What's Going On in Canada?

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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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Go Bin Laden! by SlashdotMeNow · 2004-10-29 23:48 · Score: 0, Troll

He's my hero for standing up the US. When will the world realise that it does not have to take shit from the US?
1. Re:Go Bin Laden! by SlashdotMeNow · 2004-10-30 02:21 · Score: 1, Troll
  
  Yea those were kewl too, but mostly I like him for the WTC attacks. That was his best work. I bet you don't know why the rest of the world hates America either. It makes no sense right? America does so much GOOD in this world! Why? WHYYY?
2. Re:Go Bin Laden! by SlashdotMeNow · 2004-10-30 02:25 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  Noooononononono. I'm not encouraging hatred. I'm encouraging hatred OF AMERICA. See it's OK to hate America unless of course you're American yourself, in which case you won't possibly understand why anyone could hate you. You're doing so much GOOD in the world right?
Re:Good going to Canada by pipingguy · 2004-10-30 02:00 · Score: 0, Troll

Nice to see that Canada has the balls to stand up the the USA.

They must also be fairly large, as we all know that cold causes shrinkage.
Re:The naked truth about canada by benzapp · 2004-10-30 03:52 · Score: 0, Troll

Dude, I live on St-Catherine street, and you have no clue what the hell you are talking about. It is the center of downtown Montreal, and it is EXTREMLY safe.

I realize it is a north south artery, but in the context of the message I was responding to, we are talking about the latin quarter, ie St Catherine and St Denis. That is not quite the center of downtown montreal.

Just so you know, after 2am there are police cars EVERYWHERE patrolling on and around St-Catherine.

I'm not saying they aren't there. I am saying they are pussies and ineffectual. It is a travesty they are even referred to as police officers.

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I don't read or respond to AC posts
Re:Typo in article headline by xcomm · 2004-10-30 05:54 · Score: 0, Troll

Not at all - CNN is what we call Pentagon TV here in the rest of the world!

Al Jazeera (only an other kind of propaganda TV)
has probably more here:
Really Full Speech

For really objective information I would highly recommend you in the US:

www.occupationwatch.org
www.alternet.org

BTW: Al Jazeera had also more images of fallen childreen in Iraq as CNN showed you in the US clean video games or faked trailers.

-->This is the point Bin Laden made on you in his tape!
Canada is not a nation. by Rotten168 · 2004-11-02 07:53 · Score: 0, Troll

It is a massive inferiority complex with borders.