Ottawa argues it was merely matching subsidies that Brazil provides to support Embraer SA, Bombardier's biggest rival.
But even if it ultimately loses at the trade body, politicians and bureaucrats hinted Ottawa still won't back down.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 04:57 PM

A man who covered his mouth with a towel stormed into the Saito-Moroyama outlet of Family Mart in the Nagase district of Moroyama shortly before 10 p.m. Monday. He threatened an 18-year-old part-time employee with a tree branch, and demanded money. "I'm a robber. Give me money," the man was quoted as saying.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 03:59 PM

The proposal put forward by the former head of the government's disbanded pardons commission, Anatoly Pristavkin, would free thousands of women by extending an amnesty approved in November by the State Duma lower house of parliament. That pardon freed roughly 23,000 women and children under 16, but included only women who were pregnant, disabled, over 50 or single mothers.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 03:16 PM

Witnesses said a crowd of 750,000 to one million people was jamming the city centre in support of opposition presidential candidate Marc Ravalomanana, who alleges the December election was rigged.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 02:53 PM

Noelle Bush was picked up by police at a Walgreens store and charged with fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance, a jail spokesman said. Police said she was attempting to obtain Xanax, which is used to treat anxiety disorder. The drug can make users feel drowsy and dizzy as it reduces nervousness and tension.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 02:50 PM

Postal Service spokesman Gerry Kreienkamp said that there is a certain irony to the fact that the agency has sealed a marketing deal with Microsoft while the Justice Department and state attorneys general are locked in settlement talks with the software company over antitrust charges, but said there is no conflict.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 02:06 PM

At as little as $50 a chip, Cantion is striving to be the low-cost leader (its microfabricated chips are designed to be thrown away after each use). By designing the modules to link to a doctor's PDA or computer, the company saves further on expensive instrumentation.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 01:54 PM

"There's a book called How to Build a Better Beowulf that's 230 pages long and tells you how to set up clusters with Linux," Dauger said. "We have a one-page manual (PDF) that shows you how to do it on PowerMacs. We've had high school students do it. We've had junior high school students do it. We even had a sixth grader in Hawaii do it."

Posted by at January 29, 2002 01:46 PM

Interior Minister Prince Nayef told the official Saudi Press Agency that of the 158 Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners being held at the Guantanamo Bay camp, 100 are Saudis.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 01:34 PM

Prime Minister Jean Chrtien said Canada expects the U.S. will treat the prisoners humanely. He added that a preliminary agreement said the U.S. would respect international law, but the details still have to be worked out.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 01:32 PM

The CAC concluded that this 15-year-old boy had his reputation tarnished, and was suspended from school for using 35mm film canisters to store his fishing lures. °ƒThis tells us that the drug dog needs a new nose, and Newport City Police officers need to get a life and a new job they can handle,°± commented CAC founder Leonard Browning.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 12:57 PM

Goofy looking site that actually has a number of links to interesting Taliban-related material.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 12:45 PM

The president's initial decision about the captives was apparently made on advice from Attorney General John Ashcroft who, a senior administration official said today, "didn't think about the world reaction." Mr. Ashcroft has held to his position, and appears to be supported by Vice President Dick Cheney. It is unclear what advice Mr. Bush received from Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 10:37 AM

Senior government officials acknowledge Canada may well give up "some" sovereignty by further integrating with the U.S. military. But they worry that the alternative might be worse: to have the U.S. act on its own, putting NORAD or any new command structure for North America strictly under U.S. control.

The dog generating all that crap also has all the guns.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 10:24 AM

"We're very much committed to (Kyoto), but we have to make sure we have a clear understanding before we ratify it." Dhaliwal noted the U.S. generates 25 per cent of global greenhouse gases.

In other words: we're committed to less dog crap on sidewalks, but we haven't yet decided to stop our dogs from crapping on the sidewalks, especially because there's this one big dog doing a fair bit of crapping all by himself. How's that again?

Posted by at January 29, 2002 10:21 AM

A court official said the court dropped the most serious charges against 38-year-old Li Guangqiang, who had faced the death penalty. It convicted him of "illegal business operations" and sentenced him to less than the maximum of 5 years for smuggling more than 30,000 Bibles for use by members of a fundamentalist sect called the Shouters.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 10:19 AM

The move against TV-6 confirmed a pattern that has been taking shape since Putin assumed office just under two years ago. Engaging and even ingratiating overseas, he can be implacable at home, determined to build a political system where you question or embarrass the state at your peril. NTV learned this to its cost last year, and TV-6 became a prime target when it adopted the same stridently critical approach to Kremlin policies. Since Putin endorsed the war against terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks, the West has been mostly silent about Putin's continued crackdown on the media and in Chechnya.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 10:15 AM

Ms. Parrish, like MP Carolyn Bennett, criticized Mr. Chrtien's recent cabinet shuffle, suggesting the image of six white males sworn in simultaneously as new secretaries of state speaks volumes about where women stand in Ottawa.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 10:00 AM

The statue is truly larger than life, standing seven feet tall and weighing a hefty two tons of Carrara marble. By all accounts, it successfully captures the unflinching resolve and imperious character of its subject, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (plus handbag).

Posted by at January 29, 2002 07:17 AM

"Marriage is indissoluble... it doesn't make any sense to talk about the 'imposition' of human law, because it should reflect and protect natural and divine law."

You know what? He's right. Marriage is a religious construct that is improperly codified into the state. Marriage should give no innate benefits whatsoever, because it is a purely religious affirmation that a couple of people are going to live together. No man-made law should assume or perpetuate that, because it unfairly values the regulations of one church over another. Let legal marriage be abolished -- consigned to the same level of lovely, family-based ritual as baptism and bat mitzvah -- and all partnerships and child care agreements be set out in a concise standardized contractual agreement between as many people of whatever gender or race as desire to be involved, with tribunals to judge whether the agreement (which would involve ensuring certain minimum levels of support for children and certain minimum standards of conduct) has been observed. You can't force someone to be spiritual -- you can't force someone to keep a promise to love -- the state should never oblige such a thing, which belongs strictly in the province of the individual.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 07:10 AM

In the 500 or so words allotted, altaboy was able to lay out several clear and compelling reasons to consider WestJet as an investment. But don't bother scouring the exchanges for it if you live in the U.S., it's only available on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Posted by at January 29, 2002 06:53 AM