Monthly Archives: July 2009

Madoff: Can't believe fraud lasted so long

LOS ANGELES — Bernard Madoff, the financier convicted for Wall Street’s biggest investment fraud, was surprised his $65 billion Ponzi scheme was not uncovered sooner, he said in his first interview since entering prison. Madoff, the disgraced 71-year-old Wall Streeter … Continue reading

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Guilty of unconscious racism

White cops and black men can be an unhappy mix. Last week, all hell broke loose when a white cop intercepted a black man trying to break into a big house near Harvard University. Unfortunately for the cop, the man … Continue reading

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World July 29th, 2009 (8)

#1 — CNN | Nearly all British troops pulling out of Iraq LONDON, England (CNN) — Almost all British troops in Iraq are being pulled out because the agreement that allows them to be there expires on Friday, the British … Continue reading

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Canada July 29th, 2009 (12)

#1 — CBC | PM communications chief Teneycke resigns Kory Teneycke, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s director of communications, is resigning, CBC News has learned. [...] #2 — CBC | $4M untendered eHealth contract revealed The value of untendered contracts handed … Continue reading

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New Brunswick paper apologizes to PM (3 – bumped)

SAINT JOHN — A New Brunswick daily newspaper issued a front-page apology Tuesday for a July 8 story that claimed the prime minister pocketed a communion wafer during the state funeral for former governor general Romeo LeBlanc. The Saint John … Continue reading

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A crackdown on queue-jumpers

Conservatives—especially those with Reform roots—have always disliked the Supreme Court’s 1985 Singh decision. It ruled that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies not just to Canadians, but to anyone who steps foot in Canada—even foreigners who arrive illegally and … Continue reading

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Iran supreme leader closes prison (1)

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s supreme leader ordered the closure of a prison where rights workers say protesters detained in the country’s election turmoil have died, officials said Tuesday, as the head of the opposition sharply condemned the wave of arrests. … Continue reading

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The Jail Inferno

Standing in the well of a jail on New York’s Rikers Island as profanities rain down on you from the cells above, you realize the absurdity of academia’s most celebrated book on incarceration. Discipline and Punish, by the late French … Continue reading

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MPs ignore public anger

MPs have ignored public anger over the expenses system by quietly introducing new rules which allow them to claim up to £9,125 a year without producing any receipts. The Daily Telegraph can disclose that MPs have devised a new scheme … Continue reading

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How Earl Jones found his clients (2)

In the summer of 1986, a cancer-stricken nurse named Dianne Creaser signed a will in a weak, barely legible scratch, appointing businessman Earl Jones as one of the executors of her estate. The next day, at the age of 44, … Continue reading

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Militant labour's death rattle

Thankfully, Via Rail and its locomotive engineers’ union saw sense and ended their strike after just two days. Both sides admitted over the weekend to being worried that a prolonged work stoppage would drive passengers away permanently. So they agreed … Continue reading

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World July 28th, 2009 (9)

#1 — BBC | Nigerian militants ‘under siege’ A group of Nigerian Islamist militants is barricaded into a small area in the city of Maiduguri after two days of violence in the country’s north. [...] #2 — CNN | NFL … Continue reading

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