Ottawa Senator faces off against Facebook phonies

Some NHL players are worried about the number of people posing as them on the popular social networking site Facebook.



I am not surprised by this by any extent, it was going to happen but The part of this article that I find alarming is that there is no penalty for frauds on this extremely popular social networking site worth over $15 billion. This is giant security issues to its 47 million users. I would think that this would constitute some sort of fraud charges.

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U.S. activists call for consumers to ban the water bottle"

Activists and environmentalists on Wednesday are rallying behind a U.S. campaign that aims to convince consumers to opt for tap water rather than bottled.

I think that it's great that more people are trying to be more environmentally friendly but this just strikes me as stupid. This is like telling people to use their bike instead of their car, it works perfectly for small trips but if you are going anywhere that is more than half an hour away, it is just a hinderance. People drink tap water in their houses but not as much when they go out. The idea behind bottled water is that it is convenient, you can take it virtually wherever you go, now it goes without saying that you cannot take a tap wherever you go. A different approach to this would be the organizations pushing for more environmetally friendly bottles.



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Manufacturers keeping Canadian prices high: retailers

Retailers scheduled to meet with Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on Tuesday say the minister's consumer "crusade" to bring Canadian and American prices in line is misdirected.

When I read this article, I realized how much more we are paying compared to Americans. I never really thought much about this but now I realize that it is getting a little bit ridiculous with the Canadian dollar being worth more than the USD. You see the price increase most drastically in electronics where the price is marked up at least 50%. I hope that they are successful in lowering prices.



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Man died after 4 Taser jolts, witness alleges

An eyewitness with cellphone footage spoke out Monday night about what she allegedly saw at the Vancouver International Airport when a man was subdued with Tasers by RCMP and later died.

This to me is discusting.  If I am not mistaking, this is the 4th time a situation like this has come up.  Although the other three times have been in the US, this is starting to become a trend.  A good representation of this type of situation that has happened before is the school shootings issue.  At first it was just one, then it escalated to the point where it starts to happen more and more often.  As I mentioned before, this is not only the fourth time this has happened, but the fourth time this year.   The whole point of tasers is so that you could subdue the target without much or any harm done.  This has escillated to the point where the police are starting to abuse the taser and using it multiple times.  This ploice brutality will keep escillating until we do something about it.



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Loonie hits new 31-year high

The Canadian dollar charged closer to $1.03 US Thursday as it benefited from higher commodity prices, a bigger trade surplus and a U.S. greenback sliding ever lower

While this might be exciting news for most Canadian citizens, it is not exactly great news for Canada in a whole.  The one thing i want to point out about this is that even though the Canadian dollar is rising, the American dollar is falling at a higher pace.  The problem I see in this situation, is it the American economy completely falls, not only is the US in trouble, but Canada is as well.  The main reason for this being that Canada's economy relies so heavily on the US economy, in fact, about 50% of our exports go to the US - if the US economy crashes, we will have a hard time making up the 50% of exports.

Health alerts issued for 4 unauthorized foreign medications

Health Canada is warning consumers about the following four health products not authorized for sale in Canada that may pose serious health risks:

• Zhen Feng Da Brand Xi Tong Wan (lot #060908), marketed as a treatment for bone, muscle pains and rheumatoid arthritis.

• Wellring Brand Yin Qiao Jie Du (lot #51005), used to ease cold, fever, headache, cough, sore throat and runny nose.

• Gu Ci Dan, promoted as treatment for rheumatism, arthralgia, sciatica, headache, and pain in the shoulder, back, waist, lumbar vertebrae and ischium.

• Xu Log Bou, used for joint and muscle pain.

In my opinion it is good that they Health Canada has been made aware of and issued warnings for these harmful products. My only concern is that we are able to purchase such harmful goods. I would think that people would not be able to carry them into the country with such tight security these days. My suggestion would to be to inspect more cargo coming in from foreign countries especially medication.

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