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This is a good thing.

The music industry’s efforts to recoup money lost from Internet piracy were thwarted yet again today.

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Internet service providers don’t have to pay royalties to composers and performers for music downloaded or heard via online radio by web customers.

I’m not sure this is a good thing.

Singapore Airlines has completed the world’s longest commercial passenger flight, touching down in Newark, New Jersey after a flight of more than 18.5 hours from Singapore.

James Travers agrees with me that really, it was a good night for Stephen Harper.

But a Conservative party that was two warring factions only months ago still emerges as a significant winner.

After 15 years of civil war, the right is now united enough to position itself as the other national party and the focal point for an alternate vision. More than that, the party has found in Harper a leader who is already a formidable federal force and one that is almost certain to grow during what promises to be an unusually fertile political period.

Here are the riding by riding counts…some very close races, especially Middlesex-Kent.  Sometimes, every vote does count.

Not that we dare talk about abortion in Canada, as many blame the social conservatives for ruining Harper’s centrist plans.  However, we have this new fuel to add to the fire.

IT may be just 12 weeks old, but a baby has been captured “walking” in the womb in a startling series of photographs.

via QOAE

Wells says that Canada, specifically Ontario, rejected change.

The election returns represent a Canada-wide rejection of change. Some Liberals and every opposition leader believed the 2000 election would be a referendum on change and that Jean Chr?tien would find himself on the losing side. Wrong. Today Canadians rejected change once again—not overwhelmingly, but to a far greater extent than almost anyone expected.

All in all, Harper did very well, considering he just arrived on the scene months ago – and considering that Canada is a very Liberal country.

Go read this LGF entry.

Hugh Hewitt has a letter from a retired US Marine that says it all, and says it well.

More old PC deadbeats are trotted out by the Star to make a headline.

On the eve of a federal vote that’s certain to be a cliff-hanger, an elder statesman of the former Progressive Conservative party has aimed a final backhand against Stephen Harper.

Mark writes brilliantly, as usual, on what the candidates cannot talk about, and 10 month waiting lists for maternity services.

With Canadian healthcare sliding toward its logical conclusion – a ten-month waiting list for the maternity ward – here’s a question to ask your Liberal chums: Do you seriously think your $9 billion “plan” will make two cents’ worth of difference? Anymore than did your $21 billion “plan” to save heath care back in 2000?  And, whether it’s $9 billion or $21 billion or a hundred billion trillion gazillion, won’t most of it just get sucked up in the maw of bureaucracy?

A petition to keep Fantino, for what it’s worth.  Personally, I think Fantino is too good for this city’s leadership.

A belated Happy Father’s Day, from David Warren.

But what am I saying? That fathers should be paternal; that mothers should be maternal; that children should be obedient.

Jack says that Alberta has just registered its very own Separation Party.

If Stephen Harper gets elected, one of his first priorities must be do de-centralize the federal government asap – something Trudeauites must be just gasping over more than anything else.

There is a great anger building in the west, one that threatens this country and one that is not, at this time, readily apparent to voters in a country with all eyes on Quebec.

Adler says Harper will beat Martin like a rented mule.

Canadians communicate with me directly, and they don’t think Harper’s scary. Those who meet him can easily understand why Paul Martin thinks he is scary. Come Monday, Harper will beat Paul Martin like a rented mule.

Coren had me scared for a bit.  Truth is, however, he’s said that he’s voting NDP.

THE BIG day approaches. I don’t usually tell people how to vote, but on this occasion I feel I have to do so. It’s so important.

Another reason to dump IE and get Firefox .9

Security experts warn that a new Internet virus—spreading through hundreds and perhaps thousands of websites infected—may steal credit card and other valuable information from people’s home computers.