September 30, 2008 is the first day that you can register your phone numbers with the Canadian National Do Not Call List (DNCL). Go register your number now! The website is rather overloaded right now so you might have to try a few times to get your number registered. Don’t worry, you can register anytime after September [...]
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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 [...]
State Funeral for Last Veteran of the First World War
Today the House of Commons unanimously passed a motion to hold a full state funeral for the last veteran of the First World War. The Dominion Institute started an online petition on November 6 requesting this to pay tribute to the over 60,000 Canadians who died in the First World War.
Canada’s Last Great War Veteran
The Dominion Institute is calling on Primer Minister Stephen Harper to offer the family of the last Great War veteran resident in Canada a full State Funeral. There are currently only three veterans of the Great War left alive, Lloyd Clemett (106 years of age), John Babcock (106 years of age) and Percy Wilson (105 [...]
No charges in fatal Embrun pileup
CBC News: No charges laid in fatal Embrun pileup It looks like the OPP have completed their investigation of the huge pileup that occured near Embrun on the 417 in February. Five people died in the accident which involved 5 tractor trailers and 33 other vehicles. The accident occured due to a sudden white-out condition on [...]
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