Yup, that’s what you would expect …………….., but the little bastard is making better time than when I did that trip many years ago!
A talking robot hitchhiking its way across Canada is taking a rest in Toronto.
The Hitchbot left Halifax on July 26 for its 6,000-kilometre journey and is being tracked by Instagram and Twitter posts.
The latest Twitter update has Hitchbot in Toronto, where it is thanking a driver for “dropping me off with my family.”
The tweet says the robot is taking a “botnap” before continuing.
Hitchbot has stopped at campgrounds in New Brunswick during its voyage and has attracted several rides from reporters curious about its story.
Voice recognition technology allows Hitchbot to interact with the people it meets along the way.
The robot is the brainchild of a group of Ontario-based communications researchers.
http://metronews.ca/news/canada/1115060/hitchhiking-robot-takes-a-break-in-toronto/
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TORONTO — The longest-serving inmate in Canada to have a murder conviction quashed can sue those involved in his prosecution, Ontario’s top court ruled Thursday.
In its ruling, the Ontario Court of Appeal said it would be wrong to deny Romeo Phillion, who spent 31 years behind bars protesting his innocence, a chance at a civil lawsuit.
In essence, the court found, the issues Phillion wants to litigate are different from what the Appeal Court looked at when it overturned his conviction in 2009 and ordered a new trial on the grounds that police and Crown had failed to disclose a crucial piece of evidence.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/wrongfully-convicted-man-jailed-31-years-can-now-sue-cops-crown-1.1940768#ixzz399RD4WNU
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The retired RCMP officer who played “Mr. Big” in the Nelson Hart murder investigation says Thursday’s Supreme Court of Canada decision will hurt future investigations into serious crime.
Canada’s top court upheld a decision ordering a new trial for Hart, who had confessed to murdering his twin three-year-old daughters to the Mountie, who had pretended to be an underworld boss wanting to know whether he could trust Hart with criminal tasks. (It was not only “entrapment” folks, they actually coerced him into making a false confession!)
According to the Supreme Court of Canada decision, the RCMP may have abused its power, making Hart’s confession unreliable. The Crown’s case against Hart in his 2007 conviction was based largely on evidence collected through the sting.
(Hart’s lawyers say they feel vindicated by the Supreme Court of Decision, having argued that the RCMP manipulated an impoverished, naive man with a Grade 5 education into believing he would become rich if he told a supposed crime lord what he wanted to hear.)
In an interview with CBC Radio, the retired officer said he still believes the investigation produced a meaningful confession.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mountie-played-mr-big-upset-102006097.html
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We just had a great idea on how to reduce false convictions in our courts to ZERO folks!
If someone is falsely jailed for any crime that they are eventually exonerated from ……………………., then the people who put them there have to do the time instead!!!!!
That would solve the problem of cops and crown prosecutors manufacturing, or ignoring evidence, in one fell swoop!
(Ya see, this way everyone would be concerned with “justice,” instead of just getting a conviction!)
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And on a lighter note, or at least a tastier one!
Manuel Linares, a physicist and ice cream enthusiast, has created color changing ice cream. As you lick the ice cream, it changes its hue. Linares called the flavor “Xamaleón,” after chameleons. The ice cream changes from periwinkle to pink to purple and so on:
Linares formula is based on the temperature levels and acidity. As the temperature changes and the acidity of the human saliva hits the ice cream, it triggers the color change. Several scientists worked with Linares on the formula for about a week until they perfected it. Xamaleón tastes like “tutti fruitti.”
In order to be such an ice cream pro, “Linares pursued what he has described as a ‘Masters Diploma in Creating Artisan Ice Cream.’”
As for his next ice cream trick, Linares is planning ‘Xamán.’
This ice cream will act as an aphrodisiac. It is made with medicinal plants from Peru and Africa.
http://www.thewire.com/technology/2014/07/science-creates-color-changing-ice-cream/375412/
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AND FINALLY: (As if ya had to be told department!)
OTTAWA – Health officials are telling Canadians to avoid travel to three African countries hit hard by an outbreak of Ebola virus.
The Public Health Agency of Canada says the recommendation that Canadians avoid all non-essential travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is in line with an advisory issued by the United States.
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