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Shafia trial resumes
The Shafia trial resumed Tuesday after a delay due to illness. It's been an emotional trial so far.
Mohammed Shafia, his wife Tooba Mohammed Yahya and their son Hamed are charged with four counts of first degree murder. Their three teenage daughters and another relative were drowned in the Rideau Canal in Kingston in 2009.
A relative of the mother's came from Sweden to testify. He claimed Mohammed Shafia asked him to invite the Shafia daughters to Sweden. Shafia allegedly told the relative he thought it would be easier to drown them there.
The relative said he refused and warned the mother her daughter's were at risk. The family reportedly disapproved their daughter's relationship with a boy.
November 9th, 2011
Read by Emily Brass
Produced by Nikita Smith
Stories by Emily Brass, Lindsay Briscoe, Jacqueline Di Bartolomeo, and Sarah Moore
DARPA developing arsenal of cyber weapons
The Pentagon is increasing efforts to build an arsenal of cyber weapons for use against enemy targets by the U.S. military.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, held a symposium discussing the increasing threat to systems controlled by computers.The goal is to secure U.S. infrastructure and assure the military’s ability to use these systems in future conflicts. A recent DARPA assessment found that the U.S. is limited in dealing with fast-evolving threats from malicious software code.
DARPA played a role in creating Arpanet, a forerunner to the Internet.
The director of DARPA stated that malicious cyber attacks are a real threat to our physical systems including military systems. U.S. officials declined to comment on whether they can defend against attacks targeting things like transportation, banks and power grids.
November 8, 2011
Read by: Aisha Samu
Stories by: Daniel Rowe, Niki Mohrdar, Aisha Samu, Tara Brockwell and Michael Lemieux
Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi
Berlusconi's woes
Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister of Italy has denied rumours he would be imminently resigning.
No evidence for aliens says White House
The White House officially states that E.T. never left home.
Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy wrote on the House’s website that the American government doesn’t have any sufficient evidence to support the existence of aliens.
Larson did acknowledge the fact that the existence of life trillions and trillions of stars away is possible. But the odds that they could make contact with earthlings is more than unlikely.
The statement was in response to two petitions by American citizens demanding disclosure on the question and answer section of the White House’s website called We the People.
Tintin to make its North American debut in Quebec on December 9
Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn” will premiere in North America on December 9 in Quebec.
The movie stars Jamie Bell as Tintin and Daniel Craig as Red Rackham.
Tintin’s world premiere was in Belgium on October 22, and the movie has also been released all throughout Europe. South America and Asia are next, with the movie coming out on Thursday.
It will arrive in theaters in the rest of Canada and in the U.S. on December 21.
Pornography and Art on the Internet
A lecture on the intersection of art and pornography will be given tonight in the EV building.
Professor Kelly Dennis will discuss the debate over Internet porn and its economies, its communities, its sexisms and its surveillance.
The lecture is part of Concodia's "Speaking of Photography" series.
Kelly Dennis teaches modern and contemporary art history and the history of photography at the University of Connecticut.
The lecture will take place at 6:30pm tonight in room EV-1.605.
A possible end to Occupy Vancouver
The Occupy protest in Vancouver is being ordered to shut down on Tuesday. Police will monitor the site of tents and other structures if the injunction is approved. Police will then have the power to take authoritative action.
Signs were put up by the city manager, Penny Ballem, asking citizens to pack up their tents from the Vancouver Art Gallery plaza where protestors were located.
The signs also indicate that the protestors are violating laws and therefore may be fined.
However, protestors say that they will ignore the signs and requests for them to leave.
To make things safer, a dome will be put up to make one large tent in order to be able to see if something bad is happening to an occupant.
November 7th 2011
Produced By Melissa J. Mulligan
Read By Sarah Deshaies
Articles By: Esther Viragh, Sofia Gay, Audrey Folliot, Daniel J. Rowe
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