Through a special agreement with more than 800 newspapers worldwide, the Newseum displays these front pages each day on its website. The front pages are in their original, unedited form.

Roll over the cities you are interested in and double click when you see a front page that interests you to get a larger image than the thumbnail that appears to the right of the map.

This is something I just found and I think it is a great idea to keep track of what is the main story in other cities.

The Google Wonder Wheel Is Gone;

Google Squared and News Timeline disappear;

and the removal of the Google News Archive search page are a mystery.

A search of Cole’s computer by the high school’s IT staff found sexually explicit photos of a Grade 10 student that he acquired from the student’s email account. The laptop was then turned over to the police and searched without a warrant. The proceeds of the police search were excluded while the IT technician’s search was proper as it was for the purposes of maintaining the school board’s network and the laptop.

Justice Karakatsanis wrote for the Ontario Court of Appeal which found the employee had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of his laptop based on the following factors:

• he had exclusive possession of the laptop;
• he had permission to use it for personal use;
• he had permission to take it home on evenings, weekends and summer vacation;
• there was no evidence the board actively monitored teachers’ use of laptops;
• the school board had no clear and unambiguous policy to monitor, search, or police the teacher’s use of his laptop.

This seems consistent with the prevailing case law regarding the recognition of an employer’s right to govern the use of their systems through policy, but it also recognises the rising privacy expectations of employees in the personal use of an employer’s system.

• BBC says Iran jamming its Egypt coverage
• Eritrean officials panicked by events in Egypt
• Equatorial Guinea prohibits Egypt revolt reports

These events reveal how vulnerable news reporting is to government censorship.

We regularly design news monitoring programmes for clients and we have found that monitoring the shortwave services using BBC Monitoring has proved to be a successful strategy. However, cuts at BBC Monitoring may make this strategy less effective.

Most HF broadcasters predicted an end to their services during the next decade. I hope the situation in Egypt, and the response of other dictatorships, will make them reconsider.

Awhile back, a woman fell or was pushed from the balcony of one such establishment. More recently, the CBC did a piece about a building near Sheppard and Yonge where the brothels have become a nuisance.

In today’s Toronto Sun an article titled, How Facebook can screw you by Alan SHANOFF, the author states,

I wouldn’t be surprised to see insurance company adjusters and investigators trying to become a claimant’s “friend” to obtain inner circle access. Instead of a private investigator hiding in a van on your street or behind a bush, he might very well be tracking your movements in cyberspace.”

It’s obvious that SHANOFF would be surprised to learn that Private Investigators and Adjusters in Canada wouldn’t do this to a represented claimant.  I have written on this subject twice, and all the PI’s and Adjusters I have spoken to about this know that they may not “friend” the subject of an investigation if he or she is represented.  Simple fact checking would have corrected this.

• WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Trailed by Notoriety (By JOHN F. BURNS and RAVI SOMAIYA, Published: October 23, 2010, New York Times)

• Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government”

• TIME’s Julian Assange Interview: Full Transcript/Audio

• Are the Sex Charges Against Assange Bogus?

• Non-Surprise: Assange’s Accuser Linked To CIA

November 10, 2010

Training and Testing Working Group

Anyone seeking a licence as a private security guard and/or private investigator has been subject to mandatory training and testing requirements under the Private Security and Investigative Services Act, 2005 as of April 15, 2010.

Since then, the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services has been monitoring the effectiveness of the basic training and testing program, and has recently set up a working group with participants from the Ontario private security industry. The overall objective of the working group is to ensure the basic training and testing program supports the government’s commitment to professionalize the industry and to protect public safety. The key areas of focus for this group are:

• To review, and if necessary update, the ministry’s training and testing program to ensure the testing component is appropriate and relevant for the industry.
• To provide a ministry-endorsed test preparation document to complement the curricula for security guard and private investigator training.

As well as participants from the private security industry, the working group also includes the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, and the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. The group has been put together to ensure a province-wide perspective that includes representatives from the security guard, private investigation and loss prevention disciplines.

The ministry expects to report on the findings of the working group early in 2011.