From an Iraqi: As if we didn't have enough problems already! From where I'm sitting now I can hear both Sunni and Shia mosques are condemning the attack through their loudspeakers. Things look scary here in Baghdad... Head of the Sunni endowment sheikh Ahmed al-Samarra'I announces that he will allocate 2 billion dinars (~1.4 million …
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I didn't know this... Apparently a Canadian had a hand in inventing the Charged Couple Device (CCD)... that's the thing that takes the role of the "film" in your digital camera. From the CBC, Willard Boyle, a Canadian scientist who helped invent a light-sensitive chip, accepted a prestigious engineering award in the U.S. on Tuesday. …
The Toronto Star is running on story on the latest in the saga of Maher Arar. The Canadian who was deported by the US to Syria during a stopover at Kennedy International in New York. He stayed in a Syrian jail for over a year and claims to have been tortured. The case led to …
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