By ALAN FREEMAN
Tuesday, August 16, 2005 Updated at 5:28 AM EDT
From Monday's Globe and Mail
There is also some talk that Ottawa and the provinces may look to postponing the next round of softwood talks originally planned for the week of Aug. 22 in the hopes of sending a message south of the border.
A spokeswoman for Peterson would not confirm this, but suggested that Canada is prepared to defend its interests.
"Canada wants to come to a fair and durable resolution to this," Jacquie LaRocque said. "Ministers have been clear: We must and we will take every measure necessary to ensure Canada's rights are respected."
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NEW YORK Mar 22, 2005 — In a case that could set limits on Internet search engines, the French news agency AFP is suing Google Inc. for pulling together photos and story excerpts from thousands of news Web sites.
Agence France-Presse said the "Google News" service infringes on AFP's copyrights by reproducing information from the Web sites of subscribers of the Paris-based news wholesaler.
The issues raised by the case have profound implications for the Internet, where anyone can be a publisher and Web journals, or blogs, are becoming more frequent destinations for seekers of news.
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Two days into its controversial lockout of 5,500 unionized employees, the CBC has been operating on autopilot with plenty of reruns and pared-down programs.
But the most noticeable change has been the absence of any apparent effort to mount a management-produced television newscast, relying in prime time and over the supper hour on imported feeds of the BBC World News service. Newsworld has been limited to one-minute roundups of Canadian news read by managers before handing things off to the BBC.
Originally posted by highgroundsys0pfeel big time sorry for anybody who has to work in softwood these days - no picnic at the best of times. What about a marketing board - too commie? Or would it help develop alternate markets?
Canada must put aside the rhetoric and return to the negotiating table if the softwood lumber dispute with the United States is to be settled once and for all, U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins said Wednesday.
"That's a decision the Canadian government has to make," said Wilkins. "We want a negotiated settlement, we want to bring finality to the issue." "What we don't need is continued rhetoric to raise the emotional issues."
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On Wednesday, Wilkins made it clear that the next move belongs to Canada.
"The United States put a proposal on the table. We need to get a response to that at some point from Canadian negotiators and continue negotiations," Wilkins told reporters after speaking to a gathering of the American Chamber of Commerce in Canada.
"What we need to do is let the negotiators do their job, get together and try to work out finality. Otherwise, you're just going to continue to have one lawsuit after another."
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The Americans refused, saying the ruling didn't end the matter because it did not deal with a 2004 decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission which supported the American case.
Wilkins defended his country's interpretation of the ruling, saying he refused to accept the argument that the U.S. is simply not respecting the North American Free Trade Agreement.
"The bottom line is, we need to get the negotiators to get together... and get this issue behind us once and for all," Wilkins said, adding he hoped the cancelled talks would be rescheduled soon.
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