One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 11 December 2003

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Canada only eligible for sub-contracts in Iraq,...

Canada only eligible for sub-contracts in Iraq, officials say
U.S. President George W. Bush was only referring to sub-contracts when he told Prime Minister Jean Chrétien that there would be business opportunities for Canada in Iraq, officials have told CBC News. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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EE Times: PC, consumer engineers play different tunes on road to wireless music. PC and consumer engineers are taking separate paths to audio over Bluetooth, raising the possibility of incompatible wireless MP3 players, headsets and speakers. Word of the split comes as Bluetooth is gaining traction in its core market of cellular handsets and marshalling its forces for a next-generation spec that could deliver megabit data rates and multimedia capabilities. [Tomalak's Realm]

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Senior US senator John McCain criticises delays in processing the 660 detainees at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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UN chief Kofi Annan joins the critics of the US move to bar some countries from Iraq reconstruction contracts. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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President Bush asked France, Germany and Russia to forgive Iraq's debts, after they were excluded from reconstruction projects. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Clever

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Quebec protests snarl traffic, shipping, day care
Thousands of angry public sector workers across Quebec are staging what they're calling a day of action to protest against Premier Jean Charest's plans to merge union locals and to contract out some jobs. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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Bush to Chrétien: don't worry about Iraq contracts
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said Canada won't be excluded from contracts to rebuild Iraq. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News] 'He said Bush wished him good luck on his last day as prime minister and thanked him for Canada's military role in Afghanistan and the country's financial contribution to rebuilding Iraq.'

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The video shows the amazing number of people who waited patiently to get inside on opening day.

The line, which Allen estimated to be 2,500 at its height, takes a full 10 minutes to traverse from beginning to end. It stretched for about 10 Tokyo city blocks, according to a map created by Allen.

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He feared role as united right's 'gay MP'
The Rubicon that Scott Brison crossed yesterday came into sight when he began to worry he would become known as the Conservative Party's gay MP.

Months after a bitter loss in the Tory leadership race, and after he sensed that local Annapolis Valley sentiment was against the new party, friends say that Mr. Brison began to think about whether he would join the Conservative Party if he were 14 again and getting into politics for the first time.

The answer he delivered yesterday, after weeks of talks with Mr. Martin and others, was no.

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World's Tech Have-Nots Confer

Poorer nations want their share of the information technology pie, and a three-day summit in Geneva is designed to point the way. But richer nations, conspicuous by their absence, don't appear to give a damn. [Wired News]