One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Friday, 21 November 2003

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EMI faces Time Warner takeover setback

Business: EMI was today facing the prospect of being left on the sidelines once again after US media giant Time Warner spurned its advances in favour of another bidder. [Guardian Unlimited] 'Shares in the UK music group fell 10% after Time Warner - which is seeking a buyer for Warner Music - gave the nod to a consortium led by Edgar Bronfman, the former chief executive of drinks and entertainment conglomerate Seagram.'

Bronfman's back?!

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Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, who was due to be relieved of his post on Jan. 1 for criticizing the U.S., resigned abruptly today. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] ' He accused the administration of President Vicente Fox of caving in to pressure from the Bush administration, which he said had lobbied for his ouster. [snip] At Mr. Aguilar Zinser's final Security Council meeting on Thursday afternoon, Secretary General Kofi Annan praised him for his independent spirit."'

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Demonstrations and a local lunch mark the last hours of the US president's state visit to Britain. [Guardian Unlimited] 'One demonstrator, Anne Newton, a former leader of Wear Valley council, carried a banner that read: "A million to protect a murderer."

She told the Press Association: "It is costing a million pounds a day to protect that man, who should not even be in this country."'

< 1:25:34 AM >

Syria told U.S. Canadian wouldn't be tortured: Ashcroft
The United States says it deported Maher Arar to the Middle East only after being assured that the Canadian man would not be harmed by Syria. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

Who the hell is Ashcroft trying to kid? Two weeks after the moron, aka Ashcroft's boss Bush, stood up and denounced Syria as a country that tortures people Ashcroft tries this spin? They sent him there specifically because they knew he would be tortured and they thought they'd get some info out of him. And our naive government never believed our US friends would do such a thing to one of our citizens.

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Mass turnout of young and old watches overturn of US president's effigy. [Guardian Unlimited]

200,000 people march in London . . . on a weekday. Fantastic.

< 12:40:23 AM >

Envoy among 27 killed in Istanbul attacks. [Guardian Unlimited]

Watching the news yesterday I thought to myself that with all the security chasing the moron around that the terrorists would go after British targets elsewhere..

< 12:34:47 AM >

Michael Jackson was booked on charges of child molesting, beginning what promises to be one of the biggest legal spectacles in years. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Spectacle. Sigh.

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Now the culture minister is saying the government really, really wants to build a new hall for the MSO but maybe not the glass box design, maybe not right away, and maybe they need a private partner to undertake the project with them. [montreal city weblog]

Dutoit is gone.