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Personally, I think suicide should be on the list of Human Rights.

It is in Canada.

That being said, assisted suicide, euthanasia, and counselling someone to kill themselves are crimes with substantial penalties listed. Here's a news story about someone who publicly declared his intent and succeeded.

You're right, that's Germany where it actually is illegal to deny the Holocaust. In Canada it is perfectly legal to deny the Holocaust, you just can't spread that belief as part of a campaign to incite hatred towards a group (such as Jews) or propagate a movement based on this effort (such as neo-Naziism). Incidently, the person in question here was a German national, exported to Germany, and imprisioned by Germany under German law. He was also deported from the U.S. back to Canada while trying to obtain U.S. citizenship. So neither the U.S. nor Canada wanted him.

For starters, try:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1107178933995_11?hub=SciTech

There's four major changes - 2 of them help spot problems, not fix them:
1. NASA launches only in daylight, so they have a better chance of photographing any damage that may happen.
2. The crew has a kit to help inspect the shuttle for damage.

Two changes actually reduce the risk of an accident:
1. The crew has a rudamentary repair kit, although NASA admits it's not as good as they had hoped for.
2. The main tank foam system has been redesigned. The biggest piece that it should be able to shed is supposed to be no bigger than a dinner roll, compared to the suitcase sized piece that hit Colombia.

What NASA hasn't done: 1. Gone back to a non-foamed tank design. 2. Found more ways to improve the range and scope of the repair kit, or else they haven't paid enough to implement every repair kit tool or patch they thought of.

...from a people who invented The Fried Mars Bar. There isn't anything "green" about burning methane or lard.

Vip

Check out this story:
T.O. police arrest man posing as Red Cross worker

There's no reason you should to give your money to strangers. If you can't/don't want to donate money over the internet, go to your local Redcross office. Every major city has one.

You'd think there would be some sort of international warning system for events like this but apparently there isn't. According to this article, U.S. scientists tried to reach contacts in the reach but since there is no warning system in place, they couldn't let anyone know what was happening.

Sarcasm on:
It's nice to note though that the hockey players have found other ways to suppliment their incomes
Sarcasm off:

That's not true -- I use BitTorrent to download Alias episodes because I'm never home on Sunday nights. I watch them on Monday nights with my wife. That's time-shifting.

I get CTV so I *could* watch it on Sunday night, were I home.

Not likely. Poland is right now in a severe political turmoil, the government has recently fallen due to corruption allegations and there's another interim government with rather weak (if any) support in the parlament. There's no long-term planning of anything, the government will just manage things until the next election. Every day the press reveals another evidence of corruption. The sentence "Tinted windscreen, man, tinted windscreen.. it's better than... better than... better than... anything!", taken from transcript of secret service taping of conversations of one MP with a lobbyist corrupting him with a gift of a brand-new Mercedes Benz (with tinted windscreen) is now as popular in "watercooler" conversations as "You forgot about Poland". It turned out that in Polish government everyone took bribes from everyone, but they were too lazy/incompetent to do what they took bribes for. It's quite typical for Poland and that's why things have sometimes a happy ending here - when the politicians become too corupt and stupid, they sortof step back, enjoy their tinted windscreens and... let the wise men do their job. I guess that's what happened here.

"The ability to filibuster is there for a reason -- to stop a President and 51 Senators (or in this case 55) from the same party from putting an extremist on the Supreme Court."

And all along, I thought the filibuster was a way for senate minority leaders to place undue influence on the political process without fear of retaliation...

Then Tom Daschle had to prove me wrong.

Speaking of the numbers. As a Canadian, I'd like to thank Mr. Bush for great economic policy. Keep up the good work. See if you can do something about that pesky 2 term rule this time around too.

Bush for prez!

Laser eye surgery is not covered by the Canadian government. If it was, it couldn't be performed by private companies, and you'd have to wait in line for 6 months like you do for anything serious here.

Trust me, you don't want public health care.

Yes, the Canadians love their government-run healthcare so much that the private sector medcial centers are growing. I don't even like Rush Limbaugh so I'll use the actual Canadian news sources.

Canadians want 2-tier health: poll

British Columbia is looking to expand its use of private medical clinics

Private medical clinic opens in Montreal

Pettigrew open to discussing role of private MRI clinics

Even the Canadian medical pot users complain that "He doesn't need government-grown schwag that costs $150 Canadian per 30 grams"

I suppose you are going to aruge that Rush Limbaugh controls the Canadian media because they disagree with you? Do you own research, folks! Blindingly following Socialists is as danagerous than blindingly following the Republicans or Democrats.

Can you not read the "URLs" on the posting page?

Stupid Canadians.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1098121671320_93530871/?hub=World

Mozilla = an effort by underdogs to group together and make a better piece of software than Microsoft, not just focus on their big bad enemy and lament their life. Palestinians = well ... not that!

I think they have some pretty good reasons to focus on their big bad enemy and lament their life.

Tourists have been flocking to the site for several days now, hoping to see the volcano erupt ... and get their names enshrined in the Darwin Hall of Shame.

hey wow some of us don't have a DVD player

I personally have a VHS VCR and a 13inch mono TV from 1980.
and I don't have the kind of money required to goto the movies...
you need to get some prospective dude.

Genoside in Darfur
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1096222386043_58/?hub=World/

disparity between the rich and poor
http://www.detnews.com/2002/census/0212/19/a06-583 123.htm/

sigh....sorry about that

END RANT

"I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them."

From this article.

I think it was in the other link (the "More information on the accident is available here" link), that seems to have been slashdotted...

I've lived in both places. Canada is just as fucked up as the States. (Probably get modded flamebait, but take a look at the facts, because the Truth hurts...)

- It's illegal to buy, get this, MILK (?!?!) from a dairy farmer. (Right now, you can own part of the cow, to get around this stupid law.)

- It's illegal for the farmer to sell his grain to anyone other than the Wheat board. A number of years back, there was a farmer who owned land on both sides of the East-West dviding line. He was fined $10,000+ when he tried to sell his WHOLE crop at the higher price that the Eastern Wheat board was paying.

- Hemp protein contains ALL 20 known amino acids including the 9 essential amino acids (EAAs) our bodies cannot produce, yet this *natural* plant is illegal to posess or grow?!?! (I'm NOT talking about the hallucinogen type. The US constitution was written on Hemp paper for Christ's sake.)

What's that old adage?

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the republic.
Tactus.

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The evolution & "supposed" pre-ancient history of man is a crock.
One of the many proofs that intelligent pre-historic civilizations existed long BEFORE man's ancient civilizations...
1. Progression of "apparent" history of "man" - Hominidae is 3 millions years old
2. Geological Time Frames perspective
3. A machined 3D relief map 120-million years old in a 1-ton stone, with inscriptions. WTF?!

Hmm... what's going on here?

Sorry, I think this is happening to a number of Airlines:
href=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/C TVNews/1091237095342_4/?hub=TopStories

Probably just the CIA moving them all onto some big CIA super-computer.

<a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/ CTVNews/1089949545116_85358745/?hub=Canada">Quebec gov't happy with right-on-red law change</a> and <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/u sa_can/driving/right.htm">Right Turns On Red Lights</a>

It has better features than the roomba or the trilobite. Like a base station which empties the dustbin. The unit keeps cleaning until it's covered your entire house and finds its way back to the base station every hour to empty itself and recharge before continuing where it left off.

ITER is a proof-of-concept research project that is not expected to reach break-even, let alone produce any usable energy for 25-50 years. It may not even be possible to achieve ignition (a self-sustaining plasma fusion reaction) with ITER technology.

Canada has had an ITER team since the early 1990s. The plan was to put the project out near Oshawa and bring in some research dollars, but it was a bit of a lame horse politically. Our elected representatives were too busy lining their pockets , so Canada is apparently out for the running as a site for the ITER project.

Mobile porn like this guy?

I think it may also be related to the recent Supreme Court 9-0 judgement in the Law Society of Upper Canada photocopier copyright case. I'll be interested to read how the court handled 80(b)(2). I also suspect the CRIA lawyers were unprepared and expected a slam-dunk.

Quick update - they can't - not enough evidence so no court orders. This means ISP's are not required to provide the usernames of the customers.

For comparison, NASA's current funding level is just two billion dollars higher than the Canadian Military. Take that however you will.

I agree - artificial limits on seats in Med schools are costing us billions of dollars. Here in British Columbia, Canada, I have a couple of friends wh would make incredible doctors but they can't get into med school! Meanwhile, The doctors of a nearby city's hospital have resigned en masse because we can't afford their 11% pay increases. Why on earth would a physician want to get into a lower-paying industry when there are no jobs? OTOH, the biotech industry could use a few physicians to "guide the geeks". Perhaps we shouldn't be so critical. And after all, this industry slump isn't going to last forever. Right? RIGHT??

Note to user: If using Internet Explorer, please type all links manually into the address bar. Where do you want to go today? (Note: you may only have time to go to one place.)

I submitted this story yesterday, in fact before the CBC was even covering it, citing CTV's coverage of the same story.

The point that a lot of people seem to miss when I tell them about this is that it's not about whether or not you're cheating, it's a matter of a university presuming your guilt. I know that when I submit work I've put my heart and soul into it, and I don't appreciate being treated like a criminal. Furthermore, I don't want people making money off of MY work unless I get paid dividends for it (and I consent to it in the first place). The vast majority of students are not "cheaters", and these sorts of systems generate all sorts of false-positives. "Better to let 10 murderers go free than to crucify one innocent person."

People who say "Well I don't care because I don't plagiarize" are missing the point entirely.

No, not at all.

Paul Martin has made noises about 'increasing democracy' for years now, but the actual fact of the matter is that he only cares about democracy when it is 'clamoring' for his place at the top table, courtesy of his nameless, faceless attack goons.

Remember that this is the guy who was supposed to have put his assets (Canada Shipping Lines) in a blind trust, but didn't. This is the guy who out sourced / made redundant Canadian crews at CSL and then refused to talk about it. Corporate welfare? How about a C$4.4bn tax cut for corporations? He also canned affordable housing as a government priority.

I remember when he ran for election in my Montreal riding. I also distinctly remember voting Conservative, something I am rather embarrassed to admit, because the appeal of a second-generation politician running for election based on what Daddy could give him was in the negative figures for me.

There's only one reason he's PM right now -- the right in Canada is a fucking joke. After however many years of Chretien somnambulance Canadians want something that reinforces their complacency. Paul Martin fits that bill.

I think he should buy good kneepads and a bib for when he finally meets Bush, it's obvious he needs them.

force the closing of a satire web site that takes aim at the new unelected Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin.

Reminds me of another recent happening. Coincidence ? Consider the following ...

New Prime Minister - Paul Martin - Is Steering Canada Cautiously to the Right

The trend in Ottawa is already more businesslike and conservative - friendlier to the United States and to the Canadian military. Now as Paul Martin assembles his government and prepares for national elections early next year, Mr. Martin is carefully leaning to the right.

• He appointed David Pratt, a member of Parliament who urged the previous government to join the invasion of Iraq, as defense minister. (Canada did not join the invasion) Mr. Pratt is expected to be an articulate advocate for increasing the military budget.
• He has created a public safety super-ministry to coordinate security policy and planning among several ministries and to consult more closely with the United States Department of Homeland Security.
• "Our No. 1 priority is health care," Mr. Martin said this week. (Medicare anyone?)

Angry Copps accuses Martin of shift to right

Copps agreed with a recent New York Times editorial that said Canada's new leader had adopted a more conservative position

"The great thing about being a Liberal used to be that you'd have wonderful arguments and then you'd come together as a team and everybody would pull together," said Copps. "If you had a different point of view, you were not persona non grata." But that tone has changed quickly under Martin's stewardship, she said. "At this point it doesn't seem that there is a lot of room on his team for voices of dissent."

Really?
CBS
And for you Canadians ...
CTV

You mean like what SOCAN is trying to do to the music industry in Canada?

I agree with you, but big the question is "Does The Supreme Court agree with us?". From the CTV report:

The Federal Court agreed with the Copyright Board that ISPs were indeed carriers or transmitters of content except when ISPs engaged in caching content to speed up the performance of their systems.

The CBC report has a pointer to the actual Federal court decision that is being appealed.

1) Routine torture of prisoners.
2) No chance of a fair trial - ever.
3) Government imposed murder of the unborn children.
4) Crackdown on Christians.

Sounds like you are describing that freedom loving Guantanamo bay not China

torture of prisoners ? check
no chance of a fair trial ever ? check
Crackdown on Christians ? s/Christian/Islam/ check
Government imposed murder of the unborn children ? check

yeah sounds like you are living in a great free country, maybe a mirror is whats needed before condemming other countries political systems

The more this story is talked about, the more people will understand the unfairness of the concept of taxing item A for item B's use.

The link to ctv's story is here

Write an email and let them know how you feel about it.

They go on to say they want to patent it "...to ensure the information remains public and is not hoarded by someone seeking to profit from it."

Full story here:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1052224263146_7?s_name=

So.. AT&T's possible motive is to prevent a spammer from patenting this technology... and then NOT use it.... or, conversely, sell it for ransom.

Holding such a patent would certainly be a marketable selling point for AT&T's ISP/email services, no?

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You mean,

Ding Dong, the Chretien's dead, no?

-M5B

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."

Funny part is, I was just watching a Canadian reporter talking to an actual retired Quebec terrorist, and he kind of liked the idea, he thought it might make young people a little more militant.

You really are far, far, off base. [snip] Iraq is far better now than it was before the war. Better yet, this time next year they will be far, far better off than they are now. Additionally, they can more than likely expect the same trend to continue for years to come.

OK, where do I begin? First off - I'm amazed and somewhat scared at your current image of what life in Iraq is like. Secondly, I'd like to mention that all linked sites are googled for, none are my favourites or anything like that. I'm personally getting most of my news coverage from the BBC, FYI, but I'm having trouble with their website, so I can't reference anything there. However, I figured you'd want proof, so google was used to get me relevant links. Some of the articles/issues were new to me.

Imagine a place where basic social order has broken down. This is Iraq. No government to pay wages, no workers to do essential tasks in a human society. Complete turmoil. There are still problems with drinking water in many places; due to equiptment that has been poorly maintained, as you yourself point point out. The war and lack of engineers working (who'll pay them and give them replacement parts?) has pushed the system to breaking point, a system we weakened ourselves (I'm a bit skeptical on this one, i.e. delibarate targeting).

Coming out the other end, sewage is also a massive problem. Not only do the above issues affect drinking water, they also have a big problem with rivers of raw sewage around in cramped living conditions. Disease is the last thing you want when you have a completely destroyed health system. Having no refuse facitlities also causes many problems, not least of all disease carrying vermin.

The lack of maintence is not Saddams fault, it never was, it is due to the international sanctions, which has been commonly acknowledged for a long time. They could not import the parts to fix the systems. They couldn't manufacture them, as the equiptment to make piping etc is the same stuff you use to make weaponry, and the sanctions have denied them that as well. It's now down to charities to help rebuild this system, as well as collaliton forces. Sure, you can pat yourself on the back that water and sewage will soon be superiour to pre-war levels, but remember why the system was poor in the first place. I'm sure all the dead children and vurnerable people who have died as a result of your glory will be lining up to thank you if there was an afterlife.

Police are scare and crime is at extraodinary levels. Car jacking, kidnapping, rapes, murders and theft plauge every city. Citizens are scared to roam the streets, travel at night is a dangerous proposal. Cars are only used in emergency, unless you want armed gangs taking them from you.

Most peoples savings have been rendered useless. The most popular large denomination note, the 10,000 dinar, is not accepted anywhere, due to mass forgery on stolen printing machines. Coinage is the only acceptible payment for anything. However, this is fortunatly changing, as a new currency has been introduced a week or so ago. This will take a while (til January they reckon) to become universal, but it leaves serious issues with folk who have literally become pennyless. People have to eat, feed children, pay bills and live. With so many workers not getting paid

Reminds me of the the wonderful voyage of a fleet of rubber ducklings, which went overboard from a Chinese container ship into the Pacific ocean, and eventually ended up on Canada's east coast 10 years later..

and no "American Idol".

Unfortunately, we're about to have Canadian Idol. It depresses me so...

I did the math, and figured that I would make quite a bit more money living and working in canada, even with your higher tax rates. it's not about the tax, it's about what I get for my taxes- universal health care, low cost provincial auto insurance, etc.

It's very difficult to "do the math" because you have to take purchasing power into effect. Even though a U.S. dollar will buy $1.37 CND right now, it only costs about $1.25 CND to buy in Canada what would have cost $1 USD to buy in the U.S.

You also have to make the decision whether or not the universal health care is all you will ever want to have. It's excellent, but you can't choose to buy "better" coverage, unless you want to go to the U.S. and spend a fortune. I don't know any Americans who actually take advantage of this extra freedom of choice, but many feel they would rather have the freedom to buy better health care even though they can't afford it.

As for low cost provincial auto insurance, that depends on what province you live in.

This monkey has a perfect record picking winners in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
And I'm sure that sport simultations are more sophisticated than a monkey spinning a wheel, right?

Here in Canada, we have a 24 hour news channel called NewsNet. When NewsNet first went on the air, you could access it via the Internet streaming real-time at high resolution (like 500K/sec or something like that).

Shortly thereafter, the NewsNet broadcaster was bought by a National telecommunications provider, Bell Canada (yes, a post-monoploy MaBell equivalent in Canada). All of a sudden, only those people accessing the NewsNet website via a DSL connection provided by said telecommunications company could view it. Others, such as highspeed cable customers would be greeted with a message that they could not view the content because their access was too slow. Regardless of their speed, the blocking was based on IP and if you weren't a Bell Canada DSL subscriber, they wouldn't let you watch.

Ofcourse now they don't offer the services at all because of "rising communications costs". Uh huh. THEY'RE THE FREAK'IN PHONE COMPANY for cryin' out loud. For most of the country they are the Internet.

Oh well, I'll stop ranting now.

Did anyone see the pictures of the large dent and crack on the back of the left wing. It was taken during Ilan Ramon's downlink with the Isreali president. I saw it yesterday on either CBC newsworld or CTV Newsnet. They commented on NASA's reaction that it did not see of the footage. Also the story went on to say that the images where not being shown by US news media.
Niether Canadian news channel mentioned it this morning, and I have not found anything about it online.
I'm no conspriacy theorist, but this looks a little shady to me.

I'm surprised this theft hasn't attracted more attention in the mainstream media, since "Principia" is generally considered the most important scientific works in history.