Archive | September, 2008

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Ontario’s Ombudsman calls for SIU overhaul (3)

TORONTO — Ontario's Ombudsman is calling for a sweeping overhaul of the civilian agency that oversees the province's police to dispel its image as a “toothless tiger” that has “lost its way.” The Special Investigations Unit lacks the rigour to ensure that police follow the rules, Ombudsman André Marin says in a report released Tuesday. The 121-page report follows an investigation launched by his office in June, 2007, following complaints that the SIU has a pro-police bias. Mr. Marin's office found plenty of evidence to back up those complaints. [...more]

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Overwhelming interest crashes Do Not Call registry (1)

An overwhelming amount of interest in the national Do Not Call List for telemarketers crashed the website the day it came into effect. The CRTC says about 200,000 people had registered for the service by about 9 a.m. The site and hotline were activated at 12:01 a.m. [...more]

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Gurkhas win High Court battle to stay in the UK

Gurkhas who fought alongside the British Army have won their battle to settle in the UK following a High Court test case. The result was welcomed by actress Joanna Lumley, whose late father served with the 6th Gurkha Rifles, as a chance to "right a great wrong and wipe out a national shame that has stained us all". The six claimants who led the battle by 2,000 Gurkhas for the right to live in the UK included veterans of the Gulf War and Falklands conflicts who currently live in Nepal and Hong Kong. [...more]

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“A really big deal…this!” (3)

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper plagiarized almost half of a speech he delivered in 2003 as opposition leader, Liberal candidate Bob Rae alleged on Tuesday. [...more]

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Harper Calls For Debate Format Change

“The United States financial crisis has deepened since the debate format was finalized. The economy is, understandably, top of mind for most Canadians. Unfortunately, the current debate format does not devote sufficient time to the economy, the most important issue facing Canada today. [...more]

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Carbon tax a ‘mistake,’ Duncan says

Liberal leader Stéphane Dion was sideswiped by one of his own yesterday, when Ontario's Liberal finance minister, Dwight Duncan, said it would be "a mistake" to implement a carbon tax in the midst of shaky economic times. "One of the things that I think would be a mistake right now is massive shifts in tax burden at a time when there's uncertainty," Mr. Duncan told reporters. [...more]

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Prosecution rests robbery case against OJ Simpson

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The man who told a jury that O.J. Simpson asked him to bring guns and "look menacing" during a hotel room confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers acknowledged Monday he didn't tell police that last October. [...more]

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Brodbeck: Right down east

Nova Scotia's 68-page response last year to a high-profile commission of inquiry into youth crime is a must-read if you want to know what's ailing Canada's troubled youth criminal justice system. And as the debate rages on this week in the federal election on how far we should go in toughening up the Youth Criminal Justice Act, Nova Scotia's blueprint is an interesting starting point. [...more]

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Manning: To engage Canadians, we must invest more in our politicians

Many Canadians profess to being more attracted to the U.S. presidential election campaign than to their own federal election. Why is that, and what can be done to restore politics to first place in our political allegiance? [...more]

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Editorial: Northern visions beat nationalist daydreams

"Nickel, zinc, copper, platinum, gold, iron titanium, even diamonds!" Pack your bag, the stampede to the north is on! Again. Premier Jean Charest rolled out a northern vision last weekend, and fired up the troops at a Quebec Liberal Party meeting, speaking in front of huge screens showing a range of northern images - power dams, mines, settlements, noble caribou, leaping salmon ... [...more]

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Mystery surrounds hijacked Iranian ship

A tense standoff is underway in northeastern Somalia between pirates, Somali authorities, and Iran over a suspicious merchant vessel and its mysterious cargo. Hijacked late last month in the Gulf of Aden, the MV Iran Deyanat remains moored offshore in Somali waters and inaccessible for inspection. Its declared cargo consists of minerals and industrial products, however, Somali and regional officials directly involved in the negotiations over the ship and who spoke to The Long War Journal are convinced that it was heading to Eritrea to deliver small arms and chemical weapons to Somalia's Islamist insurgents. [...more]

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Daily Blogger - Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Noblesse Oblige | My Advice to Republicans: Don’t Vote on the Bill Until we Have a New Speaker -- The title of the post says it all. The American people know who has held the US economy hostage for housing the past few years, it’s time for a new speaker. If the Dems want a vote on this, they can put forward a speaker who is less incendiary. [...more]

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Daily Column - Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

National Post | Jonathan Kay: A very good week for the Canadian blogosphere -- Whatever happens on Oct. 14, the 2008 election will be remembered as -- among other things -- the collective coming out party for Canada's blogosphere. Amateur Web scribblers have been making their mark on Canadian politics for years, but never on the scale we've witnessed this month. [...more]

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International - Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

BBC | Chinese arrests over milk scandal -- Chinese police have arrested 22 people suspected of producing melamine - the chemical found in milk products which have made thousands of babies ill. [...more]

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Markets spin after US bailout fails (11)

Global stock markets spun in chaos this morning, following last night's dramatic decision by the US Congress to reject the biggest rescue of Wall Street since the Great Depression. Shares in London plunged by as much as 145 points in early trading, with banks and miners leading the FTSE 100 index of blue chip stocks down by nearly 3 per cent. [...more]

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Canada - Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

CTV | TSX plummets 840.93 points, worst drop in 8 years -- Canada's TSX tumbled more than 840 points after the U.S. Congress defeated a bailout plan for the financial sector Monday, and NDP Leader Jack Layton called for an all-party meeting to address the situation. [...more]

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Ship of Fools

Somali pirates who seized a Ukrainian freighter carrying Russian-made tanks are threatening a fight to the death as U.S. ships and aircraft surround them and a Russian warship heads to join the scene. A U.S. destroyer and submarine, as well as other foreign vessels, are surrounding the Faina, which was carrying 33 Russian-built T-72 tanks when it was seized by the pirates on Thursday. [...more]

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Oil sinks below $100 on weak demand, dollar gain

NEW YORK (AP) - Oil prices tumbled more than $8 a barrel Monday, dropping below the $100 level as traders bet that global demand for petroleum products will keep falling despite a planned $700 billion U.S. financial bailout. A stronger dollar also weighed on crude prices as investors who bought oil and other commodities as a hedge against inflation sold their contracts. [...more]

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Palin, Biden a lively pairing for veep debate (1)

WASHINGTON -- Sarah Palin brought something more effective than facts and figures to an agriculture debate in the Alaska governor's race. She packed an engaging disposition. One of her opponents, Andrew Halcro, had memorized the complexities of the subject beforehand. He was super prepared. He might as well have stared out the window during the proceedings, for all it mattered. [...more]

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Harper promises tax break for kids enrolled in arts activities

OTTAWA — Stephen Harper promised $380-million worth of tax credits Monday for parents with young children. The Conservative leader said that, if re-elected, his government would give a new tax break for children enrolled in arts activities and would extend tax credits for children’s sports programs and for programs that help families save for a child’s post-secondary education. [...more]

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Canton: Cloud computing presents real concerns over privacy issues

We are moving into "cloud" computing, where users increasingly rely on data and software residing somewhere out there on the Internet. That means we have little direct knowledge of, involvement with or control over the data or its location. And since that data inevitably includes personal information, it raises information security and privacy issues. [...more]

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Bailout plan rejected (17)

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The fate of a controversial $700 billion financial bailout plan was in doubt Monday as a House vote turned against it. The next steps were not immediately clear but supporters were scrambling to put it up for another vote. [...more]

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Majority say they’ll register on do-not-call list (2)

TORONTO -- Nearly two thirds of Canadians are tired of annoying supper-hour telemarketing calls and plan to register their phone numbers on the CRTC's new national do-not-call list which takes effect Tuesday, a new poll suggests. The poll conducted for the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association indicates 51 per cent of Canadians are aware of the no-call list, up from 44 per cent at the same time last year. [...more]

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Fertilizer prices expected to double

With fertilizer prices going up faster than the price of fuel, some P.E.I. farmers are wondering how they are going to cope with the increased cost. Norman Larter, a dairy farmer in Winsloe, north of Charlottetown, grows much of his own feed. He's been told by his fertilizer supplier that prices are expected to double next year. [...more]

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McParland: Dion slips and slides in a field of disbelief (1)

The Liberal party has thrown just about everything it could think of at Stephen Harper in the past three weeks, with precious little to show for it.It's tried the Green Shift, gambling that Canadians were willing to bet the economy on an untried and hard-to-explain theory for climate improvement. [...more]

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Two weeks after Ike, more than 400 are still missing

Gail Ettenger made her last phone call at 10:10 p.m. She was trapped in her Bolivar Peninsula bungalow with her Great Dane, Reba. A drowning cat cried outside. Her Jeep bobbed in the seawater surging around her home. Ettenger, 58, told her friend she was reading old love letters by flashlight. "I think I really screwed up this time," she said, according to Monroe Burks, Ettenger's neighbor who had evacuated to Houston. [...more]

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Hebert: Road curves, but Harper in driver’s seat

Notwithstanding Stephen Harper's assertions to the contrary, his quest for a majority government on Oct. 14 has been at the heart of the 2008 campaign. This week's televised debates will give the Conservative leader his last best chance to close the deal on securing one. [...more]

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Leger: Tory win could force a merger on the left

BY OCT. 14, Canadians will have spent more than four years deciding who should be running their country. It’s been the longest period of national indecision in a generation. That’s about to change, with huge implications for the future of politics. It looks almost certain that on election day, Canadian voters will finally turn their backs on a rugged old brand and go with something newer. [...more]

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