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U of T Gets Mad Bling, Harper Can’t Define Things, and the Leafs Feel A Sting

By Christopher Bird

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The University of Toronto received $2.4 million in a class-action settlement pertaining to vitamin price-fixing thanks to a court-ordered distribution of penalty funds. Seven other universities received the other $17.6 million in the settlement, including $4.8 million to the University of Guelph. No word yet on what U of T will do with the money, although rumours swirl that the university’s president will ask for it all in twenties, pour it out into one room, and try to swim in it.
Stephen Harper isn’t precisely sure how you define a Quebecois. Quote from the interview that did not make publication: “Who can define who a Quebecois is? Maybe you’re a Quebecois. Maybe that guy over there is. Maybe I am. Did you ever think about that? Maybe I’m a Quebecois. Turns things around if you look at it like that, eh?”
Preparations for the preliminary hearing to determine if the infamous “terror cell” suspects require criminal trial began yesterday. At this rate if an actual trial is necessary it will happen sometime in 2010. (That was not a joke. It will probably take that long.)
Queen’s Park passes legislation that gives Ontario municipalities greater political power. Biggest change: David Miller now allowed to use the guillotine “but only if really, really necessary.”
Dalton McGuinty accuses NDP of “grandstanding” over attempt to delay the MPP salary hike. McGuinty repeatedly alleged that the NDP somehow plans to “take the money,” perhaps not understanding the concept of “minority party” or “rule of law.”
And finally, Florida simply pasted the Leafs 7-3 last night.
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  • Claire

    $2.4 mill is pocket change for UofT.

  • http://brokenengine.blogspot.com brokenengine

    Last night was not the first time Hal Gill made another team look a lot better than they are.
    Trade that guy now. I’m sure we could use an extra bag of pucks…

  • ZorroIsGod

    Meti are a culture is from the west and Québécois are Native-French that never left… Quebec is a native word and not french… Its a word that the french hijack over time… The British did not set out, however, to persecute Quebec’s native French population. The Quebec Act, passed in 1774, allowed the Quebecois to have religious freedom.
    Also at the time was slavery of native population… so to state that your native descendent are would bring about bad things like capture or get shot… That’s why many left and changed to Métis… I know because I am from Métis-Quebecois… And we had to keep are mouths shut and go to church or no job or money went to you… we the French people who the Algonquin adopted…created the nation of people called Quebecois…
    Don’t forget that it’s like 270 years of new Native-French kids being born…to 1774
    The word Nation is used in Canada to describe First Nations Natives like the Cree-Nation so when you talk about the Quebecois they are mostly the Native-French descendents who lived and created Quebec city before 1774… Not Meti who are from the west… If your family tree dates back that far then your a Quebecois.
    France back then in 1500 did not build jails they just ship you here to Quebec…it was way to get development going here…
    When my great grandfather came over on one boat escaping prosecution he had to change his last name… I think it was a way to track down his descendents… The story was handed down to show the truth how we got here…
    Father Paul Le Jeune proposed to the governor, Champlain that they try to promote Huron-French intermarriage. Champlain agreed not only for religious reasons, but also because intermarriage was a way of further cementing French-Native alliances. He also thought that by building a settlement in the Huron country, the French/Huron population could complete the exploration of the continent.26 While the Huron were ambivalent about accepting this proposal, the French court accepted and still promoted it during the late 1660s, namely that French and Natives “mingle” and “constitute only one people and one race.”
    After the initial 1755 deportions, England decided to sent the French back to France instead of to the American colonies.. When Louisbourg fell in 1758, over 3000 Acadians from the Ile St. Jean area were exiled to France. When Quebec fell in 1759, hundreds of prisoners of war were also sent to France. In 1763, 753 more Acadians arrived from England. Generally, they lived in poor conditions. Most lived in coastal cities, though several attempts were made to settle them elsewhere. When the opportunity came to leave in 1785, over 1500 of them traveled to Louisiana.
    England did not remove the Native-Franch only the real french…So when did the French come to Canada? LOL
    Quebecois are people of old Quebec they are mix blood that created an identity for them selves a long time ago… Vikings and other Europeans also came to Quebec before France and mingled with natives as a new nation… This all happed before the British came… To state that all Quebecer’s are Quebecois then you actually change their identity… It’s like saying the Cree and Mohawk should now be the same under one name… The Quebec Provence should not discriminate or set up pollicise that state that all people from Quebec are Quebecois…. That like creating an assimilation province under one culture… Under First Nations of many nations a nation is not defined by its boarders… Only a selected few Quebec are trying to redefine this as all people under a boarder are Quebecois… When they do this they are erasing history of the true Quebecois…