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What's Going On in Canada?

Posted by michael on 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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  1. stupid FUD article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    - the sky is falling!

    - the Patriot Act endangers everyone!

    - it's OK to be a terrorist!

    - you have everything to fear, including fear itself!

  2. Re:Oh Canada! by Zareste · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    and we do have nearly-legal weed

    Blah blah this explains everything blah blah blah..

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  3. WAR!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What a shame, I always thought the USA would start the war with Canada! Now they are just askin for it...

    !!

  4. Re:Oh Canada by Zareste · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nah, the grass there is pretty brown. It might be nice if your were born there and told to like the place, but I'd rather stick around here where the grass really IS greener and isn't required to sprout in French.

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    I am NOT a number! I am a - oh wait, I'm number 761710. Look! 761710!
  5. Re:Go Bin Laden! by Vlad_the_Inhaler · · 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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  6. Re:Typo in article headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    you know there's something wrong in America when Bin Laden starts taunting Americans about the country's PATRIOT Act...
    Yeah, like the world's worst dictators, terrorists, and criminals don't know how to work the useful idiots of the left by throwing them a few rhetorical bones. See you at Kim Jong Il's peace summit, F.A.G!