Man. This Brazilian spying thing is going to get ugly. (can we just start calling it The Brazilian? That's what I'm going to tag it as) The denial sounds suspiciously like a confirmation. It's going to get really, really ugly if we find out that a taxpayer funded spy organization is working on behalf of Canadian mining companies. And here's the other shoe. CSEC met with energy companies? What about? Sharing some Brazilian intelligence perhaps? Other corporate espionage? The head of CSEC says a whole lot of nothing. The ex-Director of the SCEC claims that it needs the oversight of an MP. Which is a troubling statement...but honestly...which Conservative MP would you want to oversee your national spy organization? And supposedly more to come. Speaking of Glenn Greenwald...here he takes a BBC reporter to task about government spying. There's things to be learned here.
Judges are already starting to defy Stephen Harper's minimum sentence legislation, pointing out what people have been saying all along - It's not going to work, it's not going to help, and it's not fair.
Our "Science Minister" sent out a fundraising letter asking for money to combat "radical ideologue" scientists.
Mike Duffy is in more trouble for hiring a friend to do a waste of time job.
The Tyee puts into words the ridiculousness of Rona Ambrose and her crusade against prescribed heroin.
Apparently Columbus was a real dick.
Russia and China both have legions of...god...what to call them?...trolls?...writing comments on behalf of the motherland on online news articles. Stephen Harper probably has the same thing.
Prepare for "Real Estate is on the Rise!" articles. The long view...shit's been pretty flat for 2 years. Another great Garth Turner post where he points out that all these Real Estate statistics are really, really suspect.
A lady in Saskatchewan phoned 911 because she thought her neighbours fire pit was out of control. The fire chief showed up and yelled at her and told her to go back to Quebec. Which is bad, yes. But then read the comments (I know. A mistake). People seem to think it's justified because "Quebeckers treat anglo-Canadians badly all the time."
Leave it to Matt Taibbi to explain just how fucked the United States is. With American politics run by wealthy donors, it seems nothing is going to get fixed and income disparity is going to really take off. In this example, a public pension is gutted and money flows to Financial organizations. Shocking numbers here as well.
Malala Yousafzai points out to Barack Obama that bombing the shit out of people with drones doesn't bring them over to the American way of thinking.
More US Law Enforcement Entrapment. This time, an undercover cop encourage an autistic kid to buy drugs for him. Then arrests him. Fucking hell. Thankfully, this kid was re-instated in his high school and got off with only some community service but "he other special needs students arrested remained expelled and at least one served a year in jail." Posting Onion stories seems cheap and easy. But this one about cops seems on point.
Is this not a lesson that our copyright laws are plunging towards absurdity? Harvard Business Review has determined that professors are not allowed to assign things out of their books without a specific license. Just wait until they start employing undercover students to help enforce their copyright.
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