Haydain Neale, 1970–2009
Transit City and Transit Cities
Peeve Patrol
Newsstand: November 23, 2009
The Making of a Medley
Birth control pills can decimate wild fish populations if their presence in waste water is not treated more effectively. The synthetic estrogen in birth control pills decimates the sperm count of male wild fish, especially smaller fish like minnows. Odds that said waste water will be treated more effectively in Canada any time soon: probably quite low.
Slain environmentalist likely targeted, Toronto police say. Glen Davis, a major supporter of both WWF Canada and the Sierra Club, was shot Friday afternoon. Reading Toronto has a security cam picture police released over the weekend.
If your interest in horrific incidents leans more towards somewhat older fare, the air traffic control tapes from the 1998 Swissair Flight 111 crash have been released to the press.
Air Canada plane's landing gear fails after landing. Nobody hurt, thankfully, except possibly for Air Canada's image.
Hamilton man waits an entire year for skull surgery while living with a fist-sized hole in his head. Conservatives endorsing privatization attempt to not celebrate said man's deeply unfortunate circumstances.
And finally, here is a cute graphic detailing how fat Canadians are in comparison to the rest of the First World.
Image via feministhealth.org.
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I wonder how they classify "first world" countries. Mexico is definitely not first world, it's not quite third, but it's not first.
OK, I checked the source. It's members of the OECD. Yeah, Mexico is the poorest member of the OECD, but it is a member.
If it's not first but not third, I would call that second.
1st, 2nd, 3rd world is a cold war thing that doesn't exist anymore, technically. 1st was Western, 2nd was soviet aligned, 3rd was non-aligned/poor.
There was some 1-5 world scale for a while in the 90s, but I have not heard much about that since I left school.
A friend of mine lived for months and months without a forehead (well, the bone part amnyway) following brain surgery. By the time it came to get it fixed he was so sick of surgery he put it off for a while.
I'm surprised Canadians aren't on the top tier of fatty-fatty-fat-fats. I'm also surprised Australians *are* in the top. Korea and Japan in last place I completely expected though: I've seen perhaps two fat people in my three months here in Seoul, and I didn't see any fat people in Osaka, Kyoto or Kanazawa when I was there last year.
REK: But on the minus side, the belly flop contests are really boring over there.