Investigation Shows GCHQ Using US Companies, NSA To Route Around Domestic Surveillance Restrictions. Specifically, it can collect the emails of members of Parliament this way, because they pass it through Microsoft.

An oil train in Oregon derailed and caught fire, fortunately not near a town, but rather near the Columbia River. Will the river be polluted, or will all the oil burn?

The fact that a slow train derailed suggests that the line was badly maintained. Either that was illegal, or the legal standards are inadequate to assure safety of oil trains.

Journalists covering a protest in Caracas say that people stole their equipment and the thugs refused to intervene.

The Canadian post office has given up on trying to use copyright to block the distribution of an independently compiled list of the geography of postal codes.

It is unfortunate that the article uses the term "intellectual property" since that term confuses the issue. It is a mistake to generalize about copyright law and those other laws, since each one is more different from the others than similar.

In the US, this database would be uncopyrightable since it is a mere statement of facts rather than a creative choice of details. Canada should adopt the same principle.

India is considering a censorship law that would imprison people for publishing maps that disagree with India's disputed territorial claims.

An honest map would describe disputed territory as disputed, and also show where the actual boundaries of physical control lie.