Canada Home to al-Qaida Terrorists
The News Review:
- Canada Home to al-Qaida Terrorists
- Is the tide finally turning in Mexico?
- The Seattle Times: Tech Tracks
- Catatonia star back in Cardiff
- A dollar and a dream
- Book World Live
- Ottawa Business Journal – Home Page
Canada Home to al-Qaida Terrorists
NewsMax.com – May 30, 2006
Jack Hooper, the deputy director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, spoke Monday in Ottawa to a legislative committee studying Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan. Hooper told the lawmakers Canada faces a threat from home-grown terrorists. He said that all the circumstances which produced the London transit bombing are present now in Canada. Hooper said that many of the home-grown terrorists are Canadian citizens. Story Continues Below… Hooper told the lawmakers Canada faces a threat from home-grown terrorists. He said that all the circumstances which produced the London transit bombing are present now in Canada. Hooper said that many of the home-grown terrorists are Canadian citizens. Story Continues Below.
Is the tide finally turning in Mexico?
San Diego Union Tribune – May 30, 2006
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Funny thing about Mexican President Vicente Fox's visit to the American West last week: It didn't turn out as one would have expected. The tall, lanky, laconic “presidente,” who seemed to offer such hope to Mexico when he was elected five years ago, started out in Salt Lake City with the usual emotional cries for “fairness” and “decent treatment of our people. ” But before his visits to Washington and California were over, it was clear that the background music to the old show had changed dramatically. Fox was greeted by some of the best in the American intellectual community with an honesty about his abundant failures that has not been seen before. A brilliant paper by professor George W. Grayson of the College of William & Mary, widely circulated before the visit, laid out Mexico's shame:
President Fox makes $236,693 a year, more than the leaders of France, the United Kingdom and Canada; Mexican congressional deputies, who serve only a few months a year, take home at least $148,000 a year, plus a $28,000 “leaving-office bonus” at the end of the term. Meanwhile, Mexico collects taxes equivalent to 9… Ironically, the debate and the anger in the U. about this mammoth illegal immigration has already helped Mexico to begin to shed its dependency on America – and to turn its energies toward its own real predators, all home-grown.
The Seattle Times: Tech Tracks
Seattle Times – May 30, 2006
It accused the IEEE of violating ISO rules to mislead the ISO’s voting committee. China has the world’s largest mobile phone market and is trying to promote its home grown standards for mobile technology and encryption. Last year China dropped demands that companies operating there adopt its WAPI standard, but the issue is resurfacing with a new intensity.
Catatonia star back in Cardiff
News Wales – May 30, 2006
The Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend provides the traditional festival finale with three days of big names on the Memory Lane stage, and one of Europe’s largest funfairs in the grand setting of the city’s Civic Centre making up the UK’s biggest FREE outdoor festival. This is the biggest date on the former Catatonia singer’s Welsh programme this summer, and marks her return to her birthplace. Councillor Nigel Howells, Executive Member for Sport, Leisure and Culture said: “This year’s Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend has one of the strongest line-ups for years. The many local fans of Cerys Matthews will have the opportunity to see the international star return to her home town to play live in the open air, and the programme is full of quality and home grown talent… This is the biggest date on the former Catatonia singer’s Welsh programme this summer, and marks her return to her birthplace. Councillor Nigel Howells, Executive Member for Sport, Leisure and Culture said: “This year’s Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend has one of the strongest line-ups for years. The many local fans of Cerys Matthews will have the opportunity to see the international star return to her home town to play live in the open air, and the programme is full of quality and home grown talent. ”
After the demise of Catatonia, Cerys’ first solo recording was the theme for the S4C children’s show Sali Mali. And in March 2002 she appeared at the Radio 2 Folk Awards to perform a duet with Eliza Carthy. In May 2003 she returned to the spotlight with the release of her debut solo album, the country-tinged Cockahoop. Cut adrift from mainstream musical trends, and produced by Bob Dylan’s producer Bucky Baxter, it was a delightful and playful collection that proved hers was no fleeting talent.
A dollar and a dream
St. Petersburg Times – May 30, 2006
His father died when Shin was 14, making him the man of the family. He took all kinds of jobs to help his mother. They subsisted on donations, living off dried milk powder, grains, home-grown vegetables and home-raised chickens and rabbits. Most of the country was poor, devastated by the Korean War. “Most of the time we were hungry,’’ said Shin, now 62. “Life was tough. ’’ While in college, Shin became a leader of the local chapter of the Korean Christian College Student Association, which held protests against the regime.
Book World Live
Washington Post – May 30, 2006
: Since the USA has a population of about 300,000,000, and the largest and best university system in the world, why can’t it educate the scientific workforce it needs? Why do we have to raid other countries for brainpower?Michele Wucker: The United States may be 300 million people, but that’s still a very small part of the total world population. Many of our brightest stars –including many Nobel Prize winners– have been immigrants. But you have a very good point –our education system is not doing what it needs to produce home grown American scientists and engineers. _______________________Alexandria, Va: Are our standards too high? Meaning, do we expect too much from people coming to this country (understanding our history, the ability to read and write, having a needed skill)? It seems that the numerous immigrants waiting to enter the country legally meet our strict standards, but are forced to wait in a line to verrify their intentions. However, while the highly skilled are waiting in line, the low-skilled, under-educated are streaming across the border with nothing standing in their way. Can a lowering of standards to speed the processing of immigrants into the country help the problem, or has the dam already broken?Michele Wucker: The problem is not so much standards but more the working of the bureaucracy coupled with quotas to prevent any one region from taking up too big a share of migration. When I was at MIT interviewing some of these brilliant people who had been backed up, they complained about the illegals coming across the border too.
Ottawa Business Journal – Home Page
Ottawa Business Journal – May 30, 2006
Perhaps he’s greasing the wheels for an actual run at politics. (Do I smell yet another candidate for the Liberal leadership race?)
His latest gem was to call on the freshly minted Conservative government of Prime Minister Steven Harper to step in and force the City of Ottawa to award the light rail contract to the Bombardier consortium. Why? Because Bombardier is the home-grown corporate and cultural icon. Never mind that PCL and Dufferin are also Canadian companies. (PCL, in fact, traces its roots back a century to a construction business with humble beginnings in Saskatchewan). For its part, global conglomerate Siemens employs Canadians at a dozen different operations across the country and is even involved in that big Wi-Fi deployment with Toronto Hydro Telecom. Obviously, awarding the contract to the Bombardier consortium would benefit Bombardier’s transportation operations in Thunder Bay and La Pocatiere, Que.