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[Etc.] 15 postcards of the Meadows under Creative Commons

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The Meadows according to Peel is a database of documents put in disposition by Alberta's university (Canada)  to make easier the exploration of history and of culture of the Canadian Meadows by the researchers and the students, it doesn't much matter their training or their domain of expertise  . Last December, the University acquired more than 15 postcards, dating former most 1940s, than she completely put under licence Creative Co#ons By NC.  Postcards come from an epoch when the population of Alberta blew up. She sprang up, crossing about 73 persons in the inventory of 1901 about 800 in 1941 , writes Edmonton Journal. It is possible to sail in the base via (sorting by place, subject, date, author) ou (animals, events, natural phenomena, buildings, etc.).

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By Astrid Girardeau

January 5th, 2010 in 8:49

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[EXPRESS] Canada censors two parodic sites of The Yes Men

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On their site, both activists of The Yes Men bring back that the Canadian government censored their parodic Internet sites " Enviro-canada.ca " and "Ec-gc.ca" . In the same breath, 4500 other sites would have been touched.

December 14th, 2009, in full Conference of Copenhagen, on an imitating site that of Environment Canada, the ministry in load of environment, Yes Men broadcast a wrong press release in which they announce a radical transfer of Canadian policy regarding struggle in gases with greenhouse effects. Let be a target of reduction of the programmes of 40 % before 2020 in comparison with the level of 1990, while in reality the conservative government promised only to reduce them by 3 %. The hoax creates mess within the Canadian delegation.

The Yes Men maintains that Mike Landreville of Environment Canada sent to the German Internet provider Serverloft a letter pointing to them out that these two sites are  directly linked to a hoax which deceives people by making believe to them that the government of Canada is going to take some measures in comparison with the questions of environment. [] we hope that you will appreciate the importance to avoid the confusion of the Canadian public concerning governmental business and that you are going to help us to prevent that this hoax spreads more 

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By Astrid Girardeau

December 29th, 2009 in 23:18

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