Citizens and Experts Discuss Honest Elections at Black Box Voting Forums

A week of special guests meeting on-line where all can watch and anyone can register to ask questions and participate. Topics include paper ballots, real recounts, proportional representation, being a voting...

Why Everybody Is a Reporter

Paul Chenoweth never leaves home without his digital camera or video camera. A graduate student at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., he shoots video and photos around town and posts them to his...

1st Iranian Underground Rock Music Album on iTunes

Thursday, August 11th 2005 marked a milestone for Iranian Underground Music. This was the first time, at least to our knowledge, that underground music from Iran became available for Digital Download over the...

BREAKING: Locked-out CBC Workers to Launch Competing Service (I Love Radio .org)

Next week, locked-out workers of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will use the Internet to compete against their employer. They are even setting up office and studio space in Toronto. The site will have a national daily newscast available via podcast or download,...

Lock Out at the CBC

TORONTO (CP) - Viewers and listeners across the country tuned in to unfamiliar faces and voices on the airwaves Monday morning after the CBC locked out 5,500 of its workers. Negotiators for the broadcaster and...

Public Press Club: Canadian Meeting

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thetyee.ca The Video that Outrages Telus Employees

"TheTyee.ca It's called the Telus Idol video and it's getting some nasty reviews on picket lines and pro-union Internet discussion groups. The video, a takeoff on Canadian Idol that has been available on various sites on the Web, was apparently shot at a raucous Telus...

Terasen Gas sold to Texas Outfit

Texas energy outfit acquires Terasen Gas in $7-billion deal Union concerns for customers, thousands of jobs; company hails 'milestone' Kent Spencer The Province Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1 | 2 | NEXT >> The union representing more than 400 workers at Terasen Gas...

DNA tests squelch Canadian sasquatch discovery - Yahoo! News

EDMONTON, Alberta (Reuters) - Big Foot will remain just a tall tale, for a while at least, after DNA hair samples thought to be from the mythic creature turned out to be bison hair.

Fuel surcharge boosts ferry travel costs -- Gulf Islands Driftwood

Sailing to and from the island just got more costly following B.C Ferry Services' decision to implement a fuel surcharge on all routes this week. "What can you do when it comes to the price of fuel?" ...

Vodafone Germany going to block VoIP -- Doh!

I had heard rumours of this little bit of short-sightedness but from Connected Internet— Vodafone Germany to Block Skype—sounds like it's for real.  This is not bright.  Okay, let's just leave Skype out of the picture, okay?  Let's just look at VoIP. ...

New Car Theft Scam Hits BC

I have just received this very important bulletin from the Nanaimo coordinator of Commissionaires. Thanks you,> Imagine:  You walk across the parking lot, unlock your car and get> inside; you lock your...

Go and See the Giant Peach

Centre A @ the Art Gallery of South Okanagan | Vanessa Kwan | JUL 15----------------------------------------------------------------Centre A presents   THE PROJECT ROOMVanessa Kwan - Your Private Sky (Penticton)July 15 to August 21at the Art Gallery of the South...

Michael Geist - Court Orders Harry Potter Purchasers to Return Book

Court Orders Harry Potter Purchasers to Return Book A British Columbia court has ordered purchasers of the new Harry Potter book to return it immediately and forbid anyone from discussing any elements contained in the book itself. The latest instalment of Harry Potter...

U.S.-Canada Border Leaves Many Jittery

ON THE U.S.-CANADA BORDER (AP) -- Nearly four years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks and after billions in security investment on both sides of this frontier stretching from Atlantic to Pacific, authorities and...

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