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Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters 397

Fudge Factor 3000 writes "The Canucks' loss in the last game of the Stanley Cup Finals resulted in complete mayhem in downtown Vancouver. Everything from upturned cars set alight to looting was commonplace. Unfortunately, most of the perpetrators were able to maintain their anonymity by disappearing into the crowds. Fortunately, bystanders took several pictures and videos of the carnage. Now, websites (including both Facebook and Tumblr) have set up pages to use crowdsourcing to identify the hooligans."

Comment Re:Frankly, I think this is a loss for Canada. (Score 1) 651

The charter was written by a bunch of WASPs who had no inkling of what the country would become - i.e. sustained by hard-working immigrants while the existing population became, old, lethargic, unmotivated and allowed its birth rate to fall below 2 children per couple. Oh, and the "Canadian founding fathers" were racists too, living in a time when it was commonplace and acceptable. Today it is not, and if that means some 150 year old laws need amending, so be it.

You seem to be incredibly confused. The Charter was enacted in 1982, not 150 years ago. Not to mention that your slurs against the "existing population" could also be called hate speech.

Comment Re:As a previously loyal conservative voter (Score 3, Informative) 186

Just remember that this is the governing party that has allowed an innocent man (Maher Arar) to be renditioned and tortured in Syria via the United States on poor and mistaken evidence that he was a terrorist

No, that happened in 2002, three and a half years before the Conservatives came to power. The party in power back then was the Liberals.

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