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 Thursday, 20 November 2003
A historic day in Edmonton: Gretzky returns and HNIC broadcasts in HDTV  < 9:57:47 PM>.
CBC Sports is broadcasting in High Definition Television for the first time on Saturday, Nov. 22 as a historic day at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton unfolds. The Oilers celebrate their 25th anniversary and a legend returns, on CBC's Hockey Night In Canada. Ron MacLean hosts the coverage, when a National Hockey League record crowd, in excess of 55,000 fans, will be on hand to witness the return of Wayne Greztky. Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers' alumni take on Guy Lafleur and some former Montreal Canadiens legends in The Mega Stars Game. Hockey Night in Canada will use this opportunity for their first venture into High Definition Television and the use of new technological experiments-robotic cameras and cameras on cranes will be used, and an Omni-cam will be mounted above the glass and moved from one end of the rink to the other. At 7 p.m. ET, live from Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Hockey Night in Canada will present The Heritage Classic, featuring the current-day Oilers battling the Habs. To mark the inaugural foray into the future of broadcasting on CBC Television, Bell Express Vu, Shaw Cablesystems, Starchoice, Rogers Cable and Videotron will provide the feed of the broadcast in HDTV for their subscribers.
The blurb is from an email I got. The link is to a page with a bit of information about HDTV. My favourite quote from the page is 'In focus groups conducted by Samsung Canada, CBC[base ']s Hockey Night in Canada was the program that most participants indicated would get them to consider upgrading to HDTV.' Crazy Canucks!
Canada supplied information used against Arar, says... < 1:47:05 AM>.
Canada supplied information used against Arar, says solicitor general
Canada's solicitor general acknowledged for the first time Wednesday
that U.S. officials used Canadian-supplied information when they
deported Maher Arar to Syria.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News] We give the US info about our citizens, they send them off to be tortured.
Hey the government of Canada has... < 12:51:52 AM>.
 Hey the government of Canada has RSS feeds. They're pretty good, not bad at all, but they call their feeds 0.91 but use features only available in 2.0. I'm hesitant to criticize, because after all it's the thought that counts. But my aggregator will ignore the cool 2.0 stuff because it takes the version seriously. Best thing to do is to just change the version number to 2.0 and accept a hearty thanks from your neighbors to the south. And thanks to Lawrence for the pointers (he's Canadian). [Scripting News]
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