Investors are suing the German bank that's financing two hospital projects in British Columbia. Hypo Real Estate clients are alleging that the bank failed to disclose in a timely manner its exposure to the market...
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230 people who have been barred from entering the UK because they are suspected of preaching hate will be listed and named, and refused entry permanently unless they make public statement renouncing terror, the government revealed today."Preachers of hate who have been banned...
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"Monday, September 29, 2008 9:23 PMBy: Kenneth R. Timmerman More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small donors whose names the Obama campaign won't disclose. And questions have arisen about millions more in foreign...
"This Congress hasn't accomplished all that much, so you'd think they'd be eager to pass a no-brainer such as bipartisan legislation to protect kids from online predators. You'd be wrong. Last December, the House passed the Securing Adolescents from Exploitation Online Act by...
Government transparency advocates are suing to make sure Cheney's records are not destroyed and that the public has access to them. Cheney insists the Vice President is not part of the Executive Branch and not subject to these rules." Months before the Bush administration...
" (CNN) -- Embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty Thursday to charges resulting from a sex scandal and is to resign from office immediately, a prosecutor said. ...
"Just over three-years since whistleblower John Francis Smith died in a filthy NHS hospital, the Director General of MI5 has told his family that no data can be released relating to his Government Service because...
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"An Imminent Victory for ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates By Vindu Goel When Comcast admitted last fall that it was blocking — or slowing down, as the company preferred to call it — certain file transfers by customers, a lot of people complained that the company...
" Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips...
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It strikes me as odd that someone would walk away from a security checkpoint without their laptop- would you even bring the thing with you if it weren't an integral part of the reason for travel? So, yeah, I can...
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Equality minister Harriet Harman has set out a plan to allow British firms to discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minority job applicants. The new plan would not require firms to do so, but would allow...
California's longest-serving prison inmate, a former follower of Charles Manson, is seeking a compassionate release due to failing health. Convicted of the murder of Sharon Tate, Susan Atkins has fewer than six months to live." Atkins, 60, was convicted in the 1969 slayings...
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Susan Atkins, former Manson follower and convicted murderer of Sharon Tate and four others, has requested to be released from prison on 'compassionate release' as she has less than six months to live.I say.......
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A ban by Konami on certain elements appearing in reviews of the upcoming Metal Gear Solid 4 had raised concerns about the legitimacy of reviews that accepted the ban. To dispell the swirling fog of consipiracy, Konami has lifted the ban. Sort of."The news arrives from a...
Since I am American, I do not know the health privacy laws of Canada. However, I do know that once a person turns 18, there is no legal obligation for a doctor to reveal or release one's medical records, or even...
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