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Posted on 2012-03-26 Some suggest the Wang Lijun incident and Bo Xilai’s removal are a victory for pro-reformers in China. But Chang Ping cautions that quiet within the Party could cool the engines of reform, and proponents of political reform must continue to push. Posted on 2012-03-15 As a press conference yesterday, Premier Wen Jiabao made two mentions of the Party’s 1981 “Resolution” on the Cultural Revolution.
In Quebec, if you are 21 years old or younger and have a driver’s license, come Sunday, April 15, you will no longer be able to drink even a sip of alcohol and get behind the wheel of a car. The Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec is putting into effect its zero alcohol rule: “This new measure aims to reduce the risk of accidents related to drinking and driving among young drivers, without restricting their mobility.” According to the SAAQ, 47 per cent of drivers aged 20 to 21 who died...
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Everything You Know About Pirates Is Wrong
Trademark and copyright holders frequently characterize piracy as a legal failure, arguing that tougher laws and increased enforcement are needed to stem infringing activity. But a new global study on piracy, backed by Canada's International Development Research Centre, comes to a different conclusion. Following several years of independent investigation in several emerging economies, the report concludes that piracy is chiefly a product of a market failure, not a legal one.
Canadian ISPs admit that their pricing is structured to discourage Internet use - Boing Boing
By Cory Doctorow at 8:03 am Tuesday, Mar 29 Canada's cable-based ISPs have filed regulatory comments on their "Usage-Based Billing" model that caps bandwidth use and then charges high rates for overage. In these comments, they admit that the rates they charge have nothing to do with what it costs them to provide their service, and are instead aimed at punishing their customers for "overusing" the Internet. In other words, they've set out to limit the growth of networked based business and new kinds of services, and to prevent Canadians experimentation that enables them to use the Internet to its fullest. In order to be effective as an economic ITMP, the usage based price component needs to be established so as to discourage use above the set limit.
Welcome to poliTwitter.ca the Canadian political twitter & social media site! From one location keep track of what your politicians are saying on social media and what Canadians have to say about current politics. Politwitter does the searching for you by indexing Canadian federal and provincial political twitter, facebook, blogs, youtube, flickr and more into one location. The site maintains a list of politicians and political tweeters as well as popular hash tags .
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The long, sordid story of serial killer Robert “Willy” Pickton did not end after he was convicted of viciously murdering six vulnerable women from Vancouver’s downtown eastside, said to be the poorest postal code in Canada. No, his convictions merely … Continue reading
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