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Toronto G20 Security, road closures, fence perimeter and your rights!

Today we learned that the police standing guard outside the G8 and G20 summits have been granted special temporary powers by legislation that was passed by Ontario's cabinet on June 2nd, 2010 without debate. These powers will only last for the seven days around the time of the summit and are set to

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:29

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Beware G20 Security fence perimeter and your rights. You may not have any rights!

Today we learned that the police standing guard outside the G8 and G20 summits have been granted special temporary powers by legislation that was passed by Ontario's cabinet on June 2nd, 2010 without debate. These powers will only last for the seven days around the time of the summit and are set to

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:29

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Parks Canada $500K wheelchair ramp not accessible

Parks Canada $500K wheelchair ramp not accessibleWheelchair ramp at Brackley Beach PEI goes 18 feet into the air, too high and too hard for people in wheelchairs

Parks Canada has spent $500,000 on a wheelchair ramp at the PEI National Park that is not usable by people in wheelchairs. Encouraged by the story on CBC Compass  PEI

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:29

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Wouldn't It Be Nice to Recall Canada's Politicians?

It seems that our elected officials are able to come up with more and more legislation that Canadians don't like and that more and more of them behave in ways that are hardly seemly. I'd love the idea of being able to recall an incompetent politician between elections. I'd also really like to

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:29

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Can Google solve Parkinsons

Can Google solve ParkinsonsRaw Internet power may solve this illness if Google has its way

Wired – Several evenings a week, after a day’s work at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, Sergey Brin drives up the road to a local pool. There, he changes into swim trunks, steps out on

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:29

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Nortel wants court to terminate US retiree benefits

Nortel wants court to terminate US retiree benefits Networks Corp. is seeking a judge’s permission to cut off medical and disability benefits to more than 4,000 former U.S. employees.

Montreal Gazette – Nortel, based in Toronto, has asked a bankruptcy judge in Delaware overseeing the case to let it stop the benefits,

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:29

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Kevin Page and the Cost of the One-For-One Deal

Kevin Page and the Cost of the One-For-One DealThis week, Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page released his analysis of the cost of the new jails that would be required under the "tough on crime" Conservative Party agenda in a report entitled "The Funding Requirement and Impact of the "Truth in Sentencing

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:29

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