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Carbon tax to cover all B.C. fuels PDF Print E-mail
Written by Tom Fletcher   
The B.C. government will collect an estimated $1.8 billion over the next three years from a new "carbon tax" on all fossil fuels, but Finance Minister Carole Taylor vows it will all be given back to individuals and businesses.

The carbon tax is to take effect July 1, adding an estimated 2.4 cents to a litre of gasoline this year and rising to 7.2 cents by 2012. It will also apply to natural gas, starting at 49.88 cents per gigajoule, and diesel fuel starting at 2.8 cents a litre.Write Comment (0 comments)
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UK says it wants to tackle Net terror PDF Print E-mail
Written by RAPHAEL G. SATTER   
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press WriterThu Jan 17, 3:30 PM ET

 

Britain's top law-and-order official wants extremist content off the Web, saying Thursday she intends to deny Islamist ideologues the use of a key recruitment tool.

But Internet service providers and experts say they could be accused of corporate censorship and face a mess of lawsuits if they must carry out any government order to aggressively police the Internet.

British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, giving the keynote speech at a conference on radicalization and political violence, said "the Internet is not a no-go area for government." She compared her government's plan to counter extremism on the Internet to its long-standing campaign against pedophiles and child pornography online.

 

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Development Raises Flood Risk Across U.S. PDF Print E-mail
Written by Andrew Bridges   
By ANDREW BRIDGES, Associated Press WriterSat Feb 18, 12:01 PM ET

Intensified development in flood-prone parts of Missouri and California significantly raise the risk of New Orleans-style flooding in urban areas on the Mississippi and Sacramento rivers, researchers said Saturday.

Around St. Louis, where the Mississippi River lapped at the steps of the Gateway Arch during the 1993 flood, more than 14,000 acres of flood plain have been developed since 1993. That has reduced the region's ability to store water during future floods, said Adolphus Busch IV, a scion of the Anheuser-Busch brewing family and chairman of the Great Rivers Habitat Alliance.

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Greenland Glaciers Losing Ice Much Faster, Study Says PDF Print E-mail
Contributed by John Roach   

John Roach
for National Geographic News
February 16, 2006

Due to global warming, glaciers on Greenland are slipping into the ocean twice as fast as they were just five years ago, scientists announced today.

Current estimates already suggest that Greenland (map) is contributing to rising seas. Now it seems that those estimates may have underestimated the melting island's effect, says Eric Rignot, a glaciologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

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Canada Mourns PDF Print E-mail
Written by TERRY WEBER   

By TERRY WEBER

Thursday, March 10, 2005
Updated at 7:24 PM EST

Globe and Mail Update

Canadians fell silent Thursday, mourning the tragic loss of four young Mounties slain in the line of duty last week on a lonely Alberta farm.
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4 Mounties killed in Raid PDF Print E-mail
Written by CBC Reporter   
Last Updated Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:01:52 EST

MAYERTHORPE, ALTA. - Four RCMP officers were killed Thursday during a raid on a marijuana grow operation in northwestern Alberta, a government source says.

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Is the Good Ole Napster Back? PDF Print E-mail
Contributed by Michael Levine   

http://www.andpop.com/article/3942

 

 

(andPOP) - Remember back in the day when Napster was 100% free? Well that time is back, sort of. Users around the Internet are reporting that they have figured out a way to abuse Napster's subscription based MP3 service using software from AOL's Winamp division. While we aren't going to link you directly to the instructions on how to do this, we can tell you that this sort of thing is nothing new.

 

"The DRM (digital rights management) is intact. Basically, people are just recording off a sound card. This is nothing new and people could do this with any legitimate service if they want to use a sound card," a spokeswoman for Napster told Reuters. "This kind of attack has been around for a long time and it's just because of our higher profile that it has sparked such interest."

Napster currently offers a 14 day free trial, with regular usage priced at $15 USD per month.

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