| In Photos: Magnuson, Ramage, the trial
Former Toronto Maple Leaf captain Rob Ramage was released from jail this afternoon after his lawyers filed an appeal of today's sentencing for his conviction in the death of Keith Magnuson. Ramage, 48, was given a four-year prison sentence earlier today for his conviction of impaired and dangerous driving in the Dec. 15, 2003 death of Magnuson, a close friend and former Chicago Blackhawk defenceman. But in a deal previously worked out and agreed to by the Crown Law Office of the Ministry of the Attorney General, the former NHLer won't serve prison time until defence lawyer Brian Greenspan exhausts all legal avenues. Greenspan said he will appeal both the conviction and the sentence, which he described as being "excessively harsh." Greenspan said that if the conviction is eventually upheld, it would be unlikely that Ramage would be allowed to return to the United States.
Letters, 12/31: Don't ignore food patenting
OK, so Nebraska is a big ag state. I read the newspaper, and watch the news every day. I have yet to see any coverage of an issue I would think everyone, most especially people in an agriculturally based state, would be up in arms about: the patenting of our food.People, do you realize that this very minute, biotech companies are suing farmers for saving their own seeds, and not buying the companies’ genetically modified seeds.In Canada, farmer Percy Schmeiser was sued by Monsanto for planting patented seed after Monsanto’s genetically modified canola seeds blew into his field. And Monsanto won. .
Offshoring: Met and CBC unite against cyber crime
The Metropolitan Police and the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) have joined forces to set up a working party to tackle the increasing threat of global cyber crime especially in offshoring companies. The main aim of the working party will be to increase the co-operation between members of the commonwealth to exchange best practices on tackling specialist crime such as identity theft and compromised data security. Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, global research director of CBC Technologies, said: "The Commonwealth is a voluntary group of 53 nations which just happens to include all the major nations offering offshore outsourcing services such as IT and contact centres. We would like to invite governments, private sector and trade bodies from across the world to join this very important initiative." The recent spate of cases involving identity theft and compromised data security in offshore call centres emphasises the need for government and industry collaboration at an international level, according to the CBC.
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