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Canadians on my flist/dwircle, if you haven't signed the Stop The Meter petition yet, can I please encourage you to do so? Bell, Rogers, and Telus want to put a pay meter on internet usage, which means charging per byte. Bell, Rogers, and Telus already control so much of Canada's internet access and instead of competing with each other to provide ( Read more... )

1) help_nz has extended their deadline to post offers until Friday, March 11, at 12pm EST (noon), and their deadline to bid on offers until Sunday, March 13, at 1am EST (NOT 1pm, Sunday afternoon).


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I'm trying to pay more attention to Canadian news and politics since I've begun to reach my limit of reading and hearing about the U.S.'s latest frustrating failures. Canada has its own screw-ups and deserves as much of my internet ink, if not more, as our neighbour to the south ( Read more... )

My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who were gunned down today in Tucson, AZ. I'm glad to hear Congresswoman Gifford is out of surgery--I'd originally saw reports that she'd been killed, so that's some good news. But I'm shocked and angry and horrified that a 9-year-old kid was killed in the attack, as well as a U.S. federal ( Read more... )

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Oh, screw you, Harper.

From the Montreal Gazette, Uncle Sam wants your data: PM under fire for new Bill. Washington would control who boards Canadian flights over U.S., by Kevin Dougherty, 29 June, 2010.
The Harper government has quietly presented a bill in the House of Commons that would give U.S. officials final say over who may board aircraft ( Read more... )

(Yes, this is a re-post--I somehow borked the last one editing it.)

I didn't hear about Bill 94 until I read today's Racialicious post about Quebec Premier Jean Charest's proposal to ban Muslim women from wearing the niqab (face-veil). The Racialicious post linked to The Non/No to Bill 94 Coalition, and following their call to action, I emailed ( Read more... )

Government of Canada to Match Generosity of Canadians in Response to the Devastating Earthquake in Haiti:
Donations made by individual Canadians to eligible Canadian charitable organizations over the period of January 12 to February 12, 2010 will be matched by the Government of Canada through the CIDA-managed Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund.
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God knows I know nothing about how the committee goes around awarding Peace Prizes, but I found this comment in response to "shouldn't he have brought about actual peace first?" very interesting:
They're reasonable questions. But the Peace Prize has a long history of being awarded for effort, not achievement. Think of past recipients. There was a ( Read more... )