General Links

Recent Favourites	More, Faves	Miscellaneous
Magazines	Books	Newspapers
Net Folk, Authors	Searching for People	Winnipeg Housing/Rental
Winnipeg Computer Stores	Winnipeg & Manitoba	Winnipeg ISPs
Government [Canadian]	Canadian News	NGOs &/ Political Activism
Government [American]	TV, Radio	Records, Videos & Movies
Search Engines	Usenet, Web Stuff	Web Logs
Humour	Watches	Hoaxes & Scams
Financial	Genealogy	Identity Theft
EBooks, Online Texts	Documents of note	Dictionaries, References
Neat Stuff	2	3
The Nortel Saga	Autobahn WebMail (S)	Autobahn Home Page

Recent Favourites

[I use this somewhat opaque, abbreviated section as a home base. You may find the Media Links more intelligible.]

ABC, BBC, CBC, R, U, I, B	Y! I, P, I, A, L, T, Pk, G	A, McDC, PoN, ICH, WSWS	APOD, WFB,CBC: TV I Q&Q
SlashDot, Wiki: L N W B D	Drudge, NNW, CND, PW, H	D, FP, Sun, CBC, EM, CD, SC	Guardian CC P, Ind, Tele, Times
IC, GA, SC, AA, W, O, PF	TurkP, TDN, H, Zaman, WB	AINA, METimes, SANA	IranF, Mehr, IRNA, FNA, R4I
Asia Times, JapanT, Y, A	CDaily, PD, SD, X, SC, VfA	DailyI, Hindu, ITimes, NTI	MT, Pravda, N, K, GT, EAN
alJazeera, DStar, ArabN, IOR	Crikey, SMH, Age, NZH, Scoop	TO, HTales, GP- RB, CI	WashInd, ObsidianW, SameFacts
CR, NC, EV, BR, ZH, AB	NR, BS, GEA, EB, KD, DB	Vox, PK, WB, HW, IG, FS, JCA	CCPA, PEF, CWD, WCI, CFM
AntiW, SST, PP, P&S	Globalist, CPunch, Nieman, A	EnergyBulletin, DW, DS	Zim: AllAfrica, Y!Z, IRIN
PB, AB, TP, WR, SAR, EB	SwissI, BT, I, IR, DJID, MW	PRW, FAIR, MC, MM, SW	CJRD, S&R, ePM, WtW, ASZ
SN, SS, RS, DN, FDL, EFF	SoS, JY, LA, WiC [FPB] RR	TLC, TWM, MH, BDL, GS666	TPR, TPM: M C DC, 538, BB
CSM, Rabble, TL, OL, OD	aL 2, LL, W&P, TP, GNN	IIraq, DNfA, H, ML, IMC, TS	Raed, al Ahram, IMEMC, B, J
DSL, NBF, OTF, LNB, LFB	FPFD 2, DV, CoCu, Huff, PE	CDreams, OLJ, Z, CRG, C, MJ	ACLU, IWPR, FPIF, AI, HRW
OilD, NEN, PeakE, EC, OilC	ABG, CBrk, EE, AG, TR, SC	CCP, TWTB [GF] BNC, JK, II	IR^2, MOb, REA, W, CTB, EF
Eureka, SciDaily, ENN, ET	WU, DSB, TreeH, WC [QS]	TerraD, U, BCLSB [C411] T	DM, C15, GWW, FP, Tyee
RC [RG] [T] MT [M] D, ER	JQ, S, JF, CB [JEB] CSW, GS	HH, BSD, /WL [CT] [inel] [N]	CS, SB, GM, D, CS, CCD, BP
PA, PhysOrg, NewSci, DE	ABC CC, CP, Monga, GG, K	N E, W S: NE I NO N: CC CF N	PNAS, TC, ACP, CPD, N, AGW
Wpg Weather 1, 2, TMap	Radar: C1, C2, US Sat: C, G, A	Cyclone, LSU S 2, NHC, A, P	GE [GC CI, GEB, FB] W, CA
GT JD TA TT NS TR [SL]	MR, H, X, ICE: N, A, P, WI	Boing^2, Edge, AccFu, DVice	RW, CS, F, CDB, ML, io9, SEB
M!, DVB, B3, ProMedMail	UN, F1, F2, E, W, IAEA, UND	NEW, PT, CV, QDS, SM, IBW	Wired, ArsTech, Register, DT
IRIN: ME, Leb, Iraq, Pal	MFilt, CrT, TruthD [WP] DA	EUO, EurA, EU Pol, E Pol	CNN: Biz News, CBS, ABC(US)
PLoS: G B M One, BB	K5, SFN, ITT, RP, LT, LGM	Cringely, PressEsc, CNet, PC	SurrealistCG, SI, Meme, SITE
WotD: WSmith, Dict	FL, GL, CO, PC, ScB, ACSB	SamSpade, DNSStuff, ISC	Digby, PThink, Esch, TDB, PS
World: Asia, Europe, MW	Google: W, N, G, S, B, Fin	ABE Used Books, Wiki:BkSrc	AmazonPS: Books, DVDs
Ndx: Y!, U, CNN, MW	$ndx Commod: CNN, BBerg	Energy, Pew, PR, R	EconCal: BBerg, CBS, Y

More Faves - 2

TechNews 2 the minute	NewsHub	3	Straight Goods
In These Times	Hacker News Network	BabelFish	ERCB
Wide Open News	HotBot	Hells Bibliophiles	IPSNews
Attrition	FactoVision	Consortium News	WorldSwitch
BC Forest Fires	Directory of Think Tanks	Transhumanism	US National Interagency Fire Centre
Geek News	Stating the Obvious	FreeThinker	ETH
WWII FAQ	WWII FAQ	WWII FAQ	World Net Daily
Canoe News	Advogato	Winnipeg Weather	Canadian Election Projections
De-Motivation	Bluetooth	RJRiley	Son of Devil's Advocate SODA
Leonardo da Vinci's Horse	Grant's 2	Grant's 3	Residents?
FreeB92 - Yugoslavia	BCIT	Globe & Mail	Holographs Lasers etc
32 Bits Online	Human Progress	Undercurrents	Optical Society America (OSA)
Slate Mag	Salon mag	The Standard	Worker World News Service
Tom Paine News	Tasty Bit of the Day	Next2Nature	Steve's place
Calorie Calculator	Body Mass Index	Need to Know	BlinkenLights
Natural Science	AnandTech	Tom's Hardware	Manitoba Flood

More Faves - 3

CBC (Manitoba)	Env. News Service	Free Press	Grist Magazine
Global TV - Winnipeg	City of Winnipeg	Winnipeg Sun	Ars Technica
CKY - CTV Winnipeg	Minnedosa Tribune	Korea Times	EETimes
HST	Bob Park What's New	Jaclyn pix	KurzweilAI
Iraq Journal	NewsHub/Science	World Wire	Daily Grail
The Polling Report	IRIN Afghanistan	Surrealist Compliment Generator	Fiore
IRIN (Zim)	Unknown News	Yellow Times	Kuro5hin
Mindjack	Interdictor	Gwynne Dyer	Innovations Report
World Changing	EFF-DeepLinks	Resource Insights	AlterNet
PeakEnergy	Truth Dig	WatchingAmerica	OSC
Economist	ClimateArk	Edge	Whatever Already!
TruthOut	Same Facts	IAEA	TGB
Memory Hole	Polling Report	BackToIraq	TJay, Kaeren & Chala
NN	DH	EPM	WIIIAI, EPI
BuckDog	SciBlog	EconBrowser	NewsHounds
Economists View	AngryBear	Filter	EESD
Marjolaine Hébert	Barbara A. Johnson	AJR	Global Economic Analysis
Across the Curve	UKCIP	Culture Change	Transition Culture
Intellnet	TCR	No Quarter	Its Getting Hot In Here
FSF	FG	GIM	TNH
TWN	DS	DCW, WE	TCE
VDM	WMO	FC	PF
NGEB	Oikos	EcoEcon	FP
PPoison	SB	CBk	N6
PNT	PlFu	DN	4
1	2	3	4
1	2	3	4
1	2	3	4

Miscellaneous

Books & Publishing

Magazines

People Search

Net Folk, Authors

Genealogy

Winnipeg Computer Stores

Winnipeg &/ Manitoba Stuff

Winnipeg ISPs

--- In Consideration ---

Autobahn
Gatewest
ICenter [I.C. Computers]
ILOS Interlink
Prairie Online
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COOL - Canada Overdrive On-Line
A&W Net
AT&T Netcom
Inter.Net
AOL Canada
Escape
Sympatico MB
Internet Solutions Inc. [Business]
PCS
--- Other Lists ---
DC Tech List
Excite List
WinnipegBizNet List
--- WhoIs List ---
Canadian WhoIs
WhoIs Gatewest
WhoIs A&W Net
WhoIs ICenter [I.C. Computers]
WhoIs ILOS Interlink

Markets, money, finances

Electronic media, TV, Radio

Zap2It-0	MTN A-Channel (X)	CBC Radio Programs
Zap2It-1	Global TV - Winnipeg	CBC Radio
CKY - CTV Schedule	CKY - CTV Winnipeg	CBC TV Schedule (Daily)
Global TV - Winnipeg Schedule	CBC Vancouver	CBC TV Schedule (Weekly)
1	CBC- Calgary	CBC Radio Schedule (Daily)
1	CBC Winnipeg	CBC: As It Happens
National Public Radio	2	CBC: The Current
CJUM [UMFM]	2	CBC: Saturday Night Blues
CKUW	2	CBC: Sunday Morning
1	2	CBC: The House
1	CBC schedule???	3
1	Dr. Who	This Hour has 22 Minutes - 0
1	SNB	CBC: Quirks & Quarks
CBC TV Adjustable	Royal Canadian Air Farce	3

Newspaper

Records, Videos, Movies

Search Engines

Canadian Government &/ Political

American Government &/ Political

Canadian News

NGOs &/ Political Activism

Usenet, World Wide Web Stuff

Documents of Note

Web Logs

EBooks, EText

OnLine Books Page 0
The Online Books Page 1
Project Gutenberg
Alex Catalogue 0
Alex Catalogue 1
Bibliomania
Europeana
Wiki: EPUB -- an e-book standard
HHG2I Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet
Lincoln Papers
The Art Of Unix Programming - ESR
Philosophy Etexts
UofT Online Poetry
Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers
The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, science and models of mind.
Time Without End by Freeman J. Dyson
An Overview of Classical Greek History from Homer to Alexander
Online Books by Subject
Egyptian Book of the Dead [Budge]
Timeline of Ancient Greece with etexts
Timeline of Ancient Rome with etexts
BlackMask
The Western Regions according to the Hou Han shu
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Online Literature
What Uncle Sam Really Wants by Noam Chomsky
Myths of Crete & Pre-Hellenic Europe By Donald A. Mackenzie
Portraits of Open Source Pioneers - Knuth, Stallman, Torvalds, Cox, Wall & Ousterhout
The Analects of Confucius
Original [Englishe] Historical Texts
(online book) Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade
Fictionwise
IBL: Internet Book List
UTexas: Digital Gutenberg Bible
In Parentheses [acrobat 4+ only]
Adelaide: Free Web Books, Online
Abintra Press (SF)
Black Mask
True Names by Vernor Vinge
Ishtar and Izdubar [Gilgamesh]
The Malleus Maleficarum
The Amazons by Guy Cadogan Rothery
Religious Cults Associated With the Amazons By Florence Mary Bennett
SciFi: Archived Classics
Paukl Graham Essays
The Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
TextFiles: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, by Andrew Dickson White
TextFiles: Non-Fiction Text List
TextFiles: All Sections List
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Robert H. Thurston (1878)
Legends: Beowulf (various sources)
Tertullian: Photius: Bibliotheca
Babylonian Chronicles
BL: Shakespeare in quarto: digital copies online
Some sources for Greek and Roman history from 320 to 61 B.C
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Sumerian Mythology by Samuel Noah Kramer
NYPL: New York Public Library - Digital Gallery
2005/06/02: US GPO: Report on the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation: Metadata Specifications
Various Authors & Texts
The Text Encoding Initiative - TEI: Yesterday's information tomorrow
UVirginia EText Library
Digital Facsimiles of Copenhagen Manuscripts
IanCJohnston: Aeschylus - The Oresteia
2006/01/23: EPI: [ebook] Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R. Brown
The Dictionary of the History of Ideas
2006/02/09: IEET: Demos's book on the politics of human enhancement
1950//: Orwell: George Orwell - Politics and the English Language
1946//: ICH: "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell
The Literature Network: Online classic literature, poems, and quotes
The Federalist
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
JBednorz: Free Books Online [much SF]
The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer
Azubee: E-books
Open Content Alliance
The Universal Digital Library
IMSLP: International Music Score Library Project
OpenEBook: International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)
United States History Documents and Speeches
The Book Page: Free online books
WikiSource: Declaration of Arbroath
Many Books -- the best ebooks at the best price: free!
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2009/12/27: PhysOrg: Amazon Christmas day e-book sales beat print sales
2009/12/09: NewScientist:CL: Holiday wish list: E-reader round-up
2009/09/14: CNN: E-books catching on with readers
Book lovers are gravitating to new e-reading technologies like Amazon's Kindle - Key developments in displays are improving e-book reading devices - Electronic readers could become as thin as a sheet of paper - E-books are only 1 to 3 percent of the publishing market but are growing fast
2009/08/15: BBC: Sony to support open ebook format
Sony is taking steps to open up its ebook Reader and online ebook store. The electronics giant said it would stop using a proprietary standard in favour of the ePub open format. Sony said it would have its store converted to the format by the end of 2009. Most Sony Readers can already handle books in the ePub format. This may not mean the end of all locks on books readable on Sony's device as the ePub format has an option to implement copyright controls. "Consumers should not have to worry about which device works with which store," said Steve Haber, president of Sony's digital reading business division, in a statement. He added that the shift "allows Sony to make its e-book store compatible with multiple devices and its Reader devices open to multiple sources for content". The common format would give Sony Reader owners much more choice about where they get their ebooks from.
2009/03/19: CBC: Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google
2008/12/16: CBC: Ottawa library offers e-books to armchair borrowers
2008/11/24: TreeHugger: Random House Hot for E-Books, Digitizing Thousands of Titles
2008/11/19: PhysOrg: Massive EU online library looks to compete with Google
2008/05/24: PhysOrg: Microsoft closes the book on online library
Microsoft said Friday it is ending its quest to create an online library of the world's books as the technology titan revamps its strategy to battle Internet search king Google.
2007/12/08: BDL: A Small Piece of Ebook History - From Project Gutenberg
2007/11/27: PhysOrg: Online library gives readers access to 1.5 million books The Million Book Project, an international venture led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has completed the digitization of more than 1.5 million books, which are now available online. For the first time since the project was initiated in 2002, all of the books, which range from Mark Twain’s "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court" to "The Analects of Confucius," are available through a single Web portal of the Universal Library, said Gloriana St. Clair, Carnegie Mellon’s dean of libraries.
2007/11/19: BBC: Amazon debuts digital book reader
2007/10/22: SlashDot: Internet Archive Challenges Google
2006/08/31: Eureka: Global Text Project aims to create free, Wiki-based textbooks for developing nations
2006/08/30: BBC: Google makes novels free to print
Search engine Google plans to offer consumers the chance to download and print classic novels free of charge.
2006/02/08: BBC: US college backs Google Book plan
A leading US academic [Mary Sue Coleman] has defended Google's controversial plan to digitise the contents of major libraries.
2005/05/24: BBC: Google's books online under fire - A US publishing organisation has accused Google of breaching copyright rules through a plan to put university libraries online.
2004/12/14: SlashDot: Google To Digitize Much of Harvard's Library
--Audio--
LOC: American Memory Sound Recording Collections

References: Dictionaries, Atlases, Encyclopediae

Dictionaries	Translation	Acronyms
Dictionary.com	LEO- German English Translation	Acronym Finder
Newbury House (American English)	BabelFish	YAAS Yet Another Acronym Server
Merriam-Webster	Latin Dictionary/Translation	ATXTA
Dictionary (WordSmyth)	Russian English Translation	IT Acronyms
YourDictionary.com	Google Translation	Brainy Encyclopedia
Cambridge Dictionaries	2	The Free Dictionary
Wiktionary	Special Dictionaries	Maps. Atlases
Dictionary List	Units Dictionary	US Atlas
OED ($$$)	BioTech Dictionary	Map Quest
Dictionary of Newfoundland	Scientific dictionaries	Historical Atlas of Europe
Language & Linguistics	Dictionary of Science and Technology	Atlapedia
Logos	Slang Dictionary	US National Atlas
Human Languages Page	Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations	World Atlas
Ancient Scripts	Dictionary of the Social Sciences	EurAtlas
Linguistics (J.Lawlwer)	Early Modern English Dictionaries	Atlas of Canada
Linguist List	Strange & Unusual Dictionaries	UN Atlas of the Oceans
General	ArtLex	16th-20th Century Maps of Africa
UMSL: CIA World Fact Book	FOLDOC IT Dictionary	3
CIA World Fact Book (text)	Medical Dictionary	3
Encyclopediae	Medical Dictionaries & Glossaries	3
Wikipedia	Online Etymology Dictionary	3
NuPedia	Etymology and Word History	3
Probert Encyclopaedia of Mythology	Hyper Dictionary	3
Britannica	Sayings and Phrases - meanings and origins	3
Encyclopedia Mythica	Urban Dictionary [slang]	3
1	2	3

Humour

Watches

-- What you might call yer non-linear classification system --

PriceWatch
CNN Watch
Corporate Watch
EchelonWatch
StateWatch
MutantWatch
NASA Watch
Search Engine Watch
World Watch
Browser Watch
ICANN Watch
Space Watch
Web Watch
Human Rights Watch
Monarch Butterfly Watch
Quack Watch
Bourque News Watch
Gene Watch (UK)
Mining Watch
WTO Watch
PR Watch
Rocky Mountain Media Watch
Gas Price Watch
Fugitive Watch
Quack Watch
Judicial Watch
Kurdish Human Rights Watch
Genocide Watch
School of the Americas Watch
Bush Watch
Caucasus Watch
OMB Watch [US Gov't - Office of Management and Budget]
Gendercide Watch
Harvard Watch
Monsanto Watch
Alternative Media Watch
Democracy Watch
ICANN Watch
Dictator Watch
GATS Watch
CCMEP: U.S. Bombing Watch - When was the last time the U.S. Bombed Iraq?
Singularity Watch
Job Watch
Occupation Watch
Lobby Watch
Carbon Trade Watch
Google Watch
Blair Watch
GizmoWatch
SpinWatch
Wal-Mart Watch
Bank Watch

Hoaxes, Scams & Fraud

Identity Theft, Privacy

US:DOJ: Identity Theft and Fraud
US:CA:DCA: Credit Identity Theft: Tips to Avoid and Resolve Problems
US:FirstGov: Identity Theft
US:FirstGov:KnowFraud: Identity Theft
US:FTC: ID Theft: When Bad Things Happen To Your Good Name
US:FTC: Complaint Input Form (secure site)
Privacy Info Source FAQ
Computer Privacy Digest
Stolen Identity
Identity Theft Prevention & Survival
ID Theft Center
Identity Theft 101
2001/05/07: MF: Living Below Your Means - Identity Theft: What To Do
SecurityPointer: Security and Privacy Essentials
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse: Identity Theft Resources
Lessons in CRM (and security)
Big Brother Awards
comp.society.privacy Digest
PI: Privacy International
2003/09/: Privacy International: Silenced: Censorship and Control of the Internet
The Swipe Toolkit
Bug Me Not
2006/05/03: Consumerist: HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen
2009/09/14: EFF: New Cookie Technologies: Harder to See and Remove, Widely Used to Track You
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2009/10/08: BBC: "Phishing" - an increasingly diverse and sophisticated suite of methods to trick people into parting with their precious personal data - is at a two-year high
2009/08/17: BBC: US man 'stole 130m card numbers'
US prosecutors have charged a man with stealing data relating to 130 million credit and debit cards. Officials say it is the biggest case of identity theft in American history. They say Albert Gonzales, 28, and two unnamed Russian co-conspirators hacked into the payment systems of retailers, including the 7-Eleven chain. Prosecutors say they aimed to sell the data on. If convicted, Mr Gonzales faces up to 20 years in jail for wire fraud and five years for conspiracy. He would also have to pay a fine of $250,000 (£150,000) for each of the two charges. Mr Gonzales used a complicated technique known as an "SQL injection attack" to penetrate networks' firewalls and steal information, the US Department of Justice said. His corporate victims included Heartland Payment Systems - a card payment processor, convenience store 7-Eleven and Hannaford Brothers, a supermarket chain, the DOJ said. According to the indictment, the group researched the credit and debit card systems used by their victims, attacked their networks and sent the data to computer servers they operated in California, Illinois, Latvia, the Netherlands and Ukraine. The data could then be sold on, enabling others to make fraudulent purchases, it said.
2009/05/08: CBC: Less-secure Canadian debit cards a target for fraud: analyst
2009/01/23: G&M: Fraudsters abusing do-not-call list
Phone numbers on registry are being sold online in a possible violation of privacy laws, consumer advocacy group says
2009/01/21: CBC: Hackers attack credit card processor [Heartland Payment Systems] in massive security breach
2008/11/17: DailyIndia: Internet fraudsters selling financial identities for 80 pounds in UK
2008/04/15: DailyWTF: Oklahoma Leaks Tens of Thousands of Social Security Numbers, Other Sensitive Data
2006/12/15: CWorld: Boeing laptop theft puts U.S. data breach tally over 100M - A privacy group has kept tabs on incidents since February 2005
2006/09/04: Register: ID theft hits home in Canada - Property scams create legal chaos
2006/09/02: SlashDot: Identity Thieves Steal Homes
2006/07/21: ZDNetAsia: Crime of the future--biometric spoofing?
Watch where you leave your fingerprints--soon they could be the target of thieves looking to break into your bank account. Although biometric security systems--using fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition--are only just now entering the mainstream, they are likely to be common within a few years. And as soon as biometrics begin to be used to protect bank accounts or benefit systems, crooks will start looking at ways of breaking into them, according to Bori Toth, biometric research and advisory lead at Deloitte & Touche.
2006/06/04: Yahoo: IDs of [50,000 active US Navy and National Guard] active personnel on stolen laptop
2006/01/23: SEW: Protecting Your Search Privacy: A Flowchart To Tracks You Leave Behind
2006/02/03: ZDNet: FAQ: When Google is not your friend
2006/02/01: BBC: ID theft 'contained' says study - Americans lost almost $57bn (£32bn) to identity theft in 2005, finds research.
2006/02/02: BBC: ID theft 'costs UK £1.7bn a year' - Identity fraud is costing the UK an estimated £1.7bn every year, Home Office Minister Andy Burnham has said.
2005/09/25: BostonGlobe: Stealing your ID can be as easy as ABC
2005/08/23: BBC: ID theft spyware scam uncovered - Thousands of computer users have been caught out by a huge ID theft ring
2005/06/20: NewScientist: Millions of credit cards plundered by hackers
2005/06/20: ZDNet: Details emerge on credit card breach
2005/03/03: BBC: One in four 'touched' by ID fraud
2005/02/26: BBC: The Bank of America has revealed it has lost computer tapes containing account details of more than one million customers who are US federal employees.
2005/02/01: BBC: ID theft surge hits US consumers
2004/09/14: FindLaw: Man Pleads Guilty in ID Theft Case
2004/08/23: Register: Meet the Peeping Tom worm [Rbot-GR]
CSM: 2002/02/19: Identity heist! If thieves have got your number - off a Social Security card, say - that's all they need to pose as you. Behind a rising crime wave.
CSM: 2002/02/19: Your good name, sold for a penny
Slashdot: 2002/02/19: All The World Over, Your Stolen I.D
2002/11/18: BBC: 'How my identity was stolen'
2002/11/25: CBC:CP: Three charged in largest identity-theft case in U.S. history; 30,000 victims
2002/11/25: BBC: FBI busts identity theft ring
2003/01/22: CBC: ID theft tops consumer fraud list
2003/01/22: CBC:CP: Identity theft complaints doubled in U.S. last year; tops consumer crime list
2003/01/30: Register: Canada's biggest Identity theft?
2003/03/01: CNet: Monster.com warns of ID theft
In an attempt to curb identity theft on its service, online career listing site Monster.com has begun warning its users of fake job postings bent on stealing personal information.
2003/03/07: BBC: Bank fraud risk from ID theft
2003/03/07: BBC: Visa moves on identity theft
As identity theft reaches epidemic levels, credit card company Visa has ordered all its US customers to obscure most of card users' credit card numbers on receipts and displays.
2003/03/09: MSNBC: The darkest side of ID theft - When impostors are arrested, victims get criminal records
2003/04/20: BostonGlobe: New online harassment involves provocative messages sent under guise of activists
2003/09/05: Register: ID theft hits 10m Americans a year
2003/09/11: PBS: How to Steal $65 Billion - Why Identity Theft is a Growth Industry
2003/09/03: PCMag: Identity Theft: The Scary Truth
2004/08/01: BostonGlobe: Credit firms resist anti-ID theft measure

Winnipeg Housing/Rental Search

Winnipeg Housing [MLS Lists]
Winnipeg Housing [By MLS Number]
Property Assessment Details Lookup
City of Winnipeg Property Assessment Dept.
WREN - Winnipeg Real Estate News
WREB - MLS list
WREB - MLS - City Residential
ComFree Wpg.
Century21 All House List
Century21 Criteria search
Royal LePage - Winnipeg
Portage Realtor - Cairns
RealEstateBook
--- Related Organizations ---
Winnipeg Real Estate Board
Residential Tenancies Branch
CREA - Canadian Real Estate Association
IRBM - Independent Real Estate Brokers Of Manitoba
--- Real Estate Companies ---
Century 21
ReMax Winnipeg
Royal Lepage
Elite Real Estate
--- Newspapers ---
Free Press
Winnipeg Sun
Free Press Classified
--- Inspectors ---
Home Inspectors
CAHI - Canadian Association of Home Inspectors
NIBI - National Institute of Building Inspectors
CAHI - Manitoba
Home Chec
Home Reference Book
House Master Manitoba
House Review
--- Rental ---
Rent Canada - Winnipeg Internet Apartment Guide
Rent Canada - Winnipeg Apartments
Rent Manitoba
CAROL - Canadian Apartments for Rent Online
Residential Tenancies Branch Guidebook
(pdf) Residential Tenancies Act
--- Property Lawyers ---
TMO - Taylor McCaffrey Online

The Nortel Saga

Having worked for Nortel for some time, I watched this saga unfold with sadness & dismay.

2009/12/29: CBC: Clement OKs Ciena's purchase of Nortel division
The $769-million US bid by U.S.-based Ciena Corp. for Nortel Networks' Metro Ethernet Networks division has been approved by federal Industry Minister Tony Clement.
2009/12/23: CBC: Nortel makes asset sale deal with Genband -- Agreement worth $282M US, but higher bidder possible
2009/12/17: CBC: Former Nortel exec [John Roth] seeks $1B protection from lawsuits
A former Nortel CEO who took millions with him when he left the company in 2001 wants Nortel to cover up to $1 billion of his costs if he loses a series of class action lawsuits filed by former employees. John Roth, who was in charge when the company's stock soared in 1999 and 2000, filed a U.S. creditor claim in a U.S. bankruptcy court on Dec. 1 seeking a $1 billion U.S. indemnification from Nortel of his personal assets with respect to those lawsuits. When he left the company he took $130 million with him. Essentially, Roth is seeking insurance to cover him in case U.S. courts decide he must pay an award to the plaintiffs.
2009/12/04: CBC: Ottawa approves Nortel Avaya sale
The federal government Friday gave its approval under the Investment Canada Act to the proposed sale of Nortel's enterprise solutions business to New Jersey-based Avaya Inc. The deal has now cleared regulatory reviews in the United States, Canada and the European Union. Avaya expects the sale to close this month. Avaya Inc. won the auction for the Nortel unit on Sept. 14 with a bid of $900 million US.
2009/11/27: CBC: 'Nortel bill' would protect workers, pensioners
A private member's bill proposed by a New Democrat MP could help protect employees and pensioners in the wake of a corporate collapse. Wayne Marston, a Hamilton-area MP, tabled the so-called Nortel bill in early November to change the federal Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act so that former workers and pensioners would become preferred creditors in situations of corporate bankruptcy. Currently, former workers -- like those who were with Nortel Networks Corp., which filed for bankruptcy in January -- are considered unsecured creditors and are at the back of the line to receive payouts from bankruptcy proceedings.
2009/11/26: CBC: Nortel approves more exec raises
2009/11/26: CBC: Court dismisses Nortel employee pension bid
An Ontario court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by the union representing former Nortel Networks Corp. employees seeking retirement and severance payments. The decision by the Court of Appeal in Toronto involves the Canadian Auto Workers union, employees who retired from Nortel, which has its corporate headquarters in Toronto, and former workers who were fired.
2009/11/26: CBC: Nortel executives approve more raises [for themselves], document shows
2009/11/23: CBC: Ciena winning bidder for Nortel businesses
2009/10/28: CBC: Hitachi bids $10M for Nortel unit
2009/10/26: CBC: Quebec backs Nortel employee pensions
2009/10/22: CanWest: Ex-Nortel workers, unions team up -- Liberal pledge of bankruptcy-reform meetings well received by crowd
2009/10/21: CBC: Nortel pensioners rally in Ottawa
2009/10/09: CBC: Ex-Nortel CEO's $12M claim shocks former employees -- Former CEO wants $12M
2009/10/09: CanWest: Zafirovski seeks millions in payouts from Nortel - Ex-CEO files claims for pension, bonuses
2009/10/07: CBC: Nortel pensioners protest at Queen's Park
2009/10/07: CBC: Ciena bids $521M for Nortel unit
2009/10/05: CBC: Ciena eyes Nortel ethernet unit
2009/09/28: CBC: Nortel crippled by ongoing sell-off: prof
Nortel's ability to operate is being whittled away as it sells off its assets piece by piece, even if the effects are not fully obvious yet, a Canadian business researcher says. "At a certain point of time, it's just going to run out of adaptability," said Doug Reid, a professor at Queen's University's School of Business, in Kingston, Ont. Since Nortel filed for bankruptcy protection in January and started selling off its various units, employees have been flooding out of the company. Some have been laid off to make the company's various business units more attractive to potential buyers, while others have quit to take new jobs at other companies with better future prospects.
2009/09/24: CBC: Avaya's Nortel buy to get Ottawa review
Industry Minister Tony Clement says he will review the sale of Nortel's enterprise division to U.S. telecom company Avaya to see if the transaction meets the net-benefit-to-Canada test.
2009/09/18: TStar: Ottawa lets Nortel slip from our grasp
2009/09/17: CBC: 400 Nortel staff face layoff in Avaya deal: report
2009/09/17: PhysOrg: US, Canadian judges approve Nortel bankruptcy sale
2009/09/16: CBC: Judge rejects Verizon opposition to Nortel sale
2009/09/16: CBC: Nortel sale won't be reviewed: Clement
The federal government has cleared the way for Swedish telecommunications firm Ericsson's $1.13-billion-US takeover of two key wireless divisions of Toronto-based Nortel Networks, which declared bankruptcy in January. Industry Minister Tony Clement announced Wednesday that there are no grounds under the Investment Canada Act for a review of the takeover.
2009/09/15: CBC: Make Nortel pay our pensions, workers urge Ottawa -- U.S., U.K. laws guarantee workers at bankrupt companies their pensions
2009/09/14: CBC: Avaya to pay $900M for Nortel enterprise unit
2009/09/07: HillTimes: RIM met 11 times with senior government officials, three Cabinet ministers
In lead up to the international climate change negotiations, energy and environment issues lobbied with Cabinet ministers and MPs. The head of Waterloo, Ont.,-based hi-tech company Research in Motion and his lawyers met 11 times with senior governmental officials and three Cabinet ministers between March and July at the height of Nortel's bankruptcy and in an unsuccessful bid for the government to block the sale of Nortel assets. This high-profile lobbying effort shows that no matter who the players are, governments will still make their decisions on what they believe to be good public policy, say lobbying insiders. "I think that's less to do about the practice of lobbying, and more to do about the individual case Nortel tried to make and apparently didn't make successfully," said Tim Powers, vice-president of government relations and consulting firm Summa Strategies.
2009/08/26: CanWest: More cuts ahead for Nortel retirees, ex-workers -- Law firm says benefits hinge on sales of assets
2009/08/24: CanWest: Dividing Nortel's spoils -- As asset sales near end, Canadian ex-employees are worried they won't get their share
2009/08/23: TStar: PM holds Nortel's fate in his hands
2009/08/21: CBC: Nortel sale review required by law: Opposition
2009/08/12: EmbassyMag: The Nortel Deal's Implications for National Security and Investment
As foreign companies wrangle over the tech company's future, experts debate whether it represents a strategic asset.
2009/08/10: CBC: Nortel's [president and CEO, Mike] Zafirovski steps down
2009/08/10: CBC: Nortel loses $274M US in Q2
2009/08/07: CBC: RIM, Ericsson spar over Nortel wireless sale
2009/08/07: CTV: Ottawa holds emergency meeting on Nortel sale
2009/08/05: CBC: House committee calls meeting on Nortel sale
The House of Commons industry committee has asked the key players in the sale of Nortel Networks assets to attend an emergency meeting on Friday. The committee wants to discuss the auction process that resulted in Swedish telecommunications company Ericcson winning Nortel's wireless unit last month at a purchase price of $1.13 billion US. The proposed sale means Ericsson will acquire Nortel's so-called CDMA and next-generation Long Term Evolution, or LTE, wireless technologies. Executives from Ericsson, Nortel and Waterloo, Ont.-based BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, which made a failed bid for the assets, will be at the meeting, which begins Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET.
2009/07/31: TStar: Ottawa fiddles while Nortel burns -- Technology giant was as deserving of government support as the auto industry
2009/07/30: CanWest: Consider what Nortel has done for Ottawa, and Canada
Without immediate government action Nortel will soon vanish from the Canadian scene. Its departure will deal a heavy blow to research and development in Canada, to many Canadian universities and to the industrial future of our country.
2009/07/28: CBC: Nortel wireless sale approved by courts
2009/07/29: OSun: Politicians feud over Nortel sale -- Feds, Ontario Grits trade shots over fate of telecom titan
2009/07/29: TStar: Nortel's priceless assets
2009/07/29: TStar: Nationalism, Nortel and politics
2009/07/27: Impolitical: Influential call for government to review Nortel wireless sale
2009/07/27: CBC: Keep Nortel technology Canadian, says Ont. minister
The government of Ontario wants the federal government to block the transfer of some of Nortel Network's advanced wireless communications technology to Sweden's LM Ericsson. Over the weekend, Ericsson emerged as the victor in the auction of Nortel's wireless business with a bid of $1.13 billion US, giving the company access to Nortel's LTE, or long-term evolution, mobile technology.
2009/07/27: TStar: Ericsson wants aid to buy Nortel
2009/07/25: CBC: Ericsson wins Nortel wireless bid
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson has emerged as the winner in the bidding war for Nortel Networks Corp.'s wireless division with a purchase price of $1.13 billion US, Nortel said in a statement early Saturday.
2009/07/24: CBC: Nortel's assets on block in New York
2009/07/24: TStar: Ottawa MIA on Nortel
2009/07/22: G&M: We were there for GM and Chrysler. Why not for Nortel?
2009/07/21: G&M: RIM cries foul over Nortel auction
2009/07/20: G&M: Nortel sells division to Avaya
Nortel Networks Corp. NT-T is selling its last remaining large business unit. The telecom equipment maker said Monday Avaya Inc. would be buying its enterprise solutions business for $475-million (U.S.). The North and Latin American and Asian parts of the business are subject to a "stalking horse" bid, meaning that companies other than Avaya could acquire those businesses if they offered more, in an auction that requires approval of bankruptcy court judges. The enterprise unit supplies phone systems and other communications equipment to businesses and large organizations around the world.
2009/07/14: CanWest: Bid for Nortel re-ignites interest by rivals -- Nokia Siemens' $650-million offer has three parties in race to meet deadline
2009/07/07: CBC: Nortel eyed by private equity firm
2009/07/02: OSun: Principles go out the window
If I could get the answer to just one question from Stephen Harper it would be this: Why did you allow Nortel to go under? Prior to bankruptcy proceedings, there were at least three meetings between Nortel executives and the federal government’s top dogs, including Industry Minister Tony Clement and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. What, precisely, was asked for in those meetings by the company and what did the government offer, if anything?
2009/06/19: CBC: Nortel selling wireless business to Nokia Siemens for $650M US
2009/06/09: CBC: Would-be Nortel buyers seek $1B loan from government -- Former executive likens Nortel's fate to that of Avro Arrow fighter jet
2009/05/11: CBC: Nortel Q1 loss grows [to US$507-million]
2009/04/18: CanWest: A slide into oblivion
Nortel has concluded it is too small to compete. The sale of major assets is set to begin -- and Ottawa's nearly 4,000 workers are bracing for the outcome
2009/03/12: CBC: Nortel to sell important divisions: report
2009/03/02: CBC: Nortel loses $2.13B US in Q4
2009/01/16: CanWest: Laid-off [Nortel] workers 'shocked' after court orders snarl severances
2009/01/14: BBC: Nortel Networks, North America's biggest maker of telephone equipment, has filed for bankruptcy protection
2009/01/14: CBC: Nortel Networks files for bankruptcy protection
2009/01/14: MacleansB: There, there, Nortel. Will $30 million in short term financing turn that frown upside down?
2009/01/14: G&M: Nortel files for bankruptcy protection
Facing $107-million interest on debts, former telecom giant will likely be broken up and sold to foreign rivals
2009/01/12: CBC: Nortel's future up in the air as it faces major payments
2008/12/10: CBC: Nortel eyes possible bankruptcy protection: report

Random Neat Stuff

This is a catch all list of neat &/ thought provoking stuff that doesn't easily fit in other sections.

2009/12/31: PhysOrg: AT&T wants out of landline business
AT&T said the high costs of maintaining the legacy phone network were "diverting valuable resources" US telecom giant AT&T has asked US regulatory authorities to waive a requirement that it and other carriers maintain costly landline networks.
2009/12/31: CBC: Apple wins ruling on alleged iPod hearing loss
2009/12/31: SlashDot: AT&T Readying For the End of Analog Landlines
2009/12/29: LA Times: California Science Center is sued for canceling a film promoting intelligent design
2009/12/28: TreeHugger: Solar Powered Eyes - Powering Electronic Contact Lenses and Retina with Sunlight
2009/12/22: CBC: New libel defence allowed: Supreme Court -- 2 publications fighting $1.5M, $100K libel awards
The Supreme Court of Canada has opened the door for journalists to use the defence of "responsible communication" against libel suits. Canada's highest court ruled Tuesday in two decisions that publishers can escape liability if they can show that they tried to verify the facts and the published material is a matter of public interest.
2009/12/21: AlterNet: 10 Ways to Screw Over the Corporate Jackals Who've Been Screwing You
2009/12/18: PhysOrg: Swiss and Google reach privacy accord pending verdict
2009/12/17: BuckDog: Canadian Judge Speaks Bluntly About 'Insanity' Of Canada's Pot Laws
"Nobody has been deterred. People have been going to jail for drug offences for - for a couple of generations now and the drug - the drug plague is worse than it ever was.... If something doesn't work, do I try doing it again and again to see if it does work? Isn't that the definition of insanity?" -Justice Elliot Allen (Ontario Judge)
2009/12/16: BBC: Cheques to be phased out in 2018
Cheques will be phased out by October 2018, but only if adequate alternatives are developed, the body that oversees payments strategy has said. The board of the UK Payments Council has set the date in a bid to encourage the advance of other forms of payment. The first cheque was written 350 years ago and the decision will be greeted with disappointment by some small businesses and consumers. The Council said there should be "no scenario" for using cheques by 2018. The target date for the closure of the system that processes cheques has been set for 31 October 2018, after the board described the payment method as in "terminal decline". However, there will be annual checks on the progress of other payments systems and a final review of the decision will be held in 2016.
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