What's Going On in Canada?

Posted by michael on Friday October 29, 2004 @10:00PM from the glad-you-asked dept.

Jack Action writes "Up in Canada, the Privacy Commissioner of the province of British Columbia is recommending an immediate freeze on all outsourcing of public data to US-connected firms, Reuters and the CBC are reporting. After extensive consultations, the Privacy Commissioner has found that the USA Patriot Act threatens the private data of citizens even if they don't live in the USA (repeat: non-Americans are at risk). You can visit the Commissioners website, and download a summary or the full report." And reader digity writes "The long-standing Canadian battle on grey-market satellite dishes took a surprising turn in a Quebec courtroom yesterday. The grounds: freedom of expression. Yet another reason to come to the Great White North!"

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Re:Oh Canada! by Zareste · 2004-10-29 22:51 · Score: 1, Flamebait

and we do have nearly-legal weed

Blah blah this explains everything blah blah blah..

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Re:Go Bin Laden! by Vlad_the_Inhaler · 2004-10-30 01:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Is he your hero for 'standing up to' Spain? Australian tourists in Bali? Turkey? Those bombings in E Africa which mainly killed locals?

Bin Laden's closest allies were the Taliban. Is their society the kind you want to live in?

If you are serious, your mind is tiny and you are out of it.

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