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Quebec may revise Civil Code to stop human cloning ,

Russia bans human cloning,

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Bush prods Senate to adopt ban on all cloning

People are afraid of where this might lead, and seem to care less where the cells come from. The way countries(not counting Quebec) are headed it will be legaly removed from the posibility.

'God' forbid there may be other uses for stem cells besides Full Human cloning. I'm sure one or another person might agree.

So Get ready to die from your congenital heart defect because you can't clone yourself a new heart.

Thanx GW!

Are you referring to the "grey market" satellites? That might not happen after all.

This story suprised me, since I recently heard about something similar on Quirk and Quarks, CBC Radio's weekly science show.

It was presented as an interesting discovery for science, but with no commercial value.

You can listen to an MP3 of the story.

This story suprised me, since I recently heard about something similar on Quirk and Quarks, CBC Radio's weekly science show.

It was presented as an interesting discovery for science, but with no commercial value.

You can listen to an MP3 of the story.

Ah, so globalism is good until it upsets bloated, inefficient US monopolies? Ah, I understand now. This explains the new US tariff on Canadian softwood lumber, too.

For those not in the know, Canadian lumber companies are being punished by the US for having efficient, profitable mills, resulting if a few thousand layoffs. But that's okay, they're not Americans, so they don't matter.

Actually the version number written on the ZeD website is beta V 0.1 not 1.1
So first beta release i guess. Beta because it is just a 4 week pilot, before the show starts in the fall.
Wicked short films, but some are damn weird. that's art i guess. the no commercials is sweet too!

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has started a "Open Source Television" program called ZeD. The development of the program is done online, collaboratively(sp?) from the ZeD website.

The show's pilot broadcast is running on CBC at 11:25 weeknights from 18-May-02 thru 12-April-02.

Not quite what Cringly is describing, but very interesting non-the-less.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has started a "Open Source Television" program called ZeD. The development of the program is done online, collaboratively(sp?) from the ZeD website.

The show's pilot broadcast is running on CBC at 11:25 weeknights from 18-May-02 thru 12-April-02.

Not quite what Cringly is describing, but very interesting non-the-less.

I've often wondered this about Canada's public TV and Radio entity, the CBC. They have a fanstastic archive of radio and television (think: every NHL hockey gave ever). They are publicly funded, but they are for profit. I only hope they haven't nailed themselves to the wall with licsensing agreements.

I'd love to see the whole thing made public someday.

Zed bills itself as 'open source TV, v1.1'. (Was v1.0 mothballed?) Anyway, Canadians send in music, film clips, little productions, etc., and they are shown on the show. The Web site has clips of some of the entries.

Definitely a step in the right direction. I think you could only see this on public or semi-public (like the CBC) television. Networks out to make money would never dare put anything like this on the air--the airtime is only for the big stars that pull in ratings. Kudos to my home and native land!

do you think we could ratchet down the rapid technophile rights rhetoric a bit?

Mann's got more than a bit of the performance artist and cyborg evangelist in him. This type of situation is pure gold to him, and the more he can play it up, the better the publicity.

If anyone's seen the documentary about him, he's got a serious hard-on about getting in the faces of authority figures and confronting them with his gear. I wouldn't be surprised if he was more than a little obnoxious with the airport security staff. Which isn't to say that they were right, but it's usually not a smart idea to blatantly piss off the people with the guns.

a couple of days ago i watched the nature of things special on Steve Mann. they have a website about him with lots of pictures and information.

a couple of days ago i watched the nature of things special on Steve Mann. they have a website about him with lots of pictures and information.

Since losing the use of his vision system and computer memory several weeks ago, he said, he cannot concentrate and is behaving differently.

"they" have seem similar occurrences in individuals that often use PDA to jot down things in that some individuals tend become dependant on the technology. I am sure this case is making for an interesting study, but I am more curious on learning more about some of the devices he has wired himself into and how he uses them. So far this is probably the best link I have found detailing the technologies he is using.

Speaking as a Canadian, I am absolutely outraged and disgusted by the supreme court ruling a few days ago that thousands of Indians do not need to pay any taxes whatsoever. Because of an apparent 'oral understanding', the indians weren't even bright enough to get it written down on paper. I just don't understand how someone can claim any rights based on their ancenstry. I mean, we were both born into this country by the same degree of chance, it's not my fault that I didn't happen to be indian. So because I'm not indian, I have to pay upwards of 50% tax on my earnings, while they can still get all the free health care they want and use our roads and get the protection of our military service for free. Its absolute, complete, fucking bullshit.

To any non-Canadians, this is a brand new ruling, that link has todays date. Perhaps if they live on reserves and actually hunt to sustain themselves, fine, let them get away with not paying taxes because their great-great-great-great-grandparents couldn't defend themselves. In summary, we all have the same rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, people can't help what country or ethnicity they are born into, its completely chance, and no person should be rewarded for what was complete chance. Especially if these indians think they want to live off their reserves and use our evil resources for free. This seriously upsets me.

here is a quick pic of it. Jean Chretien is cool.

...the fact that trying to actually get in to Canada "sucks".

If all the high tech jobs move up that way, most Slashdot readers are gonna be working behind the counters at 7-11, unless Canada loosens its new immigration restrictions a bit.

-jbn

-jbn

-jbn

Did you have Ross Rebagliati bringing the cables in for you?

Try any of the "live" broadcasts and you'll find that CBC have suspended their web broadcasts entirely, until February 24th. The IOC enforcing srict rules over "their content" is one thing; forcing a public broadcaster to roll over and muzzle their entire output is quite another.

Gratuitous comments about the power & corruption of the IOC too obvious to even bother with...

It's all a secret plot anyway. Rumour has it that Bill Gates requested a meeting with Canada's Finance Minister Paul Martin this weekend. Obviously this security thing is just a cover for the real reason for the work stoppage -- they're packing up and moving to Canada. :-)

It's all a secret plot anyway. Rumour has it that Bill Gates requested a meeting with Canada's Finance Minister Paul Martin this weekend. Obviously this security thing is just a cover for the real reason for the work stoppage -- they're packing up and moving to Canada. :-)

The CBC Radio science program, Quirks and Quarks had an article about the space elevator on November 3rd, 2001. An MP3 of the article is available. Check it out!

The CBC Radio science program, Quirks and Quarks had an article about the space elevator on November 3rd, 2001. An MP3 of the article is available. Check it out!

The CBC Radio science program, Quirks and Quarks had an article about the space elevator on November 3rd, 2001. An MP3 of the article is available. Check it out!

The CBC Radio science program, Quirks and Quarks had an article about the space elevator on November 3rd, 2001. An MP3 of the article is available. Check it out!

The Sony letter has a nice fat check in it. Guess which letter he's going to open first. Guess which one he pays the most attention to.

I read an interesting article yesterday about a commission in Canada that wants to ban political contributions by corporations. (here)

What is interesting to note is:

- It's not just crazy people like Slashdotters who think corporate money is trouble.

- One political party in Canada already refuses to accept corporate donations, and the leader of another party says he would consider doing the same thing. (He states that the party that currently holds power gets the greatest benefit from corporate donations.) Unfortunately, these are the two parties that have the least number of seats at the moment.

- Two provinces in Canada already ban corporate donations. (Quebec and Manitoba.)

Sounds like a good idea to me. :-)

I just heard some sad news on the CBC website- Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found retired in his Maine home this morning. There weren't many more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

I just heard some sad news on the CBC website Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found retired in his Maine home this morning. There weren't many more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon

"King said he did not want to be remembered as a good author who fell from grace for recycling his material."

• Zigzigzig said: "Unlucky."

I just heard some sad news on the CBC website- Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found retired in his Maine home this morning. There weren't many more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon

Well, nice of you to give you $0.02 on the issue, too bad you don't seem to undertand it too well. Bill 101, the language law to which you refer, is a Québec provincial law that the federal Canadian goverment is not at all happy about. The Canadian government does have an official bilingualism policy, and enforces this to protect minority language rights (minority anglopone in Québec, and minority francophones in the rest of the country). These laws are not merely designed to please the people of Québec, but to protect the right to access to government servcies for english-speakers in Québec and the millions of Canadian french-speakers that have never lived in Québec at all.

And it's "Vive le Québec" - "Viva" is not french.

Summary: The majority of the Anarctic continent is isolated from the rest of the world when it comes to weather patterns. Most research stations aren't in the isolated part, they are in the most northerly portions of the continent. They are warming. The isolated part of Antarctica is cooling. It's basically a re-analysis of existing data that has resulted in this conclusion.

Summary: The majority of the Anarctic continent is isolated from the rest of the world when it comes to weather patterns. Most research stations aren't in the isolated part, they are in the most northerly portions of the continent. They are warming. The isolated part of Antarctica is cooling. It's basically a re-analysis of existing data that has resulted in this conclusion.

Summary: The majority of the Anarctic continent is isolated from the rest of the world when it comes to weather patterns. Most research stations aren't in the isolated part, they are in the most northerly portions of the continent. They are warming. The isolated part of Antarctica is cooling. It's basically a re-analysis of existing data that has resulted in this conclusion.

Actually, the officer freely admitted he had been looking at porn on the navy laptop while off duty after learning he might might have to preside over the case of a subordinate charged with misuse of a military computer.

The CBC usually does an excellent job of covering the Olympics... I remember that some of my American friends near the border actually tuned in to CBC for the Nagano games...

And their page is much more standards compliant.

CBC Olympics Front Page

Justice, and what people regard as justice, is skewed in the United States. A man beats another man to death over hockey and gets involuntary manslaughter involuntary manslaughter. Now that's getting off easy. How can the state justify seeking these kinds of penalties for a crime(???) that didn't affect lives and probably didn't cost anyone anything? Running Outlook Express on an office computer probably costs more than the consequences of his "crime". Let's get a grip on priorities here.

UMG is incorporating copy protection into their CDs to assess its viability in protecting the rights of our artists and copyright holders by preventing CD copying and illegal Internet distribution.

Funny... this is from the people who are ripping off the artists in the first place.

In the recent 2001 budget, not nearly the amount of money required for the broadband access program was given. The target date has now been shifted to the end of 2005. Check out this CBC article However, our government has still been more supportive of broadband then others in the world.

This booger-green money is depressing to look at - well, at least the $3 in my wallet is. If they were prettier, maybe I'd be happier.

Move to Canada. The older money is multi-colored with various images of wildlife, and the newer tens look rather "European" in style.

Yes, it would take an "Anonymous COWARD" to post that.

Really??? Well I'm not afraid to say un-anonymously that I hate Zionist terrorist thugs and think that Sharon should be twitching on the end of a rope for all the people he's ordered killed.

The bin Laden video? Could be real, could be fake. Big deal. We've also got lots of video implicating Bush in the deaths of innocents, and lots more implicating zionist terrorists in the deaths of innocents as well (try as they might, the IDF couldn't shoot all the journalists).

Jerusalem? Yeah Jews built it but later they were kicked out. And if how they are behaving now is any indication, they probably deserved it. Get over it.

A more balanced view of the Palestine situation can be found here

Monsanto sued the farmer for "stealing" seed, he counter-sued Monsanto for "contaminating" his farm with GM canola. You can see a bit of the story here.

The end result? The farmer lost and was fined C$19000.

-AD

Street Cents, a show on CBC (yeah, I know, 90% of you don't get CBC) had a show a while back about these high school kids in Halifax who set up a recording studio business in their basement. It was pretty impressive.

Unfortunately, as parent poster proficiently pointed out, marketing is the problem. Specifically, radio. Radio is what sells records, and payola is as much alive today as it was way back before "New Year's Rockin' Eve" was even a twinkle in Dick Clarks' eye. His eyes were too busy being used along with his fingers to count all his "investment income". The only difference between then and now is that it's not DJ's who see the big bucks, but the executives who run the gigantic media conglomerates. :(

Street Cents, a show on CBC (yeah, I know, 90% of you don't get CBC) had a show a while back about these high school kids in Halifax who set up a recording studio business in their basement. It was pretty impressive.

Unfortunately, as parent poster proficiently pointed out, marketing is the problem. Specifically, radio. Radio is what sells records, and payola is as much alive today as it was way back before "New Year's Rockin' Eve" was even a twinkle in Dick Clarks' eye. His eyes were too busy being used along with his fingers to count all his "investment income". The only difference between then and now is that it's not DJ's who see the big bucks, but the executives who run the gigantic media conglomerates. :(

CBC

or some reason I was thinking about those who were tried & convicted. I believe that if it has been proven that you are indeed guilty of committing a crime, you have no rights.

That's a load of crap, for two reasons.

1) Wrongful convictions. If you look here you will see several cases of people jailed for murder, and released years later when they were found to have been innocent of that crime (thanks to advances like DNA testing). These are Canadian cases, but I'm sure there are American examples as well; hopefully they all lived long enough to take advantage of their overturned conviction.

2) Bad or arbitrary laws. People can be locked up in one area for behaviour that is perfectly acceptable in another area (e.g. drug and alcohol laws in Netherlands vs. USA vs. Saudi Arabia, the Dmitry/DMCA thing, or those quaint areas where certain sexual acts between consenting adults are illegal).

In both cases, I believe the person involved does NOT automatically lose all of his rights once he's convicted. The person in the first case has a right to say "I didn't commit this crime", and the person in the second case has a right to say "What I did shouldn't be a crime". Take those rights away, and you're heading down a *very* slippery slope. [rather than invoke Godwin's law, I'll stop here]

I don't know if the CBC is legally obligated to be unbiased, though it is government-owned and seems to do pretty well most of the time.

Their article, Microsoft rolls out the hype again with Windows XP, though, seems to be pretty unbiased. I just like the headline.

--Dan