Silencing Canada’s whistleblowers

Silencing Canada’s whistleblowers     LAST week an adjudicator at the Public Service Labour Relations Board handed down rulings related to three Health Canada scientists that confirm what many Canadians – and international observers – had already concluded: that Canada is not a safe place for honest employees, especially if they work for

Cyber spying is the new face of espionage

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Posted by Canasiantimes on September 22, 2011 Mississauga-Erindale MP Bob Dechert with Shi Rong, right, the chief Xinhua News Agency correspondent in Toronto In the context of controversy surrounding Conservative MP Bob Dechert’s flirtatious email exchanges with a Chinese journalist Experts say all governments need better cyber vigilance -Ryan Charkow When many people think of

9/11 attacks – Conspiracies that weren’t

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Posted by Canasiantimes on September 15, 2011     Like every major event, 9/11 has inspired a huge number of conspiracy theories most of which argue eveyone except AlQaeda attacked the US The September 11 attacks have spawned bestselling books, films and an indeterminate number of conspiracy websites run by “truthers” whose theories revolve

Gandhi Born Again In India

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Posted by Canasiantimes on September 1, 2011 Mr Hazare is neither India, nor a messiah. Neither does one have to agree with every clause of his proposed Lokpal Bill. But there is no denying one thing: whatever be one’s views on Mr Hazare, credit the old man with forcing the different

World’s largest floating island

The world’s largest floating vessel, a 1,601-foot-long and 243-foot-wide liquefied natural gas facility called Prelude, has been launched from a dock in South Korea. The vessel, which can’t technically be called a ship as it is towed between destinations, is longer than the Empire State Building in height and weighs

‘Health risk from Wi-Fi devices rising’

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Posted by Canasiantimes on April 17, 2014 in News, Open world | Comments Off Health risks from mobile wireless devices like phones and tablets are growing stronger and requires immediate action, says a new study. According to the BioInitiative Working Group, which released a mid-year update covering new science studies from

ISIS remains lethal and alluring

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The Al Qaeda and ISIS will in time come together under the spiritual umbrella of the caliphate, while their local units in far-flung areas will wreak violence and vengeance for several years to come. Attacks launched by the Islamic State for Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its affiliates have now increased