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Watching me watching you - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
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Formal surveillance means one CCTV camera per 14 citizens in the UK
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Yet, the actual extent of commercial surveillance on Facebook remains murky. According to their privacy policy, Facebook retains the right to collect information about their members from other sources such as newspapers, instant messaging services and blogs “to provide you with more useful information and a more personalised experience”. By using Facebook, you also consent to have your personal data transferred to, and processed in, the US. Users are not notified when and how their data is used. In 2008 the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, a privacy group, filed a complaint against Facebook for violating 22 ∞counts of Canadian privacy laws
SEE - Edmonton News & Views - News & Views - Organizing Working Women
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And so, in an effort to make sex work safer, not to mention stabilize and legitimize the industry, Davis has helped found the West Coast Cooperative of Sex Industry Professionals. Davis’ plans include a brothel that hopefully will be in place for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, a trade industry seal of excellence guaranteeing good working conditions, and a system of standardized occupational health and safety training for all workers. Davis has also reached out to small groups across the country to join the association. She provides them with advice on how to organize local sex workers. Eventually, she hopes these small groups will evolve into local chapters of a national union.
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The goals of her group are pretty basic. She hopes to create a community for prostitutes, erotic dancers, phone sex operators, and others connected with the sex trade, and to provide some basic health and safety training. The first step though, is to change the laws around prostitution. “You can’t improve working conditions and make the work safe,” she says, “without repealing the laws.”
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Canada's Worst Foreign Minister
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Canada now (which speaks for the unannounced US foreign policy) defends the Honduran coup: "“The coup was certainly an affront to the region, but there is a context in which these events happened,” said Peter Kent, Canada’s minister of foreign affairs, noting that Mr. Zelaya was a highly polarizing figure who clashed with the Supreme Court, Congress and army. “There has to be an appreciation of the events that led up to the coup.""
SILLY BAHRAINI GIRL - Lest I Ever Forget
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I just wanted some compassion and someone to tell me: "Yes, we do practice racial profiling and that you were singled out for being an Arab Muslim, with Hussain in your surname. Grow up and live with it!"
BBC NEWS | Americas | Canada farm worker 'infects pigs'
A herd of pigs in Canada has tested positive for swine flu, apparently after being infected by a farm worker recently returned from Mexico.
Canadian cops clamping down on photographers’ rights
Twice in the last three weeks, Vancouver police shot a suspect down, then went after the photographer who captured the scene
Loscil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia entry on Loscil, one hell of good electronic music composer..
SHE2I2: Ontario Union Votes to Boycott Israeli Universities
The Canadian Union of Public Employees in Ontario, the largest labor group representing staff members at universities in the province, voted over the weekend to boycott Israeli universities because of Israel’s recent bombing attacks in the Gaza Strip
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The Canadian Union of Public Employees in Ontario, the largest labor group representing staff members at universities in the province, voted over the weekend to boycott Israeli universities because of Israel’s recent bombing attacks in the Gaza Strip
CTV Toronto - CUPE members vote to boycott Israeli universities - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
Excellent! Delegates at a conference in Windsor for the Canadian Union of Public Employees have voted in favour of boycotting Israeli universities.
ei: Canada becomes Israel
Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper's government publicly supported Israel's brutal assault on Gaza and voted alone at the UN Human Rights Committee in defense of Israel's actions three weeks ago. Now Canada has taken over Israeli diplomacy. Literally.
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