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All signs pointed to ice cream. But for some strange reason, our invitation to the Barenaked Ladies' mysterious press conference (held at the top of the CN Tower, we might add) left us in the dark. The banner-dragging bird, the sky-blue background peppered with white clouds and bubble letters—everything about the e-vite seemed eerily familiar. But it took Ed Robertson's unveiling of a giant tub of Ben & Jerry's ice cream—called "If I had 1,000,000 Flavours"—for us to finally clue in.

Steven Page is out of the Barenaked Ladies. The band announced late last night on their website that "By mutual agreement, Steven Page will be parting company with the remaining members of Barenaked Ladies....Steven Page will pursue solo projects including theatrical opportunities while the band enters the studio in April 2009, and hits the road in the fall." And if that announcement wasn't sad enough, take a second and read the unbelievably depressing Maclean's cover story about Page from last summer.

Maclean's devoted its cover article to Steven Page this week, for an enormously sad profile of the Barenaked Ladies' lead singer, including the lead-up to his cocaine arrest earlier this month and the fall-out from it. To quote NOW publisher and "old friend" Michael Hollett, "I was stunned, absolutely not a clue that he could be in this position. Steve likes fine wine, you know? He drinks it in moderation. That's Steven." [via MyHogtown.]

Omar Khadr's lawyers recently released video footage of Khadr's interrogation by CSIS agents in hopes that the video would embarrass the Prime Minister and garner sympathy from Canadians. Unsurprisingly, the PM's office wasn't hearing that noise. Clearly these lawyers don't know how hard it is to embarrass Stephen Harper.