Looks like EMI is ready to give up its principles on digital rights management in exchange for more money.
Sweet, sweet greed.
Category Archives: In the news
Montrealer wins unimportant Oscar
And most importantly, she was wearing a black dress when she did.
Congrats, Torill Kove.
It never rains but it pours
A girl ejected from a soccer game for wearing a hijab.
I’m not about to try to solve the reasonable accommodation debate here, but didn’t anyone predict that this would happen when they created a rule to ban religious headwear?
UPDATE: Jean Charest takes the referee’s side. Probably because the kids can’t vote.
A nucleodensimewhat?
Anyone seen one of these recently? If so, it’s probably stolen. (Gazette article)
Far offshore
Some New Zealanders are unhappy about an online gambling site run by a Costa Rican company with a Kahnawake gambling license.
Oh the complicated jurisdiction fight that is to ensue…
When polling goes bad
A new “poll” has determined that rich kids work hard, are responsible for their money and give to charity.
How did this scientific endeavour come up with these conclusions? It asked the rich kids what they thought of themselves.
Now strangely they find out the rich kids paint themselves in a positive light. And since rich kids wouldn’t lie or anything, it must be true.
Oh, and the control variable? You know, asking the not-so-rich kids what they thought of themselves as a basis for comparison?
They didn’t bother doing that.
And since “they” is a “wealth management company”, I guess we’ll just have to trust that they don’t have some sort of hidden agenda here.
Leave it to the idiots
The Park Ave. YMCA, which was involved in that unfrosted windows peeping tom debacle, has decided not to think about the issue too much (or trust some provincial commission), but to simply conduct polling and see what Joe Schmo Quebecer thinks.
On successful Amber Alerts
CNN is reporting that a 13-year-old Florida boy has been found alive hours after he was abducted at gunpoint.
Meanwhile, closer to home, the SQ located two Pierrefonds children who had been abducted by their mother (I think).
Both cases sparked Amber Alerts, which prompted countless calls from the public, though in neither case it seems did the public make a difference.
Montrealers cure diabetes
(well, not quite)
Doctors have found genes that apparently increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.
37 people we’ve never heard of
were appointed to the Order of Canada.
As usual half of them are CEOs of big companies who bought their way in through donations to charities.
Am I the only one who finds it odd that “philanthropist” and “philanderer” sound a lot alike?
Telus caves in
The surge in media attention that has thrust Telus into the hot, sweaty spotlight has gotten too hard for the overly sensitive wireless provider, who has pulled out of its porn services to cellphones, leaving its johns stroking their heads wondering where their next climaxes are going to come from.
And yet Videotron still has SexTV on its lineup.
Shawinigate Hotel for sale
Got $1 million lying around? Now you can spend it on a piece of political history.
The inevitable XM/Sirius merger
Greetings, new monopolistic overlords.
Do people actually subscribe to these services?
La Presse turns the tables on tenants
After a fascinating series on horrible landlords, La Presse takes a look at bad tenants with garbage-filled apartments left by people who don’t clean, or worse, wilfully damage their own apartments or those of others.
(via mtlweblog)