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  • Geist: (Canadas) Record industry faces liability over `infringement


    Stupidica — Authority Authority: 177
    Chet Baker was a leading jazz musician in the 1950s, playing trumpet and providing vocals. Baker died in 1988, yet he is about to add a new claim to fame as the lead plaintiff in possibly the largest copyright infringement case in Canadian history. His estate, which still owns the copyright in more than 50 of his ...
    1 day ago

  • Montreal Massacre: 20 Years Later


    What Sorts of People — Authority Authority: 127
    Today marks the 20th anniversary of the killing rampage at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal that left 14 women dead, as many again physically injured, and a province and country stunned and scarred. I find it a bit emotional to write about still, all these years later, so will just link to a few [...]
    5 days ago

  • Nov 25: White Ribbon Day, and “Polytechnique”


    What Sorts of People — Authority Authority: 127
    White Ribbon Day was created by a handful of Canadian men in 1991 on the second anniversary of one man’s massacre of fourteen women in Montreal.  They began the White Ribbon Campaign to urge men to speak out against violence against women.In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly declared November 25 the ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Little Mosque on the Prairie


    Dedicated Elementary Teacher Overseas — Authority Authority: 106
    I just discovered this delightfully-entertaining, half-hour episode comedy series about a diverse group of Muslims, set in a small Canadian town on on the prairie.  The 20-minute video above is the first episode. The diverse group of Muslims in the town have the same disagreements among themselves that different ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Political Assassinations In Canada


    The Commentator — Authority Authority: 435
    In a previous post I wrote about the assassination attempt on former President Harry Truman.Thats an American story. What about Canada?To those who are aware of our history, the most notorious assassination was that of journalist and politician Thomas Darcy McGee. By 1866, his political star was fading. He was not ...
    2 weeks ago

  • 124 Years Ago Today


    Stageleft: life on the left side — Authority Authority: 470
    On this day in history, 1885, Louis Riel, the last real Canadian revolutionary, and the leader of not one, but two, revolutions was hanged for treason — the bunker remains a fan.
    3 weeks ago

  • Winnie- the-Pooh royalties in dispute


    CKA Canadian News — Authority Authority: 166
    The fictional offspring of the most famous animal in Canadian history -- a certain black bear named Winnipeg -- has landed at the centre of a renewed legal battle over profits from Winnie the Pooh merchandise sold in Canada and the U.S. since the 1960s.
    3 weeks ago


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  • “Flawed” crusaders


    What Sorts of People — Authority Authority: 127
    The following letter by What Sorts Network member Nick Supina III, an Edmonton-based artist with a cognitive disability, was published in the Edmonton Journal on Sunday, 25th October, 2009, in response to an article by Paula Simons on October 13th.  Nick’s letter can be viewed at the journal site right here.  ...
    6 weeks ago

  • Get H1N1 vaccine: health minister


    CKA Canadian News — Authority Authority: 166
    Health officials on Sunday were preparing the launch of the biggest vaccination program in Canadian history, targeting the pandemic H1N1 virus.
    6 weeks ago

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