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FEBRUARY 12, 2015 | V Volume ollum o ume 2 ume 28 8N No. o. 1 19
J JERMAINE G GELLING WITH T THE BLAZERS
TRIAL FINALLY BEGINS
He’s now 17 and standing his ground
And gets delayed yet again
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Is Big Brother listening?
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If you think Big Brother has invaded your television, you may simply have an inflated sense of self-worth. Samsung SmartTVs are in the news this week after a story in the online news source the Daily Beast said the devices, which feature voice-activated software, “may be listening. And blabbing.” The story was spawned by a section of Samsung’s SmartTV privacy policy, which reads: “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third-party through use of Voice Recognition.” The excerpt has led some to question if the TVs can monitor and share conversations from the privacy of living rooms. See WARY, A12
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Mitch Harlock clutches the much sought-after rubber chicken with friend Kelsey Bentz.
FOR MITCH, A NORMAL DAY DALE BASS
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group of RCMP officers, guns at the ready, made its way through the smoke-filled halls, knowing there were eight equally armed males waiting for them. The floors were littered with bullets as the combatants tried to
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going through all the traditional cancer treatments and, in recent months, more experimental ones. “Mitch’s attitude is a driving force for us,” mom Gina said. “After the doctors talked with us, he said, ‘I don’t want to waste time being sad and depressed’ — so what choice do we have?” Now, life is about fun and having as many normal days as possible. See IT MADE, A11
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best each other — and capture a rubber chicken. There was another goal — to provide Mitch Harlock with a few hours of fun with his buddies, something that has become allimportant for his family now as they deal with the reality his cancer is terminal. Mitch, now 14, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in 2010 and, since then, he has spent much of his life in hospitals, listening to doctors,
Two Calgary academics and authors have not been banned from Thompson Rivers University and the dean of law said he is amazed how one student’s viewpoint became such a declaration in other media reports. Bradford Morse said as far as he knows, neither Frances Widdowson nor Albert Howard, both of whom spoke at a student-organized law conference on campus last week, “or any other human being on the planet has been banned from TRU.” Morse said some students were uncomfortable with the presentation the two Mount Royal University faculty members gave on aboriginal policy and its interaction with the law. Morse said he and four students were interviewed about the talk and one of the students, in response to a question about whether the pair would be welcome back on campus, replied, “No.”
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“And it has become something else when neither the student organization [behind the conference] nor the law school or TRU ever said the two of them are banned,” Morse said. “One student expressed his own viewpoint.” Widdowson and Howard spoke on what they refer to as an aboriginal industry that has developed, particularly involving the legal profession, because of the type of funding available for the aboriginal community. Morse said that, while there are obvious limitations to freedom of speech — one cannot yell “fire!” in a theatre,” for example — universities have always been and need to remain a place where ideas are tested and subject to scrutiny, where competing views can be voiced. See TRU DEAN, A7
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