Results tagged “omarkhadr”

ART: Award-winning photographer Nigel Dickson gives a talk at the Ontario College of Art and Design tonight. The internationally recognized artist engages in both editorial and commercial work; his diverse oeuvre includes personal portraiture, corporate campaign work, and panoramic landscapes. He received sixteen National Magazine Awards—the most awarded to any artist in the category of Visual Design—and also won the Les Usherwood Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Advertising & Design Club of Canada. Ontario College of Art and Design, Auditorium (100 McCaul Street), 6:30 p.m., FREE.

Omar Khadr's lawyers recently released video footage of Khadr's interrogation by CSIS agents in hopes that the video would embarrass the Prime Minister and garner sympathy from Canadians. Unsurprisingly, the PM's office wasn't hearing that noise. Clearly these lawyers don't know how hard it is to embarrass Stephen Harper.

Federal Industry Minister Jim Prentice has demanded a meeting with the honchos from Bell and Telus so they can explain to him exactly why they decided to charge their pay-per-use users 15¢ per received text message, calling the decision "ill thought-out." Canadian technology users are consequently planning to demand a meeting with Minister Prentice to ask him to explain ACTA and Bill C-61, calling them "ill thought-out."

It rained a lot yesterday, and it will most likely rain more today. Then it will probably rain some more on Wednesday, and Thursday, and Friday. If you're like Torontoist and don't have air conditioning, you are all for more rain. Keep raining, rain! (But no more funnel clouds, please. That kinda freaks us out.)

The Supreme Court today announced, in a 9–0 decision, that the federal government of Canada is obligated to disclose to Omar Khadr and his attorneys all relevant documents and information obtained through Canadian interviews of Khadr conducted in 2003. (A federal judge will determine which of these documents are relevant to Mr. Khadr's case.) The federal government previously withheld this information on security grounds.

The federal government's defence plan will cost $20 billion more than the federal government said it would cost, at least according to the Vice Chief of Defence Staff. Stephen Harper responded to the criticism by explaining that the country would be purchasing its planes and tanks through Canadian Tire, and that the Canadian Tire money generated by the purchases would be applied directly to the national debt, thus equalizing out costs.

TTC riders can get a refund after last weekend's strike (see Torontoist's story here). If you bring your pass to a collector's booth, you will get $7.50 back. Torontoist personally plans to invest its Metropass refund in the stock market, purchasing 1/95th of a share of Google.

Copper theft in Toronto has reached record levels. Thieves just can't get enough of that golden-brown stuff. You can do anything with it—sell it for four dollars per pound, or...well, actually that's pretty much all a copper thief can do with copper, come to think.

NDP charges Liberals "deceptive" over nuclear energy plans. Apparently the nuclear energy commitments the provincial government has made require almost four times the nuclear energy generation capability that their promised plant could deliver, unless the plant itself was four times larger than the Darlington plant. This is all part of the current clever government plan to get ahead of everybody else and be massively involved in the next energy crisis when the world runs out of readily refineable uranium.