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Keep your censoring hands off Canadian media

There’s a little Facebook message for the Conservatives:
“Keep your censoring hands off of Canadian film and TV! No to Bill C-10!“ Bill C-10 would allow government to claw back tax credits from films that it deemed too racy or offensive.

WHAT THIS GROUP IS FOR:

This group is for people who are *opposed* to the provisions in Bill C-10 relating to tax credits for film and TV production, and who want to work together fight the Bill. Purposes of this group include:

• Supporting one another in writing letters of protest about Bill C-10 (see info below).
• Organizing demonstrations and other forms of action to oppose the Bill (see Discussion Board).
• Keeping track of the progress of Bill C-10 so that our activism can be well directed.

WHAT THIS IS GROUP NOT FOR:

This group is not for arguments against public funding of the arts in Canada. It is not for bashing people who oppose Bill C-10. It is not for talking about other issues that people should be concerned about instead of Bill C-10. … We’ve created another group if you want to discuss whether C-10 is a good idea, whether the arts in Canada should be funded at all, etc.

One less god

The video version of the famous “One Less God” quote is now on YouTube. I found it at Primordial Blog.

Called it!

You heard it hear first. Harold Asmis at Ontario-geofish called it right at the time: Nasty goings-0n at AECL. and I echoed him.

He links to an article in the Toronto Star:

When Canada’s Parliament overrode the country’s top nuclear-safety regulator in December, ordering the restart of a nuclear reactor at Chalk River in the absence of documented safety upgrades to guard against a core meltdown, most Canadians assumed such emergency action was necessary to assure a continued supply of vital medical isotopes.

But this assumption was false – a canard employed to persuade legislators to sidestep the safety officials, thereby protecting the profits of a private Canadian company at the expense of risking a nuclear accident.

The company, MDS Nordion, now admits that prior to the emergency legislation of Dec. 12, it already was receiving backup isotope supplies from a South African producer, NTP.

Two days later, Nordion started receiving isotopes from Europe, another backup that it knew was on the way prior to Parliament’s action.

Such facts were not reported at the time, which leaves only two possibilities: The information was withheld by Nordion or by the government.