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People getting hit with cars over election issues? Already an issue in Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/10/06/vandalism-highpark.html (People with Liberal lawn-signs getting their brake lines cut.)

It's worth pointing out that the USA and Canada are among jurisdictions where having anonymity might mean the difference between life and death, thanks to the existence of Extraordinary Rendition (for example the cases of Maher Arar, and other Canadian citizens who have been kidnapped and tortured at the US/Canada border) and Guantanamo Bay (where due process is suspended, and several inmates have died).

Because private firms are under pressure to make money NOW, and always turn a profit. No private enterprise would ever go for this type of long term investment with zero profits in the foreseeable future. Government, however, can wait. It really doesn't matter if it takes ten years for the money to return.

Hmmm... this recent bit of news seems to against that thinking:

CIBC to use $1B Cerberus cash to stop mortgage writedowns

I think you're confusing private firms, who don't have to report, with public firms that have stockholders etc.

Other sources are providing more information. According to CBC, the plane slammed into a mountain.

Anderson said no remains were found in or near the aircraft, but said the crash was so severe that "I doubt someone would have walked away from it."

The plane appears to have crashed head-on with the mountainside before disintegrating, he said. The aircraft's engine was found about 90 metres from where the fuselage and wings were found.

Not for much longer. The license for the current Hockey Night in Canada theme song was not renewed. The CBC is having a contests for the replacement. You can check out the contenders here:

http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/

The bastards are nothing if not thorough - they trademarked the French version as well - "Des plus brilliants exploits". See here.

Why?
It translates to: "The most brilliant Exploits"
and its not in the same part of the song as "with glowing hearts".
"with glowing hearts" is at the beginning of a verse and "Des plus brilliants exploits" is at the end of a verse.
Sounds like they copyrighted the French words so that Quebec didn't feel left out.

The tower acts as a scrubber, with sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda, reacting with air blown into its base. A metal honeycomb system inside the tower slows down the flow of caustic soda, allowing it to efficiently scrub CO2.

While Keith said the technology isn't new -- it's been used since the 1950s in industrial processes that call for carbon dioxide-free air -- he believes his team has surmounted one of the two biggest obstacles to CO2 capture.

For the system to be effective, it must remove more carbon dioxide from the air than it emits as a byproduct of the energy used to run the scrubber. This summer's experiment showed that can be done, said Keith.

He estimates that if the electricity used to run the ambient air scrubber were to come from a coal-fired power plant -- a heavy emitter of CO2 -- he could capture 10 times more CO2 than the coal plant emitted.

The theme to Hockey Night in Canada is no longer licensed for use by the CBC, and therefore is no longer the theme to Hockey Night in Canada. :(

The bastards are nothing if not thorough - they trademarked the French version as well - "Des plus brilliants exploits". See here.

From http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/09/25/bc-vancouver-olympics-trademark-o-canada.html which is the source linked to from the BoingBoing article:

"The phrases were recently trademarked by the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee in anticipation of the announcement, it was revealed Wednesday."

Geeze I'm from Texas and I know the Canadian Anthem, it's the theme to Hockey Night in Canada, right?

yes, and we are looking for a new one.

Seriously, what exactly is a Gaming Commission and what executive powers do they have? It is a real question btw.

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission is located on a Native Reserve, South of Montreal, Canada. What kind of Legal power do they have? It's certainly not federal or provincial! Can it be trusted?

Some folks over on Wikipedia are also questionning this.

I'll probably be 'trolled down' if I mention that 'some' Kahnawake Mohawks have had 'some' legal issues in the past (read: tobacco contraband, drug smugglin') because it is most likely not the same guys who run the Gaming Commission and it's non-relevant. However, as a Quebec resident, I can't help but relate what I see in the news 'bout Kahnawake Mohaks and the KGC.

Posting AC per my lawyer advice.

She told Cheney the same thing

Bin Laden initially denied involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and then later claimed credit in a 2004 video for personally directing the 19 hijackers.
Sources, including a transcript of the video:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2004/10/29/binladen_message041029.html
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/bin.laden.transcript/

Says another Wiki (which anyone can edit) and sources suspected to have some sort of control by the BA.

What are you talking about? What evidence? Bin Laden initially claiming that he didn't do it? You do know that he later claimed responsibility, right?

Re-releasing statements that we all heard on television back in 2001 does not change anything. It merely presents a clear retrospective of the events. Obviously, the documents prior to 2001 are of greater interest. Especially the fatwas (religious opinions) where he called for attacks on US civilians and military targets in an attempt to force the US to remove its resources from the Gulf region.

Bin Laden initially denied involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and then later claimed credit in a 2004 video for personally directing the 19 hijackers. Sources, including a transcript of the video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2004/10/29/binladen_message041029.html http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/bin.laden.transcript/

I don't see anything particularly damning there. Bad men do bad things, then pretend they didn't in an attempt to avoid the consequences. Why is that surprising?

As I mentioned in my post, that comment does more to explain his denial than it does to provide evidence of his innocence. And don't forget that he later claimed the attacks as his own. After his cushy little safe haven was broken up, of course.

Notice that I indicated leasing pipe space to the water vendor (and other, similar products). Some communities own their own water company and/or power company.

Actually in the US most places own their own water system, whether it be city or county. Only about 1 in 20 people get their water from the private sector. Atlanta, GA was one of the first cities in the US to privatize water, when they sold the water system to United Water. United Water is now owned by France based Suez, the world's largest private water company. However the deal went bad, because of poor management Atlanta retook control of the water system.

Falcon

Thnk about it for a second. You don't install a keylogger on a server and then capture logins from students from remote machines ... the keyloggers were installed on the students' laptops. This is NOT "hacking" or "cracking" the university's computers. He installed keyloggers on up to 37 other students' laptops to capture their login info.

Not so. According to http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/09/09/ot-hacker-080909.html he installed the keylogger on a public terminal. He didn't run around installing software on everyone's laptop. Another interesting note here is the accounts he compromised were all Journalist student's accounts.

You can see a story with more details at http://www.charlatan.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20410&Itemid=148 . He put a keylogger on a random e-Kiosk PC in one of the campus buildings. These PCs provide 20 minutes of web access per login so that students can check e-mails/surf the web briefly. There's nothing white-hat about this, unless it was done in a proof-of-concept manner, but he _DID_ collect user information. The login/password combos he would have keylogged let a student into the myCarleton portal (http://connect.carleton.ca), which is just a glorified front-end for their email. All student account information (awards, fees, course registration) is held on a separate server, http://central.carleton.ca./ This becomes a more serious problem, since once you enter into the "secure" myCarleton portal, you can click a tab called 'Carleton Central', which bypasses your need to use a separate login to view your student account information. They have purposely removed a level of security for convenience to the lemmings. As for the campus card data, I've never put my campus card through a card reader, but all campus card transactions are approved via a centralized server somewhere. Again, not sure what this kid was trying to prove, but if all he wanted to demonstrate was that he could sniff campus card data, again he overstepped his boundaries. He sent everything anonymously to Carleton Administration and the students whose data was compromised, but this was also where he tripped up, "his account log-in was embedded in the electronic document he sent out" from http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/09/11/ot-carleton-080911.html . If you google this persons name, he is rather involved in the Gentoo Security mailing lists.

nitpick: Regarding Canada's retail tax rate... it was 7% and has been reduced to 6%. The 5% rate is what is promised if we re-elect bush-junior.

Really? At least in Alberta the GST that has been charged at 5% since January 1st, 2008.

Here is the CBC article about it. http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/10/30/econstatement.html

Well, if you'll remember the SPP meetings up in Canada, you'll also notice that it has been documented that the anarchists trying to start a riot sometimes *are* cops. Of course, they officially denied that. Check youtube for footage of these guys and tell me they behaved like peaceful demonstrators, rock in hand...

If you don't do business with the credit card companies, you will have a very low credit rating. If you don't do business with the banks that use RFID bank cards, you might not have any bank at all in many areas of the country. Without a credit card or bank account you will find your options for owning a house or a car reduced to nil. In Canada, you cannot pay your taxes in cash. You cannot get an iPhone with cash. And yes, it is legal for a business to refuse cash purchases.

The credit/currency corporations are the key to being "in the system" and if you are "out of the system" you will be homeless or in government housing in short order. I'm not saying that's a good thing, but it is an unfortunate reality. Perhaps you could lead a bank and credit card free life dealing only in Ithica Hours. But freedom from the financial corporate overlords is rare and hard won. Those overlords like RFID, so you will have RFID.

You're right, but it is worth noting that the timing system itself does have a resolution greater than 1/100 of a second, they just don't show the extra digits. However, they did go to the 1/1000th resolution once. in 1972. You can read about it here:

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/blog/sports_commentators/byron_macdonald/photo_finishes_in_swimming.html

FINA eventually decided that no pool could possibly be built so precise that using 1/1000th of a second would be a fair way to judge a final, so they allow ties on the 1/100th resolution. Didn't do the guy who lost by 2/1000th of a second in '72 any good though.

>>It looks like China broke the rules, and the gold needs to be stripped from the effected athletes.

China was also cheating in TKD, with their judges refusing to score good players that would face Chinese athletes next:

http://olympics.thestar.com/2008/article/481950
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/taekwondo/story/2008/08/19/f-olympics-taekwondo-gonda.html
http://www.tsn.ca/olympics/story/?id=246955&lid=headline&lpos=secStory_main
http://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/2008/08/20/olympic_taekwondo_gonda/

Microsoft issued a "fix" for the Xbox 1 being a potential fire hazard despite only 30 reported cased. Of course it didn't actually resolve the root problem, weak solder joints on the PSU. Seems like Microsoft didn't really learn when designing the 360...

On the gripping hand, if you go to the CBC's home page you will see them ranking China first.

Unfortunately, the liberals introduced C-60 which was almost as bad, and died on the order table. More information ( and chance to leave comments)
on the CBC web page

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2008/08/17/copyright-battle.html

(The NDP and Greens have come out solidly against changes to our copyright law)

The one weapon we have is the knowledge that MPs want to keep their jobs and a small number of swing votes can make a difference in a minority government. Call your MPs office and book a meeting regardless what party they are to discuss your opposition to C-61. Show up at any public meetings or town halls they may hold. Let them know that this decides your vote, and you will not be swayed. C-61 must die. If more than a few people do it they will clue in that this is a major issue they could lose their seats over. Eventually even the tories will be beaten with a cluestick thick enough to realize that in pleasing their american masters they have poisoned their chances of re-election. This is not an obscure issue for the under 30 crowd, they are well aware of what they stand to lose.

sure, when you add the ?sort=gold it matches the other sites, however if you just go to http://stats.cbc.ca/olympics_medals.asp it sorts by total medal count by default, which is what NBC is doing.

as far as the cbc goes, they don't: http://stats.cbc.ca/olympics_medals.asp?sort=gold

Like this? It was only a few weeks ago, I thought everyone would know what I was talking about. How often do people get decapitated in Canada anyway?

I had some email correspondence with a BBC tech shortly after they'd experimented with streaming ogg vorbis. He said they'd concluded that it wasn't sufficiently "scalable". I've never implemented anything on a scale like BBC World Service, so I don't know if there's anything to that or not, but perhaps there are slash dotters with the experience to comment.

When a lot of people complained about CBC pimping for Microsoft they set up streaming ogg vorbis for Toronto, but they haven't expanded it beyond that. I suppose they figured that was enough of a bone to throw us.

Yeah, I sure wish I had access to health care 18.3 weeks from when I find out I need it
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/10/15/waittimes-fraser.html

Not that I am biased to any one sport or anything ... but you can check this out for just about any event possible ... http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/schedule/daily/2008/08/09/water_polo/

You can grab the link and use it in any viewer ... WMP ( yay! ) or VLC etc. Even works straight from FF

But not so much the Greyhound.

Hmmmm.

Patients face wait for MRI scans

"Patients in Cumbria are waiting up to eight months for MRI scans because of a shortage of radiologists."

Go ahead and move your ass to Europe.

A *week*?? Zee fucking le horror.

Michael Moore's Sicko fraudo

"Cohn notes that Moore should have singled out France as a model for the ideal health care system, since it seems to operate better than Canada and Britain. In so doing, he casually mentions that there can be a four- to six-week wait for an MRI in France. But, he says, the wait time can be overridden in an emergency, so it's not a big problem."

Oh hey hoser. Hows about Canada?

Oh le fucking le pain in le ass.

MRI wait for son too long, mother says

"Although he is now cancer-free, his family and physicians want to ensure cancer cells have not spread.

Oldford has been told Ryan may have to wait two and a half years for an MRI â" or a magnetic resonance imaging scan â" to assess the state of his remaining kidney."

A whole fucking WEEK?

Jesus H. Christ. It's like the goddamn Khmer Rouge set up shop in Washington.

Here is an interview with Dr Stanley Love explaining one method to move an asteroid without breaking it.

http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/05-06/nov12.html

Scroll down to 'Space Tug' and have a listen for about 8 minutes.

All four services reviewed operate out of US data centers. That is a serious issue for overseas users of the cloud - both in terms of network latency/bandwidth and data jurisdiction (c.f. Canada's position on information sent across borders).

EU users may want to consider ElasticHosts or FlexiScale - both of which are UK-based.

You are 5 Interesting, and I want you to stay that way. Just so that the rest of the /.ters here can see for themselves what cops are like.

Man dies after four cops use their taser's on him without even trying anything else. CBC story from Vancouver 10 minute video of the incident. - this made big news. But this happens once in a while and it mostly stays as local news here in Ontario.

Cops are armed with weapons and they are dangerous because they are insiders within the system that defines itself as the law. I don't trust cops, don't want to interact with them and treat them with as much contempt as I would treat criminals. Only cops are more dangerous than criminals because of the entire political structure that uses the cops as attack dogs and shows them so much leniency no matter what their actions are.

You are 5 Interesting, and I want you to stay that way. Just so that the rest of the /.ters here can see for themselves what cops are like.

Man dies after four cops use their taser's on him without even trying anything else. CBC story from Vancouver 10 minute video of the incident. - this made big news. But this happens once in a while and it mostly stays as local news here in Ontario.

Cops are armed with weapons and they are dangerous because they are insiders within the system that defines itself as the law. I don't trust cops, don't want to interact with them and treat them with as much contempt as I would treat criminals. Only cops are more dangerous than criminals because of the entire political structure that uses the cops as attack dogs and shows them so much leniency no matter what their actions are.

You are 5 Interesting, and I want you to stay that way. Just so that the rest of the /.ters here can see for themselves what cops are like.

Man dies after four cops use their taser's on him without even trying anything else. CBC story from Vancouver 10 minute video of the incident. - this made big news. But this happens once in a while and it mostly stays as local news here in Ontario.

Cops are armed with weapons and they are dangerous because they are insiders within the system that defines itself as the law. I don't trust cops, don't want to interact with them and treat them with as much contempt as I would treat criminals. Only cops are more dangerous than criminals because of the entire political structure that uses the cops as attack dogs and shows them so much leniency no matter what their actions are.

We already have the ZENN car, but it is not allowed on most Canadian streets, so unless GM can eliminate government bureaucracy we won't be seeing the Volt any time soon.

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/16/hawking-perimeter.html

The University of Cambridge has poured cold water on reports its most famous physicist might be coming to Canada to work, saying Wednesday Stephen Hawking "has no plans" to leave.

A report in the Daily Telegraph in the U.K. said Hawking was contemplating joining his colleague Neil Turok at Waterloo, Ont.'s Perimeter Institute. The South African-born cosmologist Turok, 49, is leaving Cambridge to take over the role of executive director at the institute, which was founded in 2000 by Research in Motion co-founder Mike Lazaridis and is devoted to the study of theoretical physics.

Cambridge's statement called the report "unfounded speculation."

I saw this story on the CBC the other day. The Liberals and NDP are trying to convince the govt. to spend the $4.2 billion raised from the cell phone spectrum auction on expanding broadband to rural areas. Don't hold your breath waiting for it though.

The only other advice I can offer you comes from The Wolf in Pulp Fiction, "Move out of the sticks, gentlemen".

As was recently discussed about the current Mars lander mission, it's really just fine if something built to do a very specific job doesn't have support for this week's gamer-friendly video board, a hacked Wii controller, bluetooth, and a dozen USB ports. Hardened, reliable hardware and bug-free seems better than, say, some of the misadventures that some IT-intensive commercial aircraft have suffered over the last few years. It's OK to be one notch less cool when you're flying around with large weapons.

Paying with a cell phone? Hell, we can pay by text here... in Winnipeg of all places.

Many US, Canadian and UK cities are served by Verrus for paying parking in certain parking lots (even on street in some places, but not here) with a cell phone by dialling a number and having an account with them, easily setup online. Here in Winnipeg they also offer pay by text. The only other place they offer that is in the UK. I pay by phone Mon-Fri for parking downtown, and it's super convenient. Saves hauling around $5 in change and having to stop at the ticket machine on the way into the lot.

Within the last couple years, the City of Winnipeg instituted a set of brand new parking machines, eliminating most if not all old on-pole parking meters. You can pay by credit card, coins, and as of at least May, by phone. You can even pay your fine online.

What we DON'T have is the wireless signs that show number of spots free. In San Francisco, with a metro population of 7 some million, compared to Winnipeg's paltry 694,000, and a population density more than 4.5 times higher than Winnipeg, finding a space is likely a lot harder. We usually just need to drive around the block to find some, never mind the fact that the number of surface parking lots here is very high.

Well, maybe not Toronto. Alert Mounties tasered an agitated Polish immigrant who spoke no English to death in a Vancouver airport...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/11/14/bc-taservideo.html

Tasers are a great example of why you can't trust your end user.

A Taser was designed to replace a gun. "Instead of shooting someone, you can INSTEAD tase them to incapacitate them."

Once they got into the hands of the end users, the got into usage creep. "Fighting is hard work. I'll use the taser." "Arguing takes effort. Taser." "Talking meh taser."

Now they're used for when you owe the bus driver a dollar.

(Despite what the article states, they have said in radio interviews that they use the tasers for non-compliance, including non-payment of fares.)

They're being overused as a compliance tool instead of their intended purpose, which was to prevent acute lead poisoning.

CBC's Marketplace show did an expose on the Q-ray bracelet last year.

>In Ontario this is actually the the stance taken.

Since when?

Telehealth only exists because Ontario has such a shortage of doctors, it can take several years to visit a family doctor. About 1 in 10 Ontarians don't have a family doctor, not due to choice, but due to ridiculous government rules that make it impossible to either make money as a family doctor, or become one.

In fact, many families (such as mine) end up with one separate doctor per person because once you get a doctor, you marry, you have kids, each time you have to find a new doctor for the new family member since your family doctor has already accepted too many clients, before they've even opened the doors!

Ontario tried to "innovate" it's way around this stupidity by allowing urgent care clinics (family doctors that only see clients as they walk through the door). Now we're seeing these urgent care clinics become the size of small grocery stores due to the shortage of doctors in Ontario.

But, I suppose you're right. Telehealth *does* keep people out of emergency for colds. Of course, they're only GOING to emergency because they have no family doctor (again, not by choice) and because they don't want to line up for hours at an urgent care clinic to see someone who knows less about their history than their hospital does.