[Shawnski]

Police departments in several Canadian cities expressed surprise Friday that websites with similar names to their sites are taking people straight to the New Democratic Party's main website.
"Oh boy, this is not good," Sgt. Kelly Dennison of the Winnipeg Police Service said after typing www.winnipegpolice.ca into his web browser and getting the NDP site.

"Anybody looking for the Winnipeg police service would think we're endorsing the NDP," he said. "Obviously, that's not the case."

The same thing happens if users type www.reginapolice.ca, www.saskatoonpolice.ca, www.edmontonpolice.ca, and www.windsorpolice.ca. All the traffic is directed to www.ndp.ca.

http://www.cbc.ca/toronto/story/to_police20051209.html

Follow up story:

On Sunday, the extra web traffic to the NDP site ended.
Instead, people putting www.windsorpolice.ca and the other names into their browsers are redirected to one of Bedford's own websites - one that targets Harper and "religious extremists."
"If you vote for Stephen Harper and the Conservatives you would be voting for religious extremists with a hidden agenda," the website says.

http://www.mytelus.com/news/article....icleID=2115572

Fair game or nutbar action?