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CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
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The private members bill to abolish the gun registry passed last night by a 164-137 vote. However, it may not be time to stick a fork in the registry quite yet . From second reading it will go to the Public Safety and National Security Committee , which, if I'm reading parl.gc.ca right , has the following members: Yea Garry Breitkreuz - CPC Shelly Glover - CPC Dave MacKenzie - CPC Phil McColeman -...
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BigCityLib Strikes Back (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
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Susan Delacourt finds a news story on one of the first gun registry votes, from 1995: Reform MP Stephen Harper (Calgary West), touted by some as a future Reform party leader, bucked his caucus and voted with the government, as did the Bloc Quebecois. She's also got hold of a copy of that report that Peter Van Loan has been suppressing: It's spending less, attracting more registrants and police are...
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Augean Stables (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
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At a number of points in the controversy over his report, Judge Goldstone has referred to the fact that his Mission selected 36 “representative” incidents to investigate. Here he explains to Bill Moyers: We chose those 36 because they seemed to be, to represent the most serious, the highest death toll, the highest injury toll. And [...]
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The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
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Will take place in the Canadian House of Commons today, at approximately 5:30 p.m., Eastern Time. Bill C-391 is a private member’s bill (by Candice Hoeppner of Portage—Lisgar, Manitoba) to repeal Canada’s failed and extremely expensive long gun registry. Background information about the registry is available in this short presentation from Prof. Gary Mauser, a magazine article by...
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Far and Wide (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
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Everyone is always lamenting how individual MP's have little real power in our current system. MP's generally tow the partyline, taking directives from the various leadership groups. Rarely, are MP's allowed to express their own view with a vote, based on their ridings particularly "bent" and/or their personal decision. In Canada, the notion of MP's having internal freedom is seen as weakness...
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Mashable (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
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If businesses, governments, and education institutions don’t upgrade to a newer IP address standard relatively soon, we could experience an unnerving scenario: the world running out of Internet addresses. The report, released by the European Commission, states that only 17% of 610 institutions surveyed have upgraded from the IPv4 protocol to IPv6. Without this upgrade, the Internet can only...
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The Spirit of Man (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
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So the November 4th Protests just began in Tehran. I'll do my best to live blog it here. PersianRadio.com is reporting everything both in English and Persian languages as they have callers on the ground. I'll check other sources and will translate them as they become available. Today, regime will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the US Embassy siege in 1979 and the pro-freedom people will spoil this...
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Glenn Greenwald (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
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It's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with yesterday's ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arar v. Ashcroft (.pdf). Maher Arar is both a Canadian and Syrian citizen of Syrian descent. A telecommunications engineer, has lived in Canada since he's 17 years old. In 2002, he was returning home to Canada from vacation...
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Threat Level (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
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Agents of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service hacked into the computer of a senior Syrian government official a year before Israel bombed a mysterious facility in Syria in 2007, according to Der Spiegel. The intelligence agents planted a Trojan horse on the official’s computer in late 2006 while he was staying at a hotel in the Kensington [...]
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Snowflakes in Hell (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
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This warms my heart to read: OTTAWA–Gun-control advocates say they are horrified and fearful that Canada’s long-gun firearms registry is on the verge this week of being scrapped because the Conservatives may have enough support from the opposition to kill it. Ah, yes, we’re rolling back the anti-gun people even in Canada, to the horror of gun [...] Related posts: How To Get a Gun...
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Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia ( AP ) — Saudi authorities have announced the discovery of large quantities of weapons in the capital Riyadh belonging to Al Qaeda terror network. The official Saudi Press Agency quoted an Interior Ministry spokesman Sunday as saying the discovery included 281 assault rifles and 51 ammunition boxes . Gen. Mansour al-Turki says the weapons were found buried in an empty rest...
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bub.blicio.us (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
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Today is World Pneumonia Day. Pneumonia is the #1 killer of children under 5, which is sort of scary. Save the Children are taking this opportunity to use social media to help raise awareness. New Media Strategies and JESS3 have worked together with Save the Children to design and develop a game called Mission Pnuemonia. It educates [...]
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Accidental Deliberations (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
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Michael Byers' proposal for cooperation among the national opposition parties in the next federal election figures to be a major topic of conversation over the next little while. So let's take a closer look at what Byers suggests, as well as the impact it figures to have on the political scene. To start off with, there seems to be little indication that Byers' suggestion is based on anything more than...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
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On Friday, the Justice Department released reams of newly declassified documents on the CIA interrogation program. Among the documents is a revised, October 2009 version of the Justice Department Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s involvement in detainee interrogations. This report proves, once and for all, that FBI interrogator Ali Soufan lied about his role in the interrogation...
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Noticiero Internacional del Camión (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
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Caracas,Venezuela - DPA/Earth Times -31 Oct 2009: -- Venezuela y Brasil han acordado construir y operar una refinería conjunta en el estado brasileño de Pernambuco , después de años de negociaciones ... La estatal petrolera brasileña Petrobras poseerá el 60 por ciento, y su homólogo, Petróleos de Venezuela , el 40 por ciento, según el acuerdo...
