Mom Makes Website, Gets Sued for $2 Million

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday November 13, 2005 @09:04AM 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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Re:in Canda? by Nimrangul · 2005-11-13 09:28 · 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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