If you want Canadians to watch Canadian content, then... make content that Canadians want to watch. It's that simple.

I watch a few excellent Canadian shows (for example, TV Ontario's The Agenda). But most TV shows produced in Canada are crap. They're no better than the cheap American shlock.

The CRTC is nuts. The only things the CRTC should regulate are telecommunication tariffs, bandwidth allocation, telemarketing abuse and wireless interference. Trying to "protect" Canadian content is ridiculous in 2014. Either our Canadian content is good and will find a Canadian and international audience, or it's crap and the content producers will deservedly go out of business.

There's no place any more for cultural protectionism.

Canada is a monarchy that's allowed to make some of it's own laws and have meetings but really its an oil emirate for the Brittish Royals

Umm... ? Bullshit. Canada hasn't relied on Britain for "permission" to make laws for over three decades. Read up on your history.

Muhammad used beheading to great effect. Google Banu Qurayza

ISIS are in fact faithfully following the 7th-century teachings of Muhammad. Those who sugar-coat things by claiming it's "anti-Islam" are simply deluding themselves.

No, Islam is fundamentally different from other religions. It's a fascist ideology whose goal is world domination; read any of the Islamic writings to see Islams attitude towards non-Muslims. This fascist ideology is cloaked in religion in order to call those who criticize it bigoted.

I don't believe that killing terrorist breeds terrorism. Eventually, even the dumbest of the dumb will realize that it doesn't pay.

In the short term, the only effective answer to ISIS is to kill them.

The universe is plenty big enough. 2^64 is about 1.8x10^19 and there are around 10^59 atoms in just one average-sized star. That leaves 5.5x10^39 atoms per bit. That's a lot of atoms; a lot more than a trillion kilograms, in fact.

The universe is really, really big..

Come on, everyone! Camp out and pay $600+ for a device that's gonna cost much less a few months later! Be L337!

From: Apple Monitoring Service
To: Apple Customer
Subject: Alert

We have detected unusual accelerometer activity in your iWatch. We believe you are left-handed and were visiting some porn sites.

Sincerely,

Evil Apple Overlords.

Regulation's goal is not to stop stupidity. It's to reduce harm. If you think seatbelt laws, automobile safety regulations, etc. have not reduced harm, then you're living in a fantasy world.

Tell that to all the babies in the United States who were not disfigured by Thalidomide because of the courageous actions of the US regulator. There were some, but it could have been much, much worse.

Cell phone use (talking and texting) has skyrocketed over the last decade. The accident rates have not risen in correlation with it.

Wrong. Accidents caused by distracted driving have increased dramatically. For example, see here:

"In 2013, distracted driving fatalities surpassed both impaired and speed related fatalities in fatal motor vehicle collisions investigated by the OPP. A total of 78 persons died in distracted driving related collisions compared to 57 impaired driving deaths and 44 speed related deaths last year.

So you react to my post with ad hominem attacks rather than refuting what I stated. As a "weak-minded idiot" and "easily-led child", I deal with people like you by ignoring them until they contribute something useful to the discussion.

Since the evidence overwhelmingly indicates that cell phones impair drivers as much as over-the-limit blood alcohol does, the penalties for cell-phone-distracted driving should be as severe as for drunk driving, and we also need a campaign to stigmatize it the way drunk driving has been.

I've shopped at our local Home Depot, but here in Canada everything's been chip-and-PIN for quite some time. So... am I at risk? It's not clear from the news media whether or not the chip-and-PIN system has protected me from this breach.