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One free, two face Siberia: Pussy Riot court shocker
Surprise plea. Navy officer admits guilt in East Coast spy case A navy intelligence officer rose before a judge in a Halifax court Wednesday to plead guilty to espionage. His plea will make him the first person in Canada to be convicted under the Security of Information Act. Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle, 41, showed no emotion as he acknowledged he understood the consequences of entering a guilty plea. Defence lawyer Mike Taylor said Delisle decided to end the matter that raised uneasy questions about Canada’s relations with its closest allies. “He just wants to move forward, he wants to get it done, put it behind him,” TayProbation problem?
Anti-Muslim film man faces hearing The man behind an antiMuslim film that sparked violence in the Middle East denied Wednesday he violated his probation from a 2010 bank fraud conviction. A judge in Los Angeles
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World activists stunned. Punk band member walks from court on a technicality — her comrades head to a penal colony
Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle gained officer status in 2008. • Listening post. He worked at Trinity, a military intelligence centre on the East Coast. Experts say it provides tactical assessments for Canadian warships and aircraft.
lor said outside court. The sentencing ing is set for Jan. 10.
One jailed member of the punk band Pussy Riot unexpectedly walked free from a Moscow court Wednesday. But her two jailed comrades now head toward a harsh punishment — a penal colony, possibly in Siberia. Nevertheless, the pair squealed with joy and hugged Yekaterina Samutsevich before she was led from the courtroom to be mobbed by
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scheduled an evidentiary hearing on Nov. 9 for Mark Basseley Youssef. Youssef, 55, went into hiding when violence erupted in Egypt on Sept. 11. The film depicts Mohammad as a religious fraud, womanizer and pedophile. The violence sparked by the film killed dozens. the associated press
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“It is a very cold climate for human rights in Russia right now.” She’s free, her comrades are not so lucky: Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich leaves a Moscow court surrounded by bailiffs on Wednesday. yuri tutov/the associated press
Print still rules, but ebook sales surge Surging ebook sales now represent an estimated 16.3 per cent of the overall book market in Canada, a figure that caught even some industry watchers by surprise. A new report by the nonprofit industry group BookNet Canada finds more and more people are buying ebooks, and when they do purchase hardcovers and paperbacks they
are increasingly getting them outside of conventional book stores. The trends are outlined in a first-of-its-kind report by BookNet, which is based on several consumer surveys conducted over the first half of the year. The results are considered accurate within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. “We were a little taken
aback — even though we are in the industry and on the technology side of the industry — at just the sheer quantity of the shift in behaviour in regards to digital and online (shopping),” said BookNet CEO Noah Genner. The report suggests one in three Canadians is a regular book buyer and purchases an average of 2.8 titles per month.
While ebook sales are growing, print sales still dominate, with paperbacks representing an estimated 56.7 per cent of the market and hardcovers making up 23.6 per cent. Only seven per cent of readers said they bought both ebooks and print books, but they bought more titles overall — an average of 4.5 per month. the canadian press
Suzanne Nossel, executive director, Amnesty International USA.
friends and journalists waiting outside on the street. All three women got twoyear sentences in August after they performed a “punk prayer” in Moscow’s main cathedral. Dressed in neon-coloured dresses and tights, they asked the Virgin Mary to save Russia from President Vladimir Putin. “If we unintentionally offended any believers with our actions, we express our apologies,” said Samutsevich, who along with Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova spoke in court Wednesday from a glass cage known colloquially as the “aquarium.” “The idea of the protest was political, not religious,’’ Samutsevich added. She was freed on a technicality: The Moscow City Court ruled her sentence should be suspended because she was thrown out of the cathedral by guards before she could remove her guitar from its case and thus did not take part in the performance. the associated press
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