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UPD ASA Slap TalkTalk Broadband Speed Checker over Misleading Estimates
16 May 2012, 1:39 am
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint by one of TalkTalk’s UK customers against a broadband speed checking facility on the ISPs website, which was found to deliver a “misleading” estimates of expected performance because it didn’t go far enough to make clear that the speed consumers received was “likely to be [...]
More Needs to Be Done in Nova Scotia to Protect Children Against Cyberbullying
9 May 2012, 8:52 am
Nova Scotia’s Cyberbullying Task Force recently released its recommendations. The Report contains some valuable data and some strong recommendations to help protect children against bullying both online and offline. However, the province’s response to the Task Force recommendations has been underwhelming. Proposed legislation Nova Scotia's proposed anti-bullying legislation contains very little ...
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Stand-your-ground law looms large - First Coast News
27 May 2012, 10:40 am
"I want justice. ... Why haven't they arrested him?" Most stand-your-ground laws grant a person who uses deadly force the presumption that he acted reasonably unless there is evidence to the contrary. If there are no witnesses and the victim is dead ...
Can Obama break Romney’s “Mr. Fix It” spell? - Washington Post
26 May 2012, 11:24 am
This week’s Post poll underscores yet again that Mitt Romney is benefitting from what you might call the presumption of economic competence. As Jamelle noted below, the poll finds that 47 percent of Americans trust Romney to do a better job on ...
Iran Rejects in UN New Israeli Threats - La Prensa Latina
26 May 2012, 11:02 am
It pointed out that these threats are unwarranted and irresponsible and are based on wrong and false presumption about Iran's activities in the nuclear field with peaceful purposes. Such expressions are a flagrant violation of the essential principles of ...
Craig Thomson's flawed presumption - Business Spectator
21 May 2012, 3:26 pm
For 59 minutes yesterday, a young politician named Craig Thomson stood, spoke, constantly sipped water and choked up in an eerily quiet three-quarter full chamber as he haltingly attempted to defend his character. He had no choice. It had to be a defence ...
PM's presumption of innocence credo is laughable - The Australian
14 May 2012, 9:08 am
IT is always dangerous when legal doctrines are taken hostage by politicians and sharpened into rhetorical weapons. A great deal of nonsense has been talked about the presumption of innocence in the Craig Thomson and Peter Slipper cases. By invoking this ...
Presumption of innocence not absolute - On Line Opinion
13 May 2012, 6:13 pm
Federal MP Craig Thomson is no more entitled to the presumption of innocence than any one of the 6,766 Australians who are currently languishing in jail because their application for bail pending trial has been rejected. Not one of the remand prisoners has ...