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Holy Political Turmoil in Canada Batman!

The Canadian DMCA: Proposed Canadian Copyright Law Updates for 2008

Time to get educated everyone. If you don’t know what the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) is, you need to start Googling. The Canadian Government wants to bring in something even more draconian than the DMCA that our American friends are stuck dealing with. If you like your PVRs with time shifting, ripping your CDs [...]

David Emerson

CBC.ca -
‘I don’t really care’ about reaction to party switch: Emerson
Mr. David Emerson, it’s nice to know you don’t really care. You claim that you’ve switched parties for the benefit of your constituents but at the same time, you don’t really care about the complaints coming from the same constituents.
“I think these people ought to give [...]

Liberals vow to ban handguns

Apparently the Liberals vow to ban handguns if elected. This has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve heard yet. The reason that the Liberals vow to ban handguns? To attempt to reduce the number of gun crimes.
Huh?
Banning handguns will not reduce the number of crimes committed with handguns. As the saying [...]

Vote By Issue

I just took the CBC Vote By Issue quiz and now I’m even more undecided about who I’m going to vote for. I included all 4 of the major parties (Yes, even the Bloc) and started answering the questions. It’s all an agree/disagree setup but you can also choose to not answer a [...]

Kim Campbell says Harper won’t win

Kim Campbell says Harper won’t win
“Their (the Conservative party’s) positions are too socially conservative, I think, to form a government in Canada. People may like their fiscal policies but they’re frightened by their social conservatism…It’s a pity because it denies people a choice on policy issues.
I think Kim Campbell has hit that bang on. This [...]

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