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Mom Makes Website, Gets Sued for $2 Million

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the no-good-deed-goes-unpunished dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Canadian stay-at-home mom of 3 recently created a website to report on environmental problems around her neighborhood. The general public and governmental workers lauded her for her efforts. The environmental Ministry spokesman was even quoted as saying 'Obviously we can't have staff everywhere all the time, so we depend on the public out there as surrogate eyes and ears for the ministry'. However, not everyone was quite as happy, as she soon found out, when one company decided to sue her for libel to the tune of $2 million."

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  1. Re:in Canda? by Nimrangul · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    No, we're the ones logging the shit out of BC and selling it to you Americans, so you can tax the shit out of us against the terms of the NAFTA. That we know about it and keep logging anyways means we can't really be such big environmentalists.

    We have more natural resources and are generally more socialistic in our views, but we have greedy, evil money-grubbing companies just the same as you. Like where you have the evil lobby group the MPAA, the CMPDA lobbies here.

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    I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
  2. Re:American dollar versus the Canadian dollar. by CyricZ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Indeed. But most Americans these days have very little background in such essential subjects. They can flip burgers, do hair and work a till, but cannot see when their own government is completely destroying their economy.

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    Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
  3. Re:That's it! by subterfuge · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    $20 Canadian?..

    Ha ha ha ha haha,

    ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hehe hoho haha,
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    *sniff*
    *sniff*
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    Ahahahaha, ha ha..

    $20 Canadian won't cover the K-Y !

  4. Re:I thought... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Go USA, biggest and best in everything, including freedom of press, 44th and proud of it, everyone above is a terrorist sympathizer, everyone below is a nazi, go USA!