The ghost of Lawrence MacAulay haunts me. It may haunt all of Canada if we don't get our heads straight and start beating down overreactive and intrusive legislation drafted by people who don't understand technology.
Various Canadian police organizations have long clamoured for significantly expanded wiretapping rights. Lawrence MacAulay, Martin Cauchon and Allan Rock [...]
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The New York Times is reporting today that the CIA has been using foreign countries to interrogate terrorist suspects:
"The Bush administration's secret program to transfer suspected terrorists to foreign countries for interrogation has been carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency under broad authority that has allowed it to act without case-by-case approval from [...]
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I'm ashamed to say that I can't recall exactly when my grandfather died... During the early 1990s, probably. The gap between his first visit to the hospital and his eventual death felt absurdly accelerated, as if only a few hours had passed. In reality I suppose it was really about two weeks.
Feeble [...]