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Submission + - Your Input Needed (blogspot.com)

Submitted by p_squiddy on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @07:16AM

p_squiddy writes: the Rabid Penguin is starting a campaign called "Free Ontario" to attempt to get F/LOSS noticed by all politicians in the Province of Ontario (Canada, eh?). Your help is needed to get this off the ground! In fact, without you, this is going nowhere fast. Anyone who wants to take part is welcome to join the discussion and get things moving. Ontario is just the starting point. If that goes well, maybe Linus' prediction can be made true for 2010...

Submission + - Ontario pulls subliminal gambling machines

Submitted by

davecb

on Monday February 26, 2007 @09:07AM

davecb writes: "Gambling machines made by a particular vendor have been pulled from Ontario casinos: it turns out that instead of a random sequence of cards shown before the (hopefully!) random result, every machine displays a 5-card maximum jackpot for just long enough to be recognizable.

Does this remind you, perhaps, of voting machines made by a certain video-gambling-machine vendor?"

Submission + - Website targets Ontario's 'deadbeat' parents

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19, 2007 @02:24PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Ontario government launched a new website today shining a spotlight on deadbeat parents in hopes of making them pay their court-ordered family support. In announcing the initiative last month, the government said the website would be another tool to help the Family Responsibility Office track down irresponsible parents. The initial launching of the website — http://www.goodparentspay.com/ — displays pictures of 18 deadbeat dads, with their vital statistics and last known locations. The site allows people to submit information about deadbeat parents anonymously to the Family Responsibility Office. The office has almost 188,000 active cases, with each one remaining open for an average of 12 years.
Article from the Toronto Star

Submission + - Scalping Woes

Submitted by mgabrys_sf on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @07:06AM

mgabrys_sf writes: How a PlayStation speculator misread the market and lost.
PS3s gather dust in man's home after buying frenzy fails to materialize.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.2 0070205.GAMER05/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/

Submission + - YouTube Used to Solve Murder

Submitted by

darkonc

on Thursday December 21, 2006 @11:24PM

darkonc writes: "Police in Hamilton, Ont. Canada, say they now consider YouTube to be an effective crime-fighting tool after an online clip led to an arrest in a homicide case. The 72 second clip (removed after the arrest), which was viewed more than 34,000 times, is credited with encouraging a suspect in the stabbing death of a 22 year old man to turn himself in."

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