U.S. Blogger Breaches Canadian Publication Ban

nnet writes "The Toronto Sun is reporting that a U.S. blogger has been breaching a Canadian publication ban on AdScam. While The Sun hasn't given the URL for the blog itself, in fear of a contempt of court charge, this isn't the first time an American has breached a Canadian publication ban according to the article." The Sun story, though, does give a nice title for which to search, and this quickly yields the story in question.

Comments

I now how to enforce the publication ban!

[Anonymous Coward]

Get the site linked on Slashdot!

Watch out CmdrTaco!

[sulli]

The RCMP will march to Ann Arbor and demand that you delete the above post!

Politely, of course.

isn't it obvious?

[to_kallon]

Charles Guité, an officer of the Public Works ministry who worked on the Sponsorship Program

i misread this as "charles guilté" and was immediately confused as to how he'd not already been convicted.

Begin "Operation: Human Shield" at once

[Timesprout]

We must liberate Canada from this evil immediately.

Invade!

[alta]

I'm not going to bother reading it, because it's long, confusing and boring. I'm going to give my stock answer to anything involving Canada, simply because once again, it holds true...

Lets' invade!!!Someone tell bush that they are the REAL target.

Re:Role reversal

[CoolMoDee]

ssshhh. They beat us once...besides..our army is in the middle east. A perfect time to come and kick our yankee asses.

Change of Venue?

[Ironsides]

"The information, I gather, is very, very damaging and very prejudicial," he said. "If it's accessed by large numbers of people in Montreal where the trial will take place it could have a prejudicial effect."

There is an easy solution to this. Have a change of venue to someplace where they haven't been paying much attention to the news. I recomend somewhere in the Northwest Territories.

IN related news . . .

[hawk]

. . . Michael Jackson has filed a motion for a really big change in venue . . .

:)

hawk

US citizen acknowledges Canada

[Easy2RememberNick]

Someone from the US is interested in Canadian politics? Weird.

Re:The article...

[MyIS]

Mob ties

The deadly Canadian mafia is not to be meddled with. They will sign you up to furniture catalogues, topple your lawn gnomes and even put flaming bags of poo on your porch! Heh heh[ NO CARRIER ]

(yes, I live in Canada, and yes, I am aware that there is a lot of dangerous mob activity, despite the friendly image of the country)

Moving

[Anonymous Coward]

Thats it! Ive had it with these polititions! Im moving to the USA.

Re:I Thought This Blogger Looked Reputable...

[MynockGuano]

Is that your shiny little hat fallen off on the floor over there?

no french no care

[hsmith]

Until you produce your above post in french as well, you can consider your warning null and void

Re:no french no care

[dgatwood]

Le RCMP marcheront a Ann Arbor et ils demanderont que vous detruisez le message au dessus!

Poliment, naturellement.
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You have been warned.
Vous avez été averti.

Re:no french no care

[Citizen of Earth]

Le RCMP marcheront a Ann Arbor et ils demanderont que vous detruisez le message au dessus!

The French text needs to be in a larger font than the rest of the English on this page. (Notwithstanding universal human rights.)

Canadian bloggers

[Anonymous Coward]

A number of Canadian sites that had previously been discussing the scandal have removed their coverage and links due to the threats.

So far, Small Dead Animals is still covering it.

So is Angry in the Great White North, who writes:

After I sanitized my previous post about Jean Brault's testimony at the Gomery Inquiry, I felt ill. After many hours, I decided to look in my wife's purse for something that might make me feel better. But instead of Tylenol, I found a pair. I recognized them as my own, and put them back on.

A simple solution to finding a fair jury

[metamatic]

As for his "fair trial", that can still be done - I'm sure we can find a dozen people who've been living in caves the last 5 years.

It's much easier than that. Just get a bunch of Americans and Europeans to volunteer to be on the jury. I mean, most Americans have only the vaguest notion of where Canada is even located. Europeans in my experience know where Canada is, but unless they're French they don't see any reason why anyone would want to go there.

Speaking personally, I've visited Canada twice and have every intention of visiting again, but I'm prepared to admit that I have no clue whatsoever what the Gomery inquiry is, or what kind of guy Chretien is. (I've heard the name, I remember that he is or was a Canadian politician, but that's about it.)

So if Canada needs a jury, I'd be glad to offer my services as a completely ignorant neutral member of the jury. All they need to do is pay for the plane ticket, my accomodations, and arrange with my employers to get me the time off work.

If I committed a crime in Canada, I'd be tried before a jury of foreign nationals--i.e. Canadians. If a Canadian committed a crime in the US, he'd be tried before a jury of non-Canadians. So I don't see why a Canadian alleged to have committed crimes in Canada shouldn't be tried before a jury of foreign nationals, if that's the best way to ensure that he gets a fair trial.