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Tories aim to loosen self-defence laws
Tories aim to loosen self-defence laws
Citizens Arrest and Self Defence Act to be reintroduced
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Tories%2Bloosen%2Bself%2Bdefence%2Blaws/5600158/story.html#ixzz1cNl9iMnM
The federal government has pledged to alter Canada's laws governing self defence, with an eye to giving citizens increased latitude to protect themselves and their property.
In recent years, Canadians who have used violence - and especially firearms - have often faced criminal charges for their actions.
? ? When Ian Thomson awoke one night in August 2010 to find three men throwing firebombs at his rural home in Southwest Ontario, he got out his revolver and fired a few warning shots in the air, scattering the attackers. Police later seized his guns, and laid criminal charges of pointing a firearm and unsafe storage on the 53-year-old, while his assailants were charged with arson. The case is still before the courts.
? ? Only a small handful of Canadians in recent years - including jewelry store owner Dennis Galloway - have used a gun in self defence and were not charged as a result. When robbers burst into his shop in Port Alberni, B.C., and pointed a gun to his wife's head, Galloway took a pistol from his safe. The longtime target shooter killed one robber, and severely wounded the other. The RCMP recommended charges of unsafe storage and careless use of a firearm be laid against Galloway in the 2009 shooting, but the Crown refused.
The federal government has said it will move quickly to re-introduce the Citizens Arrest and Self Defence act, which was tabled in February but died on the order paper with the closure of the 40th Parliament.
The law would permit people threatened with violence to commit a reasonable act to protect themselves or others, as well as use force to protect their property from theft, damage or trespass.
Tories aim to loosen self-defence laws
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OMG Time Travel!
By Jason Palmer
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
The neutrinos are fired deep under the Italian Apennines at Gran Sasso
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Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.
Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second early.
The result - which threatens to upend a century of physics - will be put online for scrutiny by other scientists.
In the meantime, the group says it is being very cautious about its claims.
"We tried to find all possible explanations for this," said report author Antonio Ereditato of the Opera collaboration.
"We wanted to find a mistake - trivial mistakes, more complicated mistakes, or nasty effects - and we didn't," he told BBC News.
"When you don't find anything, then you say 'Well, now I'm forced to go out and ask the community to scrutinise this.'"
Caught speeding?
The speed of light is the Universe's ultimate speed limit, and much of modern physics - as laid out in part by Albert Einstein in his special theory of relativity - depends on the idea that nothing can exceed it.
Thousands of experiments have been undertaken to measure it ever more precisely, and no result has ever spotted a particle breaking the limit.
But Dr Ereditato and his colleagues have been carrying out an experiment for the last three years that seems to suggest neutrinos have done just that.
Neutrinos come in a number of types, and have recently been seen to switch spontaneously from one type to another.
The team prepares a beam of just one type, muon neutrinos, sending them from Cern to an underground laboratory at Gran Sasso in Italy to see how many show up as a different type, tau neutrinos.
In the course of doing the experiments, the researchers noticed that the particles showed up a few billionths of a second sooner than light would over the same distance.
The team measured the travel times of neutrino bunches some 15,000 times, and have reached a level of statistical significance that in scientific circles would count as a formal discovery.
But the group understands that what are known as "systematic errors" could easily make an erroneous result look like a breaking of the ultimate speed limit, and that has motivated them to publish their measurements.
"My dream would be that another, independent experiment finds the same thing - then I would be relieved," Dr Ereditato said.
But for now, he explained, "we are not claiming things, we want just to be helped by the community in understanding our crazy result - because it is crazy".
"And of course the consequences can be very serious."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
My Blockbuster Haul!
Got 8 movies today for very reasonable prices at the Blockbuster, "Going out of Business", Sale!
I got:
2001
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Pan's Labyrinth
Reservoir Dogs
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Goodfellas
Gangs of New York
Casablanca
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Monday, 19 September 2011
Saturday, 17 September 2011
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Wednesday, 14 September 2011
My YouTube Channel
I try and get a couple of videos up a week covering any and all topics from my diabetes management to home hair cutting! I make all my videos a little silly and I hope a lot funny so come on by and enjoy yourself!
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Fantasy Football!
http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/451172/matchup?week=1&mid1=3&mid2=9
Sunday, 11 September 2011
Tonight's Movie
Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Saturday, 10 September 2011
Friday, 9 September 2011
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
510-943-3040 Scam
If you call them on it, they can be quite rude with you. The info I got on them was:
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-510-943-3040
http://www.callercenter.com/510-943-3040.html
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Monday, 5 September 2011
Labour Day Classic?
And the Cats DESTROY Montreal 41-21!
Sunday, 4 September 2011
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Thursday, 1 September 2011
Listening to some CSNY tonight
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Friday, 26 August 2011
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
The Band & Friends - I Shall Be Released (11.25.1976)
Monday, 22 August 2011
Working on a big video project with Nana
1922-1928 - Coming to Canada.
Friday, 19 August 2011
Out and about with Aunt Reta today.
Thursday, 18 August 2011
Saturday, 13 August 2011
Dambusters!
Click here for the full video!
Friday, 12 August 2011
Thursday, 11 August 2011
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Flip Video Battery went for a crap
Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Watching season 2 of Deadwood
I forgot how good the dialogue is in this. Not for the younglings though.
It's a MUST SEE!!!
Monday, 8 August 2011
Sunday, 7 August 2011
Tonight's Movie
Pretty funny movie. Juvenile humour but that's how I like it sometimes. The fact that James Franco AND Natile Portman were in it makes me wonder what they saw in the project. Maybe they owed the studio a picture...
Saturday, 6 August 2011
Friday, 5 August 2011
Dog Park Fun With Rooster!
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