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U.S. Supreme Court urged to reject Maher Arar's appeal - CTV News Bunch of hypocrites. When someone in our country breaks a law in the US while not even ever stepping foot in the US and is over something minor like Marc Emery's situation.... they'll fight tooth and nail to get him sent to the US...

CBC News - World - Quebec student shaken by U.S. border ordeal And people wonder why I have no interest in going to the US :-? That's just despicable.... if they put their brain cells together, looked up the information to confirm her situation and story to be true (Google it jeez, it takes...

Captured Somali pirates 'dead' - Russia | News.com.au The moral of the story? Don't Fk with Russia and hi-jack their stuff or they'll make you disappear. My betting either they indeed released them in a boat as described, trailed them for about an hour and then shelled them to the bottom of...

Ambulance service staff asked if Hitler was cool | News.com.au Well... I get where the problem lies (asking if Hitler was cool) but he wasn't the only option or the main focal point of the study.... kinda curious what the final results were.

Playboy goes 3D (stop drooling) | News.com.au They didn't actually say if it was going to be the old red/blue (or green/red) 3D or in color..... if it's the old fashion 3D with the two colors, it sounds like it'd kinda suck. Though if it was one of those layered pages with the ribbed plastic...

UN envoy: Khadr prosecution a 'dangerous precedent' - CTV News Further information in above link. I was going to merge this into the previous thread I just posted about the Lawyer offering to let him live with him, but figured the two topics of discussion focus on two different aspects of the...

CBC News - World - UN nuclear watchdog puts pressure on Israel Further information in above link. Well it's about damn time someone notices the Israeli hypocrisy.

CBC News - Toronto - Khadr lawyer offers to house him in Edmonton More in the above link. Well he seems to want to take full responsibility for Omar to the point of letting him live with him.... an interesting proposal and since he probably knows Omar personally, better then anybody else from...

Tests confirm offspring of hybrid polar-grizzly bear - CTV News See.... I told you the Polar Bears would adapt. :-P

Vulcan (Alta.) rolls out grand homecoming for Spock I guess after this and his visit to the expo later he plans on retiring from acting and also ending his visits to Trek conventions... though from spending so many years doing all of this and traveling all over the place, being almost 80 years...

BBC News - US considers setting fire to Gulf of Mexico oil leak What are your thoughts? Good idea to burn or do you know of a better idea?

Under proposed laws, cigarette will no longer be sold in brand packaging, left, but in generic packets, right Cigarettes to be sold in plain packets from 2012 | News.com.au Now that's certainly one of the more stupider things I've heard yet. First you needed warnings on packages, then you...

Hypersonic Test Vehicle Falcon goes missing on test flight, DARPA admits | News.com.au Well whoops... they never said they found it either. Well besides the obvious joke of it perhaps going to warp and off to Klingon space, is anybody else bothered by the concept of the US having such a...

NEWS IN BRIEF - Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca Add one more to the pile.... :roll:

New airport security scanners a waste of money: Israeli security specialist Continued on Above Link. I knew from the start these things would be useless.... the whole reason why that loon got on the plane and almost blew it up was because nobody was bothering to adhere to the already existing...

N.Korea seizes S.Korean assets, warns of war Continues on Above Link. Indeed, in news I read yesterday, the South was claiming the North used suicide subs to move close to their ship and blew themselves up. Can't say I know which way this situation is heading towards, either war or just more...

Man sues for 'no coloured waiter' request | News.com.au Besides me being slightly surprised that this sort of this still happens today.... They're British and visiting in the US, so exactly what did they mean in regards to "foreign accents?" Only a waiter with a British accent could serve...

Potentially deadly airborne strain of fungus spreading in US and Canada | News.com.au Heads up Westerners..... this isn't just some fungus between your toes, this is some nasty Kung Fu Fungus ready to kick'a'yo'ass. Try and keep it over on your side of the country will ya? ;-)

BBC News - Adobe abandons iPhone code tools Sounds like a bad move on Apple and a big dent to their IPhone and IPad. Adobe and their Flash tools are HUGE! I thought Apple was screwing themselves by forcing e-book makers to use their own program and making any existing e-books made through...

CBC News - World - French burka ban proposal riles Muslims They argue that it's all about protecting women from being oppressed and being told what to wear.... yet what they're doing is oppressing & dictating what women can and can't wear, how much of their skin is exposed, etc. Kind of...