Canada's broadband sucks, and is expensive to boot: Harvard.
Canada "is often thought of as a very high performer, based on the most commonly used benchmark of penetration per 100 inhabitants," the study said. "Because our analysis includes important measures on which Canada has had weaker outcomes prices, speeds and 3G mobile broadband penetration in our analysis it shows up as quite a weak performer, overall."
Police Taser Teen Mom and child
McGuinness said the mother was holding the baby but, at times, police worried she might smother him.
She said after the mother was hit with the shock weapon, she and the
baby were taken to hospital and the mother was apprehended under the
Mental Health Act.
McGuinness said the situation on Monday was "emotionally intense."
"At no time would one want to separate a mother from her child," she
said. "It's the last thing we would want to do, anyone would want to
do. And it was no doubt a traumatic incident for the mother."
Jeremy Hinzman, his wife and two children allowed to stay in Canada
A U.S. army deserter and his family were granted a last-minute stay
of deportation Monday by a Federal Court judge while the court decides
whether to hear their appeal.
Jeremy Hinzman, his wife and two children were ordered to leave
Canada by Tuesday or face forcible deportation to the United States,
where the soldier faces prosecution for fleeing to Canada in 2004
rather than deploying with his army unit to Iraq.
The judge's decision will allow the family to remain in Toronto
while the court decides whether to review a decision by Citizenship and
Immigration officials not to let the Hinzmans remain in Canada on
humanitarian and compassionate grounds. They are also trying to appeal
their pre-removal risk assessment.
1.7 million Canadians cannot find a family doctor
Public-health activists are organizing a forum to remind Canada that it
is not living up to its commitment under the Declaration of Alma-Ata, a
major international agreement on health care that will mark its 30th
anniversary in September this year.
Adopted at an international conference organized by the World Health
Organization and UNICEF in the city of Alma-Ata (now Almaty) in the
then–Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, the declaration set the goal of
providing all citizens of the world “a level of health that will permit
them to lead a socially and economically productive life”.
But according to Vancouver-based health activist Yuly Chan,
Statistics Canada findings released in 2008 indicate that about 1.7
million Canadians cannot find a family doctor.
Stoddart wants to anonymize court proceedings
Jennifer Stoddart is proposing radical changes to the
long-standing rule that courts are open to public scrutiny. Under the
proposal, names and personal information would be removed from judges'
decisions and case information posted on the Internet. Initials –
"hopefully reversed" – would replace actual names as part of the
"anonymizing" process, she said.
In
a speech to the Canadian Bar Association over the weekend, Stoddart
said while personal details can be important to a case, she's not
convinced they need to be known to the world at large.
"The open
court rule, which is extremely historically important, has now become
distorted by the effect of massive search engines," Stoddart told
reporters yesterday.
The Canadian DMCA Video Competition
Bill C-51 no cure for us
Canada's new copyright bill: More spin than 'win-win'
The worst thing about the bill is that it makes its own balancing
provisions irrelevant. The bill essentially says that technology trumps
whatever rights consumers or competitors might have otherwise had. So
the law no longer matters. People only have whatever rights content
owners choose for them.
For instance, if the CD you're now
allowed to shift to your iPod is technologically locked down, then,
well, sorry -- you're completely out of luck. Try to circumvent the
access and copy controls, and the well-publicized provision to limit
damages to $500 for noncommercial infringements no longer applies.
You're on the hook for up to $20,000 per infringement, which is
actually $60,000 per song by the time you account for the composer,
performer and record label. Multiply that by a dozen or so songs and
you get a sense of the damage awards really possible if this bill
becomes law.
Canada to apologize for aboriginal abuses
Canada's Prime Minister on Wednesday will officially apologize to
natives for more than a century of abuses at residential schools set up
to assimilate its indigenous peoples.
"Aboriginal Canadians have
been waiting for a very long time to hear an apology from the
Parliament of Canada," Stephen Harper said on Tuesday, previewing what
would come.
"I hope that we will begin the process of healing and
reconciliation," he told parliament, which suspended all business on
Wednesday for this solemn occasion.
Beginning in 1874, 150,000
Indian, Inuit and Metis children in Canada were forcibly enrolled in
the 132 boarding schools run by Christian churches on behalf of the
federal government in an effort to integrate them into society.
Survivors allege abuse by headmasters and teachers, who stripped them of their culture and language.
Beware ‘slippery slope' to censorship, hearing told
This not merely a slippery slope.
This is a small group of
individuals who have infiltrated what was a naive but well-intentioned
Human Rights Commission system, and have become a law unto themselves,
pushing a social agenda that is unaccountable to politicians or the
public.
Anyone reading the proceedings of the BC HRC case
against Steyn this week will see how clueless and biased the judges
are. These kangaroo courts are reminiscent of those seen in Communist
countries.
Ordinary people who assume that our bureaucrats and
public servants are basically honest basically good-willed people are
stunned when they find out what goes on here.