to the brain.

22 per cent had flattening of the rear of the eyeball.

15 per cent had bulging of the optic nerve.

11 per cent had changes in the pituitary gland and its connection to the brain.

An earlier NASA-sponsored study of seven astronauts, published last November in the journal Ophthalmology, found similar abnormalities and also noted that they were similar to those experienced by patients on Earth suffering from pressure in the head. But it noted that astronauts did not experience symptoms usually associated with that problem on Earth, such as chronic headache, double vision or ringing in the ears.

The earlier study suggested that the problems might be caused by fluid shifting toward the head during extended periods of time in microgravity. This could result in abnormal flow of spinal fluid around the optic nerve, changes in blood flow in the vessels at the back of the eye, or chronic low pressure within the eye, the researchers said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol...

This claim: "So far studies of foragers like the Tsimane, Arctic Inuit, and Hadza have found that these peoples traditionally didn't develop high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, or cardiovascular disease."

Is based on studies that have been called into question recently. One researcher went so far as to call them "deeply flawed" and wondered if anyone had actually read the original studies.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"The 2014 study has found that Inuit do have similar rates of heart disease compared to non-Inuit populations, and that death rates due to stroke are "very high." "Most of the researchers never read [the original 1970s] papers. They just took it at face value that what they said is so,"

Crunching the numbers, it's foolish to delay solar power adoption for even 28K birds a year.

Climate change is expected to soon kill off 1/8th of all bird species.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

200M birds die from cats each year in Canada ( which has the human population of California).
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Either stop climate change pollution, or kiss some birds goodbye (peck on the cheek).

Crunching the numbers, it's foolish to delay solar power adoption for even 28K birds a year.

Climate change is expected to soon kill off 1/8th of all bird species.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

200M birds die from cats each year in Canada ( which has the human population of California).
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Either stop climate change pollution, or kiss some birds goodbye (peck on the cheek).

Here in Vancouver it seems Peeping Toms have started using drones to peer into high rise apartments:

https://twitter.com/Conner_G/s...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I would say the era of the legal 'personal drone' is rapidly coming to an end. Some people can't use them responsibly, so like everything else fun they will be banned.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Not exactly a very good source since the text is cut off on the right. Has it even been proof-read, let alone peer reviewed? None the less, you can only create clones with female DNA, which would be an evolutionary dead end. Human females simply do not poses the full set of DNA information. You can however create offspring from male only DNA (the CBC is an actual real source): http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol... Thanks to the magic of extra-corporeal pregnancy, one day (very soon http://beforeitsnews.com/scien...) we'll be able to eliminate all the birth defects caused by mothers drinking and smoking during pregnancy by simply transplanting the fetus to an artificial womb. Abortion will become obsolete. Don't want to be a mom? Fine, but that baby will still develop into an adult one day that will come to resent you. And eventually women won't even need to be involved in the process. We'll be able to start with sperm alone.

You are not buying stuff at the same price as 6 years ago, maybe you should actually pay attention to the receipts.

beef, pork, avocado, fruits, veggies, almonds, pinenuts, walnuts, mozarella, cheddar, other cheeses, seafood, grains, soy, soy, palm oil, milk, gasoline, beer and more beer, limes, canadian bacon, barley, restaurants, restaurants, restaurants,electrical energy, car rentals, hotel rooms, cab fairs,

air travel and air travel gets more expensive in many other ways, various extra fees, less room, more seats on planes

aluminium,

That's close, but not entirely true. Some apple trees are triploid, like Gravenstein and Jonagold, but most are diploid, so not really polyploid. Apple seeds will grow just fine, but the reason they are grafted is because they are very heterozygous, and as such, any seedlings will not have the same genetic characteristics as the original parent apples, and in all likelihood will be inferior. When people breed apple trees, they can go through thousands of seedlings only to find one tree with superior fruit. By grafting, you keep the superior genetics of an exceptional fruit, like Honeycrisp. Most fruit crops are reproduced asexually in some way for this reason, with the exception of cantaloupe, watermelon, and papaya, which have much shorter lifespans, and as such are much easier to work with. Trees are also grafted because, by using mature plant material, the tree will come to bearing faster, and you can select rootstock that offers dwarfing and disease resistance traits, which are useful.

You are right that he was against grafting though, proclaiming that it was wicked, damaging, and against the will of God. Unfortunately, judging by the modern opposition to GMOs, humanity did not learn anything from his silliness. Today, we have opposition to the Arctic apples, which hopefully will be released soon, which have the relatively simple trait of non-browning. Anti-GMO people claim they are worried that GMO apples will cross pollinate other apples, despite the simple fact that apples are asexually propagated. That's right, these folks don't know the first, most basic things about apple biology, but damn it they're going to pound in their stupid point anyway no matter how wrong they are. Ridiculous.

Cuadrilla drilling company in UK has admitted publicly the link between fracking and earthquakes. The said this in 2011

"It is highly probable that the hydraulic fracturing of Cuadrilla's Preese Hall-1 well did trigger a number of minor seismic events

This, according to a Reuters report here: http://www.reuters.com/article...

Other articles have reported various studies connecting fracking in Oklahoma with the new earthquakes flurries there and elsewhere in the US. Like Ohio: .http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/11/ohio-earthquakes-fracking_n_5136110.html

And here http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It's difficulty will be on a scale of one to ten how reasonable it is.

"In 2011, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association reported to Canada's privacy commissioner its members received 1.2 million requests for customer information in one year and disclosed information about 780,000 customers. http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/news..."

I'm betting on a sizable dent in those numbers.

On a related note...The US government asked the Canadian Government to tell Canadian banks to turn over all banking information about a list of names they provided. They said it was to catch tax cheats. The Canadian Government said "Sure as long as you do the same for us". The reply was that the US has a law against that so would not comply.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

So I am curious about what would happen in if the shoe was on the other foot. I am fairly confident that "American Exceptionalism" (aka double standard / hypocrisy) would kick in and the US would rant about the sovereignty of their jurisdiction

USA = Hubris.

It's a basic human right to have access to the Internet... except in the "land of the Free" of course.

Yes yes, No True Catholic.

If you started expunging all the insufficiently devout Catholics, there probably wouldn't be much left of the church when you were done.

Though that may not be a bad thing.

Across North America, the estimated number of migrating birds killed annually in collisions with buildings ranges from 100 million to 1 billion birds. - http://www.flap.org/faqs.php

Somewhere between 0.1 and 0.3 million birds die each year from collisions with wind turbines - http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...

But the real killer ... CATS! Cats may kill up to 3.7 billion birds and 20.7 billion mammals in the United States alone each year, a new study has found. - http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol...

Have a richer middle class than the US, as of this year?

just in case every single fact needs a link

Blackberry's market share is predicted to fall to 0.3% by 2018. And they will ship 50% less handsets this year than the past.

Here is the link.

So this helps out like, 15 people?

Closer to a million

In 2011, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association reported to Canada's privacy commissioner its members received 1.2 million requests for customer information in one year and disclosed information about 780,000 customers.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol...

I strongly doubt these requests prevented or helped prosecute 780,000 crimes. Thankfully the courts can tell gratuitous fishing when they see it.

Actually research has been showing the opposite. Long-term weight loss may not be possible for most obese people.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

The issue is that the US has always been an oligarchy of the rich, realistically it came into being due to a tax revolt.
Money out of politics is not only possible, if you look else where in the world with functioning democracies and functioning electoral systems you can find examples:

In Germany
http://www.theatlantic.com/int...

In Canada (with legislated limits)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

or see Frances new laws limiting funding
http://www.loc.gov/law/help/ca...

If you believe that money is the only power then you have already been brainwashed to give up your democratic rights.

The average US Senate seat apparently costs ~ $7 million.

The entire Canadian Election spending per party ~ $21 million.

Obama spent well over $400 million for just his presidential campaign.

Think about what could be done with $379 million to address real problems in the US like education, healthcare etc....

The reason the rich are willing to waste their money is because they have too much of it (mainly because of tax law changes).
The average CEO salary in the US is now $10 million per year! Yet they pay less than 20% in taxes!

Even Warren Buffet thinks its time to tax the rich.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11...

If you did that the money that might otherwise be spent on political campaigns might actually do some good like funding education or public healthcare etc...

But then according to your brainwashing program the only power is money and any country that tries to democratically regulate the market (an artificial construct that only exists because of the enforcement of property laws) must a communist country (Canada) how else can we have publicly funded healthcare...
keep drinking the kool-aid, in the mean time we'll outlive you. Yes life expectancy is higher here, as is quality of life.

First of all, the level of firearm ownership in an area does have an effect on the firearm homicide rate. It correlates -

http://ajph.aphapublications.o...

Violent crime has gone down in most of the industrialized world over the past 3 decades, regardless of whether a country restricts firearms or not -

http://rgambler.com/2013/11/03...
http://jpo.wrlc.org/bitstream/...
http://www.economist.com/news/...

However, America's violent crime rate is much higher than most developed countries -

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/201...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

The growing consensus (in public policy circles at least) these days is that it is not gun ownership that is causing this violence, but the American gun culture -

http://www.businessweek.com/ar...
http://world.time.com/2012/12/...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

The problem is that we keep looking at gun ownership rates The Swiss has high levels of gun ownership, but they also have a very strict culture of gun safety and training. Men are required to undergo military training and be in the reserves for 10 years, keeping their sealed army-issued firearm at home or in the Zeughaus, for use in case of invasion. Thus, they have lots of guns, but little gun crime.

Now, the question is how do you measure gun culture? In America you have this issues with two main groups poisoning the culture - the gangs and the "don't tread on me" types. How can you design a study to measure the effect of this culture on gun crime?

They already did make wearing a mask a crime in Canada, punishable by 10 fucking years in jail.

That is wearing a face mask in public, it does not cover private pictures.

However: so that you can recognise me when we meet to plant our bomb at the embassy I have some pictures of me.

They already did make wearing a mask a crime in Canada, punishable by 10 fucking years in jail.

Do you often catch measles, whooping cough or polio? Do you really think catching one of those is more likely than catching an STI?

Quite a bit, actually, especially if you're an ignorant American and live in a religious community. From TFA:

http://www.cbc.ca/whitecoat/20...

Unless we boost immunization rates, we can expect to see more and more outbreaks of measles like the ones that have occurred in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario, not to mention much larger outbreaks in the US and the European Union. And let's not forget that measles can be fatal. During a measles outbreak the lasted from 2008 until 2011, France had ten deaths that were attributed to the disease.

The reasons are similar. It's based on fear and misinformation

No, it's based on facts. It's the anti-vaxxers who operate based on misinformation.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A Vancouver father is calling on parents to vaccinate their children for chickenpox after his son nearly died from the disease while his immune system was compromised during chemotherapy.

Jason Lawson's 10-year-old son Beckett has been in and out of hospital for most of his life for cancer treatment, but Lawson says one of the scariest moments came when the boy caught chickenpox from a classmate at school.

They don't have police where you are?

The police are not directly controlling your vehicle. What I was trying to get at is that even the trains in a simplified, controlled environment are occasionally overridden by people.

Where's the data on that as I've seen tons of data that say the car was autonomous 99% of the time.

If there are tons of data then where is it?

they've allowed Nevada and a couple other states to implement driverless vehicles.

Nevada licensed a test vehicle with some very strict conditions;

Nevada's regulations require two people in the test cars at all times. One person is behind the wheel, while the other person monitors a computer screen that shows the car's planned route and keeps tabs on roadway hazards and traffic lights.

Nevada has licensed a test vehicle that must have people in it to take over in case something bad happens. That is far from licensing a driverless vehicle. There is no State in the US that will allow a self driving car without a qualified driver behind the wheel. All the permits are for testing only with a driver behind the wheel. Even the States don't think it is reliable enough yet.

This e-wallet stuff is not their main source of revenue.

Square is advertising on TV about how one pays with a credit card, using the plain old magnetic strip, using a card reader that plugs into the mic socket of a mobile phone.

Here is how it works.

Also, they are opening an office in Kitchener, Ontario, within the Kitchener Waterloo technology hub.

Except that research shows teenage brains aren't yet developed in the area of decision-making.

"But hey, lets just ignore the experts?"

Why not, that's what most of the other experts have done!!!

I have found articles saying the sweetener industries own studies shrink organs and cause cancer in numerous organs.

I have found other studies saying that sweeteners can cause leukemia. I have also found studies that say that sweeteners can cause insulin problems, raise blood sugar level and increase the risk of obesity and diabetes.

I've looked for epidemiological studies and all I come up with is 1 study from 1985 that purely looks at bladder cancer and says that there is no increased risk, personally I would be suspicious of an epidemiological study that is so narrowly focused.

I'd love to use sweeteners to replace sugar and it may well be safer overall, but it does not look to me based on what I've read that sweeteners are safe and may in fact not be useful in a healthy diet due to the increased risk of diabetes and the fact that they can increase cravings for sweet foods.

So, I am not ignoring the experts, I have spent some time looking at the results of the search for "epidemiological study sweeteners" and what I find does not look good.

See:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
http://annonc.oxfordjournals.o...
http://www.mpwhi.com/consumpti...

"Diet soda has been tied to higher risk for heart attacks, strokes, cancers, osteoporosis, tooth decay, and nervous system disorders."

It's not like being a legal taxi driver prevents you from being a murderer. Or even just charging illegal fees.

I'm sure that most illegal cabbies are just trying to make a living. The best solution is probably to end the protectionist rackets that limit the numbers of legal taxis.

You're blaming railroads for a lot of things they have no control over:

• Railroads don't classify the goods being shipped, shippers do.
• Railroads can't refuse to take dangerous goods. They're classified as common carries and have to carry anything that's allowed by regulation, including hazardous materials.
• Railroads do own older, less safe equipment, such as older DOT-111 tank cars and can reasonably be blamed for spotting the cars they own to industries shipping volatile chemicals. However, they cannot refuse to move cars delivered from other railroads, or leased by the industries. Furthermore, the factories making replacement vehicles are backed up for two years. Even so, railroads are replacing the cars they own. They are being responsible.
• Most rail lines were built in rural areas, and the cities grew up around them. Don't blame the railroad when a city builds up next to a transportation corridor that transports dangerous goods. In the cases where railroads have rebuilt outside of cities, the cities have again crowded around the lines. What do you expect railroads to do? They were there first.

The solution is to put hydrocarbons (and other dangerous liquid goods) in pipelines that are statistically far safer. Pipelines, carrying one a single product, can be routed far away from urban areas. But those in power refuse to allow it, in cases stalling for over half a decade.

Or blame the shippers, who purposely make their shipments more volatile and mislabel the contents.

Railroads can be blamed for runaway trains, like the one that got away in Lac-Megantic (a train that had safely passed through Toronto earlier). Derailments happen, despite the best efforts to prevent them (they cost a lot of money, so no railroad wants them). But most of the blame for the explosive situations that have resulted cannot be placed on the railroads: their hands are tied.