By Patrick Metzger

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church were no-shows for their expected protest against The Pastor Phelps Project—the SummerWorks play going down at the Cameron House—after being stopped at the US-Canadian border. Says the Post: “One [counter-protestor] carrying a sign reading ‘God loves sodomites’ suggested they had been scared off by Canada’s notoriously vicious ‘drive-by shoutings.’”
The 29th quadrennial Olympiad kicks off in Beijing today with the first medalled event, the women’s 10 metre Air Rifle, expected to be won by the Chinese hosts. The second event will be the men’s Air Guitar, in which the United States is heavily favoured.
Lawyers for Abdullah Khadr, currently fighting extradition to the US on charges of buying weapons for Al-Qaeda and conspiracy to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan, say he should be released on bail. The lawyers say that Khadr “poses no risk to Canadians,” but have thus far stopped short of calling him a “model citizen” or “national treasure.”
Two window-rattling booms in Kincardine, 190 kilometres northwest of Toronto, remain a mystery, with experts ruling out meteorites, aircrafts, or earthquakes as possible causes. Scientists are currently searching for clues in a giant radioactive crater on the site recently occupied by the nearby Bruce nuclear power plant.
A virus is making the rounds on Facebook that purports to be an e-mail from a friend asking the recipient to download a video plug-in and then infects anyone technologically backward enough to actually do it. The virus’ effects are reported to be slightly less annoying than most actual Facebook applications.
Finally, nothing to do with Toronto, but an excellent Bladerunner-esqe headline from the National Post: “Did cloned puppies blow alleged kidnapper’s cover?”
Photo of yesterday’s anti-protest-protest by Miles Storey/Torontoist.