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UK DNA database turns ‘innocents into criminals’, warns watchdog 2008-07-30 16:33:50 James Slack, Daily Mail UK
July 30, 2008
The national DNA database is being used by ministers to ‘criminalise the innocent’, it was claimed yesterday.
A Citizens’ Inquiry set up by a Government watchdog has demanded that the samples of a million innocent people stored on the files for life be removed.
Meanwhile, the Home Office should be stripped [...] Read more:turns
, warns
Academia bows again to the whims of the Thought Police 2008-07-30 10:36:12 Barbara Kay, National Post
July 30, 2008
If there’s a God, and He made the world, it wasn’t in seven literal days, as creationists affirm. Nor, as many aboriginals profess to believe, did the world begin with “Sky Woman” descending to Earth in the shape of a turtle. If you don’t agree, no need to read on.
Such [...] Read more:Academia
, Police
DARPA investing in super-soldier technology 2008-07-29 14:49:28 Tom Burghardt, Global Research
July 29, 2008
Operating with little ethical oversight, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been tapping cutting-edge advances in neuroscience, computers and robotics in a quest to build the “perfect warfighter.”
Dovetailing precisely with other projects to “dominate” the urban “battlespace” of global south and Read more:soldier
Cut children’s fluoride exposure, report to Health Canada urges 2008-07-29 13:45:25 Martin Mittelstaedt, The Globe and Mail
July 29, 2008
An expert panel HealthCanada
commissioned to study the risks of fluoride exposure says the government should cut the recommended amount in drinking water, encourage the use of low-fluoride toothpaste by children and have makers of infant formula reduce levels in their products.
The proposals were made in a [...] Read more:report
Ontario’s NDP calling for law presuming automatic consent for organ donation 2008-07-29 11:48:46 CBC News
July 29, 2008
State could lay claim to organ
s if bodysnatcher bill passes
Ontario
’s New Democrats are renewing calls for a presumed-consent law to govern organ donation in the province.
NDP members Peter Kormos and Cheri DiNovo plan to introduce — for the third time — a bill calling for a system that assumes people want to [...] Read more:automatic
Journalists urge ban on police posing as reporters 2008-07-29 09:22:27 CBC News
July 29, 2008
A group of Canadian journalists called on Ontario’s minister of safety and correctional services Monday to order the Ontario Provincial Police to stop impersonating reporters.
It was recently revealed that an OPP constable pretended to be a journalist at a Mohawk rally held in conjunction with the aboriginal day of protest in 2007.
That [...]
GPS game blamed for Ottawa bomb scare 2008-07-28 17:09:25 CBC News
July 28, 2008
A treasure-hunting game is being blamed
for a bomb scare that resulted in the four-hour closure of a major Ottawa
road and an operation involving two dozen police officers, a hazmat team and the police explosives unit last week.
The scare was prompted by the discovery of a suspicious package under the Transitway [...] Read more:GPS
Public left out of anti-counterfeiting trade talks 2008-07-28 14:28:12 Michael Geist, The Toronto Star
July 28, 2008
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the leaders of G8 countries closed their recent summit in Hokkaido, Japan by encouraging “the acceleration of negotiations to establish a new international legal framework, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and seek to complete the negotiation by the end of this year.” The decision [...] Read more:Public
Eye scans, fingerprints to control NZ borders 2008-07-27 13:00:37 Katie Small, Sunday Star Times
July 27, 2008
Border control staff will be able to use iris scans and finger printing to check passengers’ identities under major changes to New Zealand immigration rules.
Despite criticism from Amnesty International at the level of secrecy permitted, the changes look set to become law, with the National Party pledging its support.
National [...] Read more:fingerprints
Protesters push for Omar Khadr’s release 2008-07-27 11:22:19 Brett Popplewell, Toronto Star
July 27, 2008
Monsoon-like weather and the sight of a well-guarded American consulate couldn’t dissuade some 300 protesters from taking to University Ave. yesterday in the city’s first rally to press for the release of Toronto-born Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay.
Shouts and cries filled the street along with howling winds and a lone [...]
Beijing lockdown 2008-07-26 11:26:03 Geoffrey York, Globe and Mail
July 26, 2008
Network of 400,000 spies dims hope for new freedoms, games have instead ’stunted the growth of civil society’
In the small Beijing
suburb of Hongxialu, there’s a new force in town. The government has recruited a special unit of 288 residents, mostly middle-aged or elderly, to work as “security volunteers” [...]
Mounties pinned me down in cell and tasered me, Manitoba girl says 2008-07-25 22:33:13 Joe Friesen, Globe and Mail
July 25, 2008
WINNIPEG — A 17-year-old girl says she was tasered
three times while confined to an RCMP holding cell in Selkirk, Man.
The girl, who was 16 at the time of the incident, said she was held down by four officers, one for each limb, while a taser was used on [...] Read more:Manitoba
Turning Toronto into a nanny state 2008-07-25 12:34:48 Allison Hanes, National Post
July 25, 2008
TORONTO — The fate of a new waterfront park that opened last summer stands as a poignant example of an overriding culture of micromanagement that is gripping city hall in Canada’s largest metropolis.
The winning design concept called for an artificial urban beach with iconic yellow umbrellas dotting an expanse of [...] Read more:Toronto
Drivers licences with chips spark heated debate 2008-07-25 12:20:42 Rosie Lombardi, CBC News
July 25, 2008
The introduction of enhanced drivers licences (EDLs) containing wireless technology is billed as a convenience that can speed up activities such as border crossings, but it’s also unleashing a storm of controversy in both Canada and the U.S.
The licences have embedded radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips that can broadcast information wirelessly Read more:Drivers
, spark
Population control thinktank to Britons: Have less children 2008-07-25 11:28:36 Ian Sample, the Guardian
July 25, 2008
British couples should consider having no more than two children to help reduce the environmental impact of the rising global population, doctors have said.
An editorial in the British Medical Journal today calls on GPs to encourage the view that bigger families are as environmentally dubious as owning a patio heater [...] Read more:Britons
, Population
Mass Arrests as Beijing Prepares for Olympics 2008-07-24 14:07:17 Gu Qing’er and Ben Hurley, Epoch Times
July 24, 2008
At least two petitioners are thought to have died as Beijing
authorities intensify their campaign to “clean up” the capital for the Olympics
, with busloads of people taken away each evening.
Petitioners contacted by telephone told The Epoch Times that on the evening of July 13, five busloads [...]
Kids and cellphone warning 2008-07-24 11:13:57 Tyler Hamilton and Robert Cribb, Toronto Star
July 24, 2008
U.S. advisory echoes Toronto Public Health’s wireless phone concerns
The head of a U.S. cancer centre is urging that children not use cellphone
s, except in emergencies, because of a growing body of literature pointing to possible adverse health effects, including cancer.
The warning
comes on the heels of similar [...]
Rogers Looks For New Ways To Annoy Customers, Hijacks Failed DNS Lookups 2008-07-24 10:05:55 Blaise Alleyne, Techdirt.com
July 24, 2008
Rogers
— a Canadian telco — has been attracting a lot of negative attention lately between deliberately disabling notifications for cellular roaming charges, setting ridiculous iPhone pricing plans and injecting its own content into Google’s home page. As if that wasn’t enough, Rogers has started hijacking failed DNS lookups. This Read more:Annoy
, Looks
OPP officer posed as journalist during 2007 Mohawk protest 2008-07-24 09:52:34 CBC News
July 24, 2008
An OPP officer
pretended to be a news reporter at a Mohawk protest that prompted the closure of a major rail line and Highway 401 in eastern Ontario during last year’s Aboriginal Day of Action, CBC News has learned.
The officer’s tactics have emerged from testimony recently made public when a judge overturned [...] Read more:posed
Vint Cerf blasts ISPs for choking off internet infrastructure 2008-07-23 15:36:56 Peter Nowak, CBC News
July 23, 2008
Vint Cerf, who developed the technical principles on which the internet works, has blasted telephone and cable companies for harming national interests by holding investments in their networks to ransom.
Cerf, a long-time advocate of keeping the internet free from control by service providers and a current senior vice-president for search [...]
A City’s Police Force Now Doubts Focus on Terrorism 2008-07-23 14:40:29 David Johnston, New York Times
July 23, 2008
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Nearly seven years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the war on terror in this city has evolved into a quiet struggle against a phantom foe.
Last year, when a sailor slipped over the side of a Turkish merchant ship in the city’s port, a Providence [...] Read more:Focus
, Force
, Police
, Terrorism
Public conditioning continues: Ratings reach ‘Flashpoint’ for tactical assault squad drama 2008-07-23 14:01:46 Canadian Press
July 23, 2008
Get used to seeing these guys around
After netting top ratings in its first two weeks on both sides of the border, the syndicated Canadian police drama
Flashpoint has earned a better time slot on CTV and CBS.
Both networks announced Tuesday that the show will move from the so-called “Friday night death slot” [...] Read more:Public
, Ratings
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1.
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Federal parolees to wear tracking anklets in pilot project 2008-08-11 15:47:02 CBC News
August 11, 2008
Paroled federal offenders will wear ankle bracelets fitted with global positioning monitors in a one-year pilot project unveiled Monday by Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day.
The project, which will begin next month, will monitor about 30 offenders in the Ontario region, Day told reporters at a news conference in Mississauga, Ont.
The GPS bracelet [...] Read more:Federal
America to assume command in Afghanistan 2008-08-09 15:47:00 Thomas Walkom, Toronto Star
August 9, 2008
More shakeups in the Afghan war. The New York Times reports that the U.S. has decided to merge America
n and NATO troops under one command
. Technically, NATO would run the combined mission. But a U.S. general is already in charge of NATO forces; according, to the Times, that command structure [...] Read more:Afghanistan
Tentacles of Secrecy Grip Tightly 2008-08-09 15:37:38 Kelly Toughill, Toronto Star
August 9, 2008
A free press relies on two things: the ability to publish or broadcast without fear, and the ability to find and retrieve information vital to the public interest.
Canada does pretty well on the first point. Canadian journalists are only occasionally jailed, beaten or forced into financial ruin for doing their [...] Read more:Tentacles
Georgia, Russia Go to War 2008-08-08 12:41:45 Associated Press
August 08, 2008
TSKHINVALI, Georgia
(AP) — Georgia launched a major military offensive Friday to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia, prompting Moscow to send tanks into the region in a furious response that threatens to engulf Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, and Russia
in all-out war.
Hundreds were reported dead in the worst outbreak [...]
Surveillance on the Great Lakes: U.S. tightens security along border 2008-08-08 12:19:41 CBC News
August 8, 2008
The United States will unveil new border surveillance measures Friday in a move that has one New Democratic MP decrying what he sees as the “weaponization” of the Canada-U.S. frontier.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is slated to open an air and marine border-monitoring outpost just north of the Detroit-Windsor border at Selfridge [...] Read more:along
, Great
, Lakes
, security
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