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L'hypothèse voulant que le gouvernement fédéral puisse financer la construction d'un nouvel amphithéâtre à Québec suscite de vives réactions dans le reste du Canada.

Four Chilean congressmen join a hunger strike by indigenous Mapuche prisoners against anti-terror laws dating back to military rule.

A "payment-by-results" project to cut reoffending is being officially launched, with investors getting a return only if reoffending drops.

L'avocat de Marc Bellemare veut que la commission Bastarache obtienne le registre des entrées et sorties aux bureaux du premier ministre. Radio-Canada a révélé mercredi que le registre du bureau de Québec a failli être détruit, et que celui du bureau de Montréal est introuvable.

Swallowing a sponge on a piece of string could help prevent a deadly form of cancer, experts claim.

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The cost burden of ageing populations in industrialised nations may not be as much as feared because of improved health, a study suggests.

As Muslims around the world begin the Eid festival, marking the end of Ramadan, US citizens reflect on the standing of their religion in their country.

An anonymous reader writes "The Swedish police, who have been instrumental in various raids against file-sharing sites, may have a bit of a piracy problem on their own hands. It seems they wanted to put together a database of shoe print information for matching crime scene shoe prints to particular shoe types. To do so, they used images found online, and some Swedish copyright experts have noted that this appears to violate Swedish copyright law. The police claim there's an exception for police investigations, but people (and some shoe companies) are pointing out that creating a database isn't about an investigation."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F2248221%2FSwedish-Police-Shoe-Database-May-Tread-on-Copyright" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Swedish+Police+Shoe+Database+May+Tread+on+Copyright%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FblausL" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/2248221/Swedish-Police-Shoe-Database-May-Tread-on-Copyright?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1782590amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d9a1790/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bMf-d-EcLkgunFuEKHD_mwzcMcU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bMf-d-EcLkgunFuEKHD_mwzcMcU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bMf-d-EcLkgunFuEKHD_mwzcMcU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bMf-d-EcLkgunFuEKHD_mwzcMcU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/1aZgmODS9qg" height="1" width="1"/

Screening men with a family history of breast and ovarian cancer can lead to early diagnosis of prostate cancer, says a study.

When I was in Kyoto, I watched people waste their money at a cork gun game. Nobody was able to knock over the prizes. The corks were so lightweight that they harmlessly bounced off the boxes of candy and packs of cigarettes set up on the racks. (Also, quite of few of the people seemed to be half-drunk, which didn't help their aim.)

So, I thought this story from Fuji TV was interesting. The network hired Mamika Tsuruoka of the Japan National Rifle Team to give a cork gun game a try.

From Japan Probe: After 62 shots, she has claimed 49 of the 50 prizes. The total cost of her ammo was 2,480 yen (40 yen per cork). The total cost of the prizes won was 3,940 yen. However, the remaining prize is a large box that cannot easily be knocked down. Single shots are too weak to move the box, so she gets her friends to help her fire volleys at the target. This tactic works, and after 9 volleys it falls to the ground. Unfortunately, that used a lot of corks, so the total price of knocking over all 50 targets ends up at 5,360 yen. The actual price of the prizes totaled to 4,535 yen, so the festival booth guy made a profit of 825 yen.

Here's the video:

Taiwan has celebrated the end of 'Ghost Month' with an unusual contest dating back at least two centuries.

An unpublished poem by one of Scotland's greatest writers is to be read in public for the first time.

Trailrunner7 writes "There appears to be an actual email worm in circulation right now, using the tried-and-true infection method of sending emails containing malicious executables to all of the names in a user's email address book. The worm arrives via emails with the subject line 'Here You Have' or something similar, and the messages contain a link to a site that will download a malicious file to the victim's PC. The malware then drops itself into the Windows directory with a file name of CSRSS.EXE, which is identical to a legitimate Windows file. From there, it's 2001 all over again, as the worm attempts to mail itself to all of the contacts in the victim's Outlook address book."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F227254%2FNew-Email-Worm-Squirming-Through-Windows-Users-Inboxes" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=New+Email+Worm+Squirming+Through+Windows+Users'+Inboxes%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fdfl7Rk" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/227254/New-Email-Worm-Squirming-Through-Windows-Users-Inboxes?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1782566amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d99f79d/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0g4hMgHAlr9TAzKMC8VrlaZhg4o/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0g4hMgHAlr9TAzKMC8VrlaZhg4o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0g4hMgHAlr9TAzKMC8VrlaZhg4o/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0g4hMgHAlr9TAzKMC8VrlaZhg4o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Jyck2NPIzx8" height="1" width="1"/

La centrale syndicale milite pour un recours à la clause dérogatoire et dénonce le projet de loi103 qui permettrait aux parents québécois d'envoyer leurs enfants dans le réseau public anglophone en les inscrivant pendant trois ans dans une école anglaise privée non subventionnée.

Education authorities are facing a call to merge so classrooms may be spared the worst of the cuts in public spending.

First days in Afghanistan for US army recruits

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Après en avoir reporté le lancement plus tôt cette année, le géant québécois des communications dévoile son propre réseau de téléphonie cellulaire, qui concurrencera ceux de Bell, de Rogers et de Telus. L'annonce est bien accueillie par les analystes.

(Video link) This TV commercial for the City of Toronto's e-waste program is funny. (Via thedailywh.at)