Results tagged “pamelaanderson”

Say hello to a "prudent" budget. Stéphane Dion criticized the bill for being ineffectual, but of course not so ineffectual that the Liberals would vote against it and force an election. (Elsewhere, Thomas Walkom points out that the budget includes a new system of income tax shelter that will, and I am sure you are surprised by this, primarily benefit wealthy Canadians.)

One day Pamela Anderson stood in the centre turn lane of a highway, clad only in a Canadian flag...picturing it? Welcome to the lead photo for the "Best of Canada" edition of SNAP!. Now in its seventh year, SNAP! combines a juried competition for established and emerging photographers with a gala fundraiser on March 2 at the National Ballet School. Organizers predict that the works offered in live and silent auctions will raise $140,000 for the AIDS Committee of Toronto.

When it comes to animal rights, count on Torontoist to deliver all your vegan and vegetarian news. This week, over fifty Toronto-area KFC managers received a copy of PETA activist Pamela Anderson's video (no, not video, LOL). Anderson sent a tape depicting graphic torture of KFC-owned chickens before they end up in batter, in a radical effort to at the very least change the company's handling of their stock. KFC currently places still-living chickens in scalding hot defeathering tanks. If the chickens survive the defeathering, they are often grabbed by the legs and smacked against a hard surface at least until they stop screeching in pain.

Instead of turning to the last generation of fashionistas for the next trend, we now look back in our own lives: Hair barrettes - considered a symbol of youth and exuberance - are making a comeback.