Breaking Links: Tuesday, October 30

This is a couple of days old, but The Gap uses slave labour. Anyone suprised? Thanks Tessa. The gap revelation does make this seem a bit disingenuous and I think You Say Party! We Say Die! may have been a bit ahead of their time.

The Hollywood Reporter and Ouimet have some things to say about CBC’s ratings this year.

This link will take you to a PDF from the University of California at Riverside on RIAA and MPAA P2P tracking.

Growing tension between Turkey and the Kurds threatens to expand the war in Iraq.

Here is an interesting bit from Grist on the Great Lakes Water Wars – the battle in the US on how best to divvy up the great lakes. Canada is obviously a secondary concern at best.

The Quill and Quire reports on Douglass Coupeland’s foray into viral media.

More reports of torture coming out of Afghanistan

Russia is set to file a claim on the Arctic before the UN this year.