Automated scans of licence plates, RFID cards and radioactive material, predator drones, daytime and nighttime infrared camera, radar surveillance towers and remote motion sensors are among the devices and tactics used along our increasingly militarized borders by paranoid Americans. As someone mentioned in the comments, Janet Napolitano still ( Read more... )

Sri Lanka during Question Period on Monday, May 11:

Mr. Robert Oliphant (Don Valley West, Lib.):      Mr. Speaker, violence continues in Sri Lanka today while Tamil Canadians mourn death after death. Civilians are being massacred and Canada has failed to step up to the international plate. Yesterday the UN called this conflict a “bloodbath”, but ( Read more... )

THE EX WILL BE PLAYING IN MONTREAL AND TORONTO WHEN I WILL BE IN FUCKING EUROPE!!!!!

FUCK YOU, THE EX. FUCK YOUR DUTCH ASSES.

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EU threatens Canada with visa warAmusingly, it's the completely opposite story of what's going on with the U.S.: whereas we're complaining that the U.S. is going to require us to have passport to walk in, in this case it's the E.U. that's complaining that we're still requiring people from 8 of the newest E.U. members to apply for visa to come to ( Read more... )

Harper veut acheter le Québec avec deux milliards de dollars [cyberpresse.ca ( Read more... )

Passports needed to fly to U.S. starting Jan. 23

Damn.

I have always made a point to travel to the U.S. on my birth certificate, just because I could. Travelling on a passport means that you need to be a reputable Canadian, i.e. you need to have the approval of your two (or one?) approved professionals; the fact that you are born in this country ( Read more... )

From the CBC profiles of Liberal leadership candidates:

As a Liberal MP, Godfrey co-sponsored a protest private member's bill in 1996 as a response to the American Helms-Burton Act. The U.S. law set up punishments on any business or person that profited from the seizure of property from American businesses and people during the 1950s Cuban ( Read more... )

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Trenholme Counsell [claimed] that Trudeau "speaks to us through the charter", as heard while Senate is debating same-sex bill with "frankness": thestar.com
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