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The better to bomb your allies with.  < 11:11:27 PM>.Canada to follow UN in Iraq policy 
Canada will always operate under the auspices of the United Nations, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said on Monday, a day after his predecessor accused him of being juvenile in his foreign policy. [CBC News] < 9:59:37 PM>.Avalanche victims mourned by schoolmates, families
Thousands of people gathered in Calgary Monday for an emotional tribute to seven teenaged schoolmates killed in an avalanche. [CBC News] < 9:58:46 PM>.Reyat changes plea to guilty in Air India case
An unexpected twist in the biggest mass murder trial in Canadian history: with just six weeks before the Air India trial was set to begin, one of the accused, Inderjit Singh Reyat, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter. [CBC News] < 9:50:01 PM>.Canada sides with U.S. in NATO dispute
Canada is siding with Turkey in the dispute over whether it should be able to boost its defences to prepare for a possible war against Iraq. [CBC News] < 3:24:51 PM>.Biometric ID cards may be needed to cross U.S. border next year
Canadians may soon need new national identity cards if they want to cross the border into the U.S. The cards have been criticized by the privacy commissioner as an invasion of privacy. [CBC News] So much for the world's longest undefended border. < 12:18:31 PM>.Wrestling Pi and a tiger onto the screen By SANDRA MARTIN -- So, what do you do with the tiger? That's the first question that comes to mind in the aftermath of last week's announcement that Fox 2000 has bought the film rights to Yann Martel's Booker-winning novel, Life of Pi. The novel is the story of Pi, a teenage boy shipwrecked in a lifeboat in the Pacific with a ravenous, 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] < 12:16:50 PM>.On rethinking the commonplace, by design
By DAVID MACFARLANE
-- When I heard that an exhibition called Re Design: Daily Products of the 21st Century was opening at the Design Exchange in Toronto, I put aside the new CD I'd been trying to open for an hour and a half, and decided to go down to King and Bay and have a look. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] |
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