Chiefs of the information ages Google are set to launch a technological fix for the uploading of copyrighted material to sites like Youtube. Might be an article worth reading in mind of James W. Lindenschmidt contribution to the Commonor on Revolution and Counter-Revolution In The Information Age

Google Steps Up Video Copyrights.

In what I believe to be a Unite Here campaign, hotel workers at the downtown Toronto Holiday Inn are rising to man a picket daily over parity of pay with other workers in the downtown core and are currently locked out.

22 hotel workers in wage fight

With cuts raining down on public amenities like libraries, it seems the GTA will face into a water rate rise of 9% and wasn't there talk of a refuse charge too? So Toronto householders with water meters can expect to pay $47 more for water.

Rates Raise in GTA and via the Globe too.

The city's library board says it may have to pay unionized workers anyway following its decision to cut costs by closing 16 libraries on Sundays.

First the board said the unilateral decesion to shift cuts on to the users of one of the city's best public projects was wrong, simpy because they'll have to give back pay and now the union might might challenge it as an attack on their collective agreement at their convention. In a nice spot of solidarity CUPE also withdrew delegate reservations at the Holiday Inn - couldn't expect any less now could we?

Forty-three South Americans caught in crackdown against what the Globe and Mail is calling an unusual surge in illegal arrivals

Migrants arrested near Quebec-Vermont border

There's a discussion on CBC today about the US military's use of Human Terrain Teams to map counter insurgency plans to the specifics of the local cultural terrain in military theatres. Representing both a corruption of research and an embedding of academics that may be studyig regions in conflict there is a few good links here. Can you imagine the dangers people who may co-operate with anthropologists and sociologists using qualitative methods and then acting as an "angels on the shoulder of a commander" in advising on how to win the hearts and minds may face?