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What about the questions surrounding the U.S. Government's knowledge of 9/11 prior to the event itself?

What about the fact that the U.S. Government trained and armed what would become Al Queda in the first place?

What about the fact that the U.N. Weapons Inspectors couldn't find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Saddam had no involvment in 9/11, despite the general cloud of confusion that the President has spread over that particular issue. Quite a few experts maintain that Saddam was no threat to the U.S. as long as he was left alone. I won't say the world isn't better off without Saddam but it's the motivation and execution that bother me.

Does none of this inconsistency bother you in any way?

FLQ Story 1, happened this weekPolice said they caught the men as they were trying to cut down a federalist symbol at the townhall with a chainsaw. Investigators said they later found several homemade pipe bombs in a suspect's car.

The graffiti included the words Canadians Go Home, Quebec Libre (A Free Quebec) and Fusion Montreal.

The letters FLQ, which stands for Front de liberation du Quebec, were also spray-painted onto the building. The separatist terrorist organization was responsible for the murder of provincial cabinet minister Pierre Laporte back in October 1970.

FLQ Story 2 same POV, different source.MONTREAL - Seven francophone men between the ages of 19 and 49 will appear in court Wednesday to answer to a host of charges related to the defacing the former Baie D'Urfe town hall with separatist slogans.

Some of the messages included "Une ile, une ville francaise", "Free Quebec" and "Go home Canadians." The vandals signed their worked "FLQ."

there are plenty of people who's rational, critical, and creative thinking offer greatness , specifically on radio... and i really don't know anyone who still watches cnn or any of the other 'trusted' media sources. when you don't have 9/10 radio station's owned by one company, the idea that npr is way to far to the right doesn't sound that outrageous. here, there is some 3 entities that compete for our fm radio, plus we have a community radio station here. plus there's always rantradio. i bet most of the people who listen to wbai, cjtr,rantradio, and a host of other radio networks out there also have grown past the 'seeing cnn as worth watching' stage.

windside writes "Rex Murphy is reporting on the Canadian Prime Minister's website's use of its robots.txt file to disable search engines from crawling certain material. Many excluded items in the robots.txt file involve mentions of America, possibly to prevent people from finding out that taxes are much lower, that money is spent on government programs instead of on kick-ass jets for parliamentarians and that their senate actually does stuff." It seems Canadian officials could not be reached for because they were all busy taking bribes from their favourite soul-devouring oil company.

Note: Remember, Canadians may look nice, but we're mostly just as corrupt and evil as the Americans.

The box will not stop speeding, but rather increase the amount of information the police have at their disposal. This fallacy is constantly invoke to intrude on daily life. And the more we crave our convenience, the more it will take away our privacy. And don't tell me the roads are not private, for this is not the issue. The issue is making any given citizen culpable for every minute of his/her life.

And there you have it. I could care less how fast you go, but if you fuck up, you damn well better be culpable.

I say these boxes are fine, and I think the California legislation mentioned in the background link is perfect. The box is there, recording everything. The police can't touch it without either the owner's consent or a court order. The correct checks are in place. If you argue that the courts may be corrupted, it's a problem with the courts, and not the black boxes or the legislation. No intrusion into daily life is going on, unless you want to consider fatal auto accidents "daily life". (I certainly don't.)

Maybe you should do some research before you spout off.

"Discrediting is when a national leader claims a 45 minute launch capability for a middle-eastern nation that turns out to have nothing of the sort."

Post-Saddam Inspectors have visited just under 10% of the sites listed as highest priority by the military, and at those sites they have already discovered foreign made missiles (burried by the way), not to mention that an unclassified breifing of the Kay report indicates they have found:

- Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD-variant missiles, a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists have said they were told to conceal from the U.N.

- Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1,000 km - well beyond the 150-km range limit imposed by the U.N. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed Iraq to threaten targets throughout the Middle East, including Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.

If you have an ogg or mp3 player then these are two great sites:

• http://radio.cbc.ca/
  
• http://science.nasa.gov/

If you have RealPlayer then http://www.dw-world.de/english/ is worthy of a weekly visit. Their Tomorrow Today has some great material from time to time but no archive as far as I can tell.

If anyone else can recommend any other sites that provide archived multimedia documentary material, I'd be interested.

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I read on the Go Taikonauts site last week and somewhere else but I can't remember where (I think it was the cbc) that the launch would take place Oct 15 at 9:00am Bejing time which it did.

http://www.the-cma.org/consumer/donotcall/dnc_serv ice.cfm

Certainly not legally binding, nor as extensive as the US Do-Not-Call list. I think this is what an earlier poster was referring to (though I could be wrong).

Alternately, just fake your death!

What if biometric authentication were used instead? Thumbprints, retina scans and the like
will probably eventually replace the pile of plastic cards that we're all forced to carry around. The practical problem with the Vancouver nightclubs' plan will be getting customers to go through with the photo ID card process. There will always be bars that choose not to be Orwellian, and there are other things to do in Vancouver besides clubbing. If biometrics is ubiquitous, though, schemes like this might become the norm, like in the movie Minority Report.

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archaeologists have been used for the biggest serial murder case in Canadian history already. Over 70 women are believed to have been killed, probably by the man who's been charged with 15 of the deaths.

Do you really think 2 light beers would make someone run a stop sign & kill you?

Working more than 8 hours straight would have more of an effect on a person than 2 light beers.

People tend to look at this the wrong way. They ask themselves, "How much can I drink, before it's illegal for me to drive?" And then they drink as much as they think they can get away with. Wouldn't it be much simpler just to make arrangements for your safe transportation home, so that you can drink as much as you want, without worrying about it? And then you might even die of alcohol poisoning and do the world a great service.

Windows in a mission-critical control room? While the operators on duty play card games? Lemme guess: August 14th, 2003?

the source was in the parent of the comment you have commented.

I am now looking to buy that french deck of cards

Why give the French all the credit? A US blogger came up with the same idea back in April

Indeed, as a Canadian, you might have heard the spot on CBC's "Here and Now" a few months ago where a maker of such a deck was banned from selling it on e-bay. According to The Agonist, "He owns the domain name, "thebushadministration.com" where he's posted the images for sale."

So you can spend locally and protest globally. Or something like that.

If you don't go to the website you must read the articla about the monkeys

Kind of strange that there are so few from US that emmigrate to Canada given that Canada is objectively a better place to live.

That depends on what your family background is. There are a few shelters in the Buffalo area that would deign to disagree with you, as there has in the last two years been a rash of naturalized US citizens of middle-east decent who have packed their bags and are at the border awaiting their meetings with Immigration Canada representatives:

http://montreal.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filen ame=qc_border20030217

Yaz.

The CPCC levy isn't the only reason why private copying via P2P networks is not a legal problem in Canada. There are privacy laws (about which the US has already complained are a hinderance to their terrorist investigations) that prevent the RIAA from issuing subpoenas to Canadian ISPs demanding their logs and subscribers.

This doesn't mean that your file-sharing information is not inaccessible. If you're sharing music, you'll be fine--you're not in violation of Canadian law and practice. If you're sharing kiddy porn or hate literature, the Canadian police can get the data because you're involved in another crime.

The CBC has a brief article and opinion about this.

If the RIAA was to follow the lead of Canadian direct broadcast satellite providers, they'd make an appeal to morality to address their problem, since the laws here won't help them.

Read the truth about Bowling for Columbine. As much as folks would like to deify Michael Moore, he's a flat-out manipulator and liar (yes, just like the "evil" right wingers he attacks, there's nobody innocent in partisan political arenas).

I'm also not too proud of Canada when I see stuff like this.

If only that were true

Here's the proof... Here's more proof... Here's even more proof... Seriously, don't delude yourself. Canada is not by any stretch of the imagination the utopia you imagine it to be. Not when the government continually grabs its cash, surveils its media, and assaults citizens protesting peacefully with no reasonable warning to leave.

They where also the target of fraud in the last few days.

CBC Radio 1 had an interview with a security representative from the bank last night on As It Happens. An audio recording of the program is available here. (It's the ninth item of the programme.)

As a next step, consider removing the entertainment crap.

Great point! That's why you should keep an eye on some foreign media sources. While the US may lead the modern world it also blinds all its own citizens; get a second opinion, check out The BBC, CBC, and The Guardian

Using a foreign degree in North America could be a risky thing. I will derive anecdotal evidence from 'The National' which is a show aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The article can be found here, and you'll have to find the phrase, "Designer Immigrants" within the article.

The evidence does not completely fit with your question, but it is definitely an eye opener.

The article talks about a man coming from England who has a degree from Middlesex University. In addition, this man has five accounting certificates. In short, he has a recognized skill. He speaks English and has a brother in Canada. So, he decided to move to Edmonton in search of a better life.

Upon arriving, he sends off 3,000 resumes for entry level accounting positions. Four years later, not a single job offer for a permanent position. Why? Because his foreign degree and skills were not recognized.

A direct quote from the article, "Doctors, engineers and other people are facing the same problem. So, I mean, what's the point of increasing the point level and either of them have to have a PhD. What do they want PhD to come here and clean the toilet or deliver the pizza or run the mini-cab or something like that?"

Another quote that's interesting, "One study of skilled immigrant incomes shows that a foreign education is valued at only half of what a Canadian education nets on the job market. Foreign work experience is valued by Canadian employers at approximately zero....My analysis has shown that it is getting more severe over time. That immigrant skills are being discounted today more heavily than they were in the past."

This doesn't completely answer your question as the evidence presented deals with immigrants. Nevertheless, it does show that foreign degrees are not viewed equally and are deeply discounted by employers in North America.

Using a foreign degree in North America could be a risky thing. I will derive anecdotal evidence from 'The National' which is a show aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The article can be found here, and you'll have to find the phrase, "Designer Immigrants" within the article.

The evidence does not completely fit with your question, but it is definitely an eye opener.

The article talks about a man coming from England who has a degree from Middlesex University. In addition, this man has five accounting certificates. In short, he has a recognized skill. He speaks English and has a brother in Canada. So, he decided to move to Edmonton in search of a better life.

Upon arriving, he sends off 3,000 resumes for entry level accounting positions. Four years later, not a single job offer for a permanent position. Why? Because his foreign degree and skills were not recognized.

A direct quote from the article, "Doctors, engineers and other people are facing the same problem. So, I mean, what's the point of increasing the point level and either of them have to have a PhD. What do they want PhD to come here and clean the toilet or deliver the pizza or run the mini-cab or something like that?"

Another quote that's interesting, "One study of skilled immigrant incomes shows that a foreign education is valued at only half of what a Canadian education nets on the job market. Foreign work experience is valued by Canadian employers at approximately zero....My analysis has shown that it is getting more severe over time. That immigrant skills are being discounted today more heavily than they were in the past."

This doesn't completely answer your question as the evidence presented deals with immigrants. Nevertheless, it does show that foreign degrees are not viewed equally and are deeply discounted by employers in North America.

Using a foreign degree in North America could be a risky thing. I will derive anecdotal evidence from 'The National' which is a show aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The article can be found here, and you'll have to find the phrase, "Designer Immigrants" within the article.

The evidence does not completely fit with your question, but it is definitely an eye opener.

The article talks about a man coming from England who has a degree from Middlesex University. In addition, this man has five accounting certificates. In short, he has a recognized skill. He speaks English and has a brother in Canada. So, he decided to move to Edmonton in search of a better life.

Upon arriving, he sends off 3,000 resumes for entry level accounting positions. Four years later, not a single job offer for a permanent position. Why? Because his foreign degree and skills were not recognized.

A direct quote from the article, "Doctors, engineers and other people are facing the same problem. So, I mean, what's the point of increasing the point level and either of them have to have a PhD. What do they want PhD to come here and clean the toilet or deliver the pizza or run the mini-cab or something like that?"

Another quote that's interesting, "One study of skilled immigrant incomes shows that a foreign education is valued at only half of what a Canadian education nets on the job market. Foreign work experience is valued by Canadian employers at approximately zero....My analysis has shown that it is getting more severe over time. That immigrant skills are being discounted today more heavily than they were in the past."

This doesn't completely answer your question as the evidence presented deals with immigrants. Nevertheless, it does show that foreign degrees are not viewed equally and are deeply discounted by employers in North America.

The first crop of lawsuits included a Texas grandfather who didn't even know he was being sued until contacted by The Associated Press. Durwood Pickle said his teenage grandchildren downloaded the music onto his computer during visits to his home.

"I'm not a computer-type person," the 71-year-old Pickle told AP. "They come in and get on the computer. How do I get out of this?"

haha :)! dude, you better watch out, I like guys!

You've probably heard about this.

If you happen to live in Canada near Ottawa, then maybe I'll consider asking my girlfriend if she doesn't mind ;P

Does Microsoft promise to supply hardware and software upgrades for free to the school in perpetuity? No? What happens when upgrade time rolls around in a handful of years?

In Oakville, Ontario, River Oaks school was built about ten years ago. Conceived and presented at the time as a 'bold experiment', there were massive investments in information technology. The school's administrators solicited partnerships with numerous tech firms, and landed tremendous amounts of hardware from companies like Apple. The school was a showpiece for the 'future of education', boasting one standalone computer for every three students (a ratio unheard of at the time, especially in public education) and laptops for all of the staff.

I went to another school in the same school board at the time. Students from my school were bused to River Oaks once a week for shop and home ec classes--those facilities were too expensive to install in eveyr school. In grade eight at the time, I goggled at the number and power of the computers. I enjoyed using proper CAD software for designs in shop class. Everything was shiny and new. The Macs had colour monitors!

Fast forward ten or twelve years. I'm doing my graduate studies, and River Oaks is no longer the model of glossy perfection. With a tech budget that's less than a fifth what's needed to maintain the state of the art, obsolete computers languish in corners. Hardware isn't repaired.

So, how could the grant be a bad thing? Microsoft will be supplying personnel to support and maintain the hardware--will those personnel be funded in perpetuity? Future administrators might feel compelled to draw funding from other--dare I say more important?--areas to continue to maintain and upgrade an expensive technological legacy. Fifteen years from now, at best the school will be full of obsolete computers running out of date software--at worst, it will be full of current hardware and software, and unable to afford textbooks, pencils, or teachers.

"The consumer has spoken to us," said Randy Lennox, CEO of Universal Music Canada. "(The music) has been fairly high-priced and therefore, they have been feeling fairly guilt-free about procuring music for free."

For many, it is the high prices. It appears that Universal Music got the hint, and are dropping all prices in Canada and the US. Their top selling CDs will sell for a max of $14.99 (Canadian), and new artists for a max of $9.99 (Canadian). (Information taken from a CBC news story.)

These days, music just keeps getting crappier and crappier. I am not a fan of rap at all, and that is all that seems to be thrown at me on certain days no matter where I am (the radio in the car, heading out to the bar with friends, etc.). Other days it is hip-hop, again which I am not a fan of. But, this seems to be the current bandwagon. Gone are the bars here in my town with different themes - we used to have a retro 70s/80s bar, which was great! A nice change from the normal bar scene, but that has now been replaced with a bar that plays exclusively hip-hop and rap, not even rock or dance music. Have all of these genres just been tossed out the window?

Oh, and I have only purchased one new CD in the past 4 years - the recent Weird Al Yankovic CD, "Poodle Hat". My last purchase before that was Weird Al Yankovic, "Running With Scissors". There is something to be said for continuing to support an artist that continually creates things you enjoy, not just one good song and 11 crappy ones. As others have said, concerts and in-person promotions are great, as are small venues with local and independent artists who make most of their money off of these sales and genuinely continue to love making music, unlike many "large" artists who it seems have the creative ability to turn out one or two good songs for the love of the music, and the rest for the love of the dollar.

My neighbors are all stuck behind 28.8k modems. I've tried to get the local cable company Comcast to bring their cable down the street but they are unwilling. There is no choice for DSL or anything else due to our "remote" location.

This is after they (comcast) have moved their technical support out here (scio township). I'm still lobbying them to be required to provide service (I'd rather have cable so I can receive CBC and watch HNIC instead of the worse ESPN coverage and back myself up with a cable modem... I feel for my neighbors.

My neighbors are all stuck behind 28.8k modems. I've tried to get the local cable company Comcast to bring their cable down the street but they are unwilling. There is no choice for DSL or anything else due to our "remote" location.

This is after they (comcast) have moved their technical support out here (scio township). I'm still lobbying them to be required to provide service (I'd rather have cable so I can receive CBC and watch HNIC instead of the worse ESPN coverage and back myself up with a cable modem... I feel for my neighbors.

Where's the content that requires it?

It's the only way to run Debian unstable and keep up to date with the newest packages. It's always on, meaning I don't have to connect and get random disconnections while downloading stuff. I find it impossible to upload my scans to Distributed Proofreaders without broadband; I find it merely painful to work on stuff there (which involves downloading a full page, megapixel, B&W scan).

Where's the free music (not "pirated", but legitimate)?

What do you mean, where's the free music? Have you looked for it? A casual search around the web has found more bands then I can count. Beatallica, Machinae Supremacy, and Persone are just the ones that I have on my hard drive.

Where's the streaming movies?

Full movies? Not many. But the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has many shows and news clips in their archives; the IMDB has many trailers. I've frequently found a modem connection makes viewing these impossible, and often makes viewing large pictures (millions of scans of old books online, for one) more painful then it's worth.

CBC radio airs a program called "Workology". Past show subjects can be reviewed and listened-to (RAM) here.

A lot of it is pretty funny and useful.

CBC radio airs a program called "Workology". Past show subjects can be reviewed and listened-to (RAM) here.

A lot of it is pretty funny and useful.

"the spiders can't be farmed (when you put them too close together, they eat each other)."

hey, not so fast. :)

check out this cbc article and click through to the photo gallery to get really creeped out.

that's one whole lotta silk. i'd still like to know who/what they ate to do that. and i'd really, really like to know what biochem outfit owns land nearby.

That's a real bummer--not only is chocolate delicious, it can also lower blood pressure.

Being a Canadian citizen, who tends to engage in political discussion, this is not all that surprising.

After reading a couple of your other comments, I've come to the understanding that a police officer threatened you with arrest. Well, I know the reasons the cop cited for having you arrested were all bullshit though. They're valid laws, just not likely in the context of the situation you were in.

I imagine this is more a case of a police officer being an asshole, power tripping, and just bluffing. (essentially what most cops I deal with are like)

I've had numerous run-ins with police officers who cite all kinds of random garbage just to justify their argument.

But, there would be no chance in hell that cop would actually arrest you for discussing private vs socialized health care debates. He'd find some sort of other random bullshit by-law to fine you with, but very unlikely to arrest you. Unless you were causing some sort of scene on private property and you were asked to leave.

But just for those Canadians here who might be reading this, and even disagreeing with my comments, here's just something to look at:

CBC documentary on Jaggi Singh who was kidnapped multiple times by RCMP officers who were informed by CSIS.

Covert Entry: Spies, Lies and Crimes Inside Canada's Secret Service

Bill C-36 is essentially Canada's "USAPATRIOT act".

And just as a final note, I don't trust cops in Canada or in America. Plus I'm not trying to make this into a Canada vs. America pissing contest of who has more/less rights. I equally dislike all nation states. :-)

Then why the need to ban people in the US from buying their presciptions from Canada? If there was only a fair amount of padding, it would never be cost effective to buy them there and have them shipped here. CBC reports you can save 20-80%. That's more than a little mark up.

This reminds me of a documentary that the CBC showed not too far back about Jens Naumann, who was blind due to two separate accidents but regained sight through the use of eyeglasses-mounted cameras. The image from the camera was then processed and routed to his visual cortex via cables.

This reminds me of a documentary that the CBC showed not too far back about Jens Naumann, who was blind due to two separate accidents but regained sight through the use of eyeglasses-mounted cameras. The image from the camera was then processed and routed to his visual cortex via cables.

CBC has archives back to 1938 online HERE. The radio broadcasts from the front line of WW II are really something.

Here in Canada the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) offers some of it's shows (Quirks and Quarks) in .ogg format. And at least their radio messages have no commercials! (net even "sponsorship acknowledgements.")

Here in Canada the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) offers some of it's shows (Quirks and Quarks) in .ogg format. And at least their radio messages have no commercials! (net even "sponsorship acknowledgements.")

Want space colonization? Try a gold rush... it worked in California, Yukon/Alaska, Australia (Vic), South Africa, and is currently populating parts of Brazil. So what do we need to start this gold rush?

First of all, higher commodity prices for things we'll find in space (metals, diamonds, power, etc). All these things are presently better provided (==cheaper) from terrestrial sources.

Second we need a frontier mentality that ANYONE may go out there and play. If they hurt themselves or get killed adding a mod-chip to their nuclear reactor, well too bad. If somebody does something bad, organize a posse and hunt them down. Only when the population gets big enough do citizens organize permanent posses and call them "police". Then and only then will the colonists form their own government and start paying taxes.

So we have a long way to go before real people have any need to go into space. We haven't finished mining Earth yet :-) .

-AD

More likely it's a Palestinian kick at the American establishment that provides aid the Israeli military to the tune of a billion a year.

I've never considered Air Canada remotely competent -- and gee, they are hovering around bankrupcy, what a surprise!

Three points

1. Bleeding money like that, its no wonder that they didn't patch - they don't have the staff on payroll to do it any more.
2. We can expect to see this pattern repeated at most airlines and other borderline-solvent businesses.
3. On the good side - this should give the surviving companies an impetus to move away from Windows.