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- Bill C-61 (Canadian DMCA) at first reading
No sooner did I go out of town than the Conservatives introduced Bill C-61, the long-awaited copyright legislation. It's pretty much as we feared: giving the US corporations everything they want with only a nod to the rights of Canadians. Now would be a good time to write some letters. Michael Geist has been covering it in some detail. I'm somewhat out of touch myself, but quickly getting back to speed. Below I'll summarize my clause-by-clause skimming of the Bill, and in future postings I'll probably talk about what we need to do about it. Here's the Hansard transcript from when the Bill was introduced.
(23 June 2008)- Stephen Harper's natal chart
- For the 2004 Canadian election, I spent quite a lot of time putting together an astrological analysis of the candidates and the influences on the result. That was fun, and I know a number of people were hoping I'd do the same for the current (January 2006) election; but unfortunately, I've been going through a very busy time with schoolwork and other things, and I just didn't have time. As I write this, it's now the night before the election, and I couldn't possibly do a prediction before the result will be announced and the result isn't even in much doubt anyway, so there's not much point. However, it was pointed out to me with the 2004 analysis that I had Stephen Harper's birthdate wrong, and since he looks likely to be a key figure in the near future, it seems worth doing a natal chart on him with the correct birthdate. (22 January 2006)
- Astrological notes on the 2004 Canadian Federal election
- Discussion of the major party candidates and the election itself in an astrological frame of reference. (18 January 2006)
- The Martian opinion
- Normally, he'd have been greeted with boos and thrown drinking glasses, but right now everyone wanted to hear the Martian opinion on the Human's rash claims. (29 December 2001)
- Madam Chair
- My life as a student government beatnik. (7 December 1999)