I too have worked for Canadian companies doing software development, and as best as I can make out the Canada R&D tax credit is basically a 'D' (development) tax credit which pays companies to do what they would be doing anyway.

... The US here is asking for something like the DMCA (which is required by treaty), ...

DMCA-like legislation is not required for treaty (are we talking WIPO here?) compliance. Canda's Dr. Michael Geist has gone to great lengths to explain why.

However, the US likes the DMCA and is hell-bent on ramming it down every other country's throat. And, sadly, the governments of most countries (including Canada's) are willing accomplices in this farce.

For the sake of settling this once and for all, I accept that challenge. Kindly supply me with an abundant supply of super-models so that I can properly prepare my report.

I'm with Telus on the 6 Mb/s (dowload) plan. And I can get about 600 kB/s (that's bytes) when downloading a torrent, which is far in excess of what the netflix chart shows. Just my 2 cents.

What the teacher should have said is something like this:

Although I respect your right to have religious views that differ from mine, I am teaching the theory of evolution and I expect you to know the material I am teaching if you want to pass this course.

You can feel free to add a disclaimer to anything you submit that your religious views are in conflict with the theory of evolution, but, as I said before, you must know the course material to pass.

FWIW, I basically agree with the sentiment the teacher expressed, but if said teacher was indeed as hostile as is made out to be, then he/she wasn't being very professional. It's not the teacher's job to change religious beliefs (regardless of how absurd they may be); it's the teacher's job to teach the course material and ensure his/her students know it.

A 100 percent full pipe is an efficient use of their resource.

Much like a 100% full highway.

I don't believe the Queen is a Canadian citizen. If so, by definition that makes her a foreign head of state, no?

Apple Offers Free Cases To Work Around iPhone 4 Antenna Problems

There we go, fixed that for ya.

In Britain, they used to do it the US way, and still do to an extent, but you can now get much cheaper SIM only plans.

Count yourself lucky. No such option exists in Canada with the 3 major carriers (Rogers, Telus, Bell). You pay the exact same for a plan regardless of whether you are getting a heavily subsidized iPhone or if you brought your own phone to the party. It's an amazing rip-off, but it's the current state of affairs in Canada. Oh, and did I mention how we get reamed on data plan costs?

Gives new meaning to the phrase "live free or die" :-)

FTR, I live in Canada, and although the Canadian system definitely has its issues, I consider it superior to the US system in providing better average outcomes. There is a reason that no other industrialized country in the world has a system like that of the US (and it's not because these other countries hate freedom).

Not quite: a few years ago, the Progessive Conservative Party merged with the Reform Party to form the Consersative Party.

I can probably name over twenty-five distinct products released in the last decade that marketers touted using the EXACT same phrase [change the way we work and communicate] to the letter, and so far, none of them have replaced the telephone and E-mail to any substantial degree.

You obviously are not taking into account Jabberwocky. It's going to change the way business is done.

At least you get "core promises". We just get "promises" that aren't worth the paper they're written on.

While in Opposition, the Liberal Party of Canada campaigned against:
- wage and price controls
- increased gas tax
- against the FTA (Free Trade Agreement)
- against the GST (Good and Services Tax)

Once elected the LPC did a 180% on each of those issues. The LPC has a history of saying what it thinks will get it elected and then doing whatever it wants to do (not that other parties are blameless on this). So I wouldn't put too much stock in this unless a senior member of the LPC said it was a matter of integrity and that he or she would resign if the party didn't follow through on its election promise - oh wait, we've been through that before. Seems "resign" doesn't quite mean what one would normally think it does.

Although, in this case "freedom" does indeed apply (without the sarcasm).