Five months after the law came into effect, after “weeks of private investigation,” Canada has arrested exactly one person for videotaping a movie in a theatre. One arrest. One. If the cinema owner in that story is correct that it’s put a major dent in the level of piracy in Montreal, and the movie distributors’continue reading
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Ah yes, Canada’s huge movie piracy problem…
Wellness. We all know it comes from salad dressing.
Wellness dressing?? Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Yes, it’s true. You may be stressed out by work, living in inadequate housing with inadequate daycare and a car that craps out on you all the time and a violent spouse — at risk of all kinds of chronic diseases — but all you need to do iscontinue reading
Big Brother lives in your phone
Firm to use cellphone data to map traffic in real time One the one hand — cool and very useful way to avoid traffic jams. Good excuse to buy an iPhone so you have a screen large enough to make sense of whatever data map becomes available. On the other — why are so manycontinue reading
Parks Canada encourages geocaching
Pretty cool, even if they are controlling it a bit: Parks Canada caches are located in publicly accessible areas and are accessible from trails and/or roads. Instead of containing trade items, caches contain messages that reveal interesting often unknown aspects of the area where they are located. Parks Canada aims to encourage geocachers to sharecontinue reading
Well, that’ll piss off the generals
Prime Minister Moves to Grant Honourary Canadian Citizenship to Leader of Democracy Movement in Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi Interesting move. I approve (since I’m sure Stephen Harper’s decision-making hinges on my approval…). Note the language, too: in news articles and press releases including this one, I’ve noticed an almost total switch from “Myanmar (alsocontinue reading
Oh dear
Headline in my RSS this morning: Canada’s New Government Increases it’s Commitment to Enhancing Girl’s Education in Afghanistan
It’s upgrade time
Things may be strange for the next bit while I overwrite some files. Should be back to normal in a few minutes. I’ll update this post when the upgrade’s done. edit — done!
Cheese, Gromit!
The BBC says: Trouble at’ Mill is a murder mystery that sees Wallace and Gromit running a bakery business – with their house converted into a granary with ovens and robotic kneading arms. Some details on (where else) http://www.wallaceandgromit.com/, which is a thoroughly silly and entertaining site.
Never fear — PR is here!
So it seems Pearson airport is firing its nurses — who handle 700+ patients per month, meeting them at or on the plane if necessary — and turning their jobs over to the Peel Fire Department and local ambulances (i.e., if there’s an emergency at the airport they’ll just call 911). But [spokesperson for thecontinue reading