CANADA
#1 — CNews | Attawapiskat to get two new homes on weekend
OTTAWA – Two of 22 modular homes are finally being delivered to the troubled northern Ontario reserve of Attawapiskat.
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#2 — Globe | Hudak holds on to Ontario Tory leadership
Tim Hudak will hang on to his job as leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives, despite his party’s defeat in last fall’s provincial election.
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#3 — LFP | Job search tougher for older workers from EMD
The closing of London’s locomotive factory will bump up not just the ranks of the city’s jobless, but also the numbers of older people out of work.
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#4 — NP | Canada: As immigration booms, ethnic enclaves swell and segregate
More than 600 newcomers per day have arrived in Canada since 2006, and many of them have settled in neighbourhoods like Richmond, B.C. The once-quiet farming community on the south end of Vancouver is now home to North America’s second-largest Asian community — and Canada’s densest proportion of foreign-born residents. The city’s strip malls are a haven for dim sum. Richmond’s roads are replete with white delivery vans emblazoned with Chinese characters and massive 150-store Asian-friendly malls seemingly plucked right from downtown Shanghai.
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#5 — OC | Bill C-51 could allow police to view people’s web-surfing habits
The Conservative government plans to introduce a law on Monday that will allow police to better monitor the web-surfing habits of Canadians.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Mitt Romney narrowly wins Maine Republican caucuses
Officials in Maine say Mitt Romney has won the state’s primary caucuses in the race for the Republican presidential nomination with 39% of the vote.
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#7 — CNN | Iraqi ministry official, local leader killed in separate attacks
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) – An Iraqi interior ministry official was assassinated while driving in Baghdad, one of several deadly attacks Saturday reported by police.
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#8 — Fox | Singer Whitney Houston found dead
LOS ANGELES – Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died, Fox News confirms. She was 48.
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#9 — DM | Police forces on alert over deadly million-volt ‘Tasers’ disguised as mobile phones
Police forces across Britain have been warned to beware of a flood of high-powered stun guns disguised as mobile phones which are being smuggled into the country.
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#10 — Telegraph | Top judge ordered to scrap human rights ruling
Britain’s most senior immigration judge has been ordered to scrap a ruling which allowed a foreign killer to stay in Britain on human rights grounds.
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Re:#8. Whitney Houston does it like only she could……..R.I.P.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jeUINzHK9o
A few of her finer moments ….
http://cynicsunlimited.com/2012/02/12/tribute-to-whitney-houston-top-5-songs-of-all-time/
Re: Bill C-51 could allow police to view people’s web-surfing habits ….. and once again we take one step closer to 1984.
I wonder why the headline reads “could allow” when in practice it “will allow”?
They didn’t name them so let’s start a list
- China
- Iran
- North Korea
- Venezuela
- Cuba
- America (land of the once free, and the home of the ever fearful and paranoid)
- England (home of the most surveilled people in the western world)
Feel free to add your own……
It isn’t impossible to get around C-51, but we shouldn’t have to. It’s amazing what people will fall for under fear of “terrorism”.
You’re right Cy, it’s not impossible, or even tremendously difficult – but, as you say, we shouldn’t have to.
As for the “fear of terrorism” gig – fear is (as you know) how authoritarian governments rule and acquire greater and more intrusive powers over the lives of the
sheepleaverage fearful citizen.Awaiting the inevitable chorus from the masses of “AWK!! If you’ve nothing to hide you’ve nothing to fear, if you’ve nothing to hide you’ve nothing to fear“…………
Ain’t it funny how the gun registry was an unwarranted and unacceptable intrusion into the lives of hard working ordinary Canadians but snooping their Internet activity isn’t?
The key word here, stage is ‘ordinary’. Believe me when I say (based on personal experience) that the police do not have the time nor the inclination to ‘snoop’ on ordinary law abiding citizens. To paraphrase that famous Clark Gabel quote from ‘Gone with the Wind’, frankly police don’t give a damn…what the ‘ordinary’ citizen does. Case in point. I spent a considerable amount of time in one instance preparing and convincing a federal judge to sign an authorization to intercept private communications on 6 or so residential telephone lines. Labour intensive process doesn’t even come close to describing the procedure..and so it should be. Day one of the ‘hook up’ we anxiously listened into a private conversation on one of the target’s lines. Wiretaps are on the residence telephone line not a specific telephone number. We looked at one another with a WTF? Nobody recognized the voices and the conversation made absolutely no sense as it pertained to our investigation. We immediately suspected that ‘something’ had changed. Who in hell were these people? That specific line was immediately ordered shut off until we found out. We quickly determined that practically overnight the target had moved out of the rental and new tenants had moved in. That line was never reactivated and in fact permanently disconnected via the telephone company as soon as humanly possible ……. ie minutes. The police have bigger fish to fry ie actual criminals using limited manpower resources, even more limited funding and thus no bloody time to waste ‘snooping around’. That’s how it works in the real world, stage. At least in Canada. Your fears are completely unfounded IMO.
So you don’t mind the kiddie porn on the web?
Same fear-mongering as terrorism.
I’d guess that well over 95% of the internet abhors child pornography. That doesn’t mean we want the government spying on downloads and access to websites critical of American foreign policy.
Sorry, but the right likes to talk about “freedom” and this is the most fundamental case in point . There are going to be bad people who do bad things – that doesn’t mean you punish the +95%.
Side note: “underground scene” (that I may or may not have had contact with earlier in life) had its own way of dealing with pedos. It was much faster than what the cops do now and also brutally efficient. In fact …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkhwqAfjvx4
Let me guess Susie……. if I don’t support Harper and Bill C-51 I’m supporting kiddie porn?
It’s an old line, the Conservatives used it during a previous bill that the opposition opposed. Said by not supporting a crime bill that the Opposition was supporting pedophiles didn’t they?
I just knew I should have started a minute by minute pool (at $25 a square I could have cleaned up) on when that would be thrown out – we’ll hear nothing but “terrorism” and “kiddie porn” in the selling of this bill.
It’s as dumb as saying “if you don’t support the gun registry you support gun crime“, but that won’t stop people from using it.
I swear, sometimes I’m just downright prophetic
From QP this afternoon, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews responds to concerns raised by Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia about the government’s pursuit of so-called lawful access legislation.