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Appeals Panel Cuts Award in Valdez Spill by Exxon - New York Times

A majority of a three-judge panel said the company’s negligent conduct, while “particularly egregious,” had not been intentional and had not warranted the maximum financial penalty that a lower court imposed.

The panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth [...]

Iran Seeks Condemnation of Israeli Nukes - washingtonpost.com

Iran demanded Tuesday that the U.N. Security Council condemn what it said was Israel’s clandestine development of nuclear weapons and “compel” it to place all its nuclear facilities under U.N. inspection.

If Israel refuses to comply, Iran said the council must take “resolute action” under Chapter 7 of [...]

A study released by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse today suggests an increase in driving under the influence of cannabis since 1989.
The study cites numerous other studies in explaining how cannabis use has doubled in the past 15 years, yet all the attention has been paid to alcohol and drunk driving. The authors seem [...]

2 dead in B.C. in aftermath of windstorm

B.C. Hydro estimates about 10,000 customers are still without power from that storm, mostly on Vancouver’s North Shore and in the Victoria area. At the height of the storm, 250,000 were without electricity.

There’s nobody I know that didn’t either experience the power outages, or know someone else [...]

Appeal delays deportation of ex-teacher in sex case

Malcolm Watson, a 36-year-old U.S. citizen with permanent resident status in Canada, lives in St. Catharines, Ont., with his Canadian wife and children. A former teacher at an all-girls school in Buffalo, N.Y., he was convicted in October of improperly touching a 15-year-old student.

If this man is [...]

B.C. Hydro finds Christmas lights, not grow-op

“At first they said I didn’t have enough acreage for another house. But I told them how many lights I had collected and [that I] was afraid I was going to blow something up and start a fire,” Versteeg says of first her call to the utility five [...]

Pot is called biggest cash crop - Los Angeles Times

A report released today by a marijuana public policy analyst contends that the market value of pot produced in the U.S. exceeds $35 billion — far more than the crop value of such heartland staples as corn, soybeans and hay, which are the top three [...]

Real estate agent gives guns to homebuyers - Yahoo! News

Instead, she placed an advertisement offering a pistol with the purchase of any home worth at least $150,000 in the city police department’s monthly publication, “Badge & Gun.”

The free guns are only for those in law enforcement, said Upton, who is married to a police [...]

Gov’t consults with U.S. on drug strategy

Neil Boyd, a criminologist at Simon Fraser University, said U.S. interest in Canada’s tougher drug plans is no surprise.

“The Harper government favours a U.S.-style approach to drug problems, which is to lock more people up and don’t treat it as a health problem, treat it as a criminal [...]